There were three brothers in the world, and they wanted to dig up ginseng to become rich. Happiness smiled on them, and they dug up a root worth one hundred thousand Ksh.
Then the two brothers said:
- Let's kill our third brother and take his share.
And so they did. And then each of them who remained alive began to think about how he could kill his other brother. They approached the village.
“Go,” one brother said to the other, “buy some suli (vodka) in the village, and I’ll wait for you.”
And when the brother went to the village, bought some suli and went with it to his brother who was waiting for him, he said:
“If I kill my brother now, all the sulya and all the root will remain for me.”
He did just that: he shot his brother and drank the sulya. But the sulya was poisoned because the murdered man wanted to use it to poison his brother. And all three of them died, and the expensive ginseng root rotted.
Since then, Koreans are no longer looking for roots or money, but are looking for more brothers.
[The custom of twinning is widespread among Koreans and is highly respected.]
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru