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Strange Story Club at Samgae Inn3

Author

Oh Yoonhee

Publisher

GOZKNOCK ENT

Categories

Genre Literature

Audience

Adult

Overseas Licensing

Keywords

  • #strange stories
  • #horror fiction
  • #mystery
  • #genre fiction
  • #Samgae inn
  • #strange story club

Copyright Contact

Park Miae

  • Publication Date

    2022-05-03
  • No. of pages

    376
  • ISBN

    9791163162742
  • Dimensions

    145 * 210
Overview

Seonnomi follows Yeonam to China and encounters strange, creepy stories in a wider world.

Book Intro

Strange Story Club at Samgae Inn3

 

The journey begins

Seonnomi leaves his family’s Samgae inn and joins a diplomatic mission to the Qing empire. The journey is rough from the start. Park Myeongwon, Yeonam’s boss, is intimidating, and the manservants Jangbok and Changdae keep an awkward distance from him. It had taken him a great deal of courage to leave his home, but Seonnomi feels lonely when he cannot mingle with the others. He suffers from homesickness when a girl, his first love, shows up and gives him advice.

 

The ferryman of the Yalu River

The rain finally stops after pouring for many days. The group takes boats to cross the Yalu River. By crossing the river, they leave Joseon and enter Qing. Yeonam feels uneasy to be heading toward a strange, unknown land. He strikes up a conversation with the ferryman, who tells him a strange story. His name is Jumae and he left his small, narrow-minded village to become a ferryman. One day, he was rowing a young couple across the river. The woman looked plain and ordinary, but the man seemed eerie for some reason, dressed in black from head to toe. Jumae rowed in silence when the man told him to stop halfway across the river. The corpse of a woman was drifting down in the distance. She seemed to have drowned in the river. As the corpse came closer, the young woman gasped. Jumae glanced at what she was staring at. The woman’s corpse looked almost identical to the woman in the boat.

 

The curse of the red silk

The group reached Shenyang after an exhausting journey. They arrive at their inn and enjoy a hard-earned rest when an old man over eighty asks to meet the envoy from Joseon. He was born and raised in Qing, but he is a descendant of the Joseon people who had been taken as hostages. 

The man is granted an interview with Yeonam and Park Myeongwon, during which he pulls out a carefully sewn pair of socks, made by his great-grandmother. He asks them to make an offering of those socks at Crown Princess Minhoe’s grave, saying it was his grandmother’s dying wish. The Crown Princess was the wife of Crown Prince Sohyeon, and the couple had been forced to stay in Qing as hostages. When they finally returned to Joseon, the Prince’s father, King Injo, had them killed.

The ambassador asks the reason for the strange request, and the old man explains that Hyang, his great-grandmother, suffered from guilt that it was her fault Crown Princess Minhoe had been killed.

 

Hwapi

Yeonam’s curiosity is as insatiable as ever in Qing. He slips out of the inn with Seonnomi and Hong Myeongbok, their interpreter. They meet a group of Chinese scholars and listen to a man called An Xueliang tell a strange story his grandfather, An Ping, had told him.

An Ping was a portrait painter. One night, a beautiful woman named Wu Yen asked him to come to her house to paint her portrait. When he entered her mountain villa, however, he found out that Wu Yen was actually Hwapi, a monster who could change her face at will. Hwapi ordered An Ping to draw a face on a piece of skin hung up on her wall—a man’s face that looked as ordinary and inconspicuous as possible. 

About the Author

Oh Yoonhee



(English) Oh Yoonhee studied English Literature at the graduate school of Seoul National University and worked for 15 years as a World News, Business, and Society reporter for Chosun Ilbo. She now works at Economy Chosun, a weekly paper. 

She wrote the bestselling business management book Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis, and a novel about a daughter who sets out to discover the secret of her mother’s dramatic life, entitled What Mom Left Behind. She also wrote the Strange Story Club at Samgae Inn series, a set of horror story collections based on Korean traditional culture, and The Suspicious Patient Aide, a novel about the heartwarming friendship between an old man with advanced Parkinson’s and an unlikely care assistant. 

The second book in the Samgae Inn series was published last year, demonstrating the high demand for creepy, traditional short stories in Korea. Along with Book One, it was a top-selling title in the horror category. Book Three of the series depicts the characters’ journey to China under the Qing dynasty’s rule. The book contains captivating stories that seem at once familiar and utterly bizarre. Based on the real-life trip that Park Jiwon made to Qing, it offers the extra fun of comparing the stories to his travelogue, The Jehol Diary.  

 

(Japanese) ソウル大学大学院で英文学を専攻し修士学位を取得後、『コリアヘラルド』を経『朝鮮日報』に入社した。2005年から社会部警察記者を経て社会政策部、産業部で勤務し、東ヨーロッパ特派員を経て『ウィクリービズ』チームで海外有名企業人や碩学に会って取材した。外国の碩学や企業人にインタビューした経験を活かした経営書『正反合』を出版した。東ヨーロッパ特派員とニューヨーク特派員を歴任した後、朝鮮日報を出て、物書きに力を入れている。小説『母が残して行ったもの』を書いた。

 

(Vietnamese) Sau khi theo học chuyên ngành văn học Anh tại trường cao học Đại học Quốc gia Seoul, tác giả làm phóng viên cho tờ Chosun Ilbo tại phòng xã hội, phòng công nghiệp và phòng quốc tế trong 15 năm. Sau khi làm phóng viên đặc phái ở Đông Âu, tác giả được đặc phái sang làm ở New York. Hiện đang làm việc cho Economy Chosun, một tạp chí kinh tế hàng tuần. Cuốn sách quản lý kinh tế 『Chính phản hợp』 được viết khi tác giả còn làm việc tại Chosun Ilbo, đã trở thành cuốn sách bán chạy nhất. Về tiểu thuyết thì có 『Mẹ đã bỏ lại gì và đi』, kể về cô con gái đi tìm bí mật của người mẹ đã sống một cuộc sống bất hạnh, và câu chuyện sáng tạo truyền thống của Hàn Quốc, 『Câu chuyện kì lạ tại quán trọ Samgae』 Tập 1 và 2, 『Người chăm sóc đáng ngờ』 là một cuốn tiểu thuyết nhân văn kể về tình bạn cảm động giữa một người chăm bệnh đáng ngờ và một người già mắc bệnh Parkinson nặng.

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