2019-04-16

ljwrites: Soseono and Jumong cheek to cheek from the show Jumong (soseono_jumong)
2019-04-16 08:45 pm

Ancient shipping feels

I finished reading The King of the Light in the East as a Work of Epic Poetry by Hwang Sun-gu. It turns out there was a full text of the original epic poem in the back of the book so I took time to read that too. I need a better annotated copy, though, because I counted like four mistakes in transcription and/or translation, some of it really basic stuff like the letter 花 (flower) being used in place of 化 (become). "He turned into a pheasant and flew away" is a strange enough sentence without being rendered as "He flower pheasant and flew away."

Oh God they were rivals )