Brave Hong Gil-Dong/the Man Who Bought the Shade of a Tree (Korean Folk Tales for Children, Vol 8)

Vol. 8 in the 10 vol. set: Korean Folktales for Children. Two folktales are included in this one bilingual (English/Korean) volume. The first story is about Brave Hong Kil-dong, a commoner, who becomes a chivalrous and well-educated leader of a band of men and works for the cause of justice - a Korean Robin Hood. A greedy man makes a young man pay money for a tree's shade. But he soon learns the shade is much more valuable than the greedy man had ever imagined.