Dongbaek Blossoms

김유정

Korean edition · 동백꽃

About 15 min

시골 마을, 닭싸움을 둘러싸고 티격태격하는 두 사람의 이야기.

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An opening sentence

Our rooster was getting chased again today.

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Edition: English translation · ai-en-v2 · 2026-10-28
Review and editorial notes: An AI translation prepared from the Korean text by Kim Yu-jeong, using a pinned Korean Wikisource transcription. This revised edition has been checked against the Korean text by AI. It has not been reviewed by a professional translator or human editor, and errors may remain. Dongbaek is retained as the local name for the yellow blossoms of Lindera obtusiloba, known in Korean as saenggangnamu. The narrator's misunderstandings, period language and ambiguities are preserved.
Work: Dongbaek Blossoms
Author: Kim Yu-jeong
Basis for original work rights: More than 70 years have passed since the author, Kim Yu-jeong, died in 1937. 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 동백꽃. The existing catalog does not identify an underlying print edition.
Transcription and attribution: Korean Wikisource contributors, 동백꽃, revision 247658.
Source URL: https://ko.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=247658
Contributor history: https://ko.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=%EB%8F%99%EB%B0%B1%EA%BD%83&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/