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Behind the Scenes, Part 2
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S 1 : Ep 106 - 9/10/05
Compilation of the behind the scenes, NG's, Special Effects, interviews, and much more. -
Behind the Scenes, Part 1
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S 1 : Ep 105 - 9/9/05
Compilation of the behind the scenes, NG's, Special Effects, interviews, and much more. -
Episode 104
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S 1 : Ep 104 - 9/3/05
The news that Soon-shin locked up the emissary and went off to fight a battle stuns the royal court. The Westerners move to charge him with high treason, and Yu Sung-ryong turns in his resignation. Kwang-hae is frustrated and sad to see his father Sonjo forsake his two most faithful subjects. The Japanese acquire information that Soon-shin has directed all of his forces to Wekyo. It is hard to believe Soon-shin would make this move, but Wakizaka chooses Noryang with the swift-flowing current to get to Wekyo. Soon-shin's fleet waits in Noryang for the Japanese to pass through the channel. Once the first ship passes through, Soon-shin begins his attack. The enemy changes its course, but Soon-shin's fleet is right behind them. The enemy fleet retreats, but Wakizaka will not give up until Soon-shin is dead.moreless -
Episode 103
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S 1 : Ep 103 - 9/2/05
The Royal emissary demands that Soon-shin open up the retreat path for Konishi and his troops, but Soon-shin will not budge. Officers who had first opposed Soon-shin come around and unite vowing their loyalty once again. Konishi's messenger ship bearing request for aid slips through the tightly guarded waters. Soon aid will come, and Soon-shin must prepare for action. The Royal emissary warns him not to move his troops, but Soon-shin defies him and issues his order.The Royal emissary attempts to send a letter to the royal court recommending that Soon-shin be charged with treason, but the letter is intercepted by Yi Young-nam. Soon-shin puts the emissary in confinement and prepares for the final battle. He devises a strategy to lure the Japanese fleet out into the water.moreless -
Episode 101
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S 1 : Ep 101 - 8/26/05
Kwon Yul comes to Soon-shin urging him to let the Japanese retreat without further hostile action. But Japan had deceived Chosun once before calling a truce when there were in trouble then carrying out a second invasion. Soon-shin adamantly refuse saying that the Japanese will attack again if they are allowed to return without punishment. The royal court is contemplating the dispatch of royal emissary after receiving two conflicting reports about the battle of Wekyo. Prince Kwang-hae's talks Sonjo out of sending the emissary, and Yoon Dusu and the Royal Attendant tightens their watch on the naval base.Meanwhile, Konishi tries to buy off Jin Lin and influence Soon-shin into opening up the retreat path, but Soon-shin adamantly refuses. Completely cut off and removed, Konishi is mad with loathing for Soon-shin.moreless -
Episode 100
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S 1 : Ep 100 - 8/20/05
Bribed by Konishi Yukinaga, Ming Commander Yu Jung fails to attack as agreed and sends a message to Jin Lin not to go in too deep. Reading his message as a ruse to take credit for the battle alone, Jin Lin puts his fleet in the advance guard position. He ignores Soon-shin's orders to retreat and presses on toward the enemy. When they come under concentrated attack, Soon-shin's men take dangerous action to save them.Both the enemy and the allied navy suffer great damages in Wekyo battle.Soon-shin report to the king that the battle was victorious as they succeeded in sinking dozens of enemy ships. But Konishi Yukinaga once again buys off Yu Jung to report it as defeat placing full blame on Yi Soon-shin. With two conflicting reports in hand, King Sonjo considers charges of treason and disloyalty once again for Soon-shin for his deceit.moreless -
Episode 99
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S 1 : Ep 99 - 8/14/05
Feeling threatened by the Chosun-Ming alliance, Konishi Makes a preemptive strike on the Gogeumdo navy base. Jin Lin's Ming navy watches like a spectator, but Chosun navy is fully prepared. They achieve a huge victory near Jolido. When Hideyoshi dies in August of 1598, the Japanese troops in Chosun receive orders to retreat. They quickly prepare to move out. Jin Lin refuses to fight the retreating enemy, but the war will not be truly over until the enemy is completely destroyed. Soon-shin persuades the halfhearted Ming Admiral. At last, on October 2, 1598, the Chosun-Ming Alliance Navy launches an attack on Konishi at Wekyo Soon-chun.moreless -
Episode 98
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S 1 : Ep 98 - 8/13/05
