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The Last Fan Club of the Sammi Superstars scrap

삼미 슈퍼스타즈의 마지막 팬클럽

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  • Author

    Park Min-gyu박민규

  • Publisher

    LTI Korea한국문학번역원

  • Year Published

    2003

  • Category

    Literary Fiction 소설

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The author begins 1982 as follows: rather dramatically. The excerpt is a bit long, but let it roll. It was a year that saw the termination of curfew 37 years after its imposition, the abolition of hair and dress codes for middle and high schoolers, and Constable Woo Bum-kon of the Gyeongnam Province Uiryeong County police division destroy the lives of 56 residents of 4 neighboring villages with carbines and grenades in hand, sending the world reeling. That same year held the greatest financial crime since the country's founding in married couple Yi Chol-hui and Jang Yeong-ja's large-scale promissary note fraud case, the Busan American Cultural Service building arson case, the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the massacre of Palestinian refugees, the death of Brezhnev in the USSR, the launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia in the USA, and finally the death of the tragic boxer Kim Duk-koo during his WBA lightweight title match with Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini in Las Vegas, USA. Everything was in chaos, and everyone was losing their head, and some were smiling in the midst of it all. In 1982, when our society was becoming a bit more dynamic, pro baseball was set into motion and a club was born that called Incheon its home: the "Sammi Superstars." But Sammi, who took Superman as its mascot, was with the single exception of 1983 an eternal cellar-dweller of a team that "wouldn't swing for a tricky pitch and gave up on hard-to-catch flies" all the way to its sale in 1985. Retrospectively, in the 80s every single one of us was at once victim and cellar-dweller. According to the central metaphor of the novel, it was in fact we who were Sammi's "Superstars." The "Superstars" who step up to the batter's box ten times and manage two hits at best, who have a winning percentage of .125. The kitschy cover and the author's chatty style offer a sense of lighthearted merriment, but on reflection the aftertaste is not without its bitterness. But what's to be done for it? After all, the best we can do is to love what we've been given only once we know well that we can't all be superstars, to go "once more unto the breach."

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