04/08/2026
์ฐ์๋ ์ค๋๋ ๋ง์ด ์ ํด์ก๋ค.
๊ตถ์ฃผ๋ฆฐ ํธ๋์ด๋ ์ฐ์ผ๋ก ๋์๊ฐ์ง๋ง, ์ ์ ์ทจํ ํธ๋์ด๋ ์๋ค๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๋ฆฌ์ง ์๋๋ค๊ณ .
์ด๋ ๋ , ์ฐ์ ์๊ฒ ๋ฐ์ณ์ง ์ ์ ์ฃ๋ค ํ์ณ ๋ง์ ํธ๋์ด๊ฐ ์ฐ์ ๋ค์ง์ด ๋๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค. ์ทจ๊ธฐ์ ์๋ฉ ์ค๋ฅธ ๋
์์ ๋ฐ์๋ฅผ ๋ค์ด๋ฐ๊ณ , ๋๋ฌด๋ฅผ ๊ธ์ด๋๋ฉฐ ๋ง๋๋ ๊ฒ๋ง๋ค ์ผ๋ฅด๋ ๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋ค.
๊ทธ ๋ชจ์ต์ ๋ณธ ๋๊นจ๋น๋ ํผ์ ์์๋ค.
"ํํ, ์ ์ ๋๋ ๋ง์
์ผ ์ ๋ง์ธ๋ฐ, ํผ์ ๋ค ๋ง์
จ๊ตฌ๋จผ."
๋ง์ด ๋๋๊ธฐ๋ ์ ์ ํธ๋์ด๊ฐ ์ผ๋ฅด๋ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ๋ฌ๋ ค๋ค์๋ค.
๋๊นจ๋น๋ ํผํ์ง๋ ์์๋ค. ์จ๋ฆํ์ ์ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ํ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฎ์ถ๋๋, ๋ฌ๋ ค๋๋ ํธ๋์ด์ ๋ชฉ๋๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋ฅ์ ๋ถ์ก์๋ค.
"์์ด, ์ ๋ฒ๋ฆ ํ๋ฒ ๊ณ ์ฝํ๋ค."
ํธ๋์ด๋ ๋ฐ๋ฒ๋ฅ์ ์ณค์ง๋ง ์์ฉ์์๋ค. ์ฒํ์ฅ์ฌ ๋๊นจ๋น์ ํ์ ๊ฟ์ฉ๋ ํ์ง ์์๋ค. ์๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ๋ชธ์ ๋นํ์ด๋ ๋๊นจ๋น๋ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ ๋ถ์ก๊ณ ๋ง ์์ ๋ฟ์ด์๋ค.
ํ์ฐธ์ด ์ง๋ ์ ๊ธฐ์ด์ด ๊ฐ์ ํธ๋์ด๋ ํฅํฅ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ํน ์์๋ค.
๋๊นจ๋น๋ ๊ทธ์ ์ผ ์์ ๋์ผ๋ฉฐ ๋ฑ์ ํญํญ ํธ์ด์ฃผ์๋ค.
"๋ค์๋ถํด ์ ์ ์ ๋นํ ๋ง์
๋ผ. ๊ดํ ๋๊น์ง ๋์ค๊ฒ ํ์ง ๋ง๊ณ ."
๊ทธ๋ ์ดํ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์ฐ์์ ์ ์ทจํ ํธ๋์ด๋ฅผ ๋ณธ ์ ์ด ์์๋ค.
๋์ ์ด๋ฐ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ ์ค๋๋๋ก ๋จ์๋ค.
์จ๋ฆ์ผ๋ก๋ ์ฌ๋๋, ํธ๋์ด๋, ๋๊นจ๋น๋ฅผ ์ด๊ธธ ์ ์๋ค๊ณ .
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The Goblin and the Drunken Tiger
An old saying echoed through the mountains:
A hungry tiger returns to the forest. A drunken tiger forgets the rules of the mountain.
One night, a tiger drank every drop of the liquor that had been offered to the Mountain Spirit. Intoxicated, it rampaged through the woods, crashing into boulders, clawing at ancient pines, and roaring at everything in its path.
Watching from afar, a goblin let out a hearty laugh.
"Well now... good liquor is meant to be shared. You drank it all by yourself?"
Before the words had even left his mouth, the tiger lunged.
The goblin didn't move aside. Instead, he lowered his stance like a seasoned ssireum wrestler and, with perfect timing, caught the tiger by the scruff of its neck.
"What awful drinking manners you've got."
The tiger struggled with all its might, but it was useless. The goblin's grip never budged. He simply laughed as the great beast thrashed, waiting for the liquor to wear off.
After a long while, the tiger's strength faded. Panting, it lowered its head in shame.
Only then did the goblin let go, giving the tiger a friendly pat on the back.
"Next time, drink in moderation. Don't make me come all the way out here again."
From that day on, no one ever saw a drunken tiger roaming the mountain again.
But the old tale remained:
No one could win a wrestling match against the mighty Goblinโnot even a tiger.