A Spark of Hope
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- Lee Su-jin, a naturalized South Korean citizen born in Nepal, watched news of devastating floods in her homeland from a Nepalese community association office in Seoul.
- Lee and association members collected 5 million won and sent it to Nepal while her uncle remained missing after the floods.
- The article portrays the fundraising as a small sign of solidarity from people supporting Nepal from afar.
Lee Su-jin repeatedly refreshed the news on her computer, unable to look away from images of the devastation in Nepal. At the Nepal Sharing Association office in Changsin-dong, Seoul, she sighed as she watched the destruction of the country where she was born.
Lee became a South Korean citizen in 2019. Her uncle also went missing in the floods. Although she was far from Nepal, Lee and other association members gathered 5 million won and sent the money there.
Their bodies were distant from the disaster, but their concern was not. In the ruins, their shared grief became what the article calls a small spark of hope.
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Originally published by Hankyoreh in Korean. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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