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Called Garujigi Taryeong, it is the only Pansori out of the 7 Pansoris that is included into Shin Jae-Hyo's collection of songs. There is a verbal proof that it had been sung until the rule of the Japanese imperialism.
Byeongangsoitaryeong is a story of Byeongangsoi, a man of energy living in the southern part and of Ongnyeo, a lewd woman living in Hwanghaedo. Byeongangsoi and Ongnyeo were removed from their hometowns because they pursued only sexual love, but in the middle, they met and became a couple. In the beginning, they lived in a city, but Gang-Soi devoted himself to playing only and showed unreasonable jealousy so they went to Mt. Jiri.
In Mt. Jiri, Gang-soi was much given to play too. One day he cut a wooden sculpture of guardian deity, made a fire and then, died suddenly with no apparent cause. Ongnyeo suggested village men that she should live with the man who performed a funeral service for her husband so many men tried to make it, but all of them died or got laid up on the ground. However, a troupe of singing and dancing people, and Debdeuggi prayed to the ghosts with heart so the men's hips that were stuck to the ground were taken off and they performed a funeral service. In 1971, Park Dong-Jin restored it and sang.
[Byeongangsoiga] is known as a lewd song, but it used sex, which is very important in human life, as its direct material to express several problems with human life. Because of the descriptions of the life of the wanderers in the work and the strict self-protective sense of the ruling class that was symbolized as wooden sculptures of guardian deity, we can't say Byeongangsoiga talked about only sexual love.