[Drama 2015] KBS - The Book of Corrections 징비록

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mannschaft said: Honestly I haven't finished "Great King Sejong" yet, due to missing download links and subtitles.
Kim Hyung Il will be playing General Shin Rip in "The Book of Correction." Seems like they will also emphasize the war images.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Rip
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chungju
Excerpts from Immortal Lee Soon Shin; Shin Rip vs. Konishi Yukinaga. 

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Since KBS's 'real' sageuks (like Jeong Do-jeon) aren't available w/translation to the international audience I'll have to be content with lurking on this thread to see how the series goes. The character of Ryu was fascinating in IYSS so this does appeal to me. Also because Jeong Tae-woo will be in it, first role since his army service. It was the lovely character he played 7 years ago in Dae Jo Young that got me hooked on K-drama. KBS, are you listening? We're out here, & all of us aren't bored by serious sageuks. If it's well dramatized, a serious historical with a lot of political intrigue is my favorite type of drama. 

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turan_dot said: Since KBS's 'real' sageuks (like Jeong Do-jeon) aren't available w/translation to the international audience I'll have to be content with lurking on this thread to see how the series goes. The character of Ryu was fascinating in IYSS so this does appeal to me. Also because Jeong Tae-woo will be in it, first role since his army service. It was the lovely character he played 7 years ago in Dae Jo Young that got me hooked on K-drama. KBS, are you listening? We're out here, & all of us aren't bored by serious sageuks. If it's well dramatized, a serious historical with a lot of political intrigue is my favorite type of drama. 

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The Japanese warlords: 

Konishi Yukinaga - Center, in dark red robe, by Lee Kwang Ki (Ha Ryun in Jeong Do Jeon); Hideyoshi Toyotomi - Right, in light yellow robe; by Kim Kyu Cheol (Shim Ki Won in Cruel Palace, War of Flowers)


Kato Kiyomasa by Lee Jung Yong (he also played Kato Kiyomasa in Immortal Lee Soon Shin)


Jingbirok first teaser.

Credit: This video is re-published from KBSMedia on Vimeo. I strictly do not own this, all credits goes to its rightful owner.

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DDG 993 "Seo-ae Ryu Seong Ryong" in "Sejong the Great" destroyer class. It proudly joins RIMPAC in 2014 along with other famous battleships.


DDG 975 Chungmugong Lee Soon Shin.


More characters' images: (if you can't see them, click >여기저기 긁어모아~~)
http://blog.naver.com/jedi_anakin/220250214341
- Left: Ryu Seong Ryong; Right: King Seonjo (in red)
- Jeong Tae Woo as Lee Cheol Ri (a man in hemp clothes)
- Lee Jung Yong as Kato Kiyomasa (he's wearing black)
- Lee Kwang Ki as Konishi Yukinaga (in white)
- Seon Dong Hyuk (Lee Jiran in Jeong Dojeon) as Jeong Cheol  (a man with long beard and a hat, also wearing red in the last pic.)
http://blog.naver.com/jedi_anakin/220237313844(click on the line with ">" at the beginning to view the image.)
- 4th pic: Im Dong Jin as Yoon Dusu (in armor)- 5th pic: Roh Young Hak as Prince Gwanghae.

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Jeong Tae Woo to star in KBS historical "Jing Bi-rok"
Actor Jeong Tae-woo is starring in the KBS 1TV drama "Jing Bi-rok".


He's taking on the role of Lee Cheon Ri (fictional character), a young man in his 20s who is strong and knowledgeable in hunting and horseback riding. He later becomes Jing Bi-rok's author Ryu Seong Ryong's (Kim Sang Joong) messenger and plays a key role in the war.
Jeong Tae woo makes his first comeback in two years since his National Service and is expected to show a great performance as Lee Cheon Ri.
Jeong Tae Woo said, "I am excited to star in this historical and the first take was very anxious for me. I am happy to work with such great people and I hope it turns out great".
Jeong Tae Woo made his debut in 1987 through the MBC Best Seller Theater "Habit" and continued to star in other dramas since he was young. He then starred in the sitcom "Non Stop" as a grown up role.
Expected next month, "Jang Bi-rok" is originally written by Ryu Seong Ryong about the period before the Japanese invasion until the death of General Lee Soon Shin starring Kim Sang Joong, Kim Tae Woo, Im Dong Jin, Hwang In Yeong and more.
Source: hancinema.

