"Korean fairy tales" - the work of the Russian writer NG Garin-Mikhailovsky (1852 - 1906). In 1898, the author was on a scientific expedition in Korea and Manchuria. Russian researchers were accompanied by 20-30 Koreans. "The best storyteller told, and the others smoked their thin tubes and listened attentively," the writer recalled. - My interpreter Kim, who is fluent in both Korean and Russian, ...