ABSTRACT
As Deacon Kim had said the Elder Park Kunshik was indeed the most eminent person in his family, the Chestnut Plain Parks. The Chestnut Plain Parks had for three generations produced men who had passed the first round of the State Civil Service Examinations and had thus earned the title of ‘Chinsa’ or ‘Scholar’. For five generations it had also boasted enough wealth to produce a thousand sacks of rice at harvest time. They were country nobility and they owned land. The three generations of ‘Chinsa’ went down as far as his grandfather’s, and the money had lasted to his generation.
