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The Red Hills

Kim Dong-in, 1932 · Original title: 붉은 산

A Korean doctor, travelling through Manchuria for a year to study its customs and diseases, stops in a small village of about twenty Korean tenant-farming families on the vast plain. There lives Jeong Ik-ho, nicknamed 'the Wildcat,' a man the whole village avoids and despises. The doctor records what he sees of his countrymen's lives far from home, and of the Wildcat in their midst.

the hardships of Korean tenant farmers in Manchuriaa people's suffering under colonial rulea community and the one man it shuns

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Public domain: the author died in 1951 and the work was published in 1932, so its copyright has ended in Korea, the US and the EU. Everything written here is our own; no translation is copied.

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  • 여(의사) The Doctor (Narrator) A Korean doctor travelling Manchuria for a year, who writes down what he saw in X village. Main character Appears in part 1
  • 정익호(삵) Jeong Ik-ho (the Wildcat) A drifter of unknown origin whom the whole village avoids: 'the Wildcat.' Main character Appears in part 1
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