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\ub2e8\uac10<\/strong><\/p>\n \ub2e8\uac10 \ub9c8\ub978 \uaf2d\uc9c0\ub294 \ubc30\uaf3d\uc740 \ub3cc\uc544\uac08 \uae38\uc744 \uc7a0\uadfc\ub2e4. \uc0c1\ucc98\uac00 \ubcf8\ub514 \uaf43\uc774 \uc9c4 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0.<\/strong><\/p>\n A Sweet <\/strong>Persimmon<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The dried stem of a sweet persimmon is its navel. The navel locks the path Such is the scar of a fallen flower.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Footnotes: .<\/p>\n <\/p>\n .<\/p>\n <\/p>\n .<\/p>\n Translated by Clara Soonhee Kwon-Tatum, Ph.D & Matthew Lewis, M.A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \ub2e8\uac10 \ub2e8\uac10 \ub9c8\ub978 \uaf2d\uc9c0\ub294 \ub2e8\uac10\uc758 \ubc30\uaf3d\uc774\ub2e4. \ub2e8\uac10 \uaf2d\uc9c0 \ub5a8\uc5b4\uc9c4 \uc790\ub9ac\ub294 \uc218 \ub9cc \ubd04\uc774 \uba38\ubb3c\uace0 \uc648\uce75, \uc6b0\uc8fc\uac00 \uc3df\uc544\uc838 \ub4e4\uc5b4\uc628 \ud754\uc801, \ubc30\uaf3d\uc740 \ub3cc\uc544\uac08 \uae38\uc744 \uc7a0\uadfc\ub2e4. \ud1f4\ub85c\uac00 \uc5c6\ub2e4. \uc774 \uae38\uc740 \uae08\uacc4\ub78d \ub367\uce60\ud55c \uc5b4\ub9e4\uc758 \uc816\ubcf4\ub2e4 \uc4f0\uace0 \uba40\uace0 \ud5d8\ud558\ub2e4. \uc0c1\ucc98\uac00 \ubcf8\ub514 \uaf43\uc774 \uc9c4 \uc790\ub9ac\uc778 \uac83\uc744, \u00a0 \u00a0. A Sweet Persimmon The dried stem of a sweet persimmon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,2],"tags":[39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/koreanlit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/koreanlit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/koreanlit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koreanlit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koreanlit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/koreanlit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1656,"href":"https:\/\/koreanlit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions\/1656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koreanlit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/koreanlit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koreanlit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koreanlit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\ub2e8\uac10\uc758 \ubc30\uaf3d\uc774\ub2e4.
\n\ub2e8\uac10 \uaf2d\uc9c0 \ub5a8\uc5b4\uc9c4 \uc790\ub9ac\ub294
\n\uc218 \ub9cc \ubd04\uc774 \uba38\ubb3c\uace0
\n\uc648\uce75, \uc6b0\uc8fc\uac00 \uc3df\uc544\uc838 \ub4e4\uc5b4\uc628 \ud754\uc801,<\/p>\n
\n\ud1f4\ub85c\uac00 \uc5c6\ub2e4.
\n\uc774 \uae38\uc740 \uae08\uacc4\ub78d \ub367\uce60\ud55c \uc5b4\ub9e4\uc758 \uc816\ubcf4\ub2e4
\n\uc4f0\uace0
\n\uba40\uace0 \ud5d8\ud558\ub2e4.<\/p>\n
\n\uc790\ub9ac\uc778 \uac83\uc744,<\/p>\n
\nThe stump a vestige of the place
\nwhere once thousand springtimes passed
\nand where the universe gushed in.<\/p>\n
\nthere is no retreat.
\nThe path is as bitter
\nas quinine on a mother\u2019s breast
\nand the path is too long and rough.<\/p>\n
\nQuinine was commonly used in 1950s thru 1990s when Korean mothers tried to stop\u00a0 their children breast feeding when they become 12 or 24 months old.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/koreanlit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2014040906280064174_1_59_20140413074903.jpg\")
\uc2dc\uc778 \uc7a5\uc11d\uc8fc by Poet, Chang, SeokJoo
\nThe poet, Seok-Ju Chang, was born in Non-San, Chung-Cheong-Nam-Do, South Korea, in January 8, 1955.\u00a0 His first published
\nwork was \u201cMidnight\u201d that he received new and emerging poet award from Monthly Literature<\/em> in 1975. In 1979, he awarded his poem, \u201cFly, Gloomy \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Dream\u201d inChosun Il-Bo<\/em>, Spring Literature and Dong-A-Il-Bo<\/em>, Spring Literature, Critique, \u201cExistence and Unrealism\u201d.<\/p>\n