Mr. Moon and Miss Sun

In adaptation of Korean Folktale, Mr. Moon and Miss Sun

Over the course of time in Korea, after the first Miss Sun and Mr. Moon, there would be a girl and boy that are siblings that take place of the old Miss Sun and Mr. Moon every thousand years.

                In 2000, there was a little boy and girl that lived with their mother in a little apartment in Seoul.  Every day, the boy and girl will go to school and come back to the house immediately so that they could help their mother with chores around the house.  The children thought that if they could help their mother, there would be fewer burdens on her.

                One day, the Mother had to go to the other side of town to help prepare for a big party that her company was holding.

                “Please take care of house the house while I’m gone.  Also, do your homework and study for your classes.” The mother said.

                “Yes mom!” the children replied.

                The mother went to her company that she worked at.  She worked as fast as she could so that she can go back home to the children.  However, when the mother was coming home, it was already night time.  Not to mention she had to carry her bag and a bag filled with food that she was bringing to her children.

                After the mother got off the first subway that she had to take, the mother was startled by a robber.

                “If you give me your bag, then I won’t hurt you,” said the robber.

                The mother hesitated.  Then, she thought of her children.  The mother threw her bag across the floor.  After the mother was done taking the subway, the thief confronted her again.

                “If you give me your bag, then I won’t hurt you,” said the robber.  The mother threw the food bag and ran to the bus that she had to take.  After she got off the bus and was close to house, she saw the robber again.

                “If you give me your bag, then I won’t hurt you,” the robber said.  However, the mother had no more bags to give.  The robber attacked her.  The robber took the mother’s clothes and her bag and though of an idea.

                As it was becoming night time, the children were worried about their mother.  The little girl was very scared.  Their mother is always at the house before the children came home from school and stayed with them. 

                “Brother, Mother is not home.  Where is she?” The girl said.  Since the boy was older, he thought that he should reassure his sister.

                “Don’t worry.  She will be home very soon.”  The brother said.

                They heard the doorbell ring, then the intercom turn on.

“Children!  Mother’s home.”

“Oh! It’s mother!” The little girl said.  She got up to open the door.

“Wait!” The boy said grabbing his sister.  “That doesn’t sound like mother.”

“Oh, I’m so thirsty.  My throat is so raspy!” The intercom said. “Now, open the door!”

The boy held his sister closer to him.  He looked at the monitor.

“You don’t look like mother.” The girl said.

“I’ve worked very hard.  Just open the door!”  The intercom demanded.  The girl opened the door.  The robber went immediately into the kitchen. “I bet you are very hungry.  I will cook you children something.”

The children went into their bedroom.  After a while, the boy felt bad for not helping mother.  So, he went into the kitchen.  Before he went into the kitchen, however, he look at the robber’s face and saw that it wasn’t mother.  “It’s a robber,” he told himself.

He quietly went into the bedroom.  He led his sister outside.  When he got outside of the apartment building, he told his sister.

“That’s not mother, it’s a robber! We have to hide!”  The brother said.  They ran and hid in the playground.  Both of them decided to hide in the highest playground set.

Inside, the robber was taking all the jewelry inside the house.  When he got into the children’s bedroom, she saw that the children disappear.  They probably went to the police, she thought.  The robber went out of the apartment to look for the children.  She found the children in the playground.  The robber saw that they were on the highest playground set.

“How did you get up there?”  The robber said. “Come down this instant.  I can’t get up there!”

The boy decided to play a trick.  “Mother, it was easy.  Just go up the slide.”

The robber decided to do as the boy instructed and went up the slide.  Every time the robber tried to go up the slide, however, she kept on sliding back down.  The girl couldn’t help herself from laughing.

“Silly fool,” she laughed.  “If she went up the stairs on the other side; it would be easier.”

When the girl realized what she said; it was too late.  The robber heard what the girl said and went up the stairs.  The girl looked at the robber, then to the sky.

“Oh Heaven, please save us,” she prayed.  “Please send us a rope.”

A rope appeared from the sky.  The boy and girl quickly grabbed the rope and were being pulled to the sky.  At that moment, the robber reached to the top of the playground set.  She became angry as the children were going to the sky.  The robber repeated what the girl said. “Oh Heaven, send me a rope, too.”

A second rope appeared.

“Follow that rope!” The robber demanded as she grabbed it.  The rope carried the robber high above the ground.  Then the rope snapped because it was rotten.  The robber landed in the water.  There was a police that confronted the robber as she went out of the water.  The robber was arrested.

The children went higher and higher.  The boy became the sun, and the girl became the moon.  However, the girl didn’t want to be alone at night.  So, her brother switch places with her, becoming the moon instead. 

Since then, the girl was called Miss Sun, and the boy was called Mister Moon.  They lived for the next thousand years, when the next set of children takes their place.