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In Lee Tae-jun’s short story Sunset, the classical characteristic that is a special characteristic of this story is clearly revealed. It can be seen from the background such as the museum and temple that the main character Maeheon visited in his trip to Gyeongju. While feeling the sorrow of aging helplessly, the main character realizes that there is something that does not change even over time, which is beauty. As the main character realizes that there is something not only from this world but also from antiquity that have such beauty, he thinks that it is something such as the beauty of a young woman seen without any evil intent. He feels such thing from Taoak, a woman he occasionally met during his travel. At the moment she left his side, however, he ends up looking at beautiful sunset and accepts the emptiness of life felt from it. Meanwhile, our unique history or ancient culture is revealed in various places in Sunset. Through such element as if carelessly sliding by, the writer is symbolically revealing the sorrow of Korean people living in a bleak period of the late Japanese colonial period. In addition, rich and skillful command of vocabulary or designation, conversation and sensible expression can be seen in his literary work, which also tells the writer’s superior creative technique. In short, it can be said that Lee Tae-jun’s autobiographical and classical novel Sunset is a piece of beautiful painting on the subject of life.