In Korea, we have Kongji and Patzzi story as our Cinderella story. Also, Japan, China, and Vietnam have the similar story. Even in ancient world, there was a transmission of information across continents. However, it was delivered through mouth to mouth of oral storytellers. Accordingly, the local storytellers sometimes might have improvised part of the original story although the original story cherishes the main theme.
You can read the Korean version of Cinderella story:
Once upon a time, there was a beautiful girl named Kongji. Her mother died when Kongji was 100 days old. She grew up with her father. The man remarried again when Kongji was fourteen years old. Kongji's stepmother was a cruel widow who had a daughter named Patzzi. Her father died eventually. Since then, the stepmother and Patzzi have treated Kongji very unfairly. They starved her, dressed her in rags and forced her to do all the dirtiest works in the house.
One day, the stepmother forced Kongji to plow a field with a wooden hoe. The hoe soon broke, leaving Kongji in tears, for fear that her step-mother would beat her again. A cow appeared and comforted her. He plowed the field in her place, and sent Kongji home with a basket of apples, a gift from the cow. Her stepmother accused her of stealing the apples and gave the entire basket to Patzzi. And she refused to give Kongji her supper.
The next day, the stepmother gave Kongji enormous pot with a hole in the bottom. She has to fill it with water before she and Patzzi return home from town. Kongji kept bringing baskets of water but the pot was never filled. The water leaks out from the hole. A turtle appeared and blocked the hole for her. With his help, Kongji filled the pot with water. The stepmother was even angrier. She spanked Kongji black and blue.
After a time, the prince announced that he is looking for a wife. A dance will be given in his honor, to which every maiden must attend. Kongji and Patzzi are invited. The stepmother was hopeful that Patzzi would be the lucky one but was afraid that Kongji would spoil her own daughter's chance. Before they left, the stepmother gave Kongji a huge sack of rice to hull. She must accomplish it before they return from the dance. Kongji asked for help from the heavens, and a flock of sparrows appeared and hulled the rice. A fairy came down from heaven and dressed Kongji in a beautiful gown and a delicate pair of colorful shoes. She was transported to the palace by four men in a grand palanquin. Kongji hurried towards the dance.
Everyone admired her because of her beauty. The prince went to her to ask her name. But when Kongji saw her stepmother and stepsister among the guests, she fled with terror. Patzzi remarked to her mother that the strange girl looks like her Kongji. As Kongji crossed a bridge, she tripped. One of her shoes fell into the stream. The prince found the shoe and vowed to marry the owner of the shoe. Servants tried the shoe on every woman in the land until they arrived in Kongji's village. It fits no one, only Kongji. She was the last to try the shoe. Then she produced her clothes and the other pair of her shoes. The prince and Kongji got married.
Patzzi was jealous of Kongji's marriage and drowned her in a river. Patzzi disguised herself as Kongji to live with the prince. Kongji's spirit haunted anyone in the river. A brave man confronted her ghost and she told him everything. The man reported this to the prince, and the prince went into the river. Instead of a dead body, he retrieved a golden lotus. He kissed the lotus and it was changed back into Kongji.
The prince sentenced Patzzi to death and Kongji's stepmother fell in a faint from which she never awoke.
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