Korean Folk Tales: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Korean Folk Tales, credited to Im Bang, Yi Riuk, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Korean Folk Tales by Im Bang and Yi Riuk Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. "To any one who would like to look somewhat into the inner soul of the Oriental, and see the peculiar spiritual existences among which he lives, the following stories will serve as true interpreters, born as they are of the three great religions of the Far East, Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism." Manuscripts by two of Korea's (possibly) most famous authors, dating from the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries were uncovered in the early years of the twentieth century. Translation revealed stories that are not for the faint-hearted: gruesome, harsh, unlovely, depicting scenes of the day, as well as the hope for better things. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Korean Folk Tales
• Author credits: Im Bang, Yi Riuk
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 54
• Listed recording duration: 5:23:18

Catalogue topics

• ghosts
• Asia
• fairies
• korea
• imps

Opening tracks: first 24 of 54

1. 00 - Preface and Biographical Notes — 3:24
2. 01 - Charan — 27:54
3. 02 - The Story of Chang To-Ryong — 12:57
4. 03 - A Story of the Fox — 3:26
5. 04 - Cheung Puk-Chang, The seer — 9:44
6. 05 - Yun se-Pyong, The Wizard — 6:37
7. 06 - The Wild-Cat Woman — 4:24
8. 07 - The Ill-Fated Priest — 3:37
9. 08 - The Vision of the Holy Man — 6:57
10. 09 - The Visit of the Man of God — 3:08
11. 10 - The Literary Man of Imsil — 5:34
12. 11 - The Soldier of Kang-Wha — 2:51
13. 12 - Cursed by the Snake — 4:02
14. 13 - The Man on the Road — 3:07
15. 14 - The Old Man Who Became a Fish — 3:48
16. 15 - The Geomancer — 6:04
17. 16 - The Man Who Became a Pig — 6:59
18. 17 - The Old Woman Who Became a Goblin — 3:03
19. 18 - The Grateful Ghost — 4:06
20. 19 - The Plucky Maiden — 9:24
21. 20 - The Resourceful Wife — 3:26
22. 21 - The Boxed-Up Governor — 9:27
23. 22 - The Man Who Lost his Legs — 5:31
24. 23 - Ten Thousand Devils — 9:06

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