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Battle of Haengju (statue of General Kwon Yul, some paintings of battle of Haengju)
http://www.samuelhawley.com/visittohaengju.html
HAENGJU MOUNTAIN FORTRESS ON "THE RIVER OF HELL"
It began in the year known in Korea as Imjin, “water-dragon,” 1592 in the West. On May 23rd, a 158,800-man invasion army departed from the Japanese island of Tsushima to land at Pusan, Hideyoshi’s objective: to conquer Korea, then China, and then the whole of Asia. During the first few months of the invasion the Japanese moved up the peninsula with such ferocity and speed that it seemed increasingly likely that they would soon arrive at Beijing. Then, after taking Pyongyang, their advance ground to a halt. It was stopped in part thanks to the Korean navy under Yi Sun-sin, which was preventing Japanese ships from ferrying supplies north to the front via the Yellow Sea. Local resistance was building up inland as well, from bands of civilian volunteers known as uibyong, “Righteous Armies,” and from units of monk-soldiers responding to a call to arms from the venerated Buddhist master Hyujong. These irregular Korean forces would combine with government troops and a 35,000-man army from China to drive the Japanese out of Pyongyang in February, 1593.
March. The Japanese were resting comfortably for the moment in Seoul. They had halted the advancing Chinese on February 27 in the Battle of Pyokje just north of the city, inflicting such heavy casualties that Chinese supreme commander Li Rusong lost all desire to fight. There still remained a knot of resistance near the capital, however, that they wished to erase: 2,300 Korean troops under Cholla Province army commander Kwon Yul, holed up at Haengju a few hours’ march to the west, in a earth and wood fortress on a bluff overlooking the Han River.
Kwon Yul was a fifty-five-year-old civil servant from a family of note in Andong in the southeastern province of Kyongsang. Upon the outbreak of Imjin War in May of 1592, Kwon, then magistrate of Kwangju in the south of Cholla-do, led a body of troops north in a failed attempt to halt the Japanese advance before it reached Seoul. He then returned south and participated in the defense of Cholla Province, which the sixth contingent of the Japanese army under Kobayakawa Takakage was threatening to overrun. Kwon distinguished himself by defeating Japanese units in two engagements, the Battles of Ungchi and Ichi, in the second week of August. Recognizing his ability, the government appointed him Army Commander of Cholla Province in the following month.
By this time Kwon had come to the conclusion that the Japanese were too skilled in warfare to be defeated on open ground, and that the Koreans should therefore fall back on their traditional strength of fighting from behind walls. He would make his first attempt at this in October of 1592 from a base at Toksan, a mountain redoubt two day’s march south of the capital, overlooking the main road between Pusan and Seoul. From an ancient Paekche dynasty fortress that they strengthened and enlarged, Kwon and his men attacked enemy foraging parties and small units passing along the road, and generally proved troublesome enough that the Japanese high command in Seoul sent a company south to besiege the fortress. The effort, we are told, was soon abandoned. According to one report, Kwon fooled the Japanese into giving up and returning to Seoul by having a horse rubbed down with rice grains until its coat sparkled in the sun. To the Japanese watching from the distance it appeared that the animal had just been washed, a sign that the Koreans had ample stores of water to withstand a lengthy siege.
Early in 1593 Kwon Yul led his men further north in preparation for the anticipated attack on Seoul by allied Chinese and Korean forces. Proceeding by a back route to the north bank of the Han River, he had a rough stockade constructed from earth and logs on the site of an ancient fortress on a hill outside the village of Haengju, some ten kilometers to the west of the capital. It was a highly defensible position, protected at its rear by a steep drop-off down to the Han. If an attack came, it would have to be made uphill and from the north, straight into the Koreans’ concentrated fire.
With the retreat of the Ming army, Kwon Yul’s fortress at Haengju emerged as the greatest immediate threat to the Japanese in Seoul. On March 14 they decided to do something about it. Some hours before dawn, the west gate of the city was opened and a long line of troops filed out and turned towards Haengju, marching along the north bank of the Han to the accompaniment of drums and horns and gongs. The daimyo on horseback in the lead constituted an all-star cast from the Korean campaign. There was Konishi Yukinaga, leader of the first contingent that had spearheaded the Japanese invasion in May of the previous year, recently back in Seoul after the retreat from Pyongyang. There was third contingent leader Kuroda Nagamasa, and Kobayakawa Takakage, hero of the Battle of Pyokje. There was Hideyoshi’s adopted son Ukita Hideie, the 20-year-old supreme commander of all Japanese forces in Korea, and the veteran Ishida Mitsunari, one of the overseers sent from Japan to help him out. Accompanying them were more than half the troops garrisoning Seoul, a total of 30,000 men.
Inside Haengju fortress, Kwon Yul’s 2,300 government troops had been joined by contingents of monk-soldiers, civilian volunteers, and women from the surrounding countryside, bringing the number of defenders to something approaching 10,000. They watched the noisy approach of the enemy multitude with growing trepidation. When the Japanese arrived at the base of their hill in the soft light of dawn, the Koreans observed that each soldier had a red-and-white banner affixed to his back, and that many wore masks carved with fierce depictions of animals and monsters and ghosts. Panic was now hovering just beneath the surface, held in check by the calm authority of commander Kwon Yul. As the Japanese busied themselves below with their pre-battle preparations, he ordered his men to have a meal. There would be no telling when they would have a chance to eat again.
