[신들이 아직 여기 있다면] 가믄장아기

Gamunjang Agi, the Korean goddess of fate who said she lives by her own luck and found gold while digging yams (Korean folk belief, Korean traditional clothing and objects, NOT Japanese, NOT Chinese.), now running a roasted sweet potato stall on a winter street corner at dusk. A sturdy young woman with a plain dark headscarf, a padded vest over a faded hanbok jeogori and cotton work gloves turns sweet potatoes in a black oil-drum roaster with tongs, smoke curling up. One split sweet potato in her hand glows faintly golden inside. Folded paper bags on a plank, an old wooden cart, a few passers-by in winter coats. She fills about half the frame height. Content and self-assured, warm orange light from the drum. No text, no letters, no hangul, no readable signs, no logos.