โฌ… ๋ชฉ๋ก์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€๊ธฐ

๐ŸŒ™ ๋ˆˆ์„ ๊ฐ๊ณ  ํŽธ์•ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋“ค์–ด๋ณด์„ธ์š”

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ ๋ฐค์˜ ์–ธ์–ด: ํ˜„์ง„๊ฑด์˜ <์ˆ  ๊ถŒํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌํšŒ>

์•„์ด๊ทธ, ํ™€๋กœ ๋ฐ”๋А์งˆ์„ ํ•˜๋˜ ์•„๋‚ด๋Š” ๊ฐ€๋Š˜๊ณ  ๋‚ ์นด๋กœ์šด ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๋ถ€๋ฅด์ง–์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”๋Š˜ ๋์ด ์™ผ์† ์—„์ง€์†๊ฐ€๋ฝ์„ ์ฐ”๋ €๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€๋А๋‹ค๋ž€ ์†๊ฐ€๋ฝ์€ ๋–จ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ํ•˜์–€ ์†ํ†ฑ ๋ฐ‘์œผ๋กœ ์•ต๋‘ ๊ฐ™์€ ํ”ผ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐฐ์–ด ๋‚˜์˜ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์•„๋‚ด๋Š” ์„œ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ ๋ฐ”๋Š˜์„ ๋‚ด๋ ค๋†“๊ณ  ์†๊ฐ€๋ฝ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ๊พน ๋ˆŒ๋ €์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ๋–ผ์–ด๋‚ด๋ฉด ํ˜ˆ์ƒ‰ ์—†๋˜ ์ž๋ฆฌ ์œ„๋กœ ๋‹ค์‹œ๊ธˆ ๋ถ‰์€ ๊ฝƒ๋ฌผ์ด ์ฐจ์˜ค๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณด์ผ ๋“ฏ ๋ง ๋“ฏํ•œ ์ƒ์ฒ˜์—์„œ ์ข์Œ€ ๊ฐ™์€ ํ•๋ฐฉ์šธ์ด ์†ก์†ก ์†Ÿ์•„๋‚ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ—๊ฒŠ ์˜ค๋ฝ์ง€๋กœ ์ƒ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ์ฒ˜๋งค๋Š” ๋™์•ˆ, ์•„๋‚ด๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋А์งˆ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ดํ•๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์‹คํŒจ ๋ฐ‘์— ๋‘” ์˜ค๋ฝ์ง€๋Š” ๋งˆ์น˜ ํ’€๋กœ ๋ถ™์—ฌ๋‘” ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ง‘ํ˜€์ง€์ง€๊ฐ€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œ์™œ ์ง‘ํ˜€์ง€์ง€๋ฅผ ์•Š์•„!โ€

