Geumo Sinhwa
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Geumo Sinhwa (Korean: 금오신화; Hanja: 金鰲新話; lit. "Tales of Mount Geumo", "New Stories of the Golden Turtle", "New Tales Written in Mount Geumo") is a collection of novellas, written in Chinese characters by a Korean author Kim Si-seup (who was born during the reign of Sejong the Great). Like most of the early literature of Korea it forms part of the Chinese-language literature of Korea.[1]
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The title comes from Geumo-san, the Mount of the Golden Turtle, today called Namsan (Gyeongju), which was the site of the Yongjang Temple where tradition records that Kim wrote the stories. The novel is written after the Chinese Jiandeng Xinhua (Tales while trimming the lampwick, 1378) of Qu You,[2] but is not simply a pasticcio of the works contained in Jiandeng Xinhua.[3]
There are five fantasy novellas (傳奇小說, jeongi soseol) in this collection: Manboksa jeopogi (萬福寺樗蒲記 Story about Playing a Game of Jeopo at Manbok Temple), Yisaeng gyujang-jeon (李生窺墻傳 Tale of Yi Looking Over the Wall), Chwiyu Bubyeokjeonggi (醉遊浮碧亭記 Story of Drinking at Bubyeok Pavilion), Namyeombujuji (南炎浮洲志 Story about South Yeombuju), and Yonggung buyeon-rok (龍宮赴宴錄 Story about an Invitation to a Feast in the Dragon Palace).