[KS] legend of mangbusok

[aychoi at rci.rutgers.edu]

Dear Korean studies list members,

Can anyone help me find sources to the manbusok (husband-waiting-rock)
story that tells of the faithful wife who waited so long for her husband
to return from the sea that she turned into a rock?   There's a mangbusok
rock formation in Haeundae in Pusan, the only site I am aware of that
carries a physical remnant of this folktale/legend.  Something tells me
that this was also a story that circulated in Northern Korea in early
twentieth century, as Kim Sowol alludes to it in one of his poems.

Much obliged,
Ann Choi

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Ann Y. Choi
Asian Languages and Cultures
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ  08901