In the course of the night time, a tiger creeps right into a village desirous to steal a cow, and coincidentally, a burglar can be making an attempt to steal a cow. All through the night time, a toddler is wailing and crying endlessly. Even when his mom threatens him {that a} massive, scary tiger is coming to eat him, the kid retains crying.

Instantly, the tiger hears the kid’s mom engaging the kid with a persimmon. “Right here’s a dried persimmon,” she says, after which the kid stops crying. The tiger is shocked and amused, questioning how dried persimmon has stopped a toddler from crying. The tiger wonders if the persimmon is extra horrifying than him because the tiger couldn’t scare the kid. On the identical time, the burglar, who errors the tiger for a cow, jumps on the tiger’s again. Out of concern, the tiger bolts out of the village with the burglar on his again pondering it was the horrifying dried persimmon.

The ethical of the story is that mischief (the tiger) and corruption (the burglar) won’t prevail if kindness, just like the persimmon tree, is deeply planted within the hearts of individuals.

Persimmons (pronounced “gam” in Korean) have been consumed and used for treating varied illnesses for hundreds of years in Japanese drugs, and they’re a treasured delicacy in Korean tradition. Persimmons include antioxidants, which assist stop oxidative injury and stress. They’re nice for serving to preserve wholesome eyes attributable to excessive ranges of beta-carotene, an important nutrient for imaginative and prescient and cell development.