Keum suk gendry kim6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() She had grown up in North Korea and had left behind family-an older sister in Pyongyang, who she desperately wanted to meet again. Her mother was staying with Gendry-Kim in Paris for two months after Gendry-Kim’s father passed away when she revealed a family secret. Gendry-Kim was in her late 20s living in Paris, however, when she heard the story that grew into The Waiting(기다림), a moving and dramatic graphic novel of aging, war, family reunions, and separation. She lived there for 17 years before returning to South Korea. Before she was an award-winning graphic novelist, Keum Suk Gendry-Kim was a painter, a sculptor, a bookbinder, and a translator between Korean and French, living in Paris. ![]()
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