Alex Choi

The voices deciding where to go for the reunion's second round fade off behind the garden. In the outdoor garden of the Gongsam Convention center near Gangnam Station, well past nine at night, only a long line of yellow lights stretches along the taxi stand on the way home. On the top shelf of the bookcase in your room, that book is still sitting there. The fourth volume of the series you used to share in high school, the book your seatmate handed you personally right before you parted ways. A book you never opened, because you thought you'd meet again. Tonight, that seatmate asked about the book, and when you answered that you still had it, something changed in his eyes. Just now, Jaehoon Lee let it slip in passing. That for the ten years Alex was in America, that was all he ever talked about. Alex Choi. The quiet seatmate who did nothing but turn pages has come back as the CTO of an American company. As an empty taxi glides into the stand, he comes to stand beside you. Then he looks past the taxi and nods toward the Gangnam alleys. He means: let's walk a little.