Korean Fairy Tales

Adik-adik, tahukah kalian kalau negeri Jepang, Cina, dan Korea punya banyak cerita yang menarik? Yuk, kita dengar buku dongeng oriental tiga negara ini untuk merasakan petualangan seru para tokohnya. Melalui dongeng ini, adik-adik akan mendapatkan pesan-pesan kebaikan si tokoh dari cerita yang sederhana.

Soma's mother, T.M. Song, was a storyteller and this is a tale she used to tell her daughters when they were little girls. Her mother had told it to her when she was growing up in a rural village in Korea during the reign of King Kojong.... The underlying lesson is filial piety, respect for one's parents, presented in an engrossing Oriental Cinderella story.

A young girl reconnects with her Korean grandmother; an artist considers her connection to the Korean folktale of the green frog; a praying mantis living in a beautiful home overlooking the park finds the New York dating scene leaves her hungering for more; a fox demon seeks revenge for her murdered sister, only for her loyalties to be torn; AI brings a grieving mother’s daughter back to life; at a spa in the mountains, a recently divorced woman has a ghostly encounter; and a recipe book instructs the reader on ‘how to eat your own heart’.

샤를 페로의 동화 속 푸른 수염은 노통브의 『푸른 수염』에서 황금과 중세 사상에 사로잡힌 에스파냐 귀족 〈돈 엘레미리오 니발 이 밀카르〉로 변모했다. 그리고 푸른 수염의 젊은 아내는 영리하고 아름다운 벨기에 여자, 사튀르닌으로 부활했다.

『추남, 미녀』는 샤를 페로의 동화 「고수머리 리케」를 현대적으로 재해석한 작품으로, 추하지만 천재인 남자와, 아름답지만 멍청해 보이는(사실은 멍청하지 않다) 여자라는 두 주인공을 등장시키고 있다.