Jiyong pulled out another paper from the big brown envelope, and laughed at it. It was a close up picture of his pen-buddy’s face, well, it was supposed to be. Except, the picture had a lot of drawing on it. He drawed a big red full circle on it’s nose, flowers on one of his eyes and a star in his other eye, and a joker’s smile on his mouth. He also stamp abstract patterns on it’s cheek, some hearts and a T.O.P> stamp on his forehead. “And how could I even recognize you, babo?” Ji mumbled and laughed again. The only thing that he can recognize as a part of a human being is the eyebrow. The thick eyebrow.

Well, a lot of guy had a thick eyebrow out there. It could be anybody, Jiyong thought. He sighed, once again smiled, and put back the picture and the letter into the envelope. He took a couple more envelopes from the box and checked them before closing it. Opening a PO Box brought a lot of advantage to Jiyong. Now he can easily have clients from all over Seoul, even the ones without an internet access.

“Finally received what you’ve been waiting for years, boy?” suddenly a voice asked him when he was reading a letter from one of his friend who is serving in the army. He turned around to find an old man filling his bag with letters looked at him with a very mischevious grin.

“Ahjussi..” Jiyong bowed at the old postman he knew since he regularly come to this post office. Oh Younggi was the only postman who has been working in this post-office for 52 years. His wife died a couple of years ago and his only child now lived with her husband in Japan. Her daughter asked him to move to Japan with her so that she could take care of him, but Younggi refused saying if he leave then the post office will definitely be closed down, and the people around that area wont be able to communicate with others who doesn’t have phones or internet. Jiyong admires Younggi’s noble self and since then he and Younggi baecame close. He was like Younggi’s son while Jiyong loked up at Younggi like he looked up at his father. Jiyong sometimes come to the po