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*'''Broadcast period:''' 2004-Sep-04 to 2005-Aug-28 (2005-Sep-04)
 
*'''Broadcast period:''' 2004-Sep-04 to 2005-Aug-28 (2005-Sep-04)
 
*'''Air time:''' [[List of Dramas aired in Korea by KBS1#SatSunNight|Saturday & Sunday 21:45]]
 
*'''Air time:''' [[List of Dramas aired in Korea by KBS1#SatSunNight|Saturday & Sunday 21:45]]
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==Synopsis==
 
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Drama "Yi Sun-shin" depicts Yi Sun-shin as a soldier who struggled to survive turbulent days.
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1) Fixed ideas about a national hero are brought up for a scrutiny.
 
  
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No hero has ever been sent by heaven. He has emerged as one ultimately after undergoing a lifelong process. Drama "Yi Sun-shin" is designed to challenge the fixed ideas about him who has been remembered in the form of an imposing statue standing at the Gwanghwamun intersection in Seoul and the Hyeonchungsa Shrine in South Chungcheong Province, while shedding a new light upon him as a human being.
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At the time when Yi Sun-shin lived, the Joseon Dynasty had to achieve political reforms and stabilize the livelihood of the people, while defending the country against the Yojin (Nu Zhen) Tribe and Japanese pirate raiders. Yi Sun-shin was regarded sometimes with jealousy in the process of protecting grass-roots people and sticking to the principles of reforms and lost some battles. He was removed from his duties three times and reinstated to the military service two times as a rank-and-filer. But for all this disgrace, Yi Sun-shin was reborn as a true hero who led the Joseon Navy to a myth of invincibility during the Hideyoshi Invasion (1592-1598 A.D.). Yi Sun-shin, as a soldier who struggled to protect grass-roots people, is what Drama "Yi Sun-shin" has to depict.
  
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2) Drama "Yi Sun-shin" depicts Yi Sun-shin as a soldier who struggled to survive turbulent days.
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Source: KBS
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At the time when Yi Sun-shin lived, the Joseon Dynasty had to achieve political reforms and stabilize the livelihood of the people, while defending the country against the Yojin (Nu Zhen) Tribe and Japanese pirate raiders. Yi Sun-shin was regarded sometimes with jealousy in the process of protecting grass-roots people and sticking to the principles of reforms and lost some battles. He was removed from his duties three times and reinstated to the military service two times as a rank-and-filer. But for all this disgrace, Yi Sun-shin was reborn as a true hero who led the Joseon Navy to a myth of invincibility during the Hideyoshi Invasion (1592-1598 A.D.). Yi Sun-shin, as a soldier who struggled to protect grass-roots people, is what Drama "Yi Sun-shin" has planned to depict.
 
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3) Drama "Yi Sun-shin" is a Korean version of "War and Peace" in the 21st century
 
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Drama "Yi Sun-shin" is not a biography of Admiral Yi Sun-shin, nor does it intend to reconstruct a part of the Joseon Dynasty that existed in the 16th century. It will merely look into many human beings, including Yi Sun-shin, who underwent an extreme situation called the Hideyoshi Invasion, in efforts to study all kinds of human nature, from the most noble down to the most crude...
 
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While dramatizing a war in which human beings turn into inhuman wretches in an extreme way, we hope that this drama will serve paradoxically as an opportunity to remind people of the importance of peace.
 
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4) We are not going to depict characters based on a dichotomous criterion.
 
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We will cast a new light on another military leader, Won Gyun, whose evaluation has been severely distorted in the process of making a hero of Admiral Yi Sun-shin, and maintain an objective view of the military leaders of Japan and the Chinese Ming Dynasty as well. While based on a historical fact on the national hero of Japan, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, we are going to find out how his distorted ambition had led many people to be killed in the war and laid a stumbling block to the peace in East Asia. We will remain neutral in our evaluations of Ming generals, such as Chen Lin and Li Rusong.
 
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5) We have made an attempt to shed a new light on numerous officers and soldiers under Yi Sun-shin's command by looking into the admiral not as a hero, but as a true leader.
 
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Yi Sun-shin had a staff of many talented officers under his command. Some of them include Kwon Jun, a strategist, Na Dae-yong, a scientist, and many nameless people who assisted Na in building the turtle ships and making armory. Besides, many other officers, including Chung Un, fought in the war, setting their own life at naught. The drama will describe Yi Sun-shin, a man of virtues, as the leader of these men.
 
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6) In part, the drama will shed light on the life of the villagers at "Gonyang Pottery" in a bid to emphasize the superiority of the culture of the Joseon Dynasty.
 
  
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The Japanese were so enthusiastic about the Joseon culture that the Hideyoshi Invasion was called a war of porcelain bowls. Many Joseon potters were taken as prisoners of war to Japan, where they produced china and porcelain that later formed the basis of the economic power of the shogunate government of Ieyasu Tokugawa in Edo, Japan. The drama is going to lay stress on the superiority of the Joseon culture by depicting the life and conflicts of potters at the Gonyang Pottery Village.
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7) We are going to make a detailed description of the life of grass-roots people, who underwent a war, in efforts to reiterate that such people are the true heroes of history.
 
