Quiet power
Feb 25, 2021
3 minutes
As told to Verity Magdalino
Photographed by Ted O’Donnell
y parents came to Australia from South Korea in the My mother passed away when I was 19. They didn’t want me to know anything of their experience. I realised how ignorant I was of their background when as a child I asked my mother, “How was the boat, coming to Australia?” and she looked at me blankly and said, “We came on Cathay Pacific.”
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