์•„๋‚ด๋Š” ๋งˆ์นจ๋‚ด ์šธ ๋“ฏ์ด ๋ถ€๋ฅด์ง–์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐฉ ์•ˆ์„ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ๋ณด์•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ํ…… ๋นˆ ๋ฐฉ์—๋Š” ํ˜ธ์ “ํ•œ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ž๋ฟ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”๊นฅ๋„ ์ฃฝ์€ ๋“ฏ์ด ๊ณ ์š”ํ•˜๊ณ , ์‹œ์‹œ๋กœ ๋–จ์–ด์ง€๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋„๊ผญ์ง€์˜ ๋ฌผ๋ฐฉ์šธ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋งŒ์ด ์“ธ์“ธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋“ค๋ ค์˜ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ด˜์ข…์‹œ๊ณ„๋Š” ์–ด๋А๋ง ํ•œ ์ ์„ ๊ฐ€๋ฆฌํ‚ค๋ ค ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋‚จํŽธ์€ ์•„์ง ๋Œ์•„์˜ค์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‚จํŽธ๊ณผ ์•„๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋œ ์ง€ ๋ฒŒ์จ ์น ํŒ” ๋…„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ง‰์ƒ ๊ฐ™์ด ์žˆ์–ด๋ณธ ๋‚ ์„ ํ—ค์•„๋ฆฌ๋ฉด ์ผ ๋…„๋„ ์ฑ„ ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚จํŽธ์€ ์ค‘ํ•™์„ ๋งˆ์น˜์ž๋งˆ์ž ๋™๊ฒฝ์œผ๋กœ ์œ ํ•™์„ ๋– ๋‚ฌ๊ณ , ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์„œ ๋Œ€ํ•™๊นŒ์ง€ ์กธ์—…ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๊ธด ์„ธ์›” ๋™์•ˆ ์•„๋‚ด๋Š” ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์™ธ๋กœ์› ์„๊นŒ์š”. ๋ด„์ด๋ฉด ๊ฝƒ์„ ํ•œ์ˆจ์œผ๋กœ ๋งž์•˜๊ณ , ๊ฒจ์šธ์ด๋ฉด ์–ผ์Œ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ฒ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋ˆˆ๋ฌผ๋กœ ๋ฅํ˜”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‚จํŽธ์ด ๋Œ์•„์˜ค๊ธฐ๋งŒ์„ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ, ์•„๋‚ด๋Š” ๊ณ ์ƒ์„ ๋‹ฌ๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚จํŽธ์ด ๋™๊ฒฝ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜ฌ ๊ทธ ๋ฌด์—‡, ๋„๊นจ๋น„ ๋ฐฉ๋ง์ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์˜ท๋„ ๋‚˜์˜ค๊ณ  ๋ˆ๋„ ๋‚˜์˜ค๋Š” ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๊ท€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋Œ์•„์˜จ ๋‚จํŽธ์€ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์™€ ๋‹ฌ๋ž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ–์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ๋ถ„์ฃผํžˆ ๋Œ์•„๋‹ค๋‹ˆ๊ณ , ๋ฐค์ƒˆ๋„๋ก ์ฑ…์„ ๋ณด๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๊ธ€์„ ์ผ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‚จํŽธ์€ ๋‚ ์ด ๊ฐˆ์ˆ˜๋ก ์ˆ˜์ฒ™ํ•ด์กŒ๊ณ , ๊ฑธํ•ํ•˜๋ฉด ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋ฉฐ ์ž…๋ฒ„๋ฆ‡์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ "ํ™”๋‚œ๋‹ค, ํ™”๋‚œ๋‹ค"๋ฅผ ์™ธ์ณค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์–ด๋А ์ƒˆ๋ฒฝ, ์ž ๊ฒฐ์— ๋”๋“ฌ์–ด ๋ณธ ๋‚จํŽธ์˜ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋น„์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„๋‚ด๋Š” ์ฑ…์ƒ ์•ž์— ์•‰์•„ ์–ด๊นจ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์ฉ์ด๋ฉฐ ํ๋А๋ผ๋Š” ๋‚จํŽธ์„ ๋ณด์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

(์ž ์‹œ ์‰ฌ๊ณ , ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•˜์—ฌ)

๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋‘ ๋‹ฌ์ด ์ง€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ๋‚จํŽธ์—๊ฒŒ์„œ๋Š” ๊ตฌ์—ญ์งˆ ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ˆ  ๋ƒ„์ƒˆ๊ฐ€ ๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋ฐค๋„ ๋Šฆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ดˆ์ €๋…๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋‚จํŽธ์„ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋˜ ์•„๋‚ด๋Š” ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ฐ”๋А์งˆ์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œ์–ด๋ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์„œ ์ด๋•Œ๊ป ์˜ค์‹œ์ง€ ์•Š์•„!โ€

๋ฌธ๋“ ๋Œ€๋ฌธ ๋ฐ–์—์„œ ํ˜€๊ฐ€ ๊ผฌ์ธ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋“ค๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋“ฏํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„๋‚ด๋Š” ๊ธ‰ํžˆ ๋งˆ๋ฃจ๋กœ ๋‹ฌ๋ ค ๋‚˜๊ฐ”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋Œ€๋ฌธ ๋ฐ–์—๋Š” ์•„๋ฌด๋„ ์—†์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒ€ํ‘ธ๋ฅธ ๋ฐค๋น›์ด ํ—ˆ์—ฐ ๊ธธ ์œ„์— ๊นƒ๋“ค์–ด ์žˆ์„ ๋ฟ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”๋žŒ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ์˜€์„๊นŒ, ์ž˜๋ชป ๋“ค์—ˆ์„๊นŒ. ์•„๋‚ด๋Š” ํ—›ํ—›ํ•œ ๋งˆ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ƒˆ๋ฒฝ ๋‘ ์‹œ๊ฐ€ ๋„˜์–ด์„œ์•ผ ๋‚จํŽธ์ด ๋Œ์•„์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ• ๋ฉˆ์˜ ๋ถ€์ถ•์„ ๋ฐ›์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋“ค์–ด์˜จ ๋‚จํŽธ์€ ๊ณค๋“œ๋ ˆ๋งŒ๋“œ๋ ˆ ์ทจํ•ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„๋‚ด๋Š” ๋‚จํŽธ์˜ ์˜ท์„ ๋ฒ—๊ธฐ๋ ค ์• ๋ฅผ ์ผ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋‚จํŽธ์€ ๊ผผ์ง๋„ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œ๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ์ˆ ์„ ์ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๊ถŒํ•˜์˜€๋…ธ.โ€

