Shin Sung-sik
The author is a welfare specialist reporter at the JoongAng Ilbo.
“Thanks to your help, I made it up easily. Thank you so much.”
An older woman in her 80s bowed deeply after I carried her groceries up a staircase at Cheongnyangni Station in Seoul. Her already bent back curved further as she expressed her gratitude. Even without carrying any bags, climbing the stairs seemed difficult for her. She had just arrived on a train bound for Wolgye-dong and appeared anxious to return home quickly to prepare dinner for her family.
People walk up and down the stairs connecting Cheongnyangni Station to the subway platform. [SHIN SUNG-SIK]
