에움길, eumgil: not the straight way but the way round. The road that wraps the foot of a hill. The path that follows the banks of the paddies instead of cutting across them.
What the straight road goes past: a flower at the edge of it, a tree worth stopping under, a conversation with enough road left to finish in.
Going round is not the same as not arriving.
The ones who came by the eumgil got there later, and were still talking when they did.