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Sun-hee
Sun-hee Sun-hee (純喜, purely joyful) is a name that carries the social expectations placed on Korean women of the mid-twentieth century: the hope that they would be pure in character and joyful in disposition. In contemporary Korean literary fiction, a character named Sun-hee may be someone who genuinely embodies these qualities with unexpected depth, or someone whose entire adult life has been shaped by the gap between this naming aspiration and the reality of what was required of her. The name invites recovery of an interior life that may have been long suppressed.
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