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Inhae @blue@social.inhae.blog · 13:52

My current Korean read is a collection of short stories, 역제안 by 정재환.

I read and enjoyed the first two stories. The second one has a cool title: 2상한 2야기 (the protagonist sees a lot of things double in the story).

And Korean book means filling my Korean food journal. The first two stories of this collection gave me bulgogi, kimbap, bread and milk and a bottle of soju.

So far, coffee is the winner with 5 entries (counting the number of novels/short stories in which a character drinks coffee, not the number of occurrences in a same story), followed by kimchi (4) and bread (as a generic term to anything you could buy in, say, Paris Baguette) (also 4).

A blue book in Korean is resting on a white notebook on a table. The corner of a keyboard is visible on the upper left corner. The book is the focus of the picture, it has the title 역제안 written in red and surrounded by ink drawings of objects like diary, watch, pistol, camera, knife, etc.
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Inhae @blue@social.inhae.blog · 13:26

I finished 역제안 by 정재환, and I liked every single short story in it!

The ones I loved the most were one about a soldier spying on phone conversations while working in the communication service in the military, and one about a performer hired to play the role of the father in a formal first meeting between two families (in preparation for marriage).

(Btw, is there an English word for 상견례… :meow_question: )

Anyway, it was a really nice read, the 7 short stories were very diverse in topics (there’s even a story about a zombie outbreak) and have an intriguing and engaging plot. It was also not too difficult to read in Korean (though also not the easiest book I read this year).

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