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The narrator recalls a journey through Manchuria, where he spent a year observing local customs and the illnesses among people untouched by modern civilization, and records what he saw in a small village called XX.
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The Bachelor and the Maengkkongi
The Bachelor and the Maengkkongi
Kim Yu-jeong
Kim Yu-jeong’s 1933 short story follows Deokman, a poor thirty-four-year-old bachelor in a drought-stricken farming village, as his hope for marriage collapses over one bitter night. Rural hardship, comic irony, dialect rhythm, and the cry of the maengkkongi shape a story that mixes laughter with pity.
A Traveler in the Mountain Village
A Traveler in the Mountain Village
Kim Yu-jeong
Even though the night is deep, the drinker doesn't stop drinking. The room is eerie with a musty smell, like the smell of rising soybeans. Rats are squeaking in the closet. The single mother sits by the broken hearth and thinks forlornly. The already gloomy, twinkling light loses its shine as the wind blows in through the hole in the north gate. Plug the hole with an old beoseon pair. Then, he pulls the bowl under the lamp and picks up the needle without hesitation.
The History of a Walking Stick
The History of a Walking Stick
Yi Sang
In the morning, I heard the sound of a rooster crowing as proof that I woke up early, and when I think about it again, I wanted to return to the inn after the rooster started crowing - Oh, when I think about it again, I can't remember how I walked back from a town like Datmajang on a country road in the middle of the night without the moon because I was drinking, but I remember S snoring as the two of us walked.
The Red Hills
The Red Hills
Kim Dong-in
The narrator recalls a journey through Manchuria, where he spent a year observing local customs and the illnesses among people untouched by modern civilization, and records what he saw in a small village called XX.
The Watermill
The Watermill
Na Do-hyang
The water that clatters into the gutter and then pours out again lifts the heavy watermill and throws it down with a thud. The snorts of the laborers can be heard mesmerizingly in the mill where the white bran powder sits.
The Bean Field Where Gold Is Mined
A Shower
A Shower
Kim Yu-jeong
Even though gloomy black clouds were gathering in the sky, threatening to rain at any moment, the mischievous sunlight was still heating up the remote village buried deep in the mountains, as if it were going to sleep. From time to time, as if I was remembering, the wind blew wildly, shaking the trees in the fields.
Camellia Flowers
Camellia Flowers
Kim Yu-jeong
Our rooster got chased again today. It was time for me to come out after lunch and go out to cut wood. As I was about to climb the mountain, the sound of a chicken's torch was scolding me from behind. I turned my head in surprise, and sure enough, the two guys froze again.
Source license reference: EBook #kowikisource:1886:345673 Public domain in the USA