Dae Wang Sejong (2008): Season 1, Episode 29 - Episode #1.29 - full transcript
Secure the audience hall within one
hour and take Yi Bangwon's head!
Stay calm!
We learned that there are
secret passages in the palace.
The passage we discovered by studying
the construction archives is...
a well that leads to the Eunuch's quarters
and the Royal bedchambers.
Search the tunnel for other outlets!
Your Highness, it's the rebels.
You must evacuate immediately.
The Queen's hall?
You mean there is another outlet?
When greed for power crushes loyalty...
The door is opened for treason.
Eunuch Gim Sahaeng who
built an underground
secret escape route in the palace for
the sole purpose of protecting the King...
First Strife of Princes: A revolt incited
by the battle the throne
that resulted in the death of
Jengg Dojeon and Crown Prince Bangseok.
If your father Yi Bangwon had not struck
down his loyalty, his secret passage would
not be used now as an attack route
for the revolutionary army.
You must send someone to the palace.
You must find out if His Majesty is all right.
The battle has begun.
Hurry!
Forgive me, Your Majesty.
I must borrow your Royal gown.
The rebels are drawing near.
You must save yourself.
Your Majesty...
Keep it up.
We're almost there.
Thank goodness you're all right,
Your Majesty.
It appears you don't
appreciate being a live.
Neither do you.
Do you think you can stop me?
You're unarmed?
You want to die for your father?
Get out of here.
It's the last favor I can do for you.
I'm sorry.
My father will never say those
words even at the verge of death...
And yet...
And yet I had to come
back because he is my father.
Won't you take me instead?
If there's a crime that you want my father
and this country Joseon to pay,
can't I pay instead?
Get out of here I said!
Why are you trying to let
the enemy get away alive?
Are you going to let your feelings
interfere with your duty?
He is unarmed.
Kill him!
Ilji!
Leave them to me and
get back to the master.
Didn't you hear me?
Get out of here.
Now!
Take him to safety...
Ilji, Ilji!
Ilji...
Ilji, open your eyes!
Would you... get me up?
Darn it... I still have so much to teach
you about the Chinese language...
It's not arrogance.
It's foolishness.
A fool that considered me
as your teacher? No, a friend?
Even though you knew
I was your enemy...
It wouldn't be a bad idea to leave
a fool like you behind in this world...
No, don't wake him up.
A friend is sleeping.
The light in the audience
hall is still lit up.
I guess it's time to end the fight.
Relay my message to Yi Bangwon.
The rebel leader requests a meeting.
I've come to die.
Would you allow me to take
my own life among my friends?
No, Your Majesty.
You must rip him from limb to limb,
and hang his...
Your Majesty...
At least you know how
to be a graceful winner.
You!
I admit defeat.
You are the winner.
But you are not a King yet.
How dare you!
Dynastic revolution...
Changing the surname of
the King from Wang to Yi...
That is all that your sword can do.
Remember.
Goryeo fell twenty years ago not
because you were strong but
because we were weak and corrupted.
But if you replace that corruption and
weakness with tyranny and oppression,
not only will you never be a true king,
but that tyranny and oppression
will be the cause of your demise.
I ask you for the people of Joseon
who were once children of Goryeo.
Let me be your last enemy.
Would you remember us?
Remember me and my comrades not as
merciless killers with seething rage
for the government, but as revolutionaries
who died fighting for a better world.
Did you come back to save the
King and protect the regime?
If so...
No.
I came back because
I couldn't let my father die.
My mind has not changed.
Do you still think you're right?
I wish to abdicate the throne.
Why are you silent?
Do as you desire.
Abdicate the throne.
No, Your Majesty!
Oh dear...
Perhaps abdication is not an option since
the Royal Attendant is so dead set against it.
Are you mocking the King?
I was just going along with
Your Majesty's humor.
Have I overstepped my bounds?
Naughty old man...
Prolonged physical weakness has
made you weak emotionally as well.
I will go personally to
the Palace Dispensary
and order medicinal potion...
I am serious about the abdication.
Your Majesty...
Would you be the Prime Minister?
Take the Royal court so the Crown Prince
can take over the throne smoothly.
I want to make sure while I am
alive that this county Joseon is
strong enough to last a thousand years.
I will never rest in peace otherwise.
An important announcement.
I wonder what it could be.
We'll find out soon enough.
Where is Counselor Yun anyway?
I hope he's not drinking again.
Your body can't take
this drinking every day.
Who cares what happens to my
body when my heart is gone?
Counselor Yun...
You're really something.
I just can't figure you out.
How could you think to enter this
filthy political arena after sending
Prince Choongnyeong off the way we did?
Everybody has their own way
of punishing themselves.
I am deeply troubled by my inability
to administer state affairs effectively
due to my poor physical condition.
For this reason,
I am placing newly appointed
Yu Jeonghyun in charge of
personnel affairs of six ministries
and other important posts,
and the Crown Prince will attend to
all other state affairs with exception
to military and foreign relations.
Let there be no objections.
Administer state affairs excluding
personnel and military affairs?
An acting king!
The world belongs to
the Crown Prince now!
And it belongs to you, sirs, as well.
The rumor has it
this is a preface to abdication.
Then we should be
contrite before the King.
It is gravely disloyal to take
delight in the King's abdication.
We're making small talk about a rumor.
I think you're overreacting.
Are you the one that recommended
me for the Prime Minister position?
His Majesty made the decision.
Do you think it was wise?
I'm used to working in
the regional government.
I can't get used to the
colorful central politics.
Like the political mud
wrestling, for example?
If you were used to
dirty political mud wresting,
His Majesty would not have chosen you.
By the way, what's to happen to the
court now that His Majesty is handing
over the right to implement personnel
management over to Prime Minister Yu?
