
![]() | • VIDEO: Kai & Tate in Central Park (4:20, English-subtitled) |
"카이야 너 secret agent가 뭔지 알아? 엄마가 agent거든. secret agent는 그거보다 훨씬 더 중요한 사람이라는 뜻이야." 그랬더니 카이는 무슨 말인지도 모르고 "시크리..에이.." 따라 합니다.
여기서 엄마가 agent라는 말은 사실입니다. 몇 달 전에 보연이 뉴저지 real estate agent 자격증을 땄거든요. 한국으로 치면 공인중개사쯤 되는건데, 그 시험을 준비하면서도 학구열을 불태웠던 보연은 무슨 예비시험인가에서 1등의 영예를 차지하기도 했다는.
암튼 비밀요원 카이와 그냥 요원인 엄마, 그리고 1,2년 후에 형 옷을 물려입을 때쯤이면 형처럼 비밀요원이 될 테이트와 아무 요원도 아닌 아빠는 함께 센트럴파크에 다녀왔습니다. 그동안 센트럴파크에 여러 번 가보았지만, 워낙 넓어서 공원 구석구석에 숨어있는 아기자기한 볼거리들을 다 가보지 못했었는데, 이번에는 Belvedere Castle이라는 글자 그대로 전망이 좋은 성에도 올라가 보았습니다. 유럽식 좁은 회전계단으로 올라가야 하는데, 그 어두컴컴한 계단을 보자마자 카이는 무섭다고 안들어가겠다고 하다가 엄마와 테이트가 위에 올라가서 자기를 내려다보는 걸 본 순간 갑자기 마음을 바꾸고 외치더군요. "카이 올라가." 반면 테이트는 성 위에 올라가서도 또 담을 타고 오르려고 하는 용감무쌍함을 보였지요.
카이와 테이트가 함께 공원에서 잠이 들어준 덕분에, 준형과 보연은 길거리에서 파는 hot dog도 사먹고 오랜만에 뉴요커가 된 기분을 즐겼습니다. 잠에서 깬 후에 중앙공원 바로 앞에 있는 자연사박물관에도 갔었는데, 여기가 처음인 테이트는 정말 신나게 뛰어놀았습니다. 공룡뼈와 고래, 운석도 보고, 헬리혜성에서 재는 몸무게가 나오는 저울 위에 올라가서 신나게 춤도 추었습니다. 음악에 따라 리듬을 타며 춤을 추곤 하던 예전의 카이와는 달리, 요즘 테이트는 그야말로 막춤을 추는데, 너무 막 추다가 자기가 발구르는 기운을 못 이기고 넘어지기도 합니다. 카이는 지난 주에 동물원에 갔을 때 나무에 가려서 보지 못했던 호랑이를 여기서 보았습니다. 박제된 거라서 그런지 전혀 무서워하지 않고 자세히 관찰한 후, 오렌지색에 블랙 줄이 있다고 말했습니다.






June designs in New York City. His graphic design works have received lots of awards and been showcased in publications and exhibitions in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
In his earlier days in Seoul, he used to be a medical student, played a cello in an orchestra and participated in protests against dictatorship.
June likes iced coffee, black jack, typography, democracy, TV series Lost and Puccini’s operas and
he also enjoys traveling to the places he's never been to.
June believes he is agnostic and it is the most humble and rational way about religion.
He hopes the world to be the place where people can live more peacefully as well as less unjustly than now. And he lives with his wife and two sons.
Boyeon was born and grew up in Seoul and now lives by the Hudson river in New Jersey with her husband and two sons.
She studied computer programming as well as programming-based design and used to work as a programmer.
However, she is so busy these days in taking care of two boys that she cannot find enough time to even open her e-mails everyday.
Boyeon likes ice creams, Korean rice cakes, Klimt’s oil paintings and Michael Mann’s 1995 film Heat and
she also enjoys traveling culturally-distinctive places like southern Europe.
Boyeon is a perfectionist and has amazingly good memory. She easily shed tears, has an acute sense of taste and is a good cook.
Kai was born on October 19th, 2006 in New Jersey as Boyeon and June’s first son and it was 20 years after his parents first met in their junior high.
Now he is Tate's big brother.
His blood type is RH A+, his horoscope is libra and his zodiac is dog.
Kai is a Hawaiian origin word that means ‘ocean’ and also has a meaning of ‘willow tree’ in native American language.
His middle name is Haon, which has a concept of “True happiness can be found in small things of everyday life.”
It includes June and Boyeon’s wish for him to be a happy person who can find joy and meaningfulness even from small things around him.
These days Kai goes to a preschool and sometimes surprises Mom and Dad by saying very difficult words.
Kai turns three in this fall.
Tate was born on June 2nd, 2008 in New Jersey as Boyeon and June's second son as well as Kai's brother.
His horoscope is Gemini and his zodiac is rat, and his blood type is RH A+, which is what all of his family have.
The word Tate means ‘cheerful’ and has an old English origin.
His middle name is from a Korean pronunciation of a Chinese character 濬, which has a meaning of profound; to make a waterway by digging a river deep.
Tate’s name includes his parents’ wish for him to be a happy, cheerful person who also has depth in his life.
Now He walks well and tries everything his brother does. He doesn't get scared of new things.
Tate is in the second year of his life.
