Simcheongga
Sign in to save'''' () is one of the five surviving stories of the Korean pansori storytelling tradition. The other stories are Chunhyangga, Heungbuga, Jeokbyeokga, and Sugungga''. The characteristic of this story is that it deals with the difficult lives of ordinary people in the late Joseon Dynasty, and it contains the heroism and values of life that ordinary people wanted at that time. In the end, it is a fantasy genre in which the socially disadvantaged overcome hardships and have a dramatic happy ending.
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'''' () is one of the five surviving stories of the Korean pansori storytelling tradition. The other stories are Chunhyangga, Heungbuga, Jeokbyeokga, and Sugungga. The characteristic of this story is that it deals with the difficult lives of ordinary people in the late Joseon Dynasty, and it contains the heroism and values of life that ordinary people wanted at that time. In the end, it is a fantasy genre in which the socially disadvantaged overcome hardships and have a dramatic happy ending.
==History== thumb|250px| performance by National Theater of Korea The exact date of when the story was adapted into a pansori is unknown. According to records, can be found in the Kwanuhŭi written by Song Man-jae () in the time of Sunjo of Joseon and also in The History of Joseon Traditional Opera'' () written Chŏng No-sik () in the 1900s.