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[Today’s Eye] Questioning the sacrifice behind ‘beauty’
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- The poem “Mi (Beauty)” by poet Jeong Dong-hyeok starts from the composition of the Chinese character ‘美’ and is presented as a work that questions the sacrifice behind beauty.
- The poem depicts the sheep Libia Seoteu, which grew large and lay with its skin stripped off on its wedding day, calling it “beautiful, I cannot bring myself to say it.”
- The commentary notes that instead of giving answers, the poem poses a question to readers: can we see beyond what we call beautiful?
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Read the full article (machine translation) → Original article (Korean): [오늘의 시선] ‘아름다움’ 뒤에 감춰진 희생을 묻다
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