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In a small restaurant in feudal Korea, a be-spectacled writer is escorted to a table in the upstairs loft by a large servant who cautions him on the proper tone to use with his master. When the master joins them it is hinted that he is a gangster who has sought out this writer in particular to record his story. As the story begins, we learn that the 'master' was once himself a servant named Bang Ja-jeon (Bangja), who served the aristocratic scholar Lee Myong-ryong (Master Lee/Mong).
Throught the movie, the scene switches between the 'present' Bang providing the narration, and the flashback events of his past.
In his capacity as a servant, Bangja shares his rooms with Mr. Ma, a notorious womanizer and self-stylized Lothario. Bang escorts his Master (Mong) to an evening out at the local pleasure house, where they are witness to a performance by the madam's daughter Chunhyang. While trying to arrange a meeting between Chunhyang and his rather clumsy and socially awkward master, Bang defends Mong from a larger, disgruntled patron and inadvertently impresses both Chunhyang and her maidservant Hyangdan. Mr. Ma begins to coach the simple, honest Bangja in the ways of seducing women, which Bang uses to secure a picnic outing for Mong with Chunhyang through Hyangdan. During the excursion, Bangja so astounds the ladies by cooking meat to perfection, recovering Chunhyang's slipper from the waterfall pool, and carrying her on his back after she injured her ankle, that a love triangle rapidly begins to form between the two women and Bangja, much to the consternation of Mong, though he boasts that he is slowly luring Chunhyang to him by playing hard to get.
While his master continues to study, Bangja attempts to court Chunhyang. Mr. Ma continues to provide instruction to Bangja, assuaging his concerns when he thinks his master may have slept with her, and pushing him to seize upon spending the night with her before his master can. Though Bangja's seduction is clumsy and his approach very tentative, Chunhyang begins to fall for him and makes love to him on several occasions. Due to his low social-standing, however, she seeks to marry Mong and enlists Bangja's help in order to make this plan a reality...
The Servant
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