Chapter 1

Tongyeong
scream
Ji Seok-won
Song's feelings
Goblin House
wedding
Death of a stuffed animal
The way I came
flower bier
Song

Chapter 2

Homecoming
The sailor has come
Banana leaf
Master
love affair
lover
married couple
The wind blew hard.
fishing tent

Chapter 3

cripple
Abacus
secret
Treating the wind god
A young lady
drunk
inauguration
sailing
people without a state
missing
sibling

Chapter 4

Infant murder case
People from Seoul
Breakup
despair
At the bottom of shame
People leaving
refusal
One hundred won per piece of gold
Kamauya Kamauya
sob

Chapter 5

I'll call it a volunteer stream tree.
Han-dol appeared
Fortune telling
The most important ceremony
rumor
I missed you
The man who lured her
crazy guy
A thunderous night's misfortune
Other people

Chapter 6

In the car
Madwoman
I feel so good
Sentence
old beast
Train to Busan Yoon Seon
sinking
Second meeting
good night
depart

Vocabulary Explanation
Character introduction

“If my life had been smooth, I wouldn’t be writing.

“Life comes before literature.”

It captures both the elegance of the classics and the sensibility of the new era.
Special edition commemorating the 15th anniversary of Park Kyung-ni's death

Park Kyung-ni, a master who debuted in 1957 with the short story "Calculation" and left a huge mark on the history of Korean literature with the epic novel "Land" written over 26 years.
To mark the 15th anniversary of her passing, Dasan Books is publishing a new collection of Park Kyung-ni's works.
This is a grand project that will sequentially publish Park Kyung-ni's novels, essays, and poetry collections, including "Land," which is considered a legacy of Korean literature. It is a meaningful work that fully captures the author's literary world without omission or distortion.
This project brings together Park Kyung-ni's vast works, which penetrate the core of Korean society and literature, and newly discovered, unpublished works will also be published after a meticulous editing process.


Park Kyung-ni's works, which were considered classics long ago, have not had the opportunity to be read anew.
This special edition, published this time, goes beyond preserving the original text's expressions and correcting previous errors, and presents a book with a completely different atmosphere from existing editions by imbuing it with a new sense of the times.
For readers who have previously read Park Kyung-ni's work, we have carefully composed it so that it can offer a fresh experience that breaks the mold, and for readers who are encountering her work for the first time, it can offer a taste of the dignity and excellence of a classic.
The cover design, which cleanly sheds the previous dullness while still maintaining the unique flavor of each work, makes it suitable for both reading and collecting.
We hope to experience the essence of Park Kyung-ni's literature, a name that will remain forever in the history of Korean literature, once again through Dasan Books' project.


“What good is talking about the past?
Can you do all the selling?

Still, I have to live.
“Live or die.”

A sense of life that sparkles bloody under the tragedy of the times
Another starting point for Park Kyung-ni's literature, full of vitality.

『The Daughters of Kim Pharmacy』, newly published by Dasan Books, is another masterpiece by Park Kyung-ni.
This work was first published by Eulyoo Publishing in 1962 and became a bestseller. It was later made into a movie and a drama, becoming a must-read for all Koreans.
Many divide Park Kyung-ni's literary world into the pre- and post-Land periods, but it was this work, The Daughters of Kim Pharmacy, that truly imprinted the author's name on the public.
The vivid contrast between tragedy and life, the vividly lit sentences, the sharply honed character descriptions, and the delicious Gyeongnam dialect make the book a pleasure to read, despite its vast length.
Even 60 years after its publication, it still captivates readers with its unique vitality that pulsates through each page.


The overwhelming enjoyment of the story alone makes it worth rereading, but the detailed depictions of the times from the late Joseon Dynasty to the Japanese colonial period, the older generation's vain fate, entangled in Confucian values, and the struggles of the young people struggling within the shackles of worldly desires and traditions still resonate in modern society.
The characters who live in the midst of the whirlpool of a turbulent era, the vitality that does not give up even in the midst of endless tragedy, the prototype of Park Kyung-ni's literature that continues with "Land" are contained in "The Daughters of Kim Pharmacist."


This special edition follows the National Institute of the Korean Language's spelling guidelines to ensure a comfortable reading experience for modern readers, while preserving the author's unique expressions, dialect, and words that reflect the era, thus preserving the original's vividness.
Instead, we have provided separate definitions for words that are difficult to understand, and introduced characters to help readers easily understand the overall structure of the work and the relationships between characters.


“The one who has been silent for a long time,
They say that descendants don’t scream… … .”

A pointillist painting filled with countless images of life and death
The pinnacle of Park Kyung-ni's long novels

Kim Bong-je, who runs a pharmacy in Tongyeong, a port city in the South Sea, is a local figure.
Kim Bong-ryong, the younger brother of the turbulent Kim Bong-ryong, was so violent that there was a rumor that he beat his first wife to death. He had a son, Seong-su, with his beautiful second wife, Suk-jeong.
One day, Wook, who was in love with Sukjeong, enters Tongyeong, and Bongryong, who suspects his wife of infidelity, commits murder and runs away.
Suk-jeong eats a poison and commits suicide in the face of misunderstanding.
Seongsu grows up in the hands of Kim Bong-je and his wife, Song, and inherits the pharmacy to continue the family fortune.
Seongsu (Kim Yak-guk), who married Hansil, has five daughters.
The eldest daughter, Yong-suk, is a widow with many children and becomes embroiled in a scandal that turns Tongyeong upside down, but she accumulates wealth with her unique sense of wealth.
Yongbin, the second daughter who studies in Seoul, is the most rational of the sisters.
The third daughter, Yongran, is beautiful, but is more driven by desire than reason. She falls into an inappropriate relationship with a servant and is forced to marry an opium addict.
However, he runs away with the servant who returns and becomes the main character in an incident that leads to the complete downfall of Kim Pharmacy's house.
The fourth, Yongok, is a devout Christian with a keen eye for detail, and witnesses the tragedy of her family from the closest angle.
She marries Seo Gi-du, a young man who runs the family's fishing business, but suffers from a loveless marriage.
The youngest, Yong-hye, is the daughter who resembles her grandfather Bong-ryong with his yellow hair, and is loved and cherished by Kim Yak-guk.


Kim Yak-guk lives a comfortable life thanks to his inherited wealth, but he squanders his wealth due to his backward sense of time and his inability to read the flow of the times, and is pushed back into the background of history.
In contrast, the intelligent second daughter, Yongbin, is a symbol of the new era.
He is unmarried like his other sisters, has a modern education, and earns his own money by working.
Therefore, unlike family members who are bound by traditional rules and meet a tragic end, they can break free from the shackles of the past and move forward into a new future.
Through Yongbin and Yonghye, who leave behind the ruins of their past and head to Seoul, this novel shows that overcoming countless tragedies is the human will to move forward toward a new life.
Life that blooms even in the midst of despair is the value and strength we can gain today through Park Kyung-ni's work.