Having secured a considerable amount of provisions and men, Soon-shin begins a huge battleship building project and makes Konishi Yukinaga Wekyo his first target.Meanwhile, Prime Minister Yu Sung-ryong goes to Konishi in Wekyo demanding that they surrender. He tells them that this is his last chance to end the war peacefully. As if to prove this is not a bluff, the Chosun-Ming alliance army begins to lay siege on Ulsan Fort occupied by Kiyomasa. Trapped in the fort without food and water, the Kato is driven to a point of attempting suicide.Sonjo becomes bitter with jealousy hearing that the people have built a new naval base for Soon-shin in Gogeumdo. Imperial Attendant Yoon goes to Yoon Dusu and subtly incites him feigning concerns for what will happen to the Westerners if the war comes to an end when Yu Sung-ryong and Yi Soon-shin are being praised as heroes.moreless -
Episode 97
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S 1 : Ep 97 - 8/7/05
After the victory in Myongryang, Soon-shin and his fleet make a long march along the western coast. It is to declare that the command of the sea belonged to Chosun and to break the morale of the Japanese army. Unwilling to accept that Soon-shin is the one who turned the tide of the war around, Sonjo gives credit to the Ming troops instead. When Ming emissary Yang Ho praises Soon-shin for his miraculous feat, Sonjo grants Soon-shin a pardon for his past crimes. With his will for conquest crushed once again by the humiliating defeat in Myongyang, Toyotomi Hideyoshi orders Wakizaka Yasuharu to slaughter Soon-shin's family. Wakizaka would rather fight a fair fight against Soon-shin, but he heads for Soon-shin's home in Ahsan.moreless -
Episode 96
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S 1 : Ep 96 - 8/6/05
A fleet of 13 against a fleet of 300. And the current is in enemy's favor. But there is a chance. The oarsmen have trained very hard to hold their position in the swift current, and the Chosunese navy has a secret weapon.With confidence, Soon-shin places his fleet of 13 in a line formation. All they have to do is to hold their position for 4 hours for the current to shift direction.But terrified at the sight of seeing one of his men go down, Koje Magistrate Ahn Wui attempts to retreat and ends up being surrounded by the enemy.Soon-shin cannot afford to lose a single ship.moreless -
Episode 95
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S 1 : Ep 95 - 8/1/05
Sonjo receives a self-assured letter from Soon-shin. Taking into account Kwon Yul's report which said the chances of victory is almost none-existent, Sonjo grants Soon-shin's request to fight at sea with intent to hold him responsible for defeat.Meanwhile, Japanese army enters Junju and begins to make their way into Choongchung Province. The Japanese navy, determined to enter the capital before the army, begin to gather their resources and strategize. Gurujima Michihusa who lost his older brother against Soon-shin in 1592 names Myongryang as the stage for the next battle and swears revenge on Soon-shin.On September 16, 1597, Chosunese navy launches a battle at an hour when the current is most favorable to the enemy.moreless -
Episode 94
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S 1 : Ep 94 - 7/31/05
Yoshira comes to Chosunese navy camp with a proposition to surrender. Soon-shin warns him that the sea of Chosun will be their graveyard if the Japanese attempt to attack his navy again. Yi Soon-shin may be a great naval leader, but 12 battleships is all he has left. Japanese scoff at his ridiculous confidence. Everyone thinks this is an impossible situation, but Soon-shin continues to collects intelligence data and studies the waters. Off the coast of Cholla, he finds a narrow and swift-flowing channel of water. When Kwon Yul suggest reorganizing the navy into an army instead of rebuilding the navy from ground up, Soon-shin turns him down stating that it is more important to cut off the enemy's sea route to the west. Deciding that the situation is urgent, Kwon Yul appeals to the royal court to dissolve the navy.moreless -
Episode 93
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S 1 : Ep 93 - 7/24/05
Yi Young-nam evacuates the advance camp and burns in down. It's painful to watch the base in flames, but what's more painful is that soon the Japanese will occupy the place. Woo Ji-chuk and his men escape death and make their way to Chogae where Soon-shin is serving his post as a common soldier. Pained with the burden of defeat, Woo carefully tells Soon-shin that not all of the ships may be lost. The royal court is equally devastated by the news of Won Kyun's defeat. When everyone is lost for ideas as to what to do next, Yoon Dusu breaks the silence and suggests giving Soon-shin a chance to redeem himself. King Sonjo regrets his decision to remove him from service and puts him back in command of the Three Provinces Navy. Soon-shin leaves Chogae to find 12 ships that Bae Sul had hidden in Hweryung-po. It's a two day trip by sea, but he chooses to travel by land.moreless -