์•„๋‚ด์˜ ๋ง์— ๋‚จํŽธ์€ ์ ˆ๋ง์ ์ธ ์›ƒ์Œ์„ ์ง€์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œ๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ๊ถŒํ•˜์˜€๋…ธ? ๋งˆ๋ˆ„๋ผ๊ฐ€ ์•Œ์•„๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒ ์†Œ?โ€

๋‚จํŽธ์€ ๊ป„๊ป„ ์›ƒ๋‹ค๊ฐ€, ์ด๋‚ด ์“ธ์“ธํ•œ ์–ด์กฐ๋กœ ๋ง์„ ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œ๋‚ด๊ฒŒ ์ˆ ์„ ๊ถŒํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ํ™ง์ฆ๋„ ์•„๋‹ˆ๊ณ , ํ•˜์ด์นผ๋ผ๋„ ์•„๋‹ˆ์š”. ์ด ์‚ฌํšŒ๋ž€ ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋‚ด๊ฒŒ ์ˆ ์„ ๊ถŒํ•œ๋‹ค์˜ค. ์ด ์กฐ์„  ์‚ฌํšŒ๋ž€ ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋‚ด๊ฒŒ ์ˆ ์„ ๊ถŒํ•œ๋‹ค์˜ค. ํŒ”์ž๊ฐ€ ์ข‹์•„์„œ ์กฐ์„ ์— ํƒœ์–ด๋‚ฌ์ง€, ๋”ด ๋‚˜๋ผ์— ๋‚ฌ๋”๋ฉด ์ˆ ์ด๋‚˜ ์–ป์–ด๋จน์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜.โ€

์•„๋‚ด์—๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌํšŒ๋ผ๋Š” ๋ง์€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋„ ์–ด๋ ค์› ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚จํŽธ์€ ํ˜€๋ฅผ ๊ผฌ์•„๊ฐ€๋ฉฐ ์„ค๋ช…์„ ์ด์–ด๊ฐ”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋ฏผ์กฑ์„ ์œ„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‚ฌํšŒ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด์„œ๋„, ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์€ ๋ช…์˜ˆ์™€ ์ง€์œ„ ๋‹คํˆผ์งˆ๋ฟ์ด๋ผ๊ณ . ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์กฐ์„  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋งŒ๋“  ์‚ฌํšŒ๋Š” ์–ด๋””๋ฅผ ๋ด๋„ ์ฐข๊ณ  ๋œฏ๋Š” ์กฐ๊ฐ๋ฟ์ด๋ผ๊ณ .

โ€œ์ •์‹ ์ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋ฐ•ํžŒ ๋†ˆ์€ ํ”ผ๋ฅผ ํ† ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ฃฝ์„ ์ˆ˜๋ฐ–์— ์—†์ง€. ๊ทธ๋ ‡์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด ์ˆ ๋ฐ–์— ๋จน์„ ๊ฒŒ ๋„๋ฌด์ง€ ์—†์ง€. ๋‚˜๋„ ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ์ข€ ํ•ด๋ณด๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์• ๋ฅผ ์ผ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ˆ˜ํฌ์˜€์–ด. ์ด ์‚ฌํšŒ์—์„œ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ฃผ์ •๊พผ ๋…ธ๋ฆ‡๋ฐ–์— ์—†์–ด.โ€

๋‚จํŽธ์€ ๊ดด๋กœ์šด ๋“ฏ ์ œ ๊ฐ€์Šด์„ ์ฅ์–ด๋œฏ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„๋‚ด๋Š” ๋ˆˆ๋ฌผ์„ ๊ธ€์ฝ์ด๋ฉฐ ๋‚จํŽธ์˜ ์ €๊ณ ๋ฆฌ ์ž๋ฝ์„ ์žก์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œ์ œ๋ฐœ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๋ง ๋ง์•„์š”. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ž˜๋ชปํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ๋‚ด์ผ ์•„์นจ์— ์–˜๊ธฐํ•ด์š”.โ€

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋‚จํŽธ์€ ์•„๋‚ด๋ฅผ ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ์น˜๊ณ  ๋ฐ–์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜๊ฐ”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ตฌ๋‘ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ณจ๋ชฉ ๋์œผ๋กœ ๋ฉ€์–ด์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์•„๋‚ด๋Š” ํ…… ๋นˆ ๋งˆ๋ฃจ ๋์— ์ฃผ์ €์•‰์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒˆ๋ฒฝ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ์ฐจ๊ฐ‘๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€์Šด์„ ํŒŒ๊ณ ๋“ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ด์“ฑํ•ด์ง„ ์•„๋‚ด์˜ ์–ผ๊ตด์ด ๊ฒฝ๋ จ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋–จ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œ๊ทธ ๋ชน์“ธ ์‚ฌํšŒ๊ฐ€, ์™œ ์ˆ ์„ ๊ถŒํ•˜๋Š”๊ณ .โ€

