Nepal, Dec. 24 -- A Korean returnee dreams of exporting Nepali speciality coffee to the international market This is the 77th episode of Diaspora Diaries, a Nepali Times series in collaboration with Migration Lab providing a platform to share experiences of living, working and studying abroad.

I was in Grade 3 when my father left for Saudi Arabia. Letters he sent occasionally contained photos. We had to get used to matching the person in the photos with him when he came home.

Over two decades later, I left behind my son a day after he was born to go to Korea.

He was five when I returned, and he just could not believe I was the same person he spoke on video calls. To convince him that it was indeed me, I had to call him on video from t...