Jae: to be. Won: flow of water. 

Jae-won: A person in a flowing place. 

Son Jae-won.

That was my name.

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What is a father? Ordinary individuals would give different answers to this seemingly innocuous question. One might say that a father was the coolest person, a reliable person with broad shoulders, a silent person, a person who was shy but did not show it…

But Son Jae-won called his father a hero. He felt this way simply because, whenever he saw his father, he always thought his father was cool. His father was a Superman-like figure with broad shoulders who could do anything, even though his father sometimes showed weakness in front of his mother. Still, Jae-won thought his father was the greatest.

Probably due to this, from an early age, Son Jae-won used to follow his father, unlike other children who mainly followed their mothers.

“Ugh! Fine. In a household full of men, this mother is always getting bullied! Bullied!”

When Jae-won became old enough to understand his mother and father’s words and their meaning, he always tried to receive his mother’s complaints with grace and understanding. “M-M-Mom. It’s not that…”

“Forget it.”

“Wait, it’s really not like that. Aw.”

His mother’s reactions were often an opportunity for her to play around with her son’s cute and naïve reactions.

Anyway, Son Jae-won was an only child, and he grew up with a lot of love from his parents. There was nothing special about...