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Travel Journal: Talking to my daughters about body positivity in a South Korean bathhouse

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Credit: Soh Wee Ling

The writer (left) with her husband and two daughters on a ski trip in South Korea.

PHOTO: COURTESY OF SOH WEE LING

Soh Wee Ling

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SEOUL – Elna, my eight-year-old daughter, is shocked that we are about to strip in public in South Korea, never mind that we are in a women-only locker room.

Meanwhile, Llucia, my four-year-old, is all set, prancing about maybe a little too enthusiastically, as I coax her sister and fold our clothes at the same time.

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