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The Star

The Star

& OTHER KOREAN
SHORT STORIES

Translated from the Korean by

AGNITA TENNANT

First published in 1996 by
Kegan Paul International

This edition first published in 2010 by
Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX 14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

UNESCO 1996, for the English translation

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 10: 0-7103-0533-8 (hbk)
ISBN 13: 978-0-7103-0533-6 (hbk)

Publisher's Note
The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original copies may be apparent. The publisher has made every effort to contact original copyright holders and would welcome correspondence from those they have been unable to trace.

CONTENTS

Yoo Jai-yong

Im Chol-woo

Yoo Keumho

Choi Hak

Park Wan-suh

Yoon Chongmo

Yang Guija

Yi Chong-jun

Choi Hak was born in 1950 in Kyungsang-Pukdo. His writing career started in 1973 when he was awarded first prize for his novel in a competition organized by the daily paper, Kyunghyang-shinmun. Since then he had published several books including two historical novels The North-West Wind and The Treason, and also The Sea that Wets the Rain, The Crying Fog and Winter Showers. A collection of his short stories was published under the title A Land for a Short Stay He was educated at Korea University and at present teaches at a technical college in Taejon.

The Guest in this collection was written in 1990.

Park Wan-suh was born in 1931 in Gaepyong-gun, Kyong-gi-do and was educated at Sukmyong Girls' High School and Seoul National University. She made her debut with a novel The Naked Tree in 1970. Her novels include A Shaky Afternoon, It Was Warm That Winter and Arrogance and Illusion. She has also written many short stories some of which were published under the titles Shame is Being Taught, Stolen Poverty, and Spring Outside the Window. She has received the Lee Sang Literary Award and the Literary Award of the Republic of Korea.

She Knows, I Know and God Knows but was written in 1984.

Yi Chong-jun was born in 1933 in Chang-hung, Cholla-Namdo, educated at Kwang-ju So Middle School and Jeil High School, and studied German Literature at Seoul National University. He made his debut with a short story The Discharge in 1965. He has written several novels including Your Own Heaven and The DancingPriest. Several collections of his short stories have been published under the titles You Will Be Shown the Stars, Walls of Rumours, The Prophet, The Living Marsh and The Gate of Freedom. He has received many prestigious literary awards including the Dong-in Literary Award, the Lee Sang Literary Award and the Literary Award of the Republic of Korea.

Snowy Road was written in 1977.

Im Chol-woo was born in 1954 on Wando Island off the coast of Cholla-Namdo. Since his debut with The Dog Thief in 1981 he has written many stories, some of which were published under the titles My Fathers Land and The Beloved South. He has also written a novel The Red Hills, White Birds. He was educated at Chon-nam and Sogang Universities and at present is a professor of English Literature at Chon-Nam.

My Father's Land was written in 1984.

Yang Guija was born in 1955 in Chonju, Cholla-Namdo and was educated at Chonju Girls' High School and Wonkwang University. Her writing career started with The Morning of a New Beginning and The Door that is Already Closed, for which she was awarded the Yoo Ju-hyun Literary Award and the Lee Sang Literary Award. Her major works include the collections Wonmi-dong People and The Deaf Bird, and a novel Hope.

The Poet of Wonmi-dong was written in 1986.

Yoo Jai-yong was born in 1936 in Changdo, Kangwon-Do and was educated at Kyun-myong High School. He made his debut in 1969 with The Record of a Cohabitation. His major novels include The Holy Region, The Holy River, The Portrait of My Sister and Relationship. His short stories were published in a collection entitled The Man with a Tail. He has been awarded the Lee Sang Literary Award, the Cho Yon-hyun Literary Award and the Literary Award of the Republic of Korea.

The Star was written in 1986.

Yoo Keumho was born in 1942 in Kohung, Cholla-Namdo. He made his debut in 1964 with a short story Colour the Sky, subsequently published in a collection with the same title. His novels include The Winter Rain and Yonam, Parkjiwon. He has also written books of literary criticism entitled The Language, the Dreamand the Disillusionment and A Study of Death as it Appears in the Korean Novel. He was educated at Kong-ju Teachers' Training College and Korea University. He received a Ph.D from the latter and now teaches Modern Literature at Mokpo University.

A Thin Line was written in 1982.

Yoon Chongmo was born in 1946 in Wolsung, Kyongsang-Pukdo and educated at the Department of Creative Writing, Sorabol College of Arts. She made her debut in 1982 with The Daughters of the Windy Corner. Her works include several books of short stories: The Night Road, Light and The Beloved. She also has written several novels, including The Islands, Then the Shouts Were Heard and The Fields.

Why the Silkworm Does Not Leave its Cocoon was written in 1986.

Agnita Tennant, ne Hong, was born in Korea and educated at Chong-ju Girls' High School and Yonsei University. She married an Englishman, Roger Tennant, and has lived in Leicestershire since 1964. She started translating Korean stories in the 1970s, and published a collection in 1972. Besides the present collection she has also translated the first volume of Land, a novel sequence by Park Kyong-ni, also published by Kegan Paul International.

She worked as a librarian for Leicestershire Libraries and Information Service until retiring in 1993. In 1990 she received a Ph.D. from Loughborough University for her study of Thomas Hardy s influence on Korean literature.

She has two children, Charlotte and Leo, who are both married.

In recent years in the West the short story has somewhat lost its prestige. This collection, however, demonstrates that short stories can be complete, serious and rich in content and sophisticated in construction. They come from a literary tradition in which the short story is the most popular form of fiction. Korean short stories will, I believe, in due course, make a unique contribution to mainstream world literature.

Written by acclaimed contemporary writers, all winners of literary awards, these stories present deeply moving human dramas. What emerges from them is a picture of a somewhat sad people -sad because they have gone through sorrowful experiences of one kind or another. But they are people who transform their sufferings into blessings through their warm humanity, whether it be a soldier, a domestic servant or an office worker. And the source of this humanity, as we discover in these stories, lies in two things which are characteristic of the Korean people, namely powerful family bonds, intricately woven and enduring, and nostalgia for a past even though it might have been far from comfortable or glamorous, and was often extremely painful.

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