MapleStory Korean Folk Town Guide: Quests, Stories, and Hidden Secrets

메이플스토리의 한국 민속촌은 독특한 퀘스트와 스토리라인으로 게임 플레이와 몰입감을 높여줍니다.

### 메이플스토리 아랫마을: 한국 전래동화가 숨쉬는 퀘스트 여정
* 🗺️ **메이플스토리 루디브리엄과 아쿠아로드를 잇는 아랫마을(한국 전래 마을)**은 2005년 12월 21일 1.2.13 패치로 추가된 독특한 지역입니다.
* ⏰ 루디브리엄의 시간왜곡 설정을 활용, 시간 가속과 역행 개념으로 구현되었으며, 한국 전래 동화를 테마로 한 퀘스트들이 특징입니다.
* 📜 **헬리오스 타워**의 도서관 관리인 위즈는 차원의 균열로 흩어진 이야기책들을 정리해달라고 요청하며, 플레이어는 여러 전래 동화 퀘스트를 진행하게 됩니다.
* 🌱 퀘스트들은 서로 연관되어 있으며,  '심청전'을 제외한 대부분은 37레벨 이상부터 진행 가능, '심청전'은 300가마니 쌀 획득 퀘스트로 효율이 낮아 건너뛰는 것이 좋습니다.
* 👦👧 '콩쥐 팥쥐' 퀘스트는 팥쥐의 괴롭힘에서 콩쥐를 구하는 내용으로, 냄비 구입, 쑥 12개 채집, 강철 호미 획득 등 다양한 과정을 거칩니다.  **강철 호미 획득에는 38의 회피율을 가진 블린 몬스터를 처치해야 하며, 파티 플레이가 권장됩니다.**
* 🍚 '흥부와 놀부' 퀘스트는 제비가 맡긴 마법 씨앗을 심어 흥부 또는 놀부의 호박을 선택하는 것으로, 선택에 따라 보상이 달라집니다.  **50레벨 신발을 보상으로 얻을 수 있습니다.**
* 🌕 '해님과 달님' 퀘스트는 호랑이를 떨어뜨리기 위해 밧줄에 기름을 바르는 내용으로,  **50레벨, 3800HP, 회피율 40인 호도리 사냥이 필요해 고레벨 유저에게도 어려움을 선사합니다.**
* 👹 60레벨부터는 '검은 산 도깨비' 퀘스트가 있으며,  **도깨비들을 소환해 처치하고 보상으로 도깨비 모자, 방망이, 망토 중 하나를 선택할 수 있습니다.**  도깨비 망토는 +5 STR로 전사와 궁수에게 인기가 많습니다.

When I first heard as a kid that Ludibrium and Aqua Road were connected, I told my friend to stop lying.

Because I had been to the far right end of Aqua Road myself, and I saw that there was nothing there.

However, on December 21, 2005, with client patch 1.2.13, the town connecting Ludibrium and Aquarium,

"Korean Folk Town," actually appeared. Due to the time distortion in Ludibrium, the left side of Ludus Lake experienced time acceleration,

and the right side experienced time reversal, connecting to Korean Folk Town with this concept, giving the developers a chance to release a unique map exclusive to Korea.

When Ludibrium was first released, Helios Tower was just hinted at and not fully implemented,

Unlike Eos Tower, Helios Tower had only three floors: 100, 99, and 2, indicating...

how much effort the developers put into making Eos Tower, and how roughly Helios Tower was constructed.

Yet, in overseas servers, because all references in Korean Folk Town were Korean, translation was difficult,

so for a while, they only implemented up to Helios Tower and left Korean Folk Town as dummy data for a long time.

People would even break into this data and invite friends to see the untranslated map, untranslated monsters, and untranslated items just for fun.

Anyway, we should visit the original Korean Folk Town, regardless of the translation. Taking the elevator from the 99th floor, past the 2nd floor, to the 1st floor of Helios Tower,

you reach the library managed by Wiz the Librarian. Wiz the Librarian explains that the books in the library are in disarray due to a dimensional rift,

and asks the player to go down to Korean Folk Town to intervene in the tangled stories and "normalize" them.

There are several stories we can 'normalize,' starting with the level 35 quest, "Retrieving the Storybook: Mr. Shim Chung."

