Socheon-guk is the hunter-god of the Songdang district and the first husband of the goddess Baekjut. Native to the volcanic uplands, he embodies the older hunting economy of Jeju: when his farming wife sets him to the plough, his prodigious appetite leads him to eat the ox that drew it, whereupon he abandons the field and returns to the hunt. The couple's estrangement, born of this clash between hunting and agriculture, is a defining episode of the Songdang bon-puri. Through their many children, who become the guardian deities of villages across the island, Socheon-guk is honoured alongside Baekjut as a founding ancestor of Jeju's local god-cults.