Legends in Classical Chinese Story of Ch’un-hyang is in essence a story of marvel; i.e. a 传奇—a “legend”. Confucian scholar-officials shun this type of work as a function of it talking about fantastical scenes. In some sense similar to the online novel scene now: reasonably interesting but not analyzed in serious scholarship. Joseon period social liberality was largely destroyed by Japanese colonial invasion. Consider who is the narrator? when does the narrator sing a song what are the function of excessive details? where are the puns and why?