The Good Girl, Myung-Hee

The Good Girl, Myung-Hee is a Season 3 episode

## Plot

Myung-Hee lives with her sight-challenged father (Mr. Chouel). They are destitute, but happy. In order to send Myung-Hee back to school, her father (Mr. Chouel) goes to pick medicinal herbs to sell. However, he ends up becoming blind for good. Myung-Hee goes through great obstacles to get a magical cure from the Indangsoo sea only to return to an empty house. Her father (Mr. Chouel) has left because he didn’t want to be a burden on her. To find her father (Mr. Chouel), Myung-Hee prepares for the state exams.

## Summary

### Act I

**Ki-Chouel is sick in bed, so Jimmy and Swoople come to the room and read a fantasy story to him**

The story starts in the market, When Myung-Hee's father, who had very poor eyesight due to a severe eye disease, accidentally fell, The Merchants gave her something to eat, and Mi Sun invited Myung-Hee to give her medicine and a tasting, but Myung-Hee and her father went home and ate chicken. Myung-Hee asked her father to go to the outdoors and then went to the Great outdoors.
However, Sae, who was riding the palanquin, scolded his family and pretended to give them persimmons and threw a bag full of dried persimmons, but Dong-Chouel received the bag and later received a piece of silk tied with a string, saying that he had something urgent to say to Myung-Hee. The content was a complicated love letter, but Myung-Hee used it to clean manure and promised that after Sae came, he would make Myung-Hee work as his slave.
Afterwards, Myung-Hee, who was angry at Sae, she asked her father to go to the school again, and after sleeping, she felt that her father had disappeared somewhere. However, Mi-Sun said that her father Myung-Hee's father had gone to the mountains, and Myung-Hee thought that the reason her father went to the mountains was to dig up medicinal herbs. After finally finding it, Myung-Hee's father was sleeping while holding a poisonous mushroom, and the doctor (the principal in the main story) found out that Myung-Hee's father had lost his eyesight.

### Act II

Mi-Sun and Dong-Chouel heard that the Madangsoi had recovered his eyesight from a one-eyed man, and Myung-Hee later visited the sailors (Big Al and his gang in the main story) and went to look for the plant that the one-eyed man was said to have eaten and was cured. The man and the captain threw the persimmons into the sea, saying they should be used as sacrifices. However, Myung-Hee asked for the lotus flower structure towards the lotus-shaped carriage, but fainted, and a woman in the dragon palace (Harameoni-Chouel in the main story) told the story of a woman (Ms. Chouel in the main story) who tried to find the lotus. Later, Myung-Hee finds her mother, and she realizes that she was mistaken and that her mother had run away.
Sid-Jeon asked Myung-Hee and her mother to make a lotus flower bloom and sent her back to land on his dolphin. After that, she was sad when she read a letter at home saying that his father was leaving somewhere. In the winter, Myung-Hee studied at a seodang (school), excelled in snowball fights, and later became a general. When one soldier (Jin Seung-muk) and another soldier (Yang Jae-hyun) confessed what happened to the people and the sailors (a trio of sixth-grade boys) tried to kidnap Myung-Hee's father, Myung-Hee (with The Green Masked Kangaroo and Don Swoopo's help) defeated the sailors. Afterwards, he reunited with Myung-Hee and his father and shed tears. Dong-Chouel passed the civil service examination and came to visit his father to retrieve Myung-Hee, but Myung-Hee said that she had something important to do somewhere. After that, Myung-Hee's father recovered his eyesight, and Dong-Chouel made a choice to find Myung-Hee

**Ki-Chouel asks Swoople if he can read the story to him again tomorrow, but Swoople looks at the viewers, disappointed.**

## Trivia

* This episode was packaged as a television film in France and South Korea in 1991 under "Dong-Chouel le petit coquin le film : l'Histoire De La Gentille fille, Myung-Hee" and "말썽꾸러기 동철 : 착한여자 명희" respectively