A Bull Driver is one of the representative paintings of Kim Tu Ryang, a realistic painter, who drew many paintings to reflect the social life of early 18^th century.

   The portrayal of the bull driver represents well his character of integrity and optimism through the description of the suntanned body tired out by hard work, disheveled hair, tightly closed lips, rising corners of the eyes, thick right arm placed on the head and left arm leaned over the grass.

   The representation of the driver sleeping soundly with his jacket untied and with his trousers string loosened moves anyone to laughter.

   Furthermore, the bull which is big enough to fill the middle of the picture seems to chew the cud quietly not to awake its master.

   The depiction of the lower part of a willow, the twigs nodding in the wind and the grass on which the bull driver sleeps vividly supports a frame of his life having a short break when grazing the bull.

   The Korean painting A Bull Driver is a great picture which truthfully and funnily describes the daily life of the diligent and naive peasants of that time.