Part 1
처음 ~ 성팔이와 헤어져 산을 내려오기까지
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The Shameless
Autumn in a mountain village in 1930s Gangwon Province. Eungchil, an ex-convict with no land and no home, has been staying for a month in the village of his younger brother Eungo. Someone starts cutting the rice heads from the field Eungo has left unharvested while his wife lies dying, and Eungchil, knowing suspicion will fall on him first, decides to catch the thief himself.
exploitation and poverty in the colonial countrysidetwo brothers: an honest farmer and a drifting idlerhow hunger breaks trust between neighbors
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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- 응칠 Eungchil A drifter with no land and no home, staying a month in his younger brother's village.
- 응오 Eungo An honest farmer praised as a model young man. This year he has left his ripe rice standing.
- 성팔이 Seongpal A short village blacksmith who is the first to tell Eungchil about the missing rice.
- 재성이 Jaeseong A hungry villager, one of the two men Eungchil suspects of stealing the rice.
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Part 3
밤에 집을 나서는 장면 ~ 끝
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