The battle commenced soon after the sun came up. The Japanese, so numerous that they could not all rush at the ramparts at once, divided into groups and prepared to take turns in the assault. Their strength must have seemed overwhelming to the Koreans. For once, however, the muskets of the Japanese were of only limited use, for in having to fire uphill they were unable to effectively target the defenders holed up within. Their lead balls simply flew in an arc over the fort and into the Han River beyond. The advantage was with the Koreans, firing down upon the attacking Japanese with arrows and stones and anything else that came to hand. They had a number of gunpowder weapons as well, including several large chongtong (“generalissimo”) cannons and a rank of hwacha (“fire carts”), box-shaped devices built onto wagons that fired up to one hundred gunpowder-propelled arrows in a single devastating barrage. Alongside these more traditional weapons was an oddity that employed a spinning wheel mechanism to hurl a fusillade of stones. It was called the sucha sokpo, the “water-wheel rock cannon.”
Konishi Yukinaga’s group led off the Japanese attack. Kwon Yul waited until they were within range, then beat his commander’s drum three times to signal the attack. Every Korean weapon was fired at once, bows, chongtong, hwacha, and rock cannons, raking Konishi’s ranks and driving his men back. Ishida Mitsunari was the next to the attack. His force too was driven back, and Ishida himself was injured. Next up was Kuroda Nagamasa, the Christian commander of the third contingent, otherwise known by his baptismal name Damien. He had been burned once before by Koreans fighting behind walls, at the Battle of Yonan the previous year. This time he took a more cautious approach, positioning musketeers atop makeshift towers so that they could fire into the fortress while the rest of his force held back. A fierce exchange of fire ensued, then Kuroda’s men too were forced to retreat.
The Japanese had now attacked Haengju three times, and had failed even to penetrate the fortress’s outer palisade of stakes. Young Ukita Hideie, determined to make a breakthrough in his, the fourth charge, managed to smash a hole in the obstacle and got near the inner wall. Then he was wounded and had to fall back, leaving a trail of casualties behind. The next unit to attack, Kikkawa Hiroie’s, poured through the gap Ukita’s forces had opened, and was soon attacking Haengju’s inner wall, the last line of defense between the Japanese and Kwon Yul’s troops. The fighting now went hand-to-hand, with masked warriors attempting to slash their way past the defenders lining the barricades, while the Koreans fought back with everything they had – swords, spears, arrows, stones, boiling water; even handfuls of ashes thrown into the attackers’ eyes. As the fighting reached its peak no sound came from Kwon Yul’s battle drum. The Korean commander had abandoned drumstick and tradition in favor of his sword, and was now fighting alongside his men. At one point the Japanese heaped dried grass along the base of Haengju’s log walls and tried to set the place ablaze. The Koreans doused the flames with water before they could take hold. In the seventh attack led by Kobayakawa Takakage, the Japanese knocked down some of the log pilings and opened a hole in the fortress’s inner wall. The Koreans managed to hold them back long enough for the logs to be repositioned.
As the afternoon wore on the Korean defenders grew exhausted, and their supply of arrows dwindled dangerously low. The women within the fort are said to have gathered stones in their wide skirts to hurl at the attacking Japanese. This traditional type of skirt is still known as a Haengju chima, “Haengju skirt,” in remembrance of this day. But stones alone were not enough to repel the enemy for long. Then, when all seemed lost, Korean naval commander Yi Bun arrived on the Han River at the rear of the fortress with two ships laden with ten thousand arrows. With these the defenders of Haengju were able to continue the fight until sundown, successfully repelling an eighth attack, then a ninth.
Finally, as the sun dipped below the horizon out beyond the Yellow Sea, the fighting petered out and did not begin again. The Japanese had suffered too many casualties to continue. Their dead numbered into the many hundreds, and their wounded – including three important commanders, Ukita Hideie, Ishida Mitsunari, and Kikkawa Hiroie – were many times more. They had in fact been dealt a terrible defeat, the most serious loss on land so far in the war at the hands of the Koreans. Throughout the evening the survivors gathered up what bodies they could, heaped them into piles, and set them alight. Then they turned around and walked slowly back to Seoul. One Japanese officer in the disheartened assembly would later liken the scene beside the Han River that day to the sanzu no kawa, the “River of Hell.”
When they were gone, Kwon Yul and his men came out and recovered those bodies that the Japanese had been unable to retrieve. They cut them into pieces and hung them from the log palings of their fort. These grisly trophies were an indication of how much had changed for the Koreans since the beginning of the war; of how ten months in extremis had transformed them from indecisive scholars Toyotomi Hideyoshi had derided as “long sleeves,” into bloodthirsty warriors, bent on revenge.
With a large Chinese army encamped thirty kilometers to the north, and with the Koreans displaying an increasingly grim determination to fight back, the Japanese knew their only reasonable option was to abandon Seoul and fall back to the south. After a series of negotiations with Chinese supreme commander Li Rusong, they evacuated the capital on May 19, 1593.
The Battle of Haengju is remembered today as one of the three “great victories” (daechop), won by Koreans in the Imjin War. (The other two are the Battle of Hansan-do of July 1592, in which Yi Sun-sin and his navy destroyed more than 70 Japanese ships, and the First Battle of Chinju later that year in November, in which the Koreans under Kim Shi Min repelled an attack by a vastly larger Japanese force.) The site of the battle, once a blasted knoll, has been reclaimed by nature over the years, and is now a peaceful, forested national shrine. The remains of the earth wall still can be easily discerned. The wooden palings that stood on top of it, of course, are long gone. Gazing west towards the center of Seoul from the top of the hill, one can imagine what it might have been like to have stood here four centuries ago, watching 30,000 Japanese warriors march out from the city and prepare to do battle. One can imagine the fear that the Korean soldiers, the civilian volunteers, the monk-soldiers and women all must have felt. And in imagining that fear one may get a glimpse - just a glimpse - of the determination that kept them standing firm at the walls, resisting the repeated attacks of a much larger and stronger and better-armed force, beating it back until it eventually gave up.
Credit: http://www.samuelhawley.com/imjinarticle2.html
Note: The source texts is kind of difficult to read, so I re-post it here. Just some leisure readings during the wait... hope you like it. 

