— Overview
The notes stay with a second-line text of a late-Joseon gasa, and with a woman who moves from a dream and a mock rite to a marriage and twin sons.
— Contents and key concepts
An undated gasa, read in a second line
The notes stay with Nocheonyeoga, a gasa they treat as anonymous and undated, from late Joseon. Two lineages of the text are known. They read the second, which they name Nocheonyeoga 2.
They do not put an author’s name or a year on a work that arrives without either. What they have is the later line of the poem, and the story it tells.
A woman of fifty, and a line about a face
The protagonist is fifty. The notes write of disability and of mental illness in the terms they themselves use, and they do not smooth those words away.
They record a line in which she asks that her face not be spoken of as twisted or ugly. The quotation is kept as far as they give it, without inventing the rest of the verse.
A dream, a pounding stick, and twin boys
She dreams of a man named Kim Dolryeong, and a dog wakes her. After that she holds a mock wedding with a laundry pounding stick — a hongdukkae — in place of a bridegroom.
Later she marries Kim Dolryeong in earnest. Hearing and the use of an arm return to her, and she gives birth to twin boys. The notes stay with that turn, from the mock rite to the marriage and the sons, as the second-line text gives it.
The same Korean report, at fuller length, is on CampusDown.
Sources
- The notes, a student reading of Nocheonyeoga in its second lineage: an anonymous, undated late-Joseon gasa, a protagonist of fifty, a line about a face, a dream of Kim Dolryeong, a mock wedding with a pounding stick, a later marriage, the return of hearing and an arm, and twin boys.
Last updated: 15 November 2026
Frequently asked questions
What kind of work is Nocheonyeoga, and which text do the notes read?
They treat it as an anonymous, undated gasa from late Joseon. Two lineages of the text are known; the notes read the second, which they name Nocheonyeoga 2. They do not assign an author or a year the work itself does not carry.
How do they describe the protagonist, and what line do they record?
The protagonist is fifty. The notes write of disability and of mental illness in the terms they use, and they record a line in which she asks that her face not be spoken of as twisted or ugly. The wording is kept close to what they quote, without filling in the rest of a verse they leave unfinished.
What happens in the dream, and how does the story turn after that?
She dreams of a man named Kim Dolryeong, and is woken by a dog. She then holds a mock wedding with a laundry pounding stick, a hongdukkae. Later she marries Kim Dolryeong in earnest. Hearing and the use of an arm return, and she gives birth to twin boys.
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