Myung Gye-nam

The students from a luxurious residential neighborhood, the apartment complexes where the middle class resides, and the underdeveloped residential street all go to the same school and learn in the same classroom. The new semester begins, and Da In, a naïve girl, transfers to school from the countryside. Although she's raised by a single mom, she's a very cheerful literary girl. Due to her pure mindedness, she's bullied by her classmates in the beginning, but Se Chan, a boy from a luxurious town, helps her. Se Chan used to be a bully, but he now hates bullying because of his painful memory. He is confused about whether he helped Da In because he liked her or just hated bullying. The story of how Da In survives in the school where the strata exists in her own cheerful way begins.

In the late 19th century Catholicism was gaining a foothold on Jeju island, much to the horror of the Confucian community, who were seeing their influence diminishing as well as getting increased taxes from Catholic-friendly government officers. The conflict became a religious war that resulted in a rebel Confucian army massacring hundreds of Christians in little more than a matter of days. The Uprising details the events leading up to the assault, focusing on the story of Yi Jae-su, the young man destined to become the leader of the rebel army.