Tigers of the Kumgang Mountains

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Kim So-Un. Tigers of the Kumgang Mountains

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Cultural Background

The Tigers of the Kumgang Mountains is a Korean folktale that has been handed down by word of mouth from one generation to the next. It has been told by grandparents to their grandchildren, huddled on the heated floors of Korean homes in the bitterly cold days of mid-winter, with snow-laden winds raging outside; repeated in the yards of Korean homes to children seated on straw mats in the cool of a summer evening; and shared by farmer folk as they rested from their work in the fields in the shade of a nearby tree.

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The hunter refused to listen to anyone who tried to hold him back, and he set out to find the tigers.

At the foot of the mountains he came to a lonely inn.

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