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This study analyzes a TV drama, , and oral literature, , comparatively and understands the narrative storytelling aspects of TV dramas. and can be summarized as ‘a story of women’s fate and favorable change in fortune’. First of all, this author considered ordinary women. Dongbaek in and the third daughter in are ordinary women. The abilities and activities of those ordinary women are very special. The third daughter has decerning eye to figure her spouse and native gold while Dongbaek has plain and honest nature never trying to use feminine beauty. Second, this study found the contemporary meaning of either fate or ‘my own fortune’. The third daughter’s fate originated from uprightness. She got forced out from home for her forward answer, which tells us her personality is her fate. It is overcome as the third daughter gets married to a charcoal-burning guy and obtains native gold. The third daughter finally comes to exhibit her competence as she is warmly received by the mother of three sons and the last son. ‘Hospitability’ here means ‘unconditionally positive concern’. The positive circulation of fate originated like this and is handed down to Dongbaek. Dongbaek is self-unreliable and self-downing. After leaving home and meeting Hwang Yong-sik, however, she comes to exhibit her talent of honesty and genial nature and recovers love. Hwang Yong-sik is a charcoal-burning guy to Dongbaek. In their meeting, the union of people in Ongsan Market, especially the women, worked absolutely. Therefore, the third daughter and Dongbaek’s ‘fortune’ exists within the network of hospitability, solidarity, and the exhibition of abilities, and so on. Third, let’s consider the meaning of a favorable change in fortune. Here, we can find difference between the third daughter and Dongbaek. In the former, the favorable change in fortune is manifested with her achieving wealth honor with her husband and finding parents to support them, that is the overflow of social relationship. Meanwhile, the latter ends the life led by others, thereby reaching the birth of her own subject. Also, in , the favorable change in fortune is arranged within the mythical structure of confusion-pain-the recovery of order while in , it is put in aphoristic lines exchanged between Dongbaek and Yong-sik. Furthermore, the heart that Dongbaek reveals to Hyangmi and her mom also shows how those that have undergone agony sublimate that pain into fortune. It is ‘health in sickness’. In the linear view of the time, it seems impossible to reverse life that is overthrown so that it can be set and reset, but narrative storytelling grounded on the circulative view of the world functions in a way that makes it possible. This is a mythical time to give an answer to the ultimate question of human beings, ‘What motivates men to live?’, and it is the power of return.