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Bumsuk Cha is known as a representative realist playwright in Korea. He has received high praise in inheriting and developing the spirit of Korean realism drama. However, researches on his works have been also focused too much on the socio-structural aspect and his masterpiece, Sanbool also was no exception. As Cha himself emphasized the human individuals in terms of realism, realism drama has character of representing spirits of individuals including structural features. Realism drama represents the objectively existing world as faithfully as possible, and shapes dramatic illusion from reality. In these sense, we may say that realism drama is a metaphor. Sanbool is a metaphorical work that reproduces a variety of secret social desire. When it was staged at the National Theatre in December 1962, Keunsam Lee provided clue for analysis of desire, comparing Sanbool to Lorca’s La casa de Bernarda de Alba. This essay is aims to analyse the work focusing on these individual desires. In other words, this essay is to try to get an objective view for the distance between ideology and desire, showing that there is nothing beyond the ideology. I first regarded Sanbool as a symptoms because Cha also uttered the historic incident of South Korea war in terms of social symptoms, approaching metaphorically. And then, I will try to reveal the nature of the era’s desire that Sanbool shows, analyzing the space for desire, variation of subject and phenomena of mourning.