In the past in Korea, there were two obviously different worlds according to roles portrayed by men and women respectively. Two different worlds were clearly divided by the wall surrounded around the houses; the world outside the house was put under a responsibility as well as an authority taken by men, while the world inside of the house was put under women’s. Women who asked about something happened in the world outside of the house were supposed to get reproached as saying “How on earth can a humble female ask about something outside the house, which should completely belong to the husband.” On the contrary, when a man was to ask about something inside the house, he should stand a telling-off that how he could achieve a great work with small scaled view focusing on trifling and petty affairs, which must be handled by the wife. Even women weren’t allowed to go out of the house without wearing a long hood on their heads. The long hood could be, of course, interpreted as a positive tool to protect women from other undesirable happenings which could be made by males in the extremely patriarchal society, but in the truest sense, it was a negative tradition that made women not to normally communicate with the world outside the house. However, almost everything in the world inside the house belonged to women. Women were called the master inside the house and kept the key to storerooms where all foodstuffs and valuable things were stocked. Not only authorities in the world inside the house but also accountabilities were so enormous and if the children could achieve fame and prestige or not definitely lay on the head of women. Mencius moved three-times to find a location that was felt suitable for his education was decided by his mother, not his father. Accordingly, if children didn’t meet the expectation father has, blame for it was placed on mother as saying that what on earth she had trained the children to be. The roles and responsibilities women traditionally had taken as aforementioned have been distorted to a negative direction with Confucianism introduced into in a full scale. Marriage was not the positive execution of their responsibilities or the affirmative exercise of their authorities by women, but rather a start falling into the life’s tragedies sugarcoated with the traditional name of living with their in-laws. Women suffered from constant hunger and sleep deprivation, and couldn’t help sweating their guts out everyday. In the beginning of their marriage, they could bear hardships imposed on them by resorting to love form their husband who took care of them so much, but with the passage of time that they had no enough time to make or dress themselves up in the wake of poor sleep, their husband started getting his eye on other woman wearing heavy and even tacky makeup. In spite of infidelities by their husband, women were not allowed to complain about it and couldn’t help but bite the bullet on rebukes unilaterally made by in-laws that his cheating on them was attributed to them, which was felt like a cutting into their flesh. Nevertheless, they couldn’t spit it out at all what they had in their mind. Their stress could be relived a little bit when they sometimes went to washing places by a brook with other women. Their resentment came out of their mind and flew down with the water of brook, through chitchatting with other women who had faced the same situation and often, with a laundry bat, beating the laundries to vent their anger on their mother-in-law who had ill-treated them most harshly. However, they had a limit to get rid of entire their stress by doing that and felt so bitterly resent being treat like in child repressing their anger. Consequently, what they did was a cleanup, which was the best method to get back at their stressors while doing their naturally assigned chore. With saying as “Hey, mother-in-law, father-in-law! Please get out of here for cleaning up”, “Honey, please get up!”, they could make a sudden attack into the peaceful spaces taken their stressors, and express their emotional sentiments like angers, stresses, and furors suppressed in their mind to date, by overly actions in dusting, sweeping, mopping and hitting violently the beddings, with an intention to have their stressors, in-laws and husband know what they were feeling. Women were supposed to generally spend their most of time to work submissively and passively following directions or orders by their stressors, but the time for cleanup was only chance they could give orders to them reversely under the pretense of working necessary chore, making a situation turned in their favor. In addition to this, they could feel refreshed to see the cleaned and organized environment after their labor, through which they could feel their presence in the world. Even though their physical labor got worse by doing cleanup, their metal relief from it could offset it. Like mentioned above cleanup done by Korean women is a high-souled work that purify their souls through performing the physical penance. Up to now, this tradition hasn’t changed much. Wives still do the cleanups when they have are somewhat dissatisfied with other people and can’t give vent to their emotions easily. When they started doing that after informing their family of it, the cause of their stresses could come from other people rather than family, but in the case when the root cause of their stresses is from family members, they start doing it without notice, and particularly when their husband and children are gluing their eyes on TV for their favorite show. Cleanup by wives certainly reflects the psychology of penance, which is an infliction of torture on themselves in order to get a mental peace at least. Through the hard time of labor, they don’t remove dusts from the house, but remove their stress from their mind; they don’t get rid of stains on the floor, but get rid of grudge against somebody; they don’t throw away garbage from the house, but throw away their agonies from their inner mind; they want to bid goodbye to their emotional discomfort loaded on their mind over the last some time. And, they feel the sense of presence about themselves by seeing the result of their efforts, building their self-esteem and, above all, have the self-consolation that they have sent an implicit message to their family members. Now, husband and children have to stop right away whatever they have been doing right after the wife or the mother begins to clean up all of sudden. That is a clear sign that they have received the message from his wife and their mother. After that, what they should do is to respond more actively with a leveled up tone of words, which can be a right trial to neutralize the depressed emotion that the wife has. “Hello, guys, our beloved mother is about to clean up the house. Let’s help her to make our home clean together!” is the saying to children in a denotation, but the substantial feedback to the wife in a connotation that ‘’we got your message well’’. The husband should have the children equipped with cleaning tools, and all of them should start cleaning at the next spot out of the regular route of wife’s cleanup. In general, wives have the regular route in their cleanup, from a certain spot to another one. Knowing this route in advance, the husband should have himself and the kids positioned to clean at the next spot after the current spot where the wife is cleaning now. When the wife completed cleaning the current spot, she will move to the place the husband and the children were cleaning. This move shortened physically by the wife can shorten the mental distance she has had before this cleanup. Even if the wife can say, “Get away! Don’t disturb me!”, she doesn’t dislike her husband, whom she expects has got her right message. “You are so excellent! You have done this difficult cleanup by yourself up to now. Where are we supposed to clean next? Tell us and we’ll do it right away!” This kind of question is not a question requiring answers from the wife. It’s just an another confirmation that he has got her message. “Hello, guys, Let’s move on there. Our lovely mom will do her chores here!” The husband says to the kids and move to the next area. When the wife comes to the spot again following her regular route, the husband asks, “Why do you follow us again? Are you cleaning or are you chasing us?” As this cleanup has been completed, a lot of stress the wife has had will be washed out. She will be thankful for family’s efforts for cheering her up and for by receiving the right message from her. Cleanup by wives doesn’t require us to share the backbreaking labor. It contains a crystal clear message in it and we have to understand it above all. Now, we must make our wife end her penance. Penance goes well with reclusive and hermitic disciplinants who try to achieve spiritual enlightenment alone deep in the mountains. Our wife is not that kind of disciplinant.