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\n\uc804 \uc120\uc0dd\uc774 \uc0ac\uace0\ub85c \ub300\uad6c\uc758 \ud55c \ubcd1\uc6d0\uc5d0 \uc785\uc6d0\ud574 \uc788\uc744 \ub54c
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\n\uc120\uc0dd\uc740 \uc9c8\ubb38\uc774 \uace7 \uc131\ucc30\uc5d0 \uc774\ub974\ub294 \uae38\uc778 \ub4ef \uc904\uace7 \ubb3c\uc5c8\ub2e4.
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\n\uc65c \uad8c\uc815\uc0dd \uac19\uc740 \ub3d9\ud654\uc791\uac00\uac00 \ub2e4\uc2dc \ub098\uc624\uc9c0 \uc54a\ub294\uac00.
\n\uc65c \uc300\uc54c \ud55c \ud1a8\uc774 \uc774 \uc138\uc0c1\uc5d0\uc11c \uac00\uc7a5 \ubb34\uac70\uc6b4\uac00.
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\n\uc65c \ud3ec\ub3c4\ub098\ubb34\ub294 \uc790\uafb8 \uc0ac\ub9c9 \uba40\ub9ac \ubfcc\ub9ac\ub97c \ubed7\uc5b4\uac00\ub294\uac00.
\n\uc65c \uc194\uac1c\ub294 \ubc14\uc704\uc5d0 \ubd80\ub9ac\ub97c \ubd80\uc218\uace0 \ubc1c\ud1b1\uc744 \ubf51\uc544\ubc84\ub9ac\ub294\uac00.
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Cornelian Cherry Seed<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014While Pushing Mr. Jeon U-ik\u2019s Wheelchair<\/p>\n

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During the hot summer of 2003,
\nWhen Mr. Jeon was hospitalized in Daegu after an accident,
\nI pushed his wheelchair for a few days, trying to find some shade.
\nI had once pushed his back while we climbed up a hill to Cheongnyang Temple in Bonghwa.
\nThen he kept asking questions, as if asking questions was the way to enlightenment:
\nWhy has Korea never had a revolutionary poet like Tao Yuanming?
\nWhy has there not been a children\u2019s story writer like Kwon Jeong-saeng after him?
\nWhy is a grain of rice the heaviest thing in the world?
\nWhy do we call the flowering of rice \u201ccoming out in ears\u201d instead of \u201cblooming\u201d?
\nWhy does a grapevine spread its roots on and on toward the desert?
\nWhy does a kite break its own beak and pull out its own talons on a rock?
\nWhy can something big not be something small at the same time?
\nWhy did the world turn tragic from when human beings stood up straight?
\nWhy, why, why\u2026<\/p>\n

The questions still ring in my ears nine years after his passing.
\nI remember the story of yellow cornelian cherries whenever an election approaches\u2014
\na story that is included in Mr. Jeon\u2019s book What Fun Is It to Live Comfortably Alone?
\n<\/em>One day,
\nWhile Mr. Jeon was planting cornelian cherry saplings on his farm,
\nHis neighbors clucked their tongues, wondering when the saplings would grow big enough to make money.
\nFive years later, a few yellow flowers bloomed,
\nAnd ten years later, they turned into a yellow forest, filling the entire village with fragrance.
\nMr. Jeon nurtured and distributed cornelian cherry saplings to his neighbors.
\nOccasionally, some of the people wanted seeds instead of saplings.
\nGrinning meaningfully at this point of the story, he asked me,
\nWhich would you prefer: seeds or saplings?
\nI also grinned, and said that I would want neither,
\nAdding that they would be wasted
\nUnless I plowed the soil completely, as the soil was in bad shape.
\nGrinning again, Mr. Jeon nodded.<\/p>\n

Dusk descends onto the shaded hospital garden.
\nAs the darkness and light cross each other, everything is being erased.
\nThe in- and outside of life might be like the vague light of this moment.
\nThose trees, which were seeds yesterday, will become ashes tomorrow.
\nRice flowers might bloom, like grains of rice, from that heap of ashes.<\/p>\n

This wheelchair that you can move by rolling the two wheels with your hands
\nLeaves tire tracks only as deep as the strength you deliberately apply to the wheels.<\/p>\n

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Translated by \uc804\uc2b9\ud76c Seung-Hee Jeon
\n(literary critic and translator, editor of Asia: A Magazine of Asian Literature<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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