[1] As told in popular folktales (versions of which exist in many different regions) she married a commoner, On Dal.

[2] According to legend, when Pyeonggang was a little girl and wouldn't stop crying, her father, King Pyeongwan, would jokingly threaten to marry her to Ondal, a beggar boy of low class known as a fool.

[3] When Pyeonggang was 16, her father wanted her to marry a son of the noble Go family.

[3] Thereupon, she left the palace and went to the house where Ondal lived with his mother, and insisted upon marrying him.

[5] They were extremely happy together, and Pyeonggang used her gold to help the family, and taught her husband many useful skills, such as how to select a horse.