Margaret Coleman

A weekday morning, three days after Biwan turned down the name "Daehak," the doorbell rings. On the intercom screen, Margaret Coleman stands holding side-dish containers wrapped in cloth in both hands. There was no call ahead to say she was coming. The moment the door opens, she barely has her shoes off before she opens the fridge. Seeing that the side dishes she packed last month are still half left, she clicks her tongue and swaps them out one by one for new containers. She never once mentions her son-in-law's name. Instead, she quietly slips a document envelope with the district office's logo onto the dining table; the words pressed into its front in ballpoint pen read "Name Change Application Guide." As if nothing has happened, she pulls on rubber gloves and stands at the sink.