Once at a pagoda Mongryong Lee, a scion of a well-to-do family, meets Chunhyang, the young daughter of a courtesan and an aristocrat. Despite her low social standing she is smart and well-educated. The young people fall in love and think about marriage so that they could always be together. Mongryong is soon to go to the capital to take the state civil service exam. They part and in Chunhyang's life there appears the greedy and lustful Byun Hak-do, who tries to seduce her.

Hyo-jeong Lee
as Chunhyang Sung

Cho Seung-woo
as Mongryong Lee

Kim Sung-nyeo
as Wolmae

Hak-young Kim
as Pangja

Lee Jeong-heon
as Gov. Byun Hakdo

Choi Jin-yeong
as Gov. Lee

Lee Hae-eun
as Hyangdan

Hong Kyeong-yeon
as Kisaeng Leader

Sang-hyun Cho
as Pansori Singer

Myung-hwan Kim
as Pansori Drummer