Post by sageuk on Feb 3, 2016 17:02:55 GMT -5
Everybody knows about Jeong Mongju's death, and Koreans are reminded of it again with the peddler goods version.
But recetnly I came across a bizarre take on that tragedy in the form of folktale text on google books. A book called Eerie tales from Old Korea. Look for the chapter "The DOnkey Maker" and you'll find this story.
How a bloddy political tragedy got turned into a franctured fairy tale is beyond me.
books.google.com/books?id=HDT4CAAAQBAJ&pg=PT17&lpg=PT17&dq=why+kill+jeong+mongju&source=bl&ots=xKWfEFoyWH&sig=OlEAPYakcdkiGjd3ig-Wu6bKQmg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwieuJ-dytzKAhUJHD4KHVZdCyMQ6AEIPTAG#v=onepage&q=why%20kill%20jeong%20mongju&f=false
I first found it when I googled "why kill Jeong Mongju with a club when a sword could have sufficed?"
But recetnly I came across a bizarre take on that tragedy in the form of folktale text on google books. A book called Eerie tales from Old Korea. Look for the chapter "The DOnkey Maker" and you'll find this story.
How a bloddy political tragedy got turned into a franctured fairy tale is beyond me.
books.google.com/books?id=HDT4CAAAQBAJ&pg=PT17&lpg=PT17&dq=why+kill+jeong+mongju&source=bl&ots=xKWfEFoyWH&sig=OlEAPYakcdkiGjd3ig-Wu6bKQmg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwieuJ-dytzKAhUJHD4KHVZdCyMQ6AEIPTAG#v=onepage&q=why%20kill%20jeong%20mongju&f=false
I first found it when I googled "why kill Jeong Mongju with a club when a sword could have sufficed?"
