Take a trip to Chejoo Island with my son.

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(Drawing by my mom, my kids)

We decided to take a trip to Chejoo island for memory of my son’s joining in the military.
In korea the military service is a compulsory duty for males.

My son is junior student in undergraduate school.
He is majoring on mechanics, so joining in the military is a serious problem for his study.

I’d like to take a trip with my son to share common experience with my son.

I suggested to him take a trio to Chejoo island, and he agreed with me.

It is not easy to maintain close relationship between daddy and son in Korea due to the influence of Confucius patriarchy system.

I hated a patriarchy system when I was a child.
Father was a symbol of authoritarianism in family.

But as I became a father of a child, I got to know Father was very lonely.
I know very well that my daddy loved me. But he never expressed his feeling to me.

Regardless of childhood experiance, I became authoritative like my daddy.

Unconsciously I followed after my father.

My son was a victim of patriarchic family system.
We had a serious conflict when my son was in middle school.

After entering undergraduate school, we became amicable again.

This trip is 2nd trip with my son.
We decide walk around Chejoo island without any plan.
We will go where we can go, we will stay where we can sleep.

I hope this trip a memorable, so I’d like to talk about this trip with my grandkids when I am getting older.