Mrs. Jang’s son. Aunt Sang-hee introduces Hyeonseo and Geun-soo after Hyeonseo defects to China from North Korea, and she encourages them to date, and later to marry. Geun-soo is very kind, and he treats Hyeonseo well, but she isn’t attracted to him, and she certainly doesn’t want to marry him. Geun-soo obtains the new ID card for Hyeonseo, which claims she is a Korean-Chinese woman named Jang Soon-hyang, and he is devastated when she leaves him and runs off to Xita. Hyeonseo never sees Geun-soo again, but she does call him to apologize. Hyeonseo later hears that he has married another woman and started a family.
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Geun-soo Character Timeline in The Girl with Seven Names
The timeline below shows where the character Geun-soo appears in The Girl with Seven Names. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 21: The Suitor
...but a young man she doesn’t recognize is at the door. Sang-hee introduces him as Geun-soo, and he bows deeply, handing Hyeonseo flowers without looking at her.
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Chapter 22: The Wedding Trap
Geun-soo is the son of Mrs. Jang, one of Aunt Sang-hee’s friends from her Korean-Chinese social...
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Geun-soo takes Hyeonseo to meet his mother, Mrs. Jang, who soon talks about opening a new...
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...could be caught, and then they will all be implicated. Hyeonseo knows she can’t marry Geun-soo. In the summer of 2000, with the wedding just weeks away, Hyeonseo walks out of...
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Chapter 26: Interrogation
...claims it is at home, but she still has the number memorized from the ID Geun-soo gave her.
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Chapter 42: A Place of Ghosts and Wild Dogs
...to see Hyeonseo. Hyeonseo repaid her debt to them years before, and she learned that Geun-soo had since married. It is clear to Hyeonseo that Aunt Sang-hee has forgiven her for...
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