Cremation

Kim Hoon · 2004 CE · Short Story · Korean · Contemporary

A cosmetics executive spends the hours of his wife's cremation recalling their marriage and the illness that ended it. His grief is complicated by his desire for a young woman at his company, which the story refuses to excuse. It won the Yi Sang Literary Award in 2004 and was filmed by Im Kwon-taek as Revivre.

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