๊นŠ์€ ๋ฐค, ์ ๋ง‰๋งŒ์ด ์•„๋‚ด์˜ ๊ณ์„ ์ง€ํ‚ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

A Society That Encourages Drinking

(Starting in a calm and quiet atmosphere)

"Ouch," cried the wife, who had been sewing alone, with a thin, sharp voice. It was because the tip of the needle had pricked her left thumb. Her slender finger trembled, and cherry-red blood seeped out from under her white fingernail.

The wife hurriedly put down the needle and pressed down hard on the wound with her finger. When she lifted her finger, red flower-like blood welled up again over the pale spot. Millet-sized drops of blood beaded up from the barely visible wound. While wrapping the wound with a scrap of cloth, the wife looked through her sewing basket. However, the scrap of cloth placed under the spool of thread would not be picked up, as if it were glued down.

"Why won't you come up!"

The wife finally cried out as if about to weep. She looked around the room, but there were only solitary shadows in the empty space. Outside was dead silent as well, and only the miserable sound of water drops occasionally falling from the faucet echoed in the quiet. The grandfather clock was already pointing towards one o'clock, and her husband had not yet returned.

It had already been seven or eight years since they became husband and wife. But counting the days they had actually spent together, it was less than a year. As soon as he finished middle school, her husband had left to study abroad in Tokyo, where he eventually graduated from university. How lonely the wife must have been during those long years. In the spring, she greeted the blooming flowers with sighs, and in the winter, she warmed her ice-cold pillow with tears.

Waiting only for her husband's return, the wife gladly embraced the hardships. She waited for whatever it was her husband would bring back from Tokyoโ€”something precious like a goblin's magic club that could effortlessly produce clothes and money. However, the husband who returned was different from her expectations. He only busily wandered outside, or stayed up all night reading books and writing.

He grew more gaunt by the day, easily lost his temper, and habitually shouted, "I'm so angry, I'm so angry!"

One day at dawn, groping in her sleep, she found her husband's side of the bed empty. The wife saw him sitting at his desk, his shoulders heaving as he sobbed in the dark.

(Pausing briefly, shifting the mood)

Another month or two passed. Now, a nauseating stench of alcohol constantly emanated from her husband.
He was late again tonight. The wife, who had been waiting for him since early evening, started sewing once more.

"Where could he have gone to not be back by now!"

Suddenly, she thought she heard a slurred voice from outside the gate. The wife hurried out to the wooden porch. But there was no one outside. Only the dark blue hue of the night rested upon the pale road. Was it the sound of the wind, or had she misheard? The wife returned inside with an empty feeling in her heart.

It was past two in the morning when her husband finally returned. Supported by the old maidservant, the husband came in completely dead drunk. The wife struggled to take off his clothes, but he wouldn't budge.

"Who encouraged you to drink like this?"

At his wife's words, the husband offered a despairing smile.

"Who encouraged me? Do you think you could figure it out, my wife?"

He laughed heartily, then soon continued in a bitter, lonely tone.

"What encourages me to drink is neither an anger-illness nor high-collar vanity. It is this thing called 'society' that drives me to drink. This Joseon society is what encourages me to drink. I was born in Joseon because of my 'good' fortune; had I been born in another country, would I even be able to get a drop of alcohol?"

To the wife, the word 'society' was far too difficult to understand. With a slurred tongue, the husband continued his explanation. He said that even while people claim to act for the nation and for society, in the end, it's nothing but a squabble over fame and position. That the society created by us Joseon people is nothing but torn and shredded pieces, no matter where you look.

"A man with a sound mind has no choice but to vomit blood and die. Otherwise, there is absolutely nothing else to do but drink. I, too, tried hard to do something, but it all came to nothing. The only thing left to do in this society is to play the drunkard."

The husband tore at his own chest as if in agony. With tears welling in her eyes, the wife grasped the hem of his jacket.

"Please don't say such things. It's my fault. Let's talk tomorrow morning."

But the husband shook off his wife and went outside. The sound of his footsteps faded away toward the end of the alley.

The wife slumped down at the edge of the empty porch. The dawn wind pierced coldly into her heart. Her pale face trembled like a spasm.

"That terrible society... why does it encourage him to drink?"

In the deep night, only the heavy silence remained by the wife's side.

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