Spring, Spring
봄·봄
김유정 · Korean
A farmhand has been working three years without wages, promised his employer's daughter once she is tall enough.
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A farmhand has been working three years without wages, promised his employer's daughter once she is tall enough. She is not growing, or so her father claims, and the young man is beginning to suspect the measurement will never be met. Kim Yu-jeong's 1935 comedy is told in the guileless voice of a narrator slower than everyone around him, and the funniest scene in it is a fight the daughter herself starts.
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김유정
Kim Yu-jeong (1908-1937) was a Korean novelist who wrote about the rural poor of Gangwon Province in a comic voice that never condescends. Spring, Spring and The Camellias are told by narrators slower than the reader, and the humour rarely hides how little the characters have. He died of tuberculosis at twenty-nine.
Spring, Spring
봄·봄
김유정 · Korean
A farmhand has been working three years without wages, promised his employer's daughter once she is tall enough.
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Original (Korean)
“장인님! 인제 저…….” 내가 이렇게 뒤통수를 긁고, 나이가 찼으니 성례를 시켜줘야 하지 않겠느냐고 하면 대답이 늘, “이 자식아! 성례구 뭐구 미처 자라야지!”하고 만다. 이 자라야 한다는 것은 내가 아니라 내 아내가 될 점순이의 키 말이다. 내가 여기에 와서 돈 한 푼 안 받고 일하기를 삼 년 하고 꼬바기 일곱 달 동안을 했다. 그런데도 미처 못 자랐다니까 이 키는 언제야 자라는 겐지 짜장 영문 모른다. 일을 좀 더 잘해야 한다든지, 혹은 밥을 많이 먹는다고 노상 걱정이니까 좀 덜 먹어야 한다든지 하면 나도 얼마든지 할 말이 많다. 허지만 점순이가 아직 어리니까 더 자라야 한다는 여기에는 어째 볼 수 없이 고만 빙빙하고 만다.
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A farmhand has been working three years without wages, promised his employer's daughter once she is tall enough. She is not growing, or so her father claims, and the young man is beginning to suspect the measurement will never be met. Kim Yu-jeong's 1935 comedy is told in the guileless voice of a narrator slower than everyone around him, and the funniest scene in it is a fight the daughter herself starts.
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김유정
Kim Yu-jeong (1908-1937) was a Korean novelist who wrote about the rural poor of Gangwon Province in a comic voice that never condescends. Spring, Spring and The Camellias are told by narrators slower than the reader, and the humour rarely hides how little the characters have. He died of tuberculosis at twenty-nine.
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