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A proof that Seungho falls into a trance-like state where he loses the sense of time, space, himself and even the people around him. For a moment, he becomes completely baffled that he's been outside, in the cold, the whole day killing animals.
The unresolved issues, no closure and no healing process whatsover summed up in a crystal clear metaphor - Seungho killing the boar symbolizes the need to punish the men who hurt him almost beyond repair - which also explains why he has been hunting so often since the beginning.
Seungho has numbed himself to pain, both physical and emotional, to cope with his father's beating and strangulations to a point where he literally provokes his father into anger and dares him to abuse him even more. It's a rebellion.
Explicitation is defined as a shift in translation from what is implicit in the source text to what is explicit in the target text.
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Seungho and Jihwa are still in their teens here considering their hair is in a braid and not a topknot (sangtu) since they didn't have their coming-of-age ceremony nor were married at that time either.
Even more so, when the translator actually didn’t use it here. Finally, in some languages, the repetition of phrases like here in the two panels 'it hurts, it hurts' would be considered stylistically incorrect;