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The power of Panokseon (Excerpts from "Myeongrang, the Roaring Currents.")

Brief Description: Panokseon ("board roofed" or "super-structured" ship) was an oar- and sail-propelled ship that was the main class of warship used by the Korean Joseon Dynasty during the late 16th century. The first ship of this class was constructed in 1555. It was a ship made of sturdy pine wood, and was instrumental in the victories over the numerically superior Japanese Navy during the Imjin War beginning in 1592. Admiral Yi Sunsin (1545–98) of the Joseon navy employed them alongside turtle ships during the war with great success.
A key feature of a panokseon was its multiple decks. The first deck had non-combatant personnel, such as the rowers, who were positioned between the main deck and the upper deck, away from enemy fire. The combatant personnel were stationed on the upper deck, which allowed them to attack the enemy from a higher vantage point. Also, on the deck of the panokseon, there was a raised, roofed observation platform where the commander stood.
* How did Admiral Yi manage to win Myeongrang, the battle of totally impossible?
"Admiral Yi had twelve ships against three hundred. He had his flagship anchored at the throat of the narrow channel and held his position while the other ships were waiting behind him. As the enemy advanced on him, his subordinate officers gave him up for dead and started to retreat. At this critical juncture, Admiral Yi whipped off the neck of a sailor rowing back and hung it up high on the ship's mast, then roared "Attack!" This decapitation seems harsh and cruel, but it must have worked in galvanizing the men. Admiral Yi and his twelve ships destroyed 133 ships that day."
(Excerpts from "Admiral Lee Soon Shin & The Art of War: Application of Seven Military Classics of Ancient China (Wu Ching Ch'i Shu) in the Imjin War" - research paper by WOO C. LEE)
Source: http://deiner.proboards.com/thread/4982

