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The short story "The Life" is an early work by the popular Korean novelist Baek Nam Ryong, published in print in the spring of 1985.

The story touches on the problem of corruption in education, which is vital for the whole of Korea, and in higher medical education, which is extremely important for the DPRK. Through the lips of his heroes, the author conveys to readers the idea of the highest responsibility of those in whose hands a medical instrument that can save a person's life or interrupt it.