And excluding the newly added Arabian Nights quest with the arrival of Ariant, the others are at least level 37 quests.

But, as I will mention later, the Shim Chung quest is actually unnecessary to complete, so coming here at level 37 to complete the quests makes it a stable leveling area.

Except for the Shim Chung quest, the quests are very interconnected, so I recommend completing all of them.

I'll briefly introduce each quest, starting with the Shim Chung quest. It's a quest related to 300 sacks of rice for an offering.

You just have to hunt Retz and collect the offering rice; 300 sacks of state-held rice.

How shameless! Mr. Shim, from my experience in MapleLand, without any EXP coupons or party quests...

it takes 3 days to reach level 35 by hunting alone, so get it yourself. It's not worth completing. I'll pass.

This is the Kong Ji and Pat Ji quest. (Retrieving the Storybook: Kong Ji and Pat Ji)

Pat Ji and her mother keep bullying Kong Ji, and you need to help her.

First, you need a pot. Apparently, Kong Ji has no money, so she asks you to buy a pot from Grandma Yeon.

However, to buy a pot from Grandma Yeon, you first need to win her favor. There is a boat above the "Mushroom Coral Hill" in Aquarium,

and if you go up, you'll see Tae Gong, who came by boat from Korean Folk Town.

He is Grandma Yeon's husband, and you need to get shrimp meat for him to give to his wife.

You can buy a new pot by clearing this quest. Next, you need to collect 12 artemisia from Black Mountain.

Just move one map over and hit the artemisia on the ground to collect 12 items.

The drop rate is... not great, they say. Oh dear... why so many requests! This time, you need to hunt a monster called "Blin" and get a Steel Hoe.

Blin appears in the "Top of Black Mountain", and Blin has two phases: Blin and Morphed Blin.

This monster has an avoidability of 38, so you need an accuracy of 140 to defeat it.

A level 37 Warrior or Bandit can't defeat it alone. So you have no choice but to ask a passerby for help.

Once you get the Steel Hoe, you'll receive the storybook and clear the Kong Ji and Pat Ji quest.

Take the storybook to Wiz the Librarian, and you'll receive an additional 8000 EXP and 30 Melting Cheese.

You can earn about 60-70k experience points from the Kong Ji and Pat Ji quest line alone. That's pretty good.

After completing the Kong Ji and Pat Ji quest, you can make 5 Rice Wine per day through Kong Ji.

This is used in subsequent quests. Next is The Brotherly Love quest. Well... everyone probably knows this, but to explain,

it looks like a brother's rice... something like this? The player carries rice back and forth instead of each brother,

and it ends with ‘Oh my! Chil Nam (Chil Sung) brought the rice! Haha!’

It's done after two or three trips between town, earning 1k experience points each round trip,

and you get quite a bit of experience points by obtaining and returning the storybook. After the quest, you can make 1 Roasted Pork per day through Chil Sung,

and you can make 2 Buckwheat Pastes through Chil Nam. These are also used in subsequent quests.

Next is The Swallow’s Lost Magic Seed. (Hongbu and Nolbu quest) The Swallow asks you to find the lost Magic Seed.

Just go one portal to the right to complete the quest. The Swallow asks you to catch the "Moon Bunny" and retrieve the Magic Seed.

Although the level requirement of the quest is 37, the Moon Bunny is level 45, has 2600 HP, and gives 110 EXP, making it quite strong,

and it will chase you until it dies, which is quite annoying. The Magic Seed drops quickly, so just bring one back,

and the Swallow will give you the seed, saying "I was supposed to give this to either Hongbu or Nolbu, but I forgot, so you decide."

It's an interesting twist, letting the player decide the story's outcome. Skipping the sentiment, here's the reward:

a level 50 pair of shoes. Hongbu's are for Warriors and Rogues; Nolbu's are for Magicians, Archers, and Pirates.

After choosing either Hongbu or Nolbu, plant the seed on the roof, and a gourd appears. It looks cute.

When you break it open, Hongbu's gourd contains a Box of Jewelry, while Nolbu's gourd contains a Warrant of Attachment, and the quest ends.

