Once at a pagoda Mongryong Lee, a scion of a well-to-do family, meets Chunhyang, the young daughter of a courtesan and an aristocrat. Despite her low social standing she is smart and well-educated. The young people fall in love and think about marriage so that they could always be together. Mongryong is soon to go to the capital to take the state civil service exam. They part and in Chunhyang's life there appears the greedy and lustful Byun Hak-do, who tries to seduce her.

Lee Jeong-heon
Gov. Byun Hakdo
Choi Jin-yeong
Gov. Lee

Lee Hae-eun
Hyangdan
Hong Kyeong-yeon
Kisaeng Leader