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SUBMITTED BY; DARREN ARGUELLES JAYLORD SANTIAGO
LOVELYN BALTAZAR JOHN KENT LESTER TABING
JOHN DENSE KYLE RECUDO JOHN MICHAEL REYES
GHIEANNE TAMPOS CRISTINE JOY IRATAY
ANGELOU GABAT JAQUELYN IBABAO
RENZ DALISAY MARY ROSE INUMAN
RUSSEL MACAHILIG ANGEL MARIE ISCALA

SUBMITTED TO; MARAH MAYBELLE CUENCA

COMPILATION
OF
ASIAN
LITERATURE
COMPILATI
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KOREAN
LITERATUR
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Compilation
of Short
Stories
Korean Short Story I: Small nose and huge mouth  코작은 할아버지와 입
큰 할머니
Once upon a time, there was an old couple who have problems with their
appearance. The man has got a small nose, woman has got a huge mouth.
Someday, their neighbor invited them to have dinner. They really wanted to go and
have a good time with neighbors but they were nervous what they show their face.
they got good idea. He made fake nose by candle, she sewed her mouth.  in the
party, they talked near the stove. Then his nose began to melt. His wife laughed to
see him and her mouth became huge. they were nervous and put they heads down.
The neighbor said appearance is not important, we like you because you are so
kind. Since then they didn’t care so much about their face and lived happily after.

Korean Short Story II:  Three years hill.  삼년고개

Once upon a time, there was a hill called 3 years hill in a small village. According
to traditions, if someone fall down on this hill can live only 3 years. That’s why the
hill is called 3 years hill. One day, when an old man was going up the hill,
suddenly a rabbit has passed by him. He was suprised then
unfortunately he has fell down. And he got sick because he worried too much
about it. While he is sick, a little boy came to him and tell him. You don’t worry
too much, because if you fall down on the hill, you can live 3 years but if you fall
down 2 times, you can live 6 years. so the old man went to the hill and tried to fall
down all day. Since then, he got cured and lived happily after.
 Korean Short Story III: Heungboo and Nolbu 흥부와 놀부
Long ago, there were two brothers, Nolbu and Heungbu.Nolbu, the older brother,
was rich and greedy. Heungbu, the younger brother, was poor but generous.
One day, Heungbu found a sparrow with a broken leg. He took care of the bird.
The bird got better and flew away.The next spring, the sparrow brought a gourd
seed to Heungbu. When the gourd grew, Heungbu cut it open.Many pieces of gold
fell out, and he became rich. When Nolbu heard the story, he found a sparrow and
broke its leg.The bird got better and brought a seed to Nolbu.But no gold was in
the gourd. Water flowed out and covered his house.Now, he was the poor man.But
the good Heungbu shared his gold with his brother.

A Dream of Good Fortune

The story is about a family who lives as urban squatters near the numerous factories located outside of Seoul.
The family is headed by the father, Kang, and includes his wife, his wife’s daughter, Misun, his wife’s son,
Kŭnho, and the couple’s young son. Kang earns money by selling scavenged or stolen goods. Kŭnho works in
the woodworking shop at a Japanese factory that produces television and radio cabinets. Misun worked at the
local wig factory before she took out a large daily-interest loan and ran away from home.
The day begins with Kang boasting of his lucky day to his neighbors. He usually only makes 300-400 wŏn a
day, but today is different. Kang resold some electric wire for an undisclosed sum and received 300 wŏn from
a family to bury a dog corpse, but he has no intentions to bury the dog. Kang has not been able to afford any
meat recently, so he decides to eat the dog later that day. After talking to his male neighbors, Kang decides to
share the dog with them in exchange for their help cooking and their providing makkŏlli, Korean rice wine.
Kang returns home to find his wife in a foul mood. Her brother came by with Misun, who is discovered to be
pregnant. Kang soon leaves after arguing with his wife about his stepdaughter’s negative effect on his image as
a father. The mother is furious at her daughter for taking out a loan and returning home pregnant. The mother
wants Misun to have an abortion, but her Christian brother—and Misun—object. The mother compromises by
persuading Misun to marry whomever the mother can find who will accept the baby. The family has barely
enough money to survive, so the mother is distressed about how to provide for her unmarried pregnant
daughter, pay back the loan, and pay for the wedding.
Meanwhile, Kang and his male neighbors are talking while preparing for their dog feast. As squatters, they are
troubled because a nearby neighborhood of squatters had recently been leveled in the space of a day. The men
discuss the tenuous future of their own shantytown. The neighborhood leader assures the worried men that
their neighborhood will not be destroyed in the near future. In addition, he tells them that he has received
confirmation that all the neighborhood households will receive fifty thousand wŏn in relocation aid because of
the age of their neighborhood. One of the neighborhood men notices the gathering and drops by on his way to
get noodles for his liquor stand. When the neighbor returns to his stand with the noodles, he soon sees Kŭnho.
After work, Kŭnho came to the stand for drinks with a bandage on his hand. Angry about his sister’s
predicament, he talks crudely to some factory girls and sings a gloomy song about the plight of a poor factory
boy. Then Kŭnho wanders the streets drunk. When Kŭnho makes it home, Kang’s wife finds out that her son
lost three fingers in an accident at work, but instead of being distraught, she is glad, because now she can use
his compensation money for Misun’s marriage. Inside the house, a local suitor that Kang’s wife found comes
to ask Misun to marry him, and Misun accepts his proposal.The story ends with the suitor going outside to
where Kang and the neighbors are finishing their party. After having eaten dog soup and drunken makkŏli,
some of the men are singing, and some are dancing. The story ends with the suitor informing Kang that he will
be Kang’s new son-in-law.

