Part 1
처음 ~ 삼복이 신기료장수가 되기까지
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Mister Bang
A few months after liberation in 1945, two men from the same hometown sit drinking beer in a grand house in Seoul. The host is Bang Sam-bok, once a farmhand and a street shoe-mender with a crooked nose, now called 'Mister Bang' and rich enough to keep servants. His guest, Mr. Baek, is an older man from a proud family who resents the upstart's bad manners but holds his tongue. How did Sam-bok rise so fast, and what does Baek want from him?
Satire of opportunists in the confusion after liberationSeeking power by leaning on a foreign armyPro-Japanese collaborators who want their old privileges backThe comedy of bluster and empty bragging
Public domain: the author died in 1950 and the work was published in 1946, 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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- 미스터 방(방삼복) Mister Bang (Bang Sam-bok) A former farmhand and shoe-mender who, within months of liberation, lives in a mansion and fears no one.
- 백주사 Mr. Baek A proud old man from Bang's hometown who has lost his standing and swallows his anger over a glass of beer.
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Part 3
백선봉의 내력 ~ 끝
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