Hong Gil-dong
Choran
The scheming concubine
A jealous concubine in the Hong household who tries to have Gildong killed.
Choran is a concubine of Minister Hong, ambitious and cunning. She resents Chunseom and fears Gildong's extraordinary talents. She is jealous of the favored standing he has with the master and sees his gifts as a threat to her own place in the household.
She does not act alone, and she is not above using others for her own ends. She works on Lady Yu's pride and fears, warning that if the boy grows older he will ruin Lady Yu's son's inheritance. She is the story's chief domestic villain, whose envy drives Gildong out of his home.
“That concubine's boy grows too powerful. He must never live to threaten my place in the household.”
In the story
Contains spoilers.
Choran and Lady Yu watch Gildong train from the shadows, and Choran says they must eliminate him before his power grows. Lady Yu is more dismissive. Choran then secretly meets the shaman Grandmother Ma and hires the assassin Teukjae to strike while Gildong sleeps in the outer annex.
The plot fails. Gildong turns into mist, overpowers the killer, and makes him confess that Choran paid him in gold. Gildong decides to leave the house. Choran is not shown again in the outline.
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