<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481380417277_17837"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481380417277_17866">국어대사전: page 1501: 삼패일(三敗日)[명]{민}매월 5일.14일.23일 으로서 외출(外出).여행(旅行) 같은 것을 기(忌)하는 날. 고려(高麗) 때 이 사흘이 임금의 소용일(所用日)이였음으로 민감에소는 큰일을 하지 않았는대 이 습속이 내려 오면서 변한 것임. 파일(破日).</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481380417277_17864"> </div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481380417277_17860"><div id="RTEContent"><div id="RTEContent"><div id="RTEContent"><div id="RTEContent"><div id="RTEContent"><div id="RTEContent"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481380417277_17859"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481380417277_17858"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481380417277_17857"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481380417277_17856"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481380417277_17855"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481380417277_17854"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481380417277_17853"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481380417277_17863"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://koreanpoems.blogspot.com/" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481380417277_17865">Dr. Edward D. Rockstein </a><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481380417277_17852"><br>ed4linda@yahoo.com <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481380417277_17862" color="#00bf60"><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481380417277_17861"><br><br>"All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and re-inscribed exactly as often as was necessary."</i></font><br>George Orwell; Nineteen Eighty-Four; 1949.<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481380417277_17838"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481380417277_17846" style="display: block;"> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481380417277_17845"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481380417277_17844"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481380417277_17843"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481380417277_17851"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481380417277_17919" face="Arial" size="2"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481380417277_17918" size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Werner Sasse <werner_sasse@hotmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> list korean studies <koreanstudies@koreanstudies.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, December 10, 2016 1:20 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [KS] 5th 14th 23rd<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481380417277_17842"><br><div id="yiv5800968540">
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<div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481380417277_17849"><span style="line-height:160%;font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481380417277_18502">Dear
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<div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481380417277_17847"><span style="line-height:160%;font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481380417277_17848">In a
translation I am working at there is a paragraph which bothers me, but I cannot come up with solutions. Any help will be appreciated...</span></div>
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<div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="line-height:160%;font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;">初五</span><span style="line-height:160%;font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;">十四</span><span style="line-height:160%;font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;">
</span><span style="line-height:160%;font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;">二十三日</span><span style="line-height:160%;font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;">稱三敗日</span><span style="line-height:160%;font-size:8pt;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;">
The 5</span><sup><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;">, 14</span><sup><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;">,
and 23</span><sup><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;">rd</span></sup><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;"> days are called the “Three Ruining Days”.
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<span style="line-height:160%;font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;">每月忌百事</span><span style="line-height:160%;font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;">
</span><span style="line-height:160%;font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;">不敢動作</span><span style="line-height:160%;font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;">
</span><span style="line-height:160%;font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;">不宜出行
</span><span style="color:black;line-height:160%;font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;" lang="EN-US">Every Month people are afraid to do anything, any work or leaving the house.
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<div><font face="굴림"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;"></span></font><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;">盖</span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;">自麗俗</span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;">以此三日</span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;">卽君上所用之日</span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;">故臣民不容爲忌日</span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;">云</span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;">本非敗日也</span><span style="color:black;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;"> </span><span style="color:black;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;" lang="EN-US">
It is said that since Kory</span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;" lang="EN-US">ŏ customarily
the king took these three days and therefore ministers and all people incorrectly made them into taboo days. Originally they were not “Ruining Days”</span></div>
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<div><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;" lang="EN-US">Questions I have:</span></div>
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<div><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;" lang="EN-US">1) 5-14-23 with the difference of 9 makes
me think of the<span style="font-size:16pt;"> </span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:16pt;" lang="EN-US">Nine
Influencers </span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:16pt;">九曜</span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:16pt;">
(skr. </span><i style=""><span style="font-size:16pt;">Nahagraha</span></i><span style="font-size:16pt;">, often translated as “planets” or “luminaries”). Does it have to do with birthday or any other important event? With mercury
(number <span style="font-size:16pt;">5 in numerology) </span><span style="font-size:16pt;">and its influence? Or with
</span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:16pt;">jupiter
</span><i style=""><span style="font-size:16pt;">mok-chiks</span></i></span><i style=""><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:16pt;" lang="EN-US">ŏng</span></i><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:16pt;" lang="EN-US">
</span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:16pt;"><span style="font-size:16pt;">木直星, </span><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span style="font-size:16pt;">the
5th of the </span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:16pt;">九曜</span><span style="font-size:16pt;">?</span></font><span style="font-size:16pt;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;" lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:16pt;">2)
which Kory<span style="line-height:115%;font-size:16pt;" lang="EN-US">ŏ king (or, since it is a
<em>hanmun</em> text, Kogury<span style="line-height:115%;font-size:16pt;" lang="EN-US">ŏ "king")?
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<div><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;" lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:16pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:16pt;" lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:16pt;" lang="EN-US">3)
And who is behind the "It is said..."?</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;" lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:16pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:16pt;" lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:16pt;" lang="EN-US">Translations,
secondary literature, and three days wasted in the internet did not help me. Of course, I could just not bother and translate the text as it is, but I would just like to find some background to these enigmatic statements. It would be nice for me and probably
for any serious reader of the translation...</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;" lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:16pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:16pt;" lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:16pt;" lang="EN-US">Looking
forward</span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16pt;" lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:16pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:16pt;" lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:16pt;" lang="EN-US">Werner</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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