Episode 92
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S 1 : Ep 92 - 7/23/05
Won Kyun's fleet is attacked. After losing 500 of his men in Gaduk, Won Kyun retreats to Chilchundo. Finding out about the situation at the front, Soon-shin prepares for the worst. He orders Yi Young-nam to burn down the advance base in Hansando and pleads with Kwon Yul to withdraw his command of attack on Pusan. Won Kyun's officers grow anxious and afraid trapped in Chilchundo, and Commander of Right Kyung-sang Naval Station Bae Sul takes his fleet of 12 ships and disappears. When more and more soldiers begin to desert camp, Won Kyun finally orders retreat to Hansando. They prepare to retreat with hopes of rebuilding their position around Kyunneryang, but the enemy has Chilchundo surrounded.moreless -
Episode 91
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S 1 : Ep 91 - 7/18/05
As the royal court continues to put pressure to attack Pusan, Won Kyun begins to realize why Soon-shin refused to attack Pusan through notes and charts Soon-shin left behind. Won Kyun who once swore he could defeat the enemy in Pusan and hastened Soon-shin's removal tells Kwon Yul that it is impossible to attack Pusan unless the ground forces strike the enemy in Gaduk and Angol at the same time. Enraged by his audacity, Kwon Yul flogs Won Kyun and orders him to attack Pusan at once. Humiliated and disgraced Won Kyun burns all of Soon-shin's notes. When Yi Young-nam tells him to admit to the fact that Soon-shin was right, Won Kyun removes him from duty as well. On July of 1597, Won Kyun launches his fleet to Pusan with no assurance of a victory. To bait him, the Japanese first allow Won Kyun a small victory.moreless -
Episode 90
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S 1 : Ep 90 - 7/16/05
Past merits have barely saved Soon-shin from penalty of death. For the second time, Sonjo orders Soon-shin to serve the military as a common soldier. On his way to his post in Soon-chun, Soon-shin learns that his elderly mother is on a boat to Ahsan to see him. She dies on the boat unable to endure the long trip, but Soon-shin doesn't even have the luxury to mourn her death. Anguished Soon-shin must get to his assigned post. Finding out that Soon-shin is still alive, Japanese warriors quickly move to destroy the navy while Won Kyun is in command. Eager to prove himself, Won Kyun devises a plan to attack Pusan through the open sea where the waters are extremely rough. Commandant Kim Wan tries to talk him out of it, but it's no use. Against advice of his men, Won Kyun proceeds with his plan only to fail miserably.moreless -
Episode 89
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S 1 : Ep 89 - 7/11/05
Charges of treason and disloyalty. Soon-shin's inquiry begins. When Soon-shin does not confess to wrongdoing despite the treacherous torture, Yoon Dusu realizes Soon-shin will die before he confesses his crime and asks Sonjo to take a special measure. Sonjo decides he will conduct the inquiry himself. The newly appointed Supreme Commander Won Kyun declares that he will disregard all of the rules and procedures that Soon-shin has set up and run the navy his own way. To start, he demotes all of the officers who became officers through Soon-shin's military service exam. He acquires resignations from officers who opposes his actions and appoints new men. The naval station begins to look very different from when Soon-shin was in command. Meanwhile, Yu Sung-ryong visits Soon-shin in his cell. Brutal torture has left him barely able to speak.moreless -
Episode 88
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S 1 : Ep 88 - 7/9/05
Soon-shin refuses to go to battle that he cannot win, and Sonjo orders him arrested for defying the king's command. Not even Yu Sung-ryong can help Soon-shin now. With an order for Soon-shin's arrest comes an order for Won Kyun to replace Soon-shin's position. Outraged by the order, Soon-shin's officers put their men on full alert and prepare to fight the king's command, but Soon-shin calmly prepares to leave the base. Frustrated officers urge Soon-shin to make a bold decision, and Soon-shin asks them to abide by his wishes no matter what happens. The officers sign their name in blood to show their trust and loyalty for Soon-shin.Royal prosecutor and his guards arrive and the people of Hansando cry for Soon-shin not to go, but the officers abide by Soon-shin's wish.moreless -
Episode 87
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S 1 : Ep 87 - 7/2/05