Next is The Kids That Became the Sun and the Moon. (Haenim and Dalnim quest)

You know this story, right? You need to grease the rope to drop the tiger, but you need to gather the ingredients: 20 Tough Ropes and 1 Slippery Oil.

You can get the Slippery Oil by hunting Cico in Aqua Road, but the problem is the Tough Rope.

You need to hunt Hodori to get the rope... but there's a problem. Hodori is level 50, has 3800 HP, and gives 140 EXP.

And it has an avoidability of 40. That's the problem. This is the same as Horntail's avoidability, so regular classes can't even hit it.

Even Bandits, with a base passive of 20 accuracy, often miss. As you see, Hogul casts slow on players, which is annoying,

but you'll see players running away because Hodori appears while fighting Hogul. This shows how difficult it is to defeat,

And there's no special reward for completing this, so you can skip this quest if it's too challenging.

That's all for the storybook quests up to level 37. From now on, the level requirements increase.

When you reach level 45, you can do the "The Story of Axes" quest (Golden Axe, Silver Axe quest).

When you go deep into the map called "A Small Well," there's a God of Mountains who has a bump from being hit by an axe thrown by a Tree Cutter. LOL

It is cute to imagine that the bump was from being hit by an axe thrown by a Tree Cutter.

The God of Mountains says if you hunt "Dark Axe Stump" and bring the rare "Axe" that drops,

he will examine it to see if it's the "Tree Cutter's Steel Axe." But the probability of getting the Tree Cutter's Steel Axe is very low.

You shouldn't just take an Axe from a nearby Dark Axe Stump and carry it. It's better for your mental health to gather about 30 Axes at once before going.

These are the types of axes that appear, and among them, the highlight is... The Tree Cutter's Steel Axe.

When you see this, you'll feel like your jaw is dropping to the ground. You'll want to find the person who designed this. LOL

When I was a kid, I got so annoyed with this Tree Cutter's Steel Axe that I just gathered Axes in Perion with an alt, dropped them in the Free Market, and then picked them up with my main.

Anyway, the result is the "Tree Cutter's Steel Axe," which you give to the Tree Cutter in Tiger Forest 2 to complete the quest.

Whether the Tree Cutter's Iron Axe is obtained quickly or you gather many "Axe" items determines if the rewards are great or terrible for this quest.

And now, the much-anticipated "Goblin at Black Mountain" quest available at level 60.

Chumji in the town gives you this quest, asking you to defeat the King Goblin that appeared in the mountain behind the town.

Each King Goblin likes roasted pork, buckwheat paste, and rice wine, and these can be used as bait.

These are items we could get earlier by helping Chil Sung, Chil Nam, and Kong Ji.

After giving them 5 pounders, 4 tiger stamps, and 3 three-tailed foxtails (with 1,000 mesos),

you return to Chumji, who then tells you to defeat each King Goblin and bring back items.

You need to use the materials you prepared to summon each King Goblin: buckwheat paste inside a tree hole,

rice wine in front of a stone lantern, and roasted pork in front of a stack of rocks to spawn each goblin.

Each King Goblin is level 70, has 25,000 HP, and gives 400 EXP.

I don’t know their drop rates, but since they’re bosses, they seem to drop some rare scrolls,

so it might be worth coming back occasionally for the items. I think it might be surprisingly good.

So, after defeating each King Goblin and collecting the quest items, you can return and choose one of the items the King Goblins dropped as a reward.

Wow, getting a reward from the boss you defeated feels truly RPG-like. Here are the options for each item:

The Goblin Cap was completely excluded because of the Zakum Helmet. The Goblin Bat is a blunt weapon, so it’s not useful, but popular for its look,

and these things... they have no magic power but have +5 INT, probably for HP washing.

Very sneaky. Some people did get them for that purpose. The Goblin Cape has +5 STR by default,

so Warriors and Archers went crazy for it. With five 60% scrolls, it can reach +15 STR! Amazing.

You can also receive a storybook and get additional rewards by returning it to Wiz. That's the quest related to storybooks in Korean Folk Town.

Since Wiz doesn't give extra rewards for collecting all the storybooks, just choose the ones you like and complete those.

In Korean Folk Town, besides these "main quests," there are also quests connected to other areas,

and several quests involving interactions with the Korean Folk Town NPCs. One of those is the Area Boss quest called "Legends of Hometown".

