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- Author: Axie Oh
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My phone buzzes as the cab lets me off at the corner of West 32nd Street
and Broadway, where light snow drifts over bright signs in both Hangeul
and English. I read the text from Secretary Park: A limousine service will
pick you up from your hotel at 11:00 and take you to the airport
tomorrow. I’ll be waiting when you arrive in Seoul. See you soon.
Okay, thank you, I send back, and sigh at the irony that I communicate
more with my mother’s secretary than I do her.
Pocketing my phone and pressing my shopping bag to my chest, I look
both ways before crossing the street. There’s a party arriving at the
restaurant door before me, and I wait for them to pass—three guys wearing
peacoats and puffy jackets over their NYU hoodies. The last, a darkskinned boy with glasses, catches sight of me and holds the door open.
I hurry forward, smiling at him and bowing out of habit. The boy’s ears
redden, and when he moves to join his friends, they poke him with their
elbows, throwing glances at me over their shoulders.
As I slip off my coat, a few people seated by a bar area turn to stare.
Along with my booted heels and custom handbag, I’m wearing a bodysuit
with high-waisted jeans. I would have changed after the show—the last of
the events I was invited to for New York Fashion Week—but that would
have taken time, and I didn’t want to waste any more. Not tonight.
I scan the restaurant, searching for a familiar face. The place is packed
with foreigners, Americans, speaking English so fast it makes my head spin.
The hostess, who’d been seating the group of university students, returns to
the podium. “Eoseo oseyo,” she says. She must have picked up on my
nerves, because she’s switched from English to Korean. I’m immediately
put at ease. “How many?”
“I’m meeting someone,” I tell her. “She’s around my age and height,
probably wearing a baseball cap.” She’s hardly ever without it.
“Ah.” The hostess nods. “Your friend arrived a few minutes ago. Follow
me. I’ll bring you to the table.”
She leads me through a side door and up a stairwell strung with
Christmas lights, though it’s February. We move aside to let a group of girls
and boys walk down the stairs. They’re dressed as if going to a concert, in
stylish clothes and heavy makeup, which is similar to how I’m dressed
having come from a runway show. A few hold signs with messages printed
in English.
XOXO’s #1 Fan
Sun-oppa, marry me!
Bae Jaewoo, I love you!
“It’s always more crowded when an idol group is in the city,” the
hostess explains to me. “I think some fans not-so-secretly hope to run into
one of their favorite idols at one of the restaurants in Koreatown.” I glance
at her face, but she doesn’t appear to be speaking in judgment, just stating a
fact. “It’s good for business.”
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