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Overview
Before You Pang Noo’s birth, his mother dreams of a beautiful boy riding a white-feather fan, identifying himself as a banished attendant of the North Star. The child’s later brilliance and a similar ancestral fan cause his parents to connect the dream with their son. He gives that inherited fan to Cho Uhn Hah with a written marriage pledge, succeeds in the examinations and serves as a travelling inspector, but fails for years to find her again.
Military service brings victory followed by disaster when a hostile commander withholds supplies. Captured by rebels, Pang Noo is eventually rescued through Uhn Hah’s expedition and marries her. His individual deeds here are scholarship, inspection and soldiering; the fan-riding celestial arrival belongs to his mother’s dream, not a later flight he personally performs in the human narrative.
Origins & earliest records
Korea; accounts presented by Allen
Records & interpretation
Complete Ching Yuh and Kyain Oo narrative and collection preface directly read.
Selected bibliography
Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.
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Korean Tales
V, Ching Yuh and Kyain Oo, pp. 56–88, especially pp. 58–61, 65–69, 77–88
Family, evolution & connections
Uhn Hah and Pang Noo’s households — Allen’s telling
Two stated parental households whose children marry at p. 88.
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- Separate households — their children later marry
- You Tah Jung and his unnamed wife
- Cho Sung Noo and his unnamed wife
Named fathers and birth episodes, followed by an explicit wedding. The root groups two households, not a shared ancestor. Both mothers are unnamed wives of the respective fathers. Birth dreams concern banished attendants; the human lovers are not the prelude’s Ching Yuh and Kyain Oo. The king sponsors the wedding without becoming a biological parent.
You Tah Jung in Allen’s human-lovers narrative
You Tah Jung and his unnamed wife have Pang Noo after a birth dream. The North Star’s dream attendant is not identified as his biological father.
Cho Uhn Hah
After the rescue and restored office, the king sponsors Pang Noo and Uhn Hah’s wedding. They are different characters from the married celestial couple in the prelude.
Primary records and illustrations
H. N. Allen, Korean Tales (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889)
V, Ching Yuh and Kyain Oo. V, Ching Yuh and Kyain Oo, pp. 56–88, especially pp. 58–61, 65–69, 77–88
Entire chapter and preface read; brief notice kept proportionate. Narrator’s uncertainty and limits preserved. No individual teller or original Korean edition identified by the passage.
References
Sources supporting this profile. Linked pages have their own scope and editorial standards.
- Historical English translation and narrative noticesAllen, Korean Tales (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889), VResearch access: 2026-10-05
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