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Hong, Sunhi. 2010. Gender issue and the new female Potential in the Korean Cinderella Story ｢Konggyu Potgyu｣. The Language and Culture 6-1: 309-329. The fairy tale, which had been handed down orally for a long time, was supposed to be chosen and written according to the social, historical, and spiritual demands of modernization or industrialization. So were the woman figures in the fairy tale. It is also rational that the instinctive and natural mother be inferior to that of the ‘better’ mother reborn by logos and the former be suppressed, repressed and oppressed by the latter. The purpose of this article is to recover the lost or forgotten oral potential of written fairy tale and to reconstruct the mother and the sexuality in the context of 21st century, when the topics related to life, ecology and nature are in particular issued. According to the reconstructed ‘new’ mother the ‘original’ mother should be the ‘great’ Mother and the body of woman is to be functional both to give birth and to express her sexuality itself. Riding on woman’s movement to new era it is also possible for the fairy tale to get out of the closed structure of printed text and to enter the open structure of hypertext.(Keimyung University)