It's year 1596. As the war enters its fifth year, talks of peace negotiations are heard in the court of Chosun as well, and an envoy is dispatched to Japan. But Soon-shin is against the truce talks as he predicts the terms will be equally unfavorable to Chosun as defeat. Konishi Yukinaga and Shim Yu-kyung had acquired the Ming Emperor's edict, but they did not dare present the demands that Hideyoshi had made. When Kato Kiyomasa and Wakizaka Yasuharu starts to suspect deceit in the truce talks, Shim and Konishi conspire once again to alter the Imperial decree. Envoy Hwang Shin who returns from Japan reports that Japan will attack again, and both the royal court and the navy headquarters become tense and nervous. Konishi who narrowly escaped death by swearing to Hideyoshi that he would destroy Yi Soon-shin puts Yoshira to work in order to remove Soon-shin from command.moreless -
Episode 86
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S 1 : Ep 86 - 7/2/05
The navy is too poor to buy medicine for the sick soldiers, but they can't stop sending offerings to the king. They try to use whatever natural remedies they can find, but nothing proves effective.Soon-shin decides to trade the offerings to the king for medicine for his soldiers. Knowing the consequences, Commandant of Bang-dap Yi Soon-shin asks Magistrate of Nak-an Shin Ho to make sure the offerings are safely delivered to the king. But Shin-ho returns with cart loads of medicine to treat the ailing soldiers.moreless -
Episode 85
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S 1 : Ep 85 - 6/25/05
As months pass locked in a dead heat with Kyunneryang between the Chosunese Navy and the Japanese invaders, Yi Soon-shin begins to feel the need to break through the stalemate. But having to provide for the royal court and the Ming army on top of his own men, there is never enough budget at the naval headquarters. First, Soon-shin tries to find a breakthrough by strengthening the reconnaissance. During a reconnaissance mission, Uh Young-dam comes across civilians who have turn to cannibalism to sustain a living. Then one by one, soldiers of the naval headquarters collapse with lesions all over their body. It is an epidemic disease. Uh Young-dam, the living map of the sea, succumbs to the disease as well.moreless -
Episode 84
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S 1 : Ep 84 - 6/20/05
Soon-shin requests to hold a separate military service examination exclusively for the navy with equal opportunity for all social castes. Yoon Dusu is infuriated by Soon-shin who leads a navy of 20,000 men and now wants control of personnel affairs and questions his loyalty. Having planted informants in Hansando, Sonjo learns about the issues surrounding the military service exam and becomes increasingly suspicious of Soon-shin's motives. Sonjo gives Yu Sung-ryong a subtle warning about the situation at which time he sends a letter to Soon-shin recommending that he give up on the idea. Kwon Joon also advises him to yield. Kwang-hae decides to call Soon-shin to Junju and listen to his reasons. Soon-shin refuses to give up arguing that his men were equally expected to give their lives for the country, and they must be given equal chance to become military officers.moreless -
Episode 83
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S 1 : Ep 83 - 6/18/05
Learning that Soon-shin had been taken to the capital, Wakizaka Yasuharu plans a full force attack on the Chosunese Navy. But Konishi Yukinaga who is more interested in ending the war quickly and cashing in his benefits tells Ming Commander Shim Yu-kyung that it would be wise to release Yi Soon-shin to resume the peace talks. Kwang-hae goes to Yu Jung once again and tells him that he would give up the his own throne before removing Yi Soon-shin, and this time Yu Jung yields having been advised by Ming Commander Shim.Yoon Dusu is once again awed at Yi Soon-shin's power, and Shim Yu-kyong purposely exasperate Sonjo by praising Prince Kwang-hae and Yi Soon-shin.moreless -
Episode 82
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S 1 : Ep 82 - 6/12/05
Kwang-hae refuses to remove Soon-shin from service, and Yu Jung replies that both Sonjo's throne and Kwang-hae's future throne will not be safe unless Soon-shin is removed. Yoon Dusu who is traveling with Kwang-hae invites Yu Jung to a feast and asks for his patients telling him that Soon-shin will soon be removed.Soon-shin begins to discuss a land-sea operation with Kwon Yul and the others. Yi Young-nam is frustrated by Soon-shin who pays no attention to the pressures of Ming and the royal court. Yoon Dusu urges Prince Kwang-hae to seek a resignation from Soon-shin, and Kwang-hae goes to Soon-shin's advance base in Hansando. Seeing the undefeated navy and the man who made it all possible, Kwang-hae sheds his tears.moreless -
Episode 81
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S 1 : Ep 81 - 6/11/05
