One of Mother’s sisters, and Hyeonseo and Min-ho’s aunt. Aunt Pretty, who is known for her beauty, lives in Hamhung, and like Mother, she makes her living smuggling illegal foreign goods into North Korea. Mother and Aunt Pretty are extremely close, and Mother misses her terribly after Mother defects to South Korea at the end of the book.
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Aunt Pretty Character Timeline in The Girl with Seven Names
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Chapter 2: The City at the Edge of the World
...a lonely and sad woman, and the youngest is Aunt Tall. The most beautiful is Aunt Pretty , who longs to be a figure skater, but like Mother, she has a real...
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Mother and Aunt Pretty make quite a bit of money trading in the Chinese goods coming over the Yalu...
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Chapter 18: Over the Ice
...of the absolute highest songbun. One day, when Hyeonseo is leaving for Hamhung to visit Aunt Pretty , Chang-ho asks Hyeonseo to deliver a letter to his mother.
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Chapter 21: The Suitor
...actually have any say in elections or government. Mother told them that Hyeonseo was visiting Aunt Pretty in Hamhung, but the banjang was with the inspectors and knew the truth. Chang-ho told...
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Chapter 32: A Connection to Hyesan
...is no longer working her government job and instead is trading illicit goods fulltime with Aunt Pretty .
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Chapter 52: “I am Prepared to Die”
...for people of high songbun, like Mother, the adjustment period isn’t so easy. She misses Aunt Pretty and her other siblings badly, and one day, she tells Hyeonseo that she wants to...
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