Tales from Korea, short story, Two lies.
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folk tales from Korea, collected and translated by Two Lies. Once there was a minister who was so fond of being told lies that he announced, any man who can tell me to lies that I find interesting, shall marry my only daughter. So it was that all the leading liars in the eight provinces came to his house, but with all the stories they told, he was never satisfied and refused to give his daughter to any of them. One day, however, a young man came and said, It will be very hot in summer. So you should go now and dig a great pit under the main street of Seoul. Then when the hot weather comes you can sell it and make your fortune. That's a wonderful lie, answered the Minister as usual. And the next the young man took out an old document from his pocket. This is a bond of debt, amounting to 100,000 yen, which your late father borrowed from me before he died. I have come to demand payment Now. The minister was in a quandary. If I say it's a lie, he said to himself, I must give him my daughter. But if I say it's not a lie, I must pay all that money. In the end. He had to say it's a lie. And the young man married his daughter