Welcome to Slow Night, Ancient Tales. Tonight we bring you an old Korean folktale recorded in the Compendium of Korean Oral Literature — "The Short-Lived Boy Who Won the Three Ministers' Daughters."…
Welcome to Slow Night, Ancient Tales. Tonight we bring you Na Do-hyang's short story "Mulberry Leaves." Anhyeop-jip runsher household alone while her gambler husband is away, caught up in the…
Welcome to Slow Night, Ancient Tales. Tonight we bring you a mysterious legend from Iryeon's Samguk Yusa. As King Bojang, the last ruler of Goguryeo, sought to elevate Daoism within his kingdom, a…
Hello, and welcome to Slow Night, Ancient Tales. Tonight, we bring you the tenth episode of the classic novel "The Tale of Lee Dae-bong." The Grand Commander Ae-hwang sweeps fearlessly through the…
Welcome to Slow Night, Ancient Tales. Tonight we bring you Yi Hyo-seok's short story "The Curtain." Se-un, a man carrying the weight of a failed magazine venture, a declining body, and a restless…
Welcome to Slow Night, Ancient Tales. Tonight we bring you "General Im," from Kim Dong-in's Book of Historical Tales. Im Mun, a young scholar on his way to a civil service exam, is bitten by a…
Welcome to Slow Night, Ancient Tales. Tonight we bring you an old Korean folktale recorded in the Compendium of Korean Oral Literature — "The Thirty-Thousand-Nyang Fortune-Telling." A minister, faced…
Welcome to Slow Night, Ancient Tales. Tonight we bring you Na Do-hyang's short story "Diary Entries of a Streetcar Conductor." In 1920s Gyeongseong, a streetcar conductor working the same route day…
Welcome to Slow Night, Ancient Tales. Tonight we bring you two stories from Iryeon's Samguk Yusa. First, the tale of King Beopheung of Silla, who wished to establish Buddhism in his kingdom, and the…
Welcome to Slow Night, Ancient Tales. Tonight we bring you the sixth episode of Hyun Jin-geon's short story "The Fading Mist." An unexpected visitor, Hwa-ra, finds Chang-seop napping after a sleepless…