Goryeo

It's wild because, you know, I'm Korean.

I literally had to study several novels and several short stories from the ancient Joseon Dynasty, Goryeo Dynasty, even the Japanese occupation.

There is literally an author who was... heavily influenced by Dadaism throughout his known works that were made during the Japanese occupation.

And compared to that, any, like, allusions to Dadaism in this film is so minimal.

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the problem is that they have to fight the Western Xia and the Liao and a group, uh, on the Korean Peninsula known as the Goryeo, um, who were fairly powerful in their own right.

Uh, but then at the same time, they have a, they have a, another party just swoop in, and it is the Jin who are horse nomads from the steppe who just sweep in.

They wipe out the Lia- they wipe out the Liao, they help the Song las- wipe out the Western Xia, and then they start fighting the Song.

Baekje and Goguryeo, dead for over two hundred years, were proclaimed reborn under new rulers, and the peninsula slid into a second age of three rival kingdoms.

The unity Silla had won at Hwangsanbeol and Pyongyang was coming undone, and out of that chaos a new leader was about to rise, one who would build a kingdom whose very name still echoes in the word we use for the country today, Goryeo and the Mongol Storm.

The man who finally pulled the broken peninsula back together was a general named Wang Geon, and like many founders, he rose by serving a master he eventually had to destroy.

In the chaos of Silla's collapse, two warlords had carved out new kingdoms from its ruins.

By the year nine eighteen, his own officers had seen enough.

They overthrew him and raised Wang Geon to the throne in his place.

Wang Geon named his new kingdom Goryeo, a shortened echo of the old name Goguryeo, and it is from that single word, Goryeo, that the Western name Korea would eventually come.

Wang Geon proved to be as patient as he was capable, and he understood that conquest alone could not heal a shattered country.

Right.

But the Korean adaptation translates this to the early Goryeo court.

Yes.

Real quick, just for the listener, contrast Goryeo with Joseon for us.

Sure.

So Goryeo is the dynasty that preceded Joseon.

If Joseon in television is often portrayed as rigid, scholarly, and, you know, constrained by Confucian order-

Like we saw in Sungkyunkwan Scandal