Hanjo samseong gibong - The Fantastic Encounters of Three Han Dynasty Families in Tang China

The Hanjo samseong gibong (The Fantastic Encounters of Three Han Dynasty Families in Tang China) is a classical Korean novel in the vernacular consisting of fourteen fascicles in fourteen volumes, with each volume containing eighty pages, and each page has ten columns with sixteen to nineteen syllables per column. The only extant copy is held in the Jangseogak Archives at the Academy of Korean Studies. The story is set in China during the reign of Emperor Hyeonjong [Xuanzong 玄宗, r. 712–755] of the Tang dynasty, and begins on four close scholars and friends: Wi Seong, Jo Hui, Ji Myeong, and Seol Heum. Scholars of classical Korean novels consider works like The Fantastic Encounters of Three Han dynasty Families in Tang China to be “derivative literary work” (pasaengjak), a well-established literary phenomenon in the history of Korean novels during the latter part of the Joseon dynasty.