[Pachinko #1] # Chapter 1: Yeongdo, Busan, Korea

 

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[Review previous expression]

Hidden figures는 도~저히.... 문맥도 이상하고.... 영어문장도 낯설어서 해석도 잘 안되어서... 포기! ㅎ_ㅎ 언젠가 다시 볼 날 있겠지 헤헤헤

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[Summarize this chapter]

일제강점기 시대, 부산, 영도. 넉넉한 두 부부에게는 신체 장애가 있는 아들 Hoonie가 있었음. 하숙집을 하면서 아들이 혼자서도 잘 살 수 있게 이것 저것 가르침. 그리고 중매를 통해서 양진이라는 여자를 만나게 되었음. Yangjin은 집이 넉넉하지 않아서, 지참금을 받기 위해 팔려가듯 결혼을 하게 되었음. 걱정과는 달리 Yangjin은 Hoonie의 외관에 놀라지 않았고, 둘은 결혼해서 힘들게 Soonja 라는 딸을 갖게 되었음.  하지만 SJ가 13살이 됐을 때 Hoonie는 결핵으로 죽게 되었음. 

 

While Japan annexed Korea, there were a hardy married couple and a son Hoonie born with a cleft palate and a twisted foot. Hoonie had learned well enough to run a boardinghouse and to live alone even after his parents die. 

He got married to Yangjin via a matchmaker. YJ's family was poor, so she had no choice without marriage for dowry. Thankfully, YJ wasn't surprised by his appearance and she hardly gave birth to Sunja. At her age of 13, Hoonie passed away from tuberculosis.

 

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During Japan's annexation of Korea, there was a resilient married couple who had a son named Hoonie, who was born with a cleft palate and a twisted foot. Hoonie learned how to manage a boardinghouse and live independently even after his parents passed away. He eventually married Yangjin through a matchmaker. Yangjin's family was poor, so she had no choice but to marry for a dowry. Thankfully, Yangjin was not taken aback by Hoonie’s appearance, and she eventually gave birth to their daughter, Sunja, after a difficult pregnancy. When Sunja was 13, Hoonie passed away from tuberculosis.

 

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[Quotes that I liked ]

 

 

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[New Expression]

(부모님이 아직 돌아가신 상황이 아닌데 과거형을 써야하나? 싶었는데, chatgpt 가 알아서 얘기해줌. hoonie 입장에서는 미래이긴한데, 전체적으로 과거 얘기한거라서 그렇대... 과거에서 과거 얘기하는데 결국 현재느낌..)

 

Hoonie learned various skills so that he could run the boardinghouse and live independently even after his parents passed away.
(Note: The phrase "will passed away" should be corrected to "passed away" since it's referring to an event that is expected in the future but spoken in past tense. If you're talking about a future event from Hoonie's perspective, you would say "after his parents passed away.")

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(p. 3) History has failed us, but no matter.
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(p. 3) the wife gave birth to three sons,
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(p. 3) he was, however, endowed with hefty shoulders, a squat build, and a golden complexion.
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(p. 3) he retained the mild, thoughtful temperament he’d had as a child.
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(p. 3) something he did out of habit meeting strangers,
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(p. 3) Japan annexed Korea.
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(p. 4) just shy of five hundred square feet.
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(p. 4) reddish
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(p. 4) to the benefit of his landlord,
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(p. 4) pegs
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(p. 4) At his father’s insistence, Hoonie learned to read and write Korean and Japanese from the village schoolmaster well enough to keep a boardinghouse ledger and to do sums in his head so he couldn’t be cheated at the market.
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(p. 4) They had lost their other sons—the youngest to measles and the middle, good-for-nothing one to a goring bull in a pointless accident.
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(p. 4) they kept themselves from indulging him too much.
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(p. 4) as happens in countries being pillaged by rivals or nature, the weak—the elderly, widows and orphans—were as desperate as ever on the colonized peninsula.
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(p. 5) Hoonie’s mother poured the matchmaker a cup of cold barley tea but didn’t break from her own work.
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(p. 5) she couldn’t fathom what to say.
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(p. 5) deformities,
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(p. 5) most village girls avoided the sight of him,
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(p. 5) The matchmaker brought it up first.
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(p. 6) Hoonie’s mother feared she would begin to shake from nerves.
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(p. 6) Their prosperity was more evident inside the house.
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(p. 6) braids of white garlic
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(p. 6) the washbasin,
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(p. 6) Satisfied with the boardinghouse’s comfortable situation in a country growing steadily poorer, the matchmaker was certain that even Hoonie could have a healthy bride, so she plowed ahead.
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(p. 7) to scrounge for food
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(p. 7) “No dowry,
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(p. 7) Hearing no protest at the tally of gifts, the matchmaker grew bolder,
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(p. 7) With a flick of her thick wrist, Hoonie’s mother showered the radish with sea salt.
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(p. 7) The mother would have given up anything to raise the bride price demanded;
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(p. 7) her face remained collected and private;
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(p. 7) while peering hard at the boardinghouse keeper’s creased,
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(p. 7) She shook it to even out the salt.
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(p. 8) they would have been accused of stinginess.
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(p. 9) in the midst of her third pregnancy,
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(p. 9) tuberculosis.
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(p. 9) At his burial, Yangjin and her daughter were inconsolable.
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