A model of parents-children confliction was considered in this essay through an investigation into the stories of ‘Daughter Leaving Home.’ Starting with , a legend of the Baikal region, the semantic context of the confliction and relief involved in father-daughter relation was considered; and, in relation to this, the semantic structure of the father-daughter relation in Korean stories was elucidated.
The basic frame of the description of “Baikal and Angara” is the confliction between ‘a father who wants to hold his child’ and ‘a daughter who wants to leave her father to go her own way of life.’ Such a confliction results in the tragedy of the daughter\'s death, because of the fathers indignation and government with punishment. However, the daughter does not give way even after death, but in tear flows back to her lover. This story was inspired by the joining of a river (Angara), which flows out of a lake (Vaikal), with another river (Yenisey), eventually to flow together into sea (Antarctic Sea). Thus, using the order of universe and nature as a medium, it reveals the principle of father-daughter relation in a typical way. It shows the fact that it is of destiny and rational for a daughter to leave her father for the wide world (sea), and that it is not only the way of realizing her own life but also the way of giving relief to her father. To the father Baikal, it was a relief that Angara flew out of himself for the wide world, which was symbolized by sea, and so was able to become a vital being.
Such a typical semantic structure is clearly found in Korean stories. Such characters as the princess Pyeonggang and the youngest daughter Gameunjang Aegi, who had been separated from home because of disobedience to father, were, by leaving home, eventually able to conduct their own lives and make their egoistic parents come back to sense, thereby leading to rational destiny and peace. In short, such stories are typical illustrations of the fact that the freedom and independence from parents is a rational principle of the world.