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Fox Pass: A Collection of Korean Stories from the 15th to 19th Centuries

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The collection "Fox Pass" introduces readers to examples of traditional Korean prose from the 15th to 19th centuries. It is a collection of anecdotes, short stories about amusing incidents with which officials once entertained each other at "corporate parties." In their free time, they wrote down these stories in literary Chinese and compiled collections called "paesol," meaning "empty talk." This genre, perhaps better than other literary works, tells us about the lives of Koreans of that time. From the "paesol," we learn that jokes and pranks were a part of their lives—a life far more varied, less boring, and not as gloomily serious and solemn as official works might suggest. Cheerful students played pranks, ministers and sovereigns joked, wives were not always devoted, and widows did not always remain faithful to their deceased spouses. Everything suggests that there were significant discrepancies between official morality and the real life of Koreans at that time...
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