We often click our tongues at narrow-minded and petty people, calling them "having the mind of a baendaengi (baendaengi sogalmeori)" or "having nostrils like a baendaengi." This implies comparing someone who easily pouts at trivial words, lacks generosity, and insists only on their own claims to this small fish. A baendaengi is a small fish belonging to the herring family, measuring only about 10 to 15 cm in length even when fully grown. Unlike other fish, its internal organs are so small they seem almost non-existent, which is why it faces the sarcasm of being "narrow-minded". Furthermore, du
[우리문화신문=김영조 푸른솔겨레문화연구소장] Ode to the Half Moon Who cut the jade of Mount Kunlun To fashion this comb for the Weaver Girl? After the Cowherd departed and went away In her sorrow, she cast it into the blue void of heaven In her poem “Ode to the Half Moon [詠半月],” the poet Hwang Jini described the half moon as "the comb thrown into the sky by the Weaver Girl (Jingnyeo) after her parting with the Cowherd (Gyeon-u)." Having parted from her lover after the Chilseok festival, she cast it away into the heavens because there was no one left to admire her beauty, no matter how elegantly she combed her hai
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