Mr Jong-Seol Hong and Mrs Sookja Martha Min, Thank you very much for your Supports! (Tcheonzamun 177th-192nd)
French Missionary Dallet (1874) introduced ‘the thousand character essay (千字文)’ into the Western world. It is not well known why Dallet (1874) chose ‘the thousand character essay’ as the important literature of education in Korea. The thousand character essay is called as Tcheonzamun in Korea (Han, 1583). The sixteen letters compose a Tcheonzamun poem (Park et al., 2021; Kim, 2023). It is known that Tcheonzamun poem was created for singing the ‘Love between the husband and the wife’ (Kim, 2023). In this study, the subject is how to get the good correlation between our neighbor. And how does it occur the competence among the persons? This work of translation gives us the method of being harmony among the neighbors. And how we can get the individual development? This work concerns the translation of Tcheonzamun poem (Tcheonzamun 177th - 192nd). The title of this study is ‘Mr Jong-seol Hong and Mrs Sookja Martha Min, thank you very much for your supports! (Tcheonzamun 177th-192nd)’. The theme of this research is as follows. 189-192 器(Ki) 欲(Yog) 難(Nan) 量(Lyang). My husband! Do you know following thing? Yourself and other person, how many things do you want (欲)? How many things do you want to do (器)? It is impossible (難) even to count (量) those things. My husband! Other persons as well as you, yourself, hope to do so many things. However, even though you hope to do those things, you might not take them. Because there is no person who believes your talent!.
Authors
- Sangdeog Augustin Kim
- Rosa Kim
- Jiah Anna Kim
- Sohwa Therese Kim
- Hyeonhi Regina Park
- Sangmin Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8606-2549)
- K. DaegonAndrea Kim
- Alain Hamon
Publication Details
- Journal
- South Asian Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Published
- 2025-03-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.36346/sarjhss.2025.v07i02.002
- Primary Topic
- Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00