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A Study on the Meaning of Desire Mentioned in a Epical Shaman Song Baridegi and Present Myth on an Adopted Child - focusing on the Baridegi by a Shaman Kim Bok-Sun - Lee, Min-Heui Baridegi is one of the most famous epical shaman song in Korea, passing down by shaman of today. Baridegi(=princess Bari) was abandoned by her parents right after her birth. Nevertheless, she forgives her parent, goes through rough adventures and saves her parent’s life by bringing the holy water from the underworld. In a "Bari's story like this, an abandoned Baridegi makes a role as a mediator to realize desire of characters. For example, Baridegi not only realizes parent's dearest desire for life, Dongsuja(holy water keeper)'s desire for children in a internal point of view, but also satisfies prayer's desire for guiding the soul of dead to the underworld, shaman's desire for successful performing ritual in a external point of view. It can be considered these desires of figures in a Baridegi in connection with an adopted children's story today. Especially, it means a success story of an adopted child who comes into the spotlight through the Mass Media. Though Children abandoned by parents, and after that adopted by foreign foster parents, they are able to return to Korea in glory as a hero or heroine like a princess Bari by the commercial interest of the mass media, on that particular occasion for that once they grown up to be a famous public figure in the world. From this view point, myth on Bari sheds light on ageless themes like isolation and abandonment which continue to haunt modern society.