Hong Gildong is the son of a Yangban, the Korean gentry during the Joseon era. Yet he finds himself at the lower end of the caste system because his mother was a mere concubine. So despite being extraordinarily gifted, he has no perspective of social advancement, and isn’t even allowed to refer to his father as such. Because he is marked as cursed, his family attempts to have him killed, but he flees and becomes a hero.
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