The Tale of Hong Gildong
Do I quietly conform or fiercely resist when faced with unjust discrimination and insurmountable walls?
📝ONGO's Reflection
The grief of a child of a concubine, who may not call his father "father" nor his brother "brother." Reopening as an adult this tale I had read in childhood only as an adventure, I saw the desperate struggle of a man colliding head-on with the contradictions of a decayed caste system. Heo Gyun cracked a wall that his age believed could never be moved. In building Yuldo, the ideal island-state, Gildong shows the unbreakable will of one who dreams of a better tomorrow even within an absurd world. It is an eternal classic that speaks for the silenced.
"How can I call myself a man when I cannot call my father 'father' and my brother 'brother'?"Heo Gyun, The Tale of Hong Gildong
"아버지를 아버지라 부르지 못하고 형을 형이라 부르지 못하니 어찌 사람이라 하겠습니까."
🌱Apply It Today
Find one unreasonable practice or unfair rule long taken for granted at work or at home. Instead of simply going along with it, consider the smallest way you could begin to change it.
