Kyung Eun Lee

Mar 11, 2024 | mdpi.com | Gyeongbeom Ryoo |Seon Kyung Kim |Kyung Eun Lee |Young-Jin Kim

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Aug 9, 2023 | dailyprincetonian.com | Kyung Eun Lee

Dispatches at The Prospect are brief reflections from our writers that focus on their experiences during the summer. A bottle of cheap wine in one hand and a ham and cheese baguette in the other, I followed my friends up and down the alleyways of Marseille as we translated messages graffitied on pink and orange walls.

Feb 16, 2023 | dailyprincetonian.com | Kyung Eun Lee

In movies, books, and real life, we’ve all encountered the classic scene when one person drops the L word. Finally, after waiting many moons for the honeymoon stage to pass, a lover professes: “I Love You.” Why is there always tension and suspense in these three words? What is it about this arrangement, the entanglement of “I” and “You” and the mediating “Love” in between? What does it really mean for a relationship to be defined by love? Why does love always seem to escape language?

Feb 12, 2023 | dailyprincetonian.com | Kyung Eun Lee

Two young people meet on a train, each on separate journeys to find themselves. Instead, they find each other. In the “Before” trilogy, Jesse and Céline find love and romance, laugh and bicker, and lose and regain each other through a series of disconnected conversations — once in their 20s, again in their 30s, and then as parents. The films repeatedly confront and resolve the contradictions of an ideal love interrupted by the demands of real life.

Feb 6, 2023 | dailyprincetonian.com | Kyung Eun Lee

From the first floor of East Pyne, I head toward Chancellor Green and turn right just before reaching the doors of the rotunda. There are four benches in total, three on one side and one on the other. The three oriented toward Nassau Street face a rusted statue of John Witherspoon, and the last one stands alone. Even though these wooden benches seem old and worn, often suffering the harsh wind and rain without proper support from the slanted ground underneath them, they have character.