Part 1
처음 ~ 아내가 남편을 부추기기까지
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Digging for Gold in the Bean Field
In the 1930s, when people everywhere were digging for gold, Yeongsik, a poor tenant farmer in a mountain village, believes Sujae's claim that a gold vein runs under his land and starts tearing up his own thriving bean field. The gold refuses to appear, while the landlord's fury, the steward's threats and the family's debts pile up.
the gold-rush craze of the 1930sa farmer cut off from the land he lives bya poor couple's small dreams and quarrels
Public domain: the author died in 1937 and the work was published in 1935, 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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- 영식 Yeongsik A plodding tenant farmer who has torn up his own bean field to find a vein of gold.
- 영식의 아내 Yeongsik's Wife A poor farmer's wife with a baby on her back, dreaming of what gold could buy.
- 수재 Sujae A man who left farming to roam the gold fields, swearing there is gold under this bean field.
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Part 2
콩밭을 파기 시작한 날 ~ 아내가 점심을 이고 나서기까지
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Part 3
콩밭에 점심을 내가는 장면 ~ 끝
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