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The Golden Bean Patch
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- Writer
- Kim Yu-Jeong
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- Translator
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- Country
- Republic of Korea
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- City
- Seoul
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- Publisher
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- Published Year
- 2013
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- Genre
- Literature - Korean literature - Contemporary fiction
Kim Yu-jeong’s prose, with its liberal use of lively onomatopoeia, rustic dialects, and homespun colloquialisms, lends great animation to his subjects, providing readers with vitality-filled sketches of the impoverished and miserable lives lived by the lowest classes in rural villages under Japanese colonial rule. “The Golden Bean Patch” is a tale of the foolishness of man’s greed, and a reflection of the time Kim Yu-jeong spent around gold mines. Yeong-shik was a hardworking, simple farmer. But when Sujae suggests to him that a vein of gold runs beneath his field, he falls for temptation and digs up his bean plot in the hope of striking it rich and escaping from a life of poverty.
