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[Joseon Images] A Christmas story: The happiest girl in Korea Posted : 2020-12-22 17:32 By Robert Neff For many of us, 2020 is probably one of the worst years of our lives. We are bombarded with accounts of terrorism, horrendous accidents and, of course, COVID-19 in the media. Many have lost coworkers, friends and relatives to these horrors. With so much negativism surrounding us, perhaps it is time for an uplifting story from the past. During the late 19th century, many Korean farmers lived in abject poverty and subsisted only upon the crops they were able to harvest each year. They had very little money but if they did manage to set some aside they were often quickly relieved of it by the gentry through unfair taxes. ....