Onggojip is not merely "fierce stubbornness" — the whole word comes straight from the name of a character in a story. He is the protagonist of Onggojip-jeon, once one of the twelve pansori repertoires and later handed down as a novel. To keep its rhythm, the tale piles up words beginning with "Ong": in the village of Ongdang in Ongjin valley, where there is an Ongdal well and an Ong pond, there lived a man whose surname was Ong and whose given name was Gojip ("stubbornness"). This Onggojip was wealthy yet let his own mother go hungry, beat the monk who came begging for alms, and was miserly and utterly arrogant. A Taoist sage, unable to bear it any longer, fashioned a fake Onggojip out of straw and sent him in. After a great uproar in which the real and the fake each insisted he was the true master — the jin-ga jaengju (眞假爭主, "the real and the false fight over who is master") — the real Onggojip is driven out of his own house and only repents after a stretch of hardship. The name of this incorrigible man became a common noun outright, and "onggojip" came to mean a bullheaded stubbornness that simply will not bend.