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The curse of Kim's daughters

The curse of Kim's daughters scrap

김약국의 딸들

  • Author

    Pak Kyongni박경리

  • Publisher

    Dasanbooks다산책방

  • Year Published

    2023-04

  • Category

    Literary Fiction 순수소설

  • Target User

    Adult 성인

  • Period

    Modern 근대

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Description 작품 소개

This is a novel by Park Kyong-ni, published in 1962. Through the change in the social status of regional community leaders and their downfall from the end of the Korean Empire period to the colonial period, it addresses the rapid transformation of Korean society.


Kim Bong-je, the owner of Kim Pharmacy, works hard to protect and maintain his family’s wealth. Bong-je’s younger brother Bong-ryong suspects that his wife Suk-jeong is having an affair. Without any means to prove her innocence, Suk-jeong commits suicide and Bong-ryong leaves home, unable to bear his guilt. Eventually Bong-je dies, and the Kim Pharmacy and the Kim family are destroyed.

Author Bio 작가 소개

Pak Kyongni박경리

Pak started her career as a writer with the novel, Calculations (계산, Gyesan) and her early work was heavily guided by her unfortunate life. Each narrator in her novels like Time of distrust (불신시대, Bulsin Sidae) and Time of Darkness (암흑시대, Amheuk Sidae) are often a daughter living with her mother who lost her husband and son, which was true with her own life. In her later work, The Daughters of Pharmacist Kim (김약국의 딸들, Kimyakgukui Ttaldeul), she still deals with characters who get over with their difficulties.[10] However, she got more objective point of view in that her fictional setting moved from the Korean war to everyday life and employed more various writing techniques and topics. Pak showed the importance of human dignity in all her works. She defined human dignity as protecting the noblest thing for oneself. She criticized a tradition, a system, and authority which cause people not to protect their dignity, and also disdained people who lost their dignity because of their desires. Additionally, her works are concerned with human isolation, absolute trust in love.

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