Pachinko(파친코)_7월 22일(금)_1권_Chapter 5_1p_40p

[Frida]

As Koh Hansu was putting her on the ferry, Sunja had the opportunity to observe him up close without distractions. She could even smell the mentholated pomade in his neatly combed balck hair.

Hansu had the broad shoulders and the thick, strong torso of a larger man; his legs were not very long, but he was not short, either. Hansu was the perhaps the same age as her mother, who was thirty-six(1932-36=1893년생, Hoonie는 1883년생, 13살 차이)

His tawny brow was creased lightly, faded brown spots and freckles had settled in his shrap cheekbones. His nose-narrow, with a bump below a high bridge-made him look somewhat Japanese, and small, broken capillaries lay beneath the skin around his nostrils.

More black than brown, his dark eyes absorbed light like a long tunnel, and when he looked at her, she felt an incomfortable sensation in her stomach. Hansu's Western-style suit was elegant and well cared for; unlike the lodgers, he didn't give off an ordor from his labors or the sea.

On the following market day, she spotted him standing in front of the brokers' offices with a crowd of businessmen and waited until he could see her. She bowed to him. Hansu nodded ever so slightly, then returned to his work. Sunja went to finish her shopping, and as she walked to the ferry, he caught up with her.

"Do you have some time?" he asked.

She widened her eyes. What did he mean?

"To talk."

Sunja had been around men all her life. She had never been afraid of them or awkward in their presence, but around him, she didn't have the words she needed. it was difficult for her to stand near him even. Sunja swallowed and decided that she would speak to him no differently than to the lodgers; she was sixteen years old, not a scared child.