`Han` is the emotion peculiar to the Koreans and Korean literature. It is initiated from a negative emotion―frustration and aggressive resentment(怨) driven to lamentation and resignation(嘆). Gradually it is transformed and sublimated to a positive emotion through the process of `Sagim`(삭임). Sagim` is the process of self reflection and sympathy(情), and also includes the process of self cultivation and wishfulness(願). Hester from The Scarlet Letter seems to pass this structure of Korean `Han`. She gets through the negative emotional process of the aggressive resentment and lamentation. Then she experiences the positive process of self reflection through her art of needle works and her daughter, Pearl. However, Hester`s self cultivation toward wishfulness is incited by Dimmesdale`s death and Pearl`s marriage instead of a period of self reflection. As a result, there presents a little difference between the Korean `Han` and Hester`s transformation.