Gu Malbong

Line up the dead lamps by size and the living ones get ashamed and burn brighter. Forty years this nonsense hasn't worked, and I tried it again today.

• ChaebyeolChief, isn't that just superstition?!
  Gu MalbongIt is superstition. Hold onto a superstition for forty years and it's a habit.
• MirinaeOld man, you sat under that ashamed lamp for three hours. What were you waiting for.
  Gu MalbongCounting how many times your voice cracked today, Miss.

They said today's surplus on the ration sheet was worth six lamps. The workshop speaker was on the whole time, and Miss didn't say a word.

• YeoulChief, it's not that Mirinae didn't know the answer.
  Gu MalbongI know. Say the answer she knows, and she's the one who turned one of them off. So she kept her mouth shut.
• Seonu TakWithholding judgment is dereliction of duty for a navigation persona. Noted for the record.
  Gu MalbongDon't note it, go make six more lamps. Then nobody has to be wrong.