Episode 1

Formerly there lived in the province of Cholla, in the town of Namwon, a magistrate's son name Yi Wangyon. He has much literary talent, and grew up to be a handsome young man.

One beautiful morning, Master Yi Wangyon called his servant, Pangja, and asked him to show him a place where he might see wild flowers. Pangja led him to a summer pavilion near a bridge called "Ojak\-kyo," or the "Magpie Bridge". The view from the bridge was a beautiful as the summer sky, and thus was named after the tale of the herdboy and the Weaving Main.

Looking at the distant mountains, Yi Wangyon caught a sight of a young maiden swinging beneath one of the trees. He asked Pangja about the lovely maiden and her attendant. He replied that she was Chun'yang \(Spring Fragrance\), a daughter of Wolmae \(Moon Plum\), the retired kisaeng entertainer. Pangja related to his young master that this young girl was not beautiful but a also virtuous. Yi Wangyon insisted that Pangja inform Chun'yang that he wished to meet her.

"Don't you know the butterfly must pursue flower, and the geese must seek the sea?" reported Chun'yang.

Pangja reported what she has dais to Yi Wangyon, who became disconsolate. The servant suggested that he see the young maid himself. Yi Wangyon approached Chun'yang. She was even more beautiful than he had first thought.

The wind blew her black hair and long ribbon over her rosy face, and she glowed with virtue and happiness. "This good fortune is offered me today. Why wait until tomorrow? I not speak to this pretty girl now?" Yi Wangyon said to himself. Just then Chun'yang, frightened at being watched, jumped down from swing and ran toward her house. Stopping under a peach tree at her garden gate she plucked a blossom and kissed it, her lips and cheeks redder than the bloom, and was gone.

Pangja urged his master to hasten home so that his father might know nothing of his adventure, and then punish Pangja for allowing Yi Wangyon so wander so far. The youth returned home in a trance, and went immediately to sit at dinner with his parents. With the meal finished, Yi Wangyon went to his room, lit a candle, and opened a book. Reading proved impossible. The words blurred before his eyes and every word and every character was "Spring" and "Fragrance"\- Chun'yang, Chun'yang,Chun'yang. Calling Pangja,, he said, " Tonight I must see Chun'yang. Did she not say that the butterly must pursue the flower?"

They went to Chun'yang's house, stopping under the peach tree in the garden as she had had a dream in which a blue dragon coiled itself around Chun'yang's body and, clouds, the girl's mother saw a dragon on Earth, for Yi Wangyon walked out of darkness and spoke to her.

On learning the purpose of his visit she called Chun'yang to meet the young nobleman, and Yi Wangyon asked Chun'yang's mother for the hand of her daughter. The old woman, thinking her dream has come true, gladly consented and said, "You are

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