The Final Last of the Ultimate End

A man who is a pilot of an experimental project, accelerating a spaceship to
the speed of light, reaches extremely far future, due to accidental time dilation. He
realizes that the time he is arrived at is the heat death of the universe, which means
that he cannot see any person, any living creature, any planet, any star, any reactive
atom, nor any active thing what so ever.
Suffering from extreme loneliness and boredom, he tries to discover one
meaningful thing, thinking of his own study of time travel, hoping to get back to
his old life or solipsism of being god-like-status, since he is the most magnificent
being in the universe and the total representation of the universe for the moment.
But he soon finds out those thoughts are only megalomaniac fantasy, and not real
possibility of solution for his current status, but just being mad.
After a while, he begins to do things that he wanted to do for a long time. He
produces his own version of Waiting for Godot by himself and for himself, and he
thinks one he has truly loved over and over again. At the end of the story, he asks
to the reader, "what will be the end of this story?". The options he suggests are
suicide and mental breakdown. However the true end of the story is hearing
transmission from his loved one, who has followed him with the same kind of
spaceship only to meet him.
Compilation
of POEMS
 Beside a chrysanthemum  by Midang
Sŏ Chŏng-ju

For one chrysanthemum to bloom

a nightingale
has sobbed since spring, perhaps.

For one chrysanthemum to bloom

thunder
has pealed in dark clouds, perhaps.

Flower! Like my sister standing

at her mirror, just back
from far away, far away byways of youth,
where she was racked with longing and lack:

last night's frost came down

to bid your yellow petals bloom, perhaps,
while I could not get to sleep.
 Grass  by Kim Su-yŏng

The grass is lying flat.

Fluttering in the east wind that brings rain in its train,
the grass lay flat
and at last it wept.
As the day grew cloudier, it wept even more
and lay flat again.

The grass is lying flat.

It lies flat more quickly than the wind.
It weeps more quickly than the wind.
It rises more quickly than the wind.

The day is cloudy, the grass is lying flat.

It lies low as the ankles
low as the feet.
Though it lies flat later than the wind,
it rises more quickly than the wind
and though it weeps later than the wind,
it laughs more quickly than the wind.
The day is cloudy, the grass's roots are lying flat.
Breaking the Sound Barrier
A Korean War Veteran
with a yearning to fly;
having tasted that feeling
of floating with the clouds,
that feeling of hanging
suspended in utter quiet,
of wanting to reach out
and gather the stars,
that incredible feeling of riding
the sky, sitting in God's lap.

A memory that would not fade,

but called him back and back,
until he returned to the skies
in a Cherokee 235, and flew
coast to coast, city to city,
like the wind that blows
wherever it will.
 Azaleas  by Kim So-wŏl

When seeing me sickens you

and you walk out
I'll send you off without a word, no fuss.

Yongbyon's mount Yaksan's

azaleas
by the armful I'll scatter in your path.

With parting steps

on those strewn flowers
treading lightly, go on, leave.

When seeing me sickens you

and you walk out
why, I'd rather die than weep one tear.
 Today  by Ku Sang

Today again I confront a day that is source of

mystery.

In this day the past, present and future are one,

just as each drop of water in that river
is linked to a tiny spring in some mountain valley
and linked to the distant, azure sea.

In that way, in this today of mine, being linked to

eternity,
at this very moment I am living that eternity.

That means that it is not after I have died

but from today on that I must live eternity,
must live a life worthy of eternity.

I must live in poverty of heart.

I must live with an empty heart.
Compilation
Of folk tales
Compilation
of short
stories
Compilation
of POEMS
Compilation
Of folk tales
Co mpilation
of Indian
Literature