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Daebuho

“Grand Millionaire” (title translated by AI)

Seong Hye-ryeong (성혜령)

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An accident took the narrator's father and a workplace accident her older brother, leaving her alone with her mother. Now the mother watches agitating political videos on YouTube all day and has begun to go out to rallies, and the daughter faces a parent who seems to live in another world. What they still share is a card game called Grand Millionaire, in which a player who lays down four cards of one number and shouts 'revolution' turns the ranking of the cards upside down. Played against the politics of the moment, the game becomes the one place where two generations who rarely talk can look at each other's wounds, and where small revolutions at the table meet heavy frustration outside.

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About the book

Form
Short story
First published
2025 by Dasan Books