Today we’re going to look at the traditional Korean story “The King With Donkey Ears”. Basically the story is about a King with secretly has donkey ears, which he hides from his subjects. The secret comes out and the king in the end lives with his ears and becomes a better person because of them.

This is a popular and well known children’s fable here in South Korea.

Free Download of “The King With Donkey Ears”

The full “The King With Donkey Ears” story is available as a free downloadable PDF file, perfect for printing. Also included in that file are key word lists and a basic worksheet;

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD “The King With Donkey Ears – Korean Story” PDF

Here are the pages in lower quality JPEG format;

Extra Resources for “The King With Donkey Ears”

Here is a video of the story in English;

Also here is a video in Korea;

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Thank you for your time and please come back soon for another traditional Korean story.

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