The clientele consisted of workers, merchants, artisans, ferrymen and high-school students. St. Christopher is a widely popular saint, especially revered by athletes, mariners, ferrymen, and travelers. Hakka is the new President of the Ferrymen River Department in WFO. Innkeepers, gisaengs, entertainers, gravediggers, bark peelers, basket makers, shamans and ferrymen were also cheonmin people. At one time it was leased to the ferrymen. It was claimed that drunk ferrymen encouraged the overloading. As god of ferrymen, he gained the title Nemty, meaning "(one who) travels". He ran the ferry (probably hiring ferrymen) and a tavern in the ferry house. Two ex-convicts, working as ferrymen, and the narrator sit by the wood-fire at night. When the tide was in, ferrymen would charge a groat or two.