In the Cheonjiwang Bonpuri, Daebyeol won the rightful contest for rulership of the afterlife, establishing divine authority over Jeoseung and its courts.
Yeomra presides over Jeoseung as its supreme ruler, holding court in the underworld where he judges all souls brought before him by the Jeoseung Saja.
After Mun Doryeong's murder in the Segyeong Bonpuri, his soul descended to Jeoseung, where it was held among the dead until Jacheongbi braved the underworld's trials to bring him back to the world of the living.
Barigongju descended into Jeoseung, the land of the dead, crossing its perilous boundaries and serving years within its realm to obtain the healing water that would save her dying father.
Gangrim descended into Jeoseung on Yeomra's orders to capture the tyrant king Gwasyang, who had cheated death and thrown the underworld's order into disarray.
The Saengsabu, the Book of Life and Death recording every mortal's allotted span, is kept within Jeoseung where Yeomra and his clerks consult it to judge newly arrived souls.
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