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In the history of Korean children’s literature, Haesongdonghwajip(海松童話集) is evaluated as ‘the first Korean collection of original fairy tales’. However, there has been no research paper on this collection. As a prior work to research Haesongdonghwajip in earnest, this study is to correct truths which have been wrongly reported by a damage of materials transmitted to this day. As far as is confirmed, there are four existing Haesongdonghwajip, and two other different versions of it. In Haesongdonghwajip, twelve stories are included, but only eleven stories were reported to be included due to the omission of Honggildong(洪 吉童). In this paper Honggildong in Sinsonyun(新少年)(children’s magazine) and the one in Haesongdonghwajip in which it was recollected after changing some part of its story were discovered and compared. Honggildong, an adapted story by Ma Hae-song, was produced pretty untimely in that it became a fairy tale from a classic novel. It is also worthy of note that it was to change the story while plotting out a sequel beyond adapting from a classic novel. Ma Hae-song could not complete the sequel, but he revealed contemporary ideology prevalent with socialism in the last chapter of Honggildong. Through empirical study, Honggildong omitted from Haesongdonghwajip was restored and, the adapted story by Ma Hae-song, Honggildong, suggested an important point of matters in the history of children’s literature in terms of the author’s ideological foundation and a pedigree of making fairy tales from classic novels.