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@mannschaft, THANKS FOR THE VIDEO AND THE HISTORY JUST LOVE READING WHAT YOU POST DURING THAT TIME PERIOD MAKES WANT THIS DRAMA TO HURRY ANS START I'M REALLY HUNGRY FOR IT NOW.,  

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@valsava: Thank you, you're welcomed. I'm also really looking forward it, the 2nd teaser seems promising.
Characters seen by order:
- Ryu Seong Ryong- King Seonjo- Yoon Dusu (0:11)- Lee San Hae (0:14) (actor: Lee Jae Yong)- Kato Kiyomasa (0:19), he's seen cutting off someone's head (the victim is a Japanese) and the guy behind him is Konishi Yukinaga (Lee Kwang Ki)

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@mannschaft,  VIDEO NOT SHOWING IN MY COUNTRY..

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@valsava: New link updated.

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@mannschaft,  THANKS,  EVERYTIME I THINK ABOUT THAT TIME PERIOD IT'S JUST SICKENS ME TO SEE HOW KOREA WAS SO UNPREPARED FOR WHAT WAS COMING AND THOSE MINISTER USING THE SITUATION AS AND EXCUSE TO NOT DO THEY JOB AS LONG AS THEY WASN'T THE ONES BEING SLAUGHTERED THEY COULD CARED LESS NOT REALIZING THEY ALMOST BECAME EXTINCT AND A KING SO JEALOUS OF HIS SUBJECTS THAT HE WANTED THEM ALL DEAD IF THEY GOT ANY ATTENTION GIVE PROMOTION AND TAKE THEM BACK WANTING TO MAKE THEM ATTACK WHEN IT WASN'T TIME TO ATTACK THIS KING IT'S WAS DAMNED IF YOU DO DAMNED IF YOU DON'T.. I REALLY BELIEVED IF THE ADMIRAL SURVIVE BACK THEN THE KING WOULD HAVE FOUND SOME KIND OF WAY TO KILL HIM AND WOULD HAVE ENJOYED WATCHING IT..   

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valsava said: @mannschaft,  THANKS,  EVERYTIME I THINK ABOUT THAT TIME PERIOD IT'S JUST SICKENS ME TO SEE HOW KOREA WAS SO UNPREPARED FOR WHAT WAS COMING AND THOSE MINISTER USING THE SITUATION AS AND EXCUSE TO NOT DO THEY JOB AS LONG AS THEY WASN'T THE ONES BEING SLAUGHTERED THEY COULD CARED LESS NOT REALIZING THEY ALMOST BECAME EXTINCT AND A KING SO JEALOUS OF HIS SUBJECTS THAT HE WANTED THEM ALL DEAD IF THEY GOT ANY ATTENTION GIVE PROMOTION AND TAKE THEM BACK WANTING TO MAKE THEM ATTACK WHEN IT WASN'T TIME TO ATTACK THIS KING IT'S WAS DAMNED IF YOU DO DAMNED IF YOU DON'T.. I REALLY BELIEVED IF THE ADMIRAL SURVIVE BACK THEN THE KING WOULD HAVE FOUND SOME KIND OF WAY TO KILL HIM AND WOULD HAVE ENJOYED WATCHING IT..   