"Chil Sung" says that "Chil Nam" seems to be possessed by a fox and asks you to check on him.

Chil Nam just says "The fox..." without saying anything else. Chil Sung suggests that if it's a fox, you might find clues through the Samiho in Black Mountain.

He asks you to hunt the Samiho and find clues. The Samiho is level 56, has 4500 HP, and 185 EXP, but

the problem is it casts a "Curse" debuff. If you get hit by this debuff, your EXP is halved, making the monster's stats and spawn rate attractive, but

if you can't kill it with a single attack, it's not worth hunting. After hunting the Samiho and getting the Small Clue, ask the God of Mountains,

who confirms it's the work of the Nine-Tailed Fox and says to ask the King Goblins you defeated earlier.

전래동화를 담은 메이플, 『아랫마을』

메이플홀릭

루디브리엄과 아쿠아로드의 연결과 한국 전래 동화 마을의 등장 배경

어린 시절 루디브리엄과 아쿠아로드의 연결에 대한 이야기를 듣고 거짓말이라고 생각했던 경험

2005년 12월 21일, 1.2.13 클라이언트 패치를 통해 한국 전래 동화 마을이 등장

루디브리엄의 시간 왜곡 설정을 활용한 한국 전래 동화 마을과의 연결 개념 설명

해피투스 타워의 부실한 구현과 이오스 타워와의 대조

해외 서버에서 한국 전래 동화 마을의 번역 어려움으로 인한 미구현 및 더미 데이터 존재

한국 전래 동화 마을 퀘스트 개요 및 심청전 퀘스트 상세 설명

도서관 관리자 위즈가 차원 균열로 인해 혼란스러워진 이야기들을 정리해달라는 요청

레벨 35부터 시작하는 '이야기책 찾기: 심청전' 퀘스트 소개 및 불필요성 언급

심청전 퀘스트는 300자루의 쌀을 모아야 하는 퀘스트로, 레벨 35 달성에 3일이 소요되므로 비효율적이라고 언급

콩쥐 팥쥐 퀘스트: 콩쥐를 돕는 내용으로, 냄비 구입, 쑥 12개 수집, 쇠 괭이 획득 등의 과정을 거침

다른 전래 동화 퀘스트 상세 설명 및 보상

콩쥐 팥쥐 퀘스트 완료 후 막걸리 제작 및 경험치 획득

흥부 놀부 퀘스트: 제비의 마법 씨앗 찾기, 달토끼 사냥, 씨앗 심기 등의 과정을 거치며, 보상으로 레벨 50 신발 획득

해님 달님 퀘스트: 호랑이를 떨어뜨리기 위한 기름칠, 밧줄 20개와 미끄러운 기름 1개 수집, 고난이도 몬스터 사냥 등의 어려움 언급

도끼 이야기 퀘스트: 산신령의 도끼 맞은 혹, 나무꾼의 강철 도끼 획득 난이도 언급

고레벨 퀘스트 및 지역 보스 퀘스트 '고향의 전설' 소개

레벨 60부터 가능한 '검은 산의 도깨비' 퀘스트: 막걸리, 굽는 돼지고기, 술을 미끼로 도깨비 소환 및 처치

지역 보스 퀘스트 '고향의 전설':칠성이 칠남이가 여우에게 빙의된 것 같다고 말하며, 퀘스트 시작

사미호 사냥을 통해 힌트를 얻고, 산신령과 도깨비 왕에게 도움을 요청하는 과정

구미호 처치 후 낡은 여우꼬리를 얻어 칠남이의 코를 간지럽혀 퀘스트 완료, 숨겨진 맵 '음침한 숲'과의 만남

한국 전래 동화 마을의 의의 및 마무리

이야기책을 중심으로 펼쳐지는 퀘스트들과 한국 전래 동화 마을의 중요성 강조

샤모스의 삶에 대한 책을 얻는 '창세기 스킬' 퀘스트 등 다른 퀘스트와의 연관성 언급

한국 전래 동화 마을의 글로벌 유저들 사이에서의 인기와 게임 내 몰입도 증가에 대한 언급

빅뱅 업데이트 이후 스토리 개편에 대한 언급 및 개인적인 의견