The Best Korean Love Stories

This book includes famous Korean folk tales that reveal the theme of love ("Prince Hodon and the Annan Princess", "Sodon and Princess Songhwa" and "The Tale of Chunhyang", etc.), which are gems of Korean folklore. After each tale, there is a list of new words and phrases, as well as tasks and exercises for reading comprehension, the answers to which are located at the end of the book. Additionally, for accurate understanding of the text, artistic translations of the tales into Russian are provided. The tales have been selected and adapted for beginners learning the Korean language by recognized specialists in Korean language and literature, teachers of Korean at the Institute of Asian and African Studies of Lomonosov Moscow State University, and authors of well-known Korean language textbooks Irina Lvovna Kasatkina and Chun In Sun.