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==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==
*With a cast of 270+ (as well as 27,000+ extras), location shoots in the Philippines and China (unprecedented as South Korea had yet to normalize relations with its communist neighbor), three years in the making, ''Eye of Dawn'' was a huge critical and popular success, pioneering the 'special project' formula.
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*With a cast of 270+ (as well as 27,000+ extras), location shoots in the Philippines and China (unprecedented as South Korea had yet to normalize relations with its communist neighbor), three years in the making, ''Eye of Dawn'' was a huge critical and popular success, pioneering the 'special project' template.
 
* It also paved the way for ''[[Sandglass]]'' (1995), [[Song Ji Na]] and [[Kim Jong Hak]]'s next project for the budding and rival network, SBS.
 
* It also paved the way for ''[[Sandglass]]'' (1995), [[Song Ji Na]] and [[Kim Jong Hak]]'s next project for the budding and rival network, SBS.

Revision as of 19:47, 2 February 2006

Eye of Dawn

Details

  • Title: 여명? 눈?? / Yeo-myoung-eui Noon-dong-ja
  • Genre: Epic, Historical, Drama, Romance
  • Episodes: 36
  • Broadcast network: MBC
  • Broadcast period: Oct. 7, 1991 - Feb. 26, 1992

Cast

Production Credits

Synopsis

Based on a bestseller by Kim Seong Jong (1981), Eye of Dawn is the story of three young Koreans caught in the maelstrom of the nation's modern history. Spanning from the colonial period to the Korean War, the series brought to attention such issues as Japanese war crimes (especially the existence of 'comfort women') and the tragedies wrought by Korea's ideological divisions.

Trivia

  • With a cast of 270+ (as well as 27,000+ extras), location shoots in the Philippines and China (unprecedented as South Korea had yet to normalize relations with its communist neighbor), three years in the making, Eye of Dawn was a huge critical and popular success, pioneering the 'special project' template.
  • It also paved the way for Sandglass (1995), Song Ji Na and Kim Jong Hak's next project for the budding and rival network, SBS.