The navigation app offers the shortest route, and for the sake of four minutes we take it.
에움길, eumgil, is the word standing on the other side of that. The way round. Not going straight but going about. If the short cut is the road that saves time, the eumgil is the road that spends it.
The straight road goes past things. A trumpet vine over somebody's wall. A yellow bicycle left outside the stationer's. The sky opening up all at once where the alley turns.
Whoever comes by the eumgil arrives a little later, with a few more things in their day than they set out with.
On an evening when it does not matter, get off one stop early. Then walk home by whichever way is not the straight one.