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"Jing Bi-rok" Jeong Tae Woo's horse-riding skill.


Pictures revealed on the 28th show Jeong Tae Woo riding a horse in a stable position in upcoming KBS 1TV drama "Jing Bi-rok". He seems very comfortable on the horse.
According to sources, Jeong Tae Woo's outstanding athletic abilities allow him to catch up quickly on riding the horse. Not only that, he asks the riding instructor questions about the horse and tries to communicate with the horse. He tries to get friendly with the animal by petting it and talking to it whenever he can.
Jeong Tae-woo plays the role of Lee Cheon Ri, a young man in his 20s who remarkable in hunting and horseback riding. He is the student of and later becomes the messenger to Ryu Seong Ryong (Kim Sang Joong) during the time of Japanese invasion.
With the first episode coming up on the 14th of February, "Jing Bi-rok" is based on the story of Ryu Seung ryong from the time of the Japanese invasion to the Battle of Noryang where General Lee Soon Shin died. The cast includes Kim Sang Joong, Kim Tae Woo, Lim Dong Jin, Hwang In Yeong (Queen Ui-in), Kim Hye Eun (Kim Inbin) and more.
Source: http://www.hancinema.net/jing-bi-rok-jeong-tae-woo-s-horse-riding-skills-78011.html

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@Daduxing      Why are you so sure that we will not have subs?! 
Just going by KBS's record. KBS lets streaming sites have some of their modern dramas, like Baker King, but I never see their historicals offered on sites like Viki and Dramafever. They sponsor a for-pay site in the U.S. but the only sageuks offered there are the older ones, several of which I own. Anybody know where Jeong Do-jeon can be seen with English subs?
@mannschaft   Thank you for all the historical background. 

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@turan_dot: You're welcomed.
@Daduxing: If you have KBS World, you can catch KBS historicals with English subtitles. These series are preferrentially and highly restricted from being re-pulished in streaming/viewing online for free.
Naturally, KBS World will broadcast a drama around 2 or 4 weeks later the original on KBS. But there will be modifications in planning, I'll update the KBS World schedules for this show so you guys won't miss it. I guess "Jing Bi-rok" will be there in late-March.
I realize it's not wise to just copy a long article, edit spelling & grammatical errors, and paste it here; because reading pages of texts are really not enticing at all. I'm thinking of presenting & categorizing ideas briefly and including links to the original texts for further reference. I'll also find and attach the videos related to the articles to make it more lively. 

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@mannschaft,  Japanese period pieces I'm not good with because of some of the dramas I watched never had all the episodes or they wasn't subbed.. That's the reason I ask you when you get the chance to recommend a few for me..  All I learned about Hidiyoshi was the lil bit they had said in the drama The great Yi Soon Shin and that he made Japan one states instead of warring states..    

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@Valsava

If you want to Japanese period piece...watch the NHK Taiga drama. A drama that runs almost a year, an episode a week

Last year NHK Taiga drama "Gunshi Kanbei" is the story of Kuroda Kanbei....father of the mentioned Kuroda Nagamasa who fought the Imjin War

Kuroda Nagamasa also lost his younger brother to the Imjin War.

The aftermath of the Imjin War also change the course of history in Japan....after Hideyoshi death, & Ishida Mistunari played de-facto head for Hideyoshi young heir, a lot of Commanders who had fought in the Imjin War switches the loyalty like Kuroda Nagamasa, Kato Kiyomasa to Tokugawa Ieyasu in the Battle of Sekigahara.

I have been watching NHK Taiga drama since 1995

Last year November 2014, I made a day trip to Hahoe Village in Andong where Ryu Seong Ryeong retired & visit Ogyeonjeongsa House (옥연정사) where he wrote Jingbirok