‘The Story of Chun-Hyang’, the classical Korean narrative literature, is the most filmed work. Directed by from a Japanese under the rule of Japanese imperialism in 1923 to Im Kwon-taek in 2000, it is filmed no less than seventeen times. Among them, Seong Chun-Hyang is the oldest version remained until present and the first color cinemascope film in Korea. Seong Chun-Hyang starred by Choi Eun-hee in 1961 grappled with The Story of Chun-Hyang starred by Hong Seong-gi and Kim Ji-mi being released at the same time, which made a big issue not only in film industry but also socially.
 Heo Jang-gang’s starring as Bangja and Do Geum-bong as Hyangdan helped the film have humoristic and satiric function and get big responses in public, which women audiences addressed as Gomooshin Gwangaek (Rubber shoes audiences; in 60s, most women wore Gomooshin, rubber shoes)’ make possible. Chun-Hyang is summoned as an incarnation of romantic love, a feudal virtuous heroine leading a ‘chaste life’ or an embodiment of Hyunmoyangcheo (a wise mother to children and a wise wife to husband) ideology according to the periodic, political and cultural context. At the scenes that Chun-Hyang faces Byun Hak-Do, however, Chun-Hyang seems to deviate from the feminine model prescribed by a patriarchal discourse and makes cracks on the mechanism of those discourses, as she confesses her real marital relation beyond the ‘law’ against Byun’s claims representing the ‘law’ and rejects Byun’s enforcement for her to give himself bed service. (Kwon Eun-sun)