“We have to sacrifice a girl to a monster python Imugi every year. This year, my daughter has to be sacrificed. What should I do with that poor girl?”

‘Nonsense! How can you give a precious human life as a sacrifice to such an evil monster? I will get rid of the monster.’

“How could I let this terrible affair happen, as a man who learned military arts for the sake of the nation and the people?”

Because of his justified anger, the young man dived into the water where the monster Imugi lived, although the villagers stopped him from fighting the monster. In this coastal village, they heard the sound of the young man fighting the monster python all night. Finally, they could hear the death cries of the monster spreading far from the sea and the roar of a young man as if a mountain was collapsing. The sound of fighting gradually subsided and the east dawned bright.

On the beach, the young man was covered in blood, and in the blood-stained sea, the dead body of the monster python Imugi floated back and forth along the shore. The villagers brought the young man back to the village and did a lot for him. After sleeping for quite some time, the young man woke up.

“Thanks to your prayers, I was able to defeat the monster. Thank you!”

‘No, not you but I should express gratitude. Thanks to you, our daughter saved her life and your village regained peace. I don't know how to express my gratitude for this.”

‘I would like to hold a village feast for you with delicious food.’

All the villagers clapped their hands after the chief's speech.

“No, thank you very much. I have to go now. I have a mission to do. Once I've done that, I'll be back in a hundred days. Then we can have a village party.”

After saying that, he told the chief shyly.

‘I hope it can be a wedding feast for me and your daughter. Please allow me.”

The chief and the villagers were all happy and shouted Hurrah. The chief's daughter was so happy that her cheeks blushed like a peach blossom.

Oh, alas!

How could this unfortunate thing happen?

After the young man left, the chief's daughter contracted an unknown illness. They called a famous doctor and prescribed all kinds of medicine, but it did not work.

“Oh, I'd love to see him again...”

Ten days before the day the young man promised to return, the chief's daughter died. On the hundredth day of his appointment, the young man returned, carrying the most beautiful floral palanquin in the world, decorated with colourful flowers. The young man was the prince of the land.

The great prince who was known to the villagers only by rumours came back to marry the chief's daughter as he promised in 100 days after his departure. The prince heard the sad news from the chief and wept deeply. And went to the grave where his fiancée was sleeping. The young man was so deeply sad that he held the grave and wept sadly. Next to the grave grew two trees. The young man cherished the two trees and took them to the palace and planted them. In early summer, beautiful red flowers bloomed on the tree. The flower bloomed for a hundred days without wilting.

“I understand now how longingly you have been waiting for me for a hundred days.”

“I will call this tree Baegilhong ‘100-day red tree’. And I will consider this red flower as a sign of our love, our unchanging love.”

This flower tree that blooms red for 100 days in the hot summer means ‘unchanging love’.