Rain shower by hwang sunwon biography
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Rain shower by hwang sunwon biography
By Hwang Sun-Won (1953)
Translated by Brother Anthony of Taizé
No Korean short story is as beloved as this one, published while the Korean war was still in progress.
In part, the popularity comes from its great simplicity of language and content. It is a tale that school children can easily understand, and be touched by. Like many Korean stories, it shifts frequently between present and past tense, giving a sense of immediacy.
Themes touched on include nostalgia for a lost innocence, the fragility of human life, the contrast between ancient rural ways and the difficulties of modern city life, and the simplicity of true joy.
As soon as the boy saw the girl beside the stream, he realized that she must be the great-granddaughter of MasterYun.
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She had her hands in the water and was splashing it about. Probably she had never seen a stream like that in Seoul.
She had been playing with the water in the same manner for several days now, on the way home from