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Rain Shower", also "Shower" or "Sonagi" (소나기), is a Korean short story written by Korean writer Hwang Sun-won in 1952. A sonagi is a brief but heavy rain shower that starts suddenly, usually on a hot afternoon. In Hwang’s story, the rain shower symbolizes the short but heart-rending love between the boy and the girl.
Yi Cheong-jun (Korean: 이청준, 9 August 1939 - 31 July 2008) was a prominent South Korean novelist. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Throughout his four decade-long career, Yi wrote more than 100 short stories and 13 novels.
Hong Gildong jeon (Korean: 홍길동전) is a Korean novel, often translated as The Biography of Hong Gildong, written during the Joseon period. The novel is considered an iconic piece of Korean literature and culture. Hong Gildong, an illegitimate son of a nobleman and his lowborn concubine, is the main character of the story. Gifted with ...
Pages in category "Korean short stories" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. A Dream of Good ...
Judgement (Korean: 심판) is a 1999 short film by South Korean director Park Chan-wook based on the 1995 collapse of the Sampoong Department store. Synopsis [ edit ]
Sijo poems often follow a rhythmic structure characterized by the syllabic ways of Chinese and Hangul characters. Specifically, they follow a 3-4-3-4, 3-4-3-4, 3-5-4-3 rhythmic structure per line. An example of the strictness of early sijo is seen especially in their third lines. It sticks hard to the “3-5” syllable rule at the beginning of ...
Chung has written three novels and three collections of short stories. [4] [3] She lists as her literary influences the works of Park Wan-suh, Bruno Schulz, Bruno Jasieński, Andrei Platonov and Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, [2] as well as Samguk yusa folktales. [4] In 1998, she won a Yonsei Literature Prize for her short story The Head. [5]
While Cheong-gu yadam is written in Hanmun, or Chinese characters, the sentences are plain and frequently use Korean proverbs and Korean vocabulary. In addition to this, because the subject matter of the stories is generally intimately concerned with life at the time, it is possible to understand the dynamic lives of the people who lived at the time these stories were written.