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A Humble Portable Table

Author

Kim So Yon

Lee Kwang Ick

Publisher

SAKYEJUL PUBLISHING LTD.

Categories

Picture Books

Audience

6~8 years old

Overseas Licensing

Keywords

  • #Dining table
  • #Korean culture
  • #portable table
  • #round table

Copyright Contact

Kang Hyunjoo

  • Publication Date

    2017-08-10
  • No. of pages

    44
  • ISBN

    9791160941036
  • Dimensions

    286 * 230
Overview

This picture book reminds readers, through the portable table, of the Korean traditional dining table culture that has been forgotten.

Book Intro

Jang, the main character, goes down a mountain carrying a portable table on his back. The mountain has the pattern of growth rings of a tree. The flowing, comfortable lines seen to reflect the pit-a-patting heart of Jang. The portable table he carries is made of a log. This log table is actually modeled after the round tables that were fabricated a lot in Gangwon Province. The round tables were sculpted by ordinary farmers with no special technique, not by artisans, with basic tools like the adz during the off-season in farming.

What Jang attempts to do is to sell the log table that he made with his father. However, when he sees the glossy tables that are on sale at the market stall, he feels his log table looks humble. When he passes by a table store where people professionally make tables, he feels desire to make one like those in earnest by himself.

He starts making tables with his full strength. As sawdust piles up while he cuts the wood, many days go by. Finally, an opportunity comes where Jang could ply a craft. The tightrope kid, who does tightrope walking at traveling marketplaces, asks him to make a table to use on his father’s birthday. Jang fully exhibits his skill recalling his father living in the mountain village. He obtains light and sturdy wood, carves patterns with a knife on it, and varnishes it with lacquer to make a nice tiger-legged dining table.

Observing the charming table he made, the tightrope kid tilts his head sideways. He finds it pretty but unfitting for the traveling life of their family. What he picks, in the end, is the rustic and chunky log table. This occasion makes Jang rethink about tables. He has concentrated on making smart, good-looking tables but now he thinks about the meaning of the table. The log table he once thought humble let him feel the heart of its producers. The last page of the book resembles its first page. Jang is going to the mountain village where his father lives carrying two tables he made. One is the tiger-legged dining table and the other is the log table he finished on his own. We can’t tell how Jang will continue his table making in the future. However, the growth rings of the mountain look denser and firmer. Aren’t they showing the inside of Jang, which has grown so much more mature?

About the Author

Kim So Yon



Kim So Yon was born in Seoul in 1972. Starting her writing career at a relatively late age, Kim So Yon won the Best Creative Award from the 11th Changbi Good Children’s Book Contest in 2007 with Myeonghye. Kim currently writes books for children and adolescents.

Lee Kwang Ick



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