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Kwangho Yoon
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A Traveler in the Mountain Village
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The History of a Walking Stick
The History of a Walking Stick
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In the morning, I heard the sound of a rooster crowing as proof that I woke up early, and when I think about it again, I wanted to return to the inn after the rooster started crowing - Oh, when I think about it again, I can't remember how I walked back from a town like Datmajang on a country road in the middle of the night without the moon because I was drinking, but I remember S snoring as the two of us walked.
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