Vol. 7 — October 2026
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When the Buckwheat Blooms

메밀꽃 필 무렵

이효석 · Korean

An ageing pedlar walks the road between market towns with two companions, and on a moonlit night among blooming buckwheat he tells a story he has told…

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Pagera Editor's Note

An ageing pedlar walks the road between market towns with two companions, and on a moonlit night among blooming buckwheat he tells a story he has told before: one night, long ago, at a watermill, with a woman he never saw again. Lee Hyo-seok's 1936 story says nothing outright about what the reader works out along the way, and its description of the flowering fields is often quoted.

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