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Human migrate in many different kind of ways. Most people choose to migrate to live a better life. However, many people are forced to leave their homes and move to other areas because of war or political oppression. Migration comes from a human instinct to seek peace, and migration allows human beings to realize their peace. Migration has attracted the attention of many researchers. And migration exits not only in modern fiction, but also in classic novels. During Japanese Invasion of Korea in 1592 and the end of Yuan Dynasty were very turbulent in the history of the two countries. The people who lived in that period suffered a lot. <Hong Gildong jeon> and < Water Margin> are novels about righteous thieves and these novels showed us the lives of the people who lived in that period vividly. These two novels are seeking idealism against the institutions of royal power and the irrationality of that day, and they are well represented in the theory of migration. Although the country and the social background of the two novels are different, migration has shared a common desire to reform the social stigma of the time. Although many scholars from Korea and China have conducted many comparative studies between <Hong Gildong jeon> and <Water Margin>, there is still no research on the migration process contained in the novel. Therefore, this paper aims to make a comparative study between <Hong Gildong jeon> and < Water Margin> focus on the migration theory. This study intends to analyze the process of Hong Gildong and Song Jiang’s fighting against the irrational social system and pursuing an Utopia in the society of their time to shed light on the miserable lives of the people of their time who are exposed in their migrant lives. And to show the real reason about why they had to live in pain.

Robin Hood's Band, Migration, Identity System, Oppression, Utopia