This tale has a lot of versions.
Theme: The Tale of the Woodcutter and the Tiger is a Korean Folklore which shows character of Korean people, courage and wit and filial piety. The story was all about the woodcutter and the tiger.
Conflict: The woodcutter meet a terrible tiger in the woods, ready to eat him up for lunch.
Setting/Time/Place:
It takes place in the woods where the woodcutter outwits the tiger for letting him believe that he was his long lost brother they've been looking for who used to be human. Because of the belief of being a human before, the tiger shows his dutifulness as a son by bringing gifts and dowry to the woodcutter's mother's grave.