Lee Gi yeong`s `Gohyang` is considered a masterpiece of realism novel produced by KAPF in the 1930s. However, if only the typicality of realism novel theories is brought into focus, we cannot understand the reality of `Gohyang` properly. This study reexamined `Gohyang`, which has been studied based on realism theories, from the aspect of vulgarity. Lee Gi-yeong is politically a hardliner of KAPF. Steadily from the beginning, however, his works show vulgarity on the subject of love affair or illicit love. This can be connected to the fact that, different from other KAPF writers and critics, Lee Gi-yeong adopted Kim Gi-jin`s theory of vulgar novels positively. In the narrative structure of `Gohyang`, the motif of love triangle or the secret of birth is important. The achievement of `Gohyang` was attained because it stood on the boundary between serious novels and vulgar novels. The reason that this study was focused on love triangle or the secret of birth is that we can see other sides of `Gohyang`, which can hardly be captured when the novel is read and evaluated based on realism theories. What should be emphasized in reading novels is not the application of theories or background knowledge but the feeling arising from the reading of the novels with the reader`s eye. This study called it `actual feeling.` This should be emphasized further in literature appreciation in middle and high school.