![]() ![]() When he is better, he asks Sunja to marry him after hearing about her unfortunate situation. Meanwhile, a religious man comes to stay at the boarding house, Baek Isak, who has tuberculosis, and they nurse him back to health. He offers to take care of Sunja financially, but she wants nothing to do with him. Hansu is married with children and cannot marry her. When Sunja is 16, she meets a fish salesman, Koh Hansu, who seduces her, and Sunja gets pregnant. Afterwards, Yangjin keeps running the boarding house by herself for income. Hoonie dies of tuberculosis when Sunja is 13. Their only surviving son, Hoonie, is a cripple who marries a nice but impoverished girl, Yangjin. Book I introduces an old fisherman and his wife who turn their small home in Yeongdo, Korea into a boarding house. ![]()
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