A Poor Wife

현진건

Korean edition · 빈처

About 29 min

작은 살림을 꾸려가는 부부의 대화와 일상을 그린 단편.

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An opening sentence

“Where can it have gone?”

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Edition: English translation · ai-en-v2 · 2026-11-01
Review and editorial notes: An AI translation of Hyeon Jin-geon's Korean story, prepared from a pinned Korean Wikisource transcription. This revised AI edition was checked throughout against the Korean and read separately in English. It has not been reviewed by a professional translator or human editor, and errors may remain. A Poor Wife retains the title's reference to poverty. The husband's judgments and guesses about other people remain his own. Mobondan is a patterned silk, a durumagi is an outer coat, and gisaeng were female entertainers. The older shoes have blue patterns on leather. Won is a monetary unit; the sums, ages and dates follow the source without conversion. Some older expressions are read provisionally from context. The unfinished sentence near the end is retained.
Work: A Poor Wife
Author: Hyeon Jin-geon
Basis for original work rights: More than 70 years have passed since the author, Hyeon Jin-geon, died in 1943. This edition uses the original text from our Korean literature catalog, where the work is listed as public domain in South Korea.
Source edition: Korean Wikisource transcription of 빈처. The existing catalog does not identify an underlying print edition.
Transcription and attribution: Korean Wikisource contributors, 빈처, revision 250704.
Source URL: https://ko.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=250704
Contributor history: https://ko.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=%EB%B9%88%EC%B2%98&action=history
Source usage terms: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Translation changes and license: translated from Korean into English by ijustwannagetinspired; original paragraph boundaries retained. This English adaptation is available under CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/