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Gimbap (sometimes anglicized as kimbap) is a popular Korean snack. Usually consisting of rice, carrots, pickled radish, cucumber, and tuna or ham, gimbap are rolled in seaweed to form sushi-shaped bites. Because of their size and seaweed wrappers, gimbap are good on the go, which perhaps explains why they are such a popular snack in the throes of the Gwangju protests.
Gimbap Quotes in Human Acts
The Human Acts quotes below are all either spoken by Gimbap or refer to Gimbap. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 5: The Factory Girl, 2002
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If I demanded that you go home, Dong-ho; if I’d begged, while we sat there eating gimbap, you would have done as I asked, wouldn’t you?
And that’s why you’re coming to me now.
To ask why I’m still alive.
You walk, your eyes red rim seeming carved with some keen blade. Hurrying back to the bright lights of the emergency department.
There’s only one thing for me to say to you, onni.
If you’ll allow me to.
If you'll please allow me.
[…] As you walk along the straight white line that follows the center of the road, you raise your head to the falling rain.
Don’t die.
Just don’t die.
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Gimbap Term Timeline in Human Acts
The timeline below shows where the term Gimbap appears in Human Acts. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1: The Boy, 1980
A while later, Seon-ju arrives, this time bringing gimbap for Dong-ho. Though he eats with gusto, when Seon-ju starts asking about Dong-ho’s dead friend,...
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Chapter 5: The Factory Girl, 2002
...Dong-ho’s death. If she’d sent him home, begged for him to leave as they ate gimbap together, maybe he would not have stayed and lost his life. Seon-ju walks on, raising...
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