Korean learner dictionary

수궁가

sugungga · Sugungga

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Dictionary entry

NIKL target code 67945

Part of speech: 명사Pronunciation: 수궁가

1.
판소리 다섯 마당의 하나. 병이 난 용왕을 위하여 별주부 자라가 토끼의 간을 구하기 위해 토끼를 용궁에 데려오지만 토끼가 잔꾀를 부려 도망친다는 ‘별주부전’의 내용을 담고 있다.
English: Sugungga — One of the five episodes of pansori, Korean storytelling song; it consists of Byeoljubujeon, The Tale of Byeoljubu, in which a terrapin captures a rabbit and brings it to an underwater palace in order to obtain its liver for the sick dragon king of the sea, but the rabbit is able to run away thanks to its wiles.