Part 1
처음 ~ 사내가 일본을 떠돌다 고향에 들렀다는 이야기까지
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Hometown
On a train from Daegu to Seoul, the narrator finds himself facing a man dressed in a Japanese kimono, a Korean cotton jacket and Chinese-style trousers all at once. After chattering at a Japanese and a Chinese passenger in turn, the man starts talking to the narrator in a thick Gyeongsang dialect. The narrator finds him tiresome at first, but slowly begins to listen when the man says he is on his way back from his hometown.
the ruin of farming villages under colonial exploitationlosing one's hometown and being forced to wanderone man's face as the face of Joseon
Public domain: the author died in 1943 and the work was published in 1926, 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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- 나(기차 안의 화자) I (the narrator on the train) A Seoul resident on the train from Daegu, watching the strange man in the seat across from him.
- 그(고향을 떠난 사내) He (the man who left home) A man in a kimono, a Korean jacket and Chinese trousers, heading to Seoul to look for work.
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Part 2
폐허가 된 고향 이야기 ~ 끝
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