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    The Tale of Chunhyang

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    Chunhyang is the daughter of a kisaeng (female entertainer) and an aristocrat. She falls in love with and secretly marries Mongnyong, the son of the local mayor. However, Mongnyong is promoted and moves away. The new corrupt mayor, Pyon, tries to seduce Chunhyang but she remains faithful to her husband. Pyon has her imprisoned and sentenced to death. Mongnyong, now a royal inspector, returns in disguise and saves Chunhyang by revealing his identity and punishing Pyon. They are reunited and live happily ever after.

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    Chunhyang is the daughter of a kisaeng (female entertainer) and an aristocrat. She falls in love with and secretly marries Mongnyong, the son of the local mayor. However, Mongnyong is promoted and moves away. The new corrupt mayor, Pyon, tries to seduce Chunhyang but she remains faithful to her husband. Pyon has her imprisoned and sentenced to death. Mongnyong, now a royal inspector, returns in disguise and saves Chunhyang by revealing his identity and punishing Pyon. They are reunited and live happily ever after.

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    Chunhyang is the daughter of a kisaeng (female entertainer) and an aristocrat. She falls in love with and secretly marries Mongnyong, the son of the local mayor. However, Mongnyong is promoted and moves away. The new corrupt mayor, Pyon, tries to seduce Chunhyang but she remains faithful to her husband. Pyon has her imprisoned and sentenced to death. Mongnyong, now a royal inspector, returns in disguise and saves Chunhyang by revealing his identity and punishing Pyon. They are reunited and live happily ever after.

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    The Tale of Chunhyang

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    Chunhyang is the daughter of a kisaeng (female entertainer) and an aristocrat. She falls in love with and secretly marries Mongnyong, the son of the local mayor. However, Mongnyong is promoted and moves away. The new corrupt mayor, Pyon, tries to seduce Chunhyang but she remains faithful to her husband. Pyon has her imprisoned and sentenced to death. Mongnyong, now a royal inspector, returns in disguise and saves Chunhyang by revealing his identity and punishing Pyon. They are reunited and live happily ever after.

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    Chunhyang is the daughter of a Kisaeng and an aristocrat (who

    in some versions has split for Seoul and in others he has died).
    This places her in a very precarious position. On the one hand,
    as a Kisaeng, she is the lowest of the low as far as Confucian
    thought goes, on the other hand her mother raised her as if she
    was an aristocrat's daughter. She taught her to observe the
    many virtues of a proper woman.
    On the first day of Spring, Tano day, Chunhyang goes out to
    play escorted by her valet. In the distance, Mongnyong sees
    her and instantly falls in love. He knows he must have her.
    Chunhyang and Mongnyong are both the tender age of 15, the
    same age as Romeo and Juliet.
    Mongnyong tried to court Chunhyang, though she obstinately
    rejects him, saying 'you are mistaken if you think I will just obey
    you. Although I am a kisaeng, I am also a proper woman!'
    Mongnyong changes his strategy. "I'll exchange poetry with
    her," he thinks. And so they begin to write each other.
    Soon Mongnyong goes to see Chunhyang's mother to ask for
    her hand in marriage. Chunhyang's mother comments that her
    daughter is a proper woman, and that she constantly
    writes poetry suggesting her determination to remain faithful
    to her husband. But Mongnyong is persistent in professing his
    pure and innocent love. Soon her mother gives the O.K., and
    they are married, in secret of course.
    Soon after, Mongnyong's father receives a promotion to an
    office in Seoul, and the entire family must move. Mongnyong
    and Chunhyang tearfully say their good-bye's and promise to
    be faithful to each other, and with that they part. The next
    mayor to come to the town was a righteous man and soon he
    too receives a promotion to Seoul. At that point, a corrupt
    official named Pyon takes office. He typifies the evil and
    corrupt officials who torture and exploit the
    commoners.

    The Tale of
    Chunhyang

    He calls all the village kisaeng, yet none of them please him. He
    finally finds out that there is one beautiful kisaeng named
    Chunhyang. The magistrate advises against that, as she is
    already married to the former mayor's son. "No matter," says
    Pyon, "a kisaeng after all is a kisaeng!" With that he summons
    her.
    Chunhyang refuses all Pyon's attempt to seduce her and
    adamantly repeats the Confucian maxim for womanly virtue, "A
    servant cannot serve two masters, a wife cannot serve two
    husbands!" Enraged, Pyon has her beaten and thrown into
    prison.
    Meanwhile, Mongnyong has finished his studies and passes the
    Confucian Examination with the highest accolade. He is given
    his choice of any job. Mongnyong chooses to become the
    Secret Royal Inspector who must travel the countryside
    incognito and expose corrupt governors and officials. In the
    disguise of a beggar, he makes it back to his hometown. His
    mother in law sees Mongnyong in tattered rags and looks at
    him with disdain, as if to say "How dare you show up like that!"
    She escorts him to Chunhyang's cell where they are reunited.
    She is scheduled to be executed the following morning.
    Although happy at being reunited, Chunhyang is also saddened
    by Mongnyong's appearance. Selflessly, Chunhyang says to her
    mother, 'when I die, sell all my clothes and possessions. Buy my
    husband the finest clothes to wear and a ring to put on his
    finger.' They part once more, and Mongnyong goes off into the
    night.
    The next morning Pyon holds a great feast in honor of his
    birthday. Chunhyang is brought out and is asked if she will
    become his concubine. She refuses and is sentenced to death.
    Just before she is killed a beggar appears and says, 'stop.' He
    then takes off his costume and shows his royal inspector's seal.
    He saves Chunhyang and punishes Pyon. They live happily ever
    after.

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