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In such turbulent days, the king, senior government officials or military leaders were not the only ones that were concerned about the future of their country. There were merchants, who did not hesitate to donate their purses to the national defense despite the cold treatment they received in society based on social status; numerous army volunteers and their leaders, who tried to save their country with their own life; and monk soldiers and their leaders, who rose in arms in the belief that real redemption would come from saving the country. While depicting their resolute stance, we are going to reaffirm the stark fact that "grass-roots people are the real heroes of history."
 
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8) We will try to shed light on the history from an objective point of view, while also taking a look at the background of a historical view that was instigated by the Japanese colonial government.
 
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Some historians, including Lee Gwang-su, who have been advocates of such a distorted historical view, have tried to attribute the outbreak of the war and the subsequent defeat to the government officials' preoccupation in political strifes. But this view is obviously a misjudgment. Political contests are not a prelude to the national ruin. The Joseon society, which was an absolute monarchy, was not ready yet to receive such a political system.
 
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9) This drama will draw a real picture of the Joseon society, which was not well acquainted with the international situation at the time, in a bid to learn a lesson from this example.
 
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In East Asia at the time, Ming was losing his influence gradually, while Yojin was emerging as the central power in Manchuria. In Japan, Nobunaga Oda died after putting an end to a 120-year civil war, and Hideyoshi Toyotomi took power and unified the entire Japan. During the civil war, Japan accepted the Western civilization and came in contact with quite a new weapon, harquebuses. Records have it that the military capabilities of Japan at the time were stronger than those of the European countries combined. Japan had the high ambition to conquer East Asia based on such military capabilities. Regrettably, there were not many people in Joseon who had a correct understanding of the international situation.
 
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The drama will point out, first of all, these points as the primary causes of the 7-year Joseon-Japanese War and the ensuing bitter defeat. We are going to look into the life of Yi Sun-shin, Yu Seong-ryong and Won Gyun who went through such turbulent days as contemporaries. From this history, we are going to learn a lesson for today's Korea, a small and weak nation in the dynamics of the international relations.
 
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==Cast==
 
==Cast==
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*[[Choi Chul Ho]] as King Seonjo
 
*[[Choi Chul Ho]] as King Seonjo
 
*[[Choi Jae Sung]] as Won Gyun
 
*[[Choi Jae Sung]] as Won Gyun
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*[[Ahn Yeon Hong]] as Hong Yi
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*[[Ahn Yun Hong]] as Hong Yi
 
*[[Kim Gyu Chul]]
 
*[[Kim Gyu Chul]]
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===Extended Cast===
 
===Extended Cast===
 
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*[[Kim Ki Bok]]
 
*[[Kim Ki Bok]]
 
*[[Choi Sung Joon (1965)|Choi Sung Joon]]
 
*[[Choi Sung Joon (1965)|Choi Sung Joon]]
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*[[Baek Seung Do]]
 
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*[[Park Won Sook]]
 
*[[Park Won Sook]]
 
*[[Choi Joon Yong]]
 
*[[Choi Joon Yong]]
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*[[Jung Eun Pyo]]
 
*[[Jung Eun Pyo]]
 
*[[Kim Hak Joon]]
 
*[[Kim Hak Joon]]
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*[[Kim Sang Sik]]
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*[[Kim Sang Shik]] (김상식)
 
*[[Lee Bong Gyu]]
 
*[[Lee Bong Gyu]]
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*[[Lee Chang Min (actor)|Lee Chang Min]]
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*[[Lee Chang Min (actor)|Lee Chang Min]] (이창민)
 
*[[Hwang Bum Shik]]
 
*[[Hwang Bum Shik]]
 
*[[Kim Duk Hyun]] as Eon Bok
 
*[[Kim Duk Hyun]] as Eon Bok
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*[[Seo Bum Yul]]
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*[[Seo Bum Yul]] (서범열)
 
*[[Yeo Jae Goo]] (여재구)
 
*[[Yeo Jae Goo]] (여재구)
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*[[Jung Jin Mo]]
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*[[Jung Jin Mo]] (정진모)
 
*[[Oh Seung Yoon]]
 
*[[Oh Seung Yoon]]
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*[[Ahn Nae Sang]]
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*[[Kim Young Sun]]
 
</div> <div style="float:left; width:33.33%;">
 
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*[[Kim Bo Kyung]]
 
*[[Kim Bo Kyung]]
 
*[[Jo Jae Wan]]
 
*[[Jo Jae Wan]]
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*[[Yoo Seung Bong]] as Shimazu Yoshihiro
 
*[[Yoo Seung Bong]] as Shimazu Yoshihiro
 
*[[Goo Jung Rim]]
 
*[[Goo Jung Rim]]
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*[[Baek Yoon Heum]]
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*[[Sun Dong Hyuk]]
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*[[Im Dae Ho]] as Oh Hyung
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*[[Nam So Yun]]
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*[[Choi Yoon Joon]]
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*[[Jung Jong Hyun]]
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*[[Kang Chul Sung]]
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*[[Lee Hye Geun]]
 
