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This study examines the two films and based on the original novel written by Kim, Yoo-jeong. This study would be the research for the film itself as well as the opportunity for understanding the original novel through literary films. First of all, in chapter 2, this study summarizes the plot and the characters of the novels. As a typical poor lower-class, the planar characters in Kim's novels share the same social and historical funda- mental problems. They act depending on their personality against the problems of the social structure, so the problems remain in a negative situation that can not be solved. But this procedure is always drawn as a comic disturbance due to the characters’ personality. At this point, the paradoxical situation created by Kim, Yoo-jeong shows ambivalence and truth of the world. This romantic irony is the core of Kim, Yoo-jeong’s narration. In chapter 3, this study explores the multiple procedure of film adaptation to and focusing on the difference of the characters and events between the original novels and adapted films. has confrontation with the intervention of new charac- ters and events, which transform into a folk love story with intercon- nection of the love between Choonsam and Jeomsoonyi. In , it transforms into a review for the whole life rather than a piece of the life, from the procedure that connects or expands the characters of a short story. In chapter 4, this study discusses how the effects shown by the difference of viewpoint, plot and the characters' personality define the features of the films. shows the final ending that overcomes impossible love according to the hierarchical relationship. Due to this kind of plot, irony disappears and only the romantic viewpoint rules the whole text. Each event is expressed as a simple happening because the negative and heavy social structure is concealed in the whole procedure. On the other hand, reflects each aspect in reality through the characters in an expanded world. In addition, the characters suggest current social problems with thier own allegory. The allegory in returns the text to an active society and acquires the feature of socio-critical realism.