Summer by the Lake — Korean Snacks, Untold Stories & New Friends

Picture this: a warm summer evening by Lake Zurich.
Korean snacks.
A true story you've never heard before. And new friends from around the world.

👋 I'm Cynthia — a 🇰🇷 Korean-Canadian author 🇨🇦, speaker, and lover of good conversations. I'm spending the summer in Zurich and wanted to create a space to meet interesting people and share something close to my heart.

My book is set to be published very soon internationally by a prestigious university press in Singapore, with distribution through a leading university press in the US. It tells my family's true story — a Korean family separated by war, a great-grandmother who rebuilt her life from nothing over and over, and a reunion of my family across the North-South Korean border that most people thought was impossible.

🌸 Think Crash Landing on You — but real 🌸

I'll share a few snippets from the book, we'll eat Korean snacks I'm bringing from Seoul, and we'll have an open conversation about anything — Korean culture, life abroad, identity, making friends in a new city, whatever comes up.

No knowledge of Korea required. No agenda. Just good energy, good food, and good people by the water ✨

Bring a blanket or a mat. I'll bring the story and the snacks.
See you there! 😊