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Three Sick People was a non-sense comedy that dramatically described an aspect of growth of women’s rights which had been appeared in the time of enlightenment of modern Korea. Assemblywomen was an ancient Greek comedy written in 392 B.C. and it was about women took over the Assembly, the exclusive property of patriarchal social men at the time. In Three Sick People, it was ridiculously described that men concerned about the growth of women's rights even though living in the patriarchal family and society. In Assemblywomen, it was a little far-fetched but women were portrayed as discontinuing their dependence on men and taken a lead in the family and national crisis. A common feature of these works is to require women’s social and political participation by reversing gender roles based on the gender equality. The women’s participating actions were used with the privilege of satire, which is a characteristic of comedy, to speak out complains about oppressive and patriarchal society. In spite of that, the works ended up as just giving a new recognition on the gender equality and an tolerant attitude of men and women living together. The implication of the works is to show a comic will to correct the rigid nature of social authority, which wrapped up imperfect human perfection, with humorous satire and healthy laughter.