Ground Zero

  …So to talk of facial disorder (안면장애), I know it’s a matter that’d render many cosmetic-conscious women shudder with fear and have equally self-interest vested beings look away - especially in an era where the number of likes you get on social media equals instant success. As a undiagnosed, long-term TMJ (temporomandibular disorder) patient - I am pretty much aware what the symptoms are like, how & where it can cause pain, and the habit modifications one can take over the course of time, to how it can worsen due to this and that physio-/psychological/external stimuli to what it can manifest into when things get worse. Strange how I sound like a medical professional when it is only my yearlong struggle with seemingly minor symptom that got me to where I am. ..As Han Mi-ok’s (a.k.a.: 선풍기 아줌마) case goes, for one who have lived in U.S. soil for comparable amount of time one could say that her condition was likely caused by poverty - besides the criminal intention of the anonymous bei