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+//! p9-fb-10: smoke pin that a Korean query reaches FTS5 and returns
+//! the matching Hangul document.  NFC normalization happens upstream
+//! in `kebab-normalize`; this test only exercises the end-to-end
+//! facade — ingest a Korean .md → lexical search → at least one hit.
+
+mod common;
+
+use common::TestEnv;
+
+fn lexical_query(text: &str) -> kebab_core::SearchQuery {
+    kebab_core::SearchQuery {
+        text: text.to_string(),
+        mode: kebab_core::SearchMode::Lexical,
+        k: 10,
+        filters: kebab_core::SearchFilters::default(),
+    }
+}
+
+/// p9-fb-10 — A Korean token present in a Hangul document must survive
+/// the ingest → FTS5 → search round-trip.  NFC normalization is wired
+/// upstream in `kebab-normalize`; this test just verifies the facade
+/// doesn't drop or corrupt CJK text along the way.
+#[test]
+fn korean_lexical_query_returns_korean_document() {
+    let env = TestEnv::lexical_only();
+
+    // Write a Korean Markdown document into the temp workspace.
+    let doc_path = env.workspace_root.join("러스트-비동기.md");
+    std::fs::write(
+        &doc_path,
+        "# 러스트 비동기 프로그래밍\n\n토큰: 러스트, 비동기, async, await\n",
+    )
+    .expect("write Korean fixture doc");
+
+    // Ingest — lexical_only() disables fastembed so no AVX required.
+    kebab_app::ingest_with_config(env.config.clone(), env.scope(), true)
+        .expect("ingest must succeed");
+
+    // Lexical search for "러스트" — must return the Korean document.
+    let hits = kebab_app::search_with_config(env.config.clone(), lexical_query("러스트"))
+        .expect("search must succeed");
+
+    assert!(
+        !hits.is_empty(),
+        "expected at least one hit for Korean lexical query '러스트'"
+    );
+
+    // At least one hit must reference our Korean document.
+    let any_korean = hits.iter().any(|h| {
+        let p = &h.doc_path.0;
+        p.contains("러스트") || p.contains("비동기")
+    });
+    assert!(
+        any_korean,
+        "expected a hit referencing the Korean document; got: {hits:#?}"
+    );
+}