Greenroom

Camellias

Kim Yu-jeong, 1936 · Original title: 동백꽃

In a spring mountain village, a seventeen-year-old tenant farmer's son cannot understand why Jeomsun, the daughter of the landlord's agent, keeps setting her big rooster on his small one. He has no idea what he did wrong, and since his family depends on hers, he can hardly fight back.

the clumsy first feelings of two teenagerscomic misunderstanding by an innocent narratorhow class differences shape a village friendship

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  • 나(소작인의 아들) I (the tenant farmer's son) A hardworking, clueless seventeen-year-old who can't figure out why Jeomsun picks on him. Main character Appears in part 1
  • 점순이 Jeomsun The bold, quick-witted daughter of the landlord's agent, whose kindness was rudely refused. Main character Appears in part 1

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