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==Production Credits==
 
==Production Credits==
 
*'''Producer:''' [[Jung Young Chul]]
 
*'''Producer:''' [[Jung Young Chul]]
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*'''Director:''' [[Lee Sung Joo]], [[Kim Jung Gyu]]
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*'''Director:''' [[Lee Sung Joo]], [[Kim Jung Gyu]], [[Han Joon Seo]]
 
*'''Original writing:''' [[wikipedia:Kim Takhwan|Kim Tak Hwan]], novel ''The Immortal Yi Sun-sin''
 
*'''Original writing:''' [[wikipedia:Kim Takhwan|Kim Tak Hwan]], novel ''The Immortal Yi Sun-sin''
 
*'''Screenwriter:''' [[Yoon Sun Joo]]
 
*'''Screenwriter:''' [[Yoon Sun Joo]]
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*'''Assistant director:''' [[Han Joon Seo]], [[Lee So Yun (director)|Lee So Yun]], [[Song Hyun Wook]], [[Kim Won Suk (director)|Kim Won Suk]]
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*'''Assistant director:''' [[Lee So Yun (director)|Lee So Yun]], [[Song Hyun Wook]], [[Kim Won Suk (director)|Kim Won Suk]]
 
*'''Assistant screenwriter:''' [[Park Young Suk]] (박영숙), [[Yoon Young Soo]] (윤영수),  [[Jang Ki Chang]] (장기창)
 
*'''Assistant screenwriter:''' [[Park Young Suk]] (박영숙), [[Yoon Young Soo]] (윤영수),  [[Jang Ki Chang]] (장기창)
  
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*'''2006 The 33rd Korean Broadcasting Awards:''' Best TV Talent [[Kim Myung Min]]
 
*'''2006 The 33rd Korean Broadcasting Awards:''' Best TV Talent [[Kim Myung Min]]
 
*'''2006 18th Producers Awards of Korea:''' Best Performer [[Kim Myung Min]]
 
*'''2006 18th Producers Awards of Korea:''' Best Performer [[Kim Myung Min]]
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*'''2005 Grimae Award:''' Best Actor [[Kim Myung Min]]
 
*'''2005 KBS Drama Awards:''' Grand Prize [[Kim Myung Min]]
 
*'''2005 KBS Drama Awards:''' Grand Prize [[Kim Myung Min]]
 
*'''2004 The 4th KBS Right Language Awards:''' [[Kim Myung Min]]
 
*'''2004 The 4th KBS Right Language Awards:''' [[Kim Myung Min]]
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*[http://www.kbs.co.kr/drama/leesoonshin/ Official site]
 
*[http://www.kbs.co.kr/drama/leesoonshin/ Official site]
 
*[http://english.kbs.co.kr/spotlight/1330268_3178.html KBS Online]
 
*[http://english.kbs.co.kr/spotlight/1330268_3178.html KBS Online]
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*[http://suwon.kbs.co.kr/drama/ds_detail.html?seq_no=237 KBS archive site]
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050125052354/http://suwon.kbs.co.kr/drama/ds_detail.html?seq_no=237 KBS archive site]
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*[[wikipedia:Immortal Admiral Yi Sun-sin|English Wikipedia]]
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*[[wikipedia:ko:불멸의 이순신|Korean Wikipedia]]
  
 
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Latest revision as of 14:00, 11 September 2021

Immortal Lee Soon-shin: promotional poster

Details

  • Title: 불멸의 이순신 (不滅의 李舜臣) / Bulmyeolui Yi Sun-sin
  • Also known as: The Immortal Lee Soon-shin / Immortal Admiral Yi Soon-shin / Immortal Yi Soon-shin
  • Episodes: 104 (+ 2 special programs)
  • Broadcast network: KBS1
  • Broadcast period: 2004-Sep-04 to 2005-Aug-28 (2005-Sep-04)
  • Air time: Saturday & Sunday 21:45
  • Viewership rating: 33.1% (peak), 29.9% (average)

Synopsis

Drama "Yi Sun-shin" depicts Yi Sun-shin as a soldier who struggled to survive turbulent days.

At the time when Yi Sun-shin lived, the Joseon Dynasty had to achieve political reforms and stabilize the livelihood of the people, while defending the country against the Yojin (Nu Zhen) Tribe and Japanese pirate raiders. Yi Sun-shin was regarded sometimes with jealousy in the process of protecting grass-roots people and sticking to the principles of reforms and lost some battles. He was removed from his duties three times and reinstated to the military service two times as a rank-and-filer. But for all this disgrace, Yi Sun-shin was reborn as a true hero who led the Joseon Navy to a myth of invincibility during the Hideyoshi Invasion (1592-1598 A.D.). Yi Sun-shin, as a soldier who struggled to protect grass-roots people, is what Drama "Yi Sun-shin" has to depict.

Source: KBS

User/Viewer Ratings

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Cast

Extended Cast

Production Credits

Awards

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