Biography of Master Maewŏltang (Maewŏltang sŏnsaeng chŏn) / by Yun Ch'unnyŏn -- Account of a Chŏp'o Game at Manbok Temple (Manboksa chŏp'o ki) -- Biography of Scholar Yi Who Peered over the Wall (Yi-saeng -- kyujang chŏn) -- Travel Record of a Drunken Excursion to Pubyŏk Pavilion (Ch'wiyu pubyŏkchŏng ki) -- Gazetteer of the Southern Continent Yŏmbu (Namyŏmbuju chi) -- Report of [Scholar Han] Attending a Banquet in the Dragon Palace (Yonggung puyŏn rok) -- Written at the End of the First Collection [of Kŭmo sinhwa] (Sŏ kapchip-hu)
"One of the most important and celebrated works of premodern Korean prose fiction, Kŭmo sinhwa (New Tales of the Golden Turtle) is a collection of five tales of the strange artfully written in literary Chinese by Kim Sisŭp (1435-1493). Kim was a major intellectual and poet of the early Chosŏn dynasty (1392-1897), and this book is widely recognized as marking the beginning of classical fiction in Korea"--