Part 1
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When the Buckwheat Blooms
Heo, an aging peddler who has walked from market to market with his old donkey for twenty years, packs up after a slow summer market day in Bongpyeong. That night he sets out for the next market at Daehwa with his partner Jo and a young peddler named Dong-i, along a mountain road where the buckwheat is in bloom under the moon.
the wandering life of market peddlersmemory of a single, unforgettable bondlyric harmony between people and the moonlit landscape
Public domain: the author died in 1942 and the work was published in 1936, 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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- 허생원 Heo Saengwon A lonely, pockmarked old cloth peddler who has walked the market roads with his donkey for twenty years.
- 동이 Dong-i A young peddler, new to Heo's company, who takes a harsh scolding without a word.
- 조선달 Jo Seondal Heo's easygoing peddler partner, who has heard all of Heo's stories more than once.
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Part 3
동이의 신세 이야기 ~ 끝
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