Thirty Best Folktales from Korea

Thirty best folktales collected and translated from Korean oral and literary traditions. Seers who read the future, wizards, wandering ghosts, and goblins share these pages with clever maidens, wronged officials, and hunters who stumble into worlds they don’t understand. Some stories explain the strange; others simply record it, the way it was told for generations before it was written down.
James S. Gale, a missionary and scholar who spent decades in Korea, brings these tales together as both entertainment and record—a glimpse of the beliefs, humour, and unease that shaped everyday life.