Ming court orders Chosun not to take hostile action against the Japanese forces while the peace talks are in progress. But the Japanese are just using the passive Ming government to keep Chosun temporarily in check. In March 1594, several dozen Japanese ships appear on the coast of Danghang-po, and Yi Soon-shin launches his fleet against Yu Jung's orders.On the second Danghang-po Battle, Soon-shin sinks 31 enemy ships. Ming Commander Yu Jung now positioned in Daegu threatens the king to remove Yi Soon-shin from service or the Ming troops will clear out. Faced with a lose-lose ultimatum, Sonjo sends Prince Kwang-hae to Yu Jung.moreless -
Episode 80
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S 1 : Ep 80 - 6/5/05
If they open the gate, the enemy will take the fort. Kim Shi-min makes a painful decision not to open the gate. Knowing that Kim has no other choice, Commander Yu and his men bravely fight to the death outside the gates of Jinju against 30,000 Japanese soldiers. The soldiers and citizens of Jinju are petrified watching the atrocity from inside the fort. Kim Shi-min devises another strategy. The fierce battle continues for six days and nights. Ammunition completely runs out, and Kim Shi-min orders women and children out of the fort. They can't go leaving the men who are facing certain death. Will Jinju Fort be saved?August, 1593, peace talks are being exchanged between Ming and Japan. Strongly against the peace talks, King Sonjo issues a new order to Yi Soon-shin.moreless -
Episode 79
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S 1 : Ep 79 - 6/5/05
Sonjo receives the victory report, but he is not entirely pleased by the fact that Soon-shin did not press on to recapture Pusan Fort. Losing the command of the sea of Kyung-sang Province, the Japanese warriors are beginning to think that the Toyotomi Hideyoshi's ambition to conquer Ming was a pipedream. Jotai tells Hideyoshi that they still have a chance if they take Jinju Fort and use it as a bridgehead to Cholla. Hideyoshi issues the order and the Japanese forces begin to converge at outside Jinju Fort.Soon-shin, Kwon Yul and Constable of Jinju Kim Shi-min have a secret meeting. Kwon Yul offers to send military aid to Jinju, but Kim Shi-min declines the offer and asks that they stay where they are and stop the Japanese from converging in Jinju.moreless -
Episode 78
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S 1 : Ep 78 - 5/29/05
Soon-shin's fleet safely passes through the channel. Gouki, Dodo and the other Japanese warriors are stunned by the Chosunese Navy's land raid. But Wakizaka Yasuharu believes that Soon-shin is going to attempt a landing on Pusan this time, and he shows complete confidence that he can win on land. The alliance navy under Yi Soon-shin's command destroys the enemy fleet layer by layer and makes their way toward Pusan. Japanese navy places their cannons on favorable locations and waits for the alliance fleet to come close enough.To minimize the damage from the enemy's bombardment, the alliance fleet stretch out in a line formation. Japanese navy stay ashore attacking from the beach, but the Chosunese navy keep a close fight in the most unfavorable conditions sinking the anchored Japanese battleships one by one.moreless -
Episode 77
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S 1 : Ep 77 - 5/28/05
Yi Young-nam locks up Won Kyun and leads his men to the alliance navy training at the Left Cholla Naval Station. Won Kyun soon follow. Soon-shin places Yi Young-nam under arrest for defying his superior officer's order and leaves it up to Won Kyun to punish him. The Japanese warriors become nervous when contrary to what they had hoped Yoon Dusu does not take Soon-shin back to Uiju. Wakizaka believes that meticulous Yi Soon-shin will not attack Pusan for a while and suggests that they utilize this time to rebuild the navy. Displeased with the news that Yi Soon-shin has avoided charges, Konishi Yukinaga plans to attack Jinju in order to establish a bridgehead to Cholla and to divert Soon-shin's attention from the sea. When the Japanese begins to move toward Jinju, Kwon Yul requests Soon-shin for help, but Soon-shin declares war on the Japanese navy in Pusan instead.moreless -
Episode 76
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S 1 : Ep 76 - 5/22/05
Infuriated by his disobedience, Sonjo orders Soon-shin arrested immediately. The court officials also begin to question Soon-shin's loyalty, and Yi Aukki and Won Kyun send messages to Soon-shin refusing to participate in the alliance navy training. Soon-shin's men are split between those who feel they should obey the king's order and those who trust Soon-shin's decision. Chung Oon tells Soon-shin that he is the only man that the warriors will trust and obey, but he hopes that he does not lose the command of the alliance. Soon-shin remains firm about his decision.When Prince Kwang-hae learns that the king is about to arrest Soon-shin, he goes to the king and pleads with him to send an official of the court to persuade Soon-shin instead. Yoon Dusu is quickly dispatched to the Left Cholla Navy.moreless - Load More
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