What is to happen?
Power is shifting over from
the head of the six ministries
to the head of the Supreme Council.
Right, Minister Shim?
Why, I wonder.
How did Minister of Personnel lose
His Majesty's trust overnight?
I doubt you were slacking on your job...
Have you been preoccupied
with something else?
Where are you getting at?
For example, plot your banished
son-in-law's glorious return, or...
That's absolutely ridiculous!
Be careful, Minister Shim.
Strong denial can be misread
as admission in this situation.
What are you doing in the capital city
when you should be in Gyeongsung?
I returned for my mother's 70th birthday.
You're going through
much trouble for my son...
No, Your Highness.
Choongnyeong...
Is Choongnyeong all right?
He suffered a cold over the winter,
but otherwise he is well.
Such pitiable fellow...
He is a young man.
He should be unfazed by the winter cold.
Perhaps the Royal Physician
can concoct some herbal potion.
He will send it back.
He didn't even accept the cotton quilt.
Then I will instruct the Royal Kitchen to see
what we can send instead of herbal potion.
Prince will not refuse if it is
a simple item that Chief Gang can take.
What is this unseemly behavior?
Look at your sloppy attire.
Which section do you serve?
The Royal Kitchen...
Answer her properly!
How dare you give the
queen a one word answer!
That's no way to discipline a child who
makes a playground out of the palace.
Get my palanquin ready.
I'm going to the Royal Kitchen.
I will take care of it, Your Highness.
It is for my son.
If I can't send fruit I have grown myself, at
least I can add my love by packing them.
You're...
You must need more whipping.
What are you doing here?
I... I heard this is going to
Prince Choongnyeong...
And I thought they would rot on the
way if they weren't packed right, so...
There you go again cutting off
your sentence.
Leave us at once!
No.
Your Highness...
Is that why you needed
pine needles this afternoon?
I'm asking you if you were collecting
pine needles to use as preservative.
I heard pine needles keep
fruit from turning bad, so...
Very well.
I will take care of this, so you may go.
Are you upset?
Sure.
You were misunderstood and
whipped, so upset you must be.
No, it's not that.
I miss him.
I wish I could see him if only just once.
Goodness!
You speak of longing
for the Prince before the Queen?
Even the Queen, the most feared
person in the palace, misses her son...
And when I think of how I wasn't
there for my poor, ailing mother
and how she must've wanted so
much to see me before she passed...
Did you lose your mother?
In spite of all Prince Choongnyeong
did to help...
But I'm sure she went in peace.
I'm sure she went in peace believing
you will do well no matter where you
are because she raised
you to be kind and smart.
Your Highness...
We mothers, we worry, but we want
to believe everything will be all right.
Because if we don't, it feels like our
whole world is crumbling down on us...
The right to implement
personnel management?
I need a few loyal men to serve me
closely to manage state affairs smoothly.
Leave personnel affairs alone.
The Prime Minister and I will
do the appointing and removing.
And don't forget to be humble
to those who assist you.
They are your teachers in the
world of politics more than
they are your servants for now.
Then do they keep
a scorecard of my performance as well?
What happens to me if I get bad scores?
That will not happen if you respectfully
adhere to their teachings.
That is not what I saw growing up,
but I will try my best.
What is this?
I jotted down some ideas for
the personnel reshuffling.
Does it reflect His Majesty's desire?
Or is it...
It will help you either way.
What is the purpose with
such drastic measures?
You're an interesting fellow.
Where are you going?
Can't you tell?
If you're going to the palace,
you should leave that flute behind.
Then this guy here will be bored to death.
He has a long way to walk.
The least I can do is
to give him some music.
He's like a son to me.
Take good care of him.
You're still an eccentric soul.
I know you've been away from the city
for many years, but you should know
that animals belong in the barn.
You should thank me
for not taking him into the conference hall.
Sir.
What's the difference between
this place and an animal pen?
It's loud, it's filthy...
I do not like these derogatory
remarks about the court!
Then you can start changing
that by lowering your voice.
I may not be much, but I don t like
having disrespectful subordinates.
Subordinates?
Then are you the newly...
I did hesitate a little when I heard you
were appointed as the vice-minister.
Meng Sasung as Minister of Rites?
That's not all.
Shim On is remaining in office
as Minister of Personnel,
and Hwang Hee got pushed
out to Ministry of Public Works.
What?
Hwang Hee as Minister of Public Works?
That's ridiculous!
How can you work at a time like this?
I can't believe you're being cut
down from Minister of Rites,
the most important position in the
court, to Minister of Public Works.
You should watch your words
around junior officials.
The six ministries are divided
by the work we do.
There is no pecking order.
Don't be naive.
You denying that pecking order
does not exist will not make
the pecking order disappear.
What is His Majesty's intent?
If it weren't for you, His Majesty
wouldn't be here today.
And we, too, have done everything for him.
How could he treat his most
loyal subjects this way?
Let us be patient.
I'm sure His Majesty and
the Prime Minister has good reasons.
Good reasons?
What good reasons?
He's conspiring to clean up
the court of the merit subjects
and in-laws so he can call all the shots.
That tyranny...
I can stop that.
Didn't you say you had one
other man to recommend?
I am Yi Chun of the Bureau of Weaponry.
Why did you draw this map?
Conquest of Liaodong and recapture of
old territory is not your dream alone.
I'd like to share that dream with you.
Leave us.
But Your Highness,
you expressed interest in meeting him.
This good man came forward to serve you.
This is your last chance to back out.
I will drive you to the edge
to use you as an advance guard
in the conquest of Liaodong.
You cannot back out once you're in.
I see I frightened you already.
A warrior does not fight his enemy
with his tongue, Your Highness.
I like you.
You won't be disappointed.
Then I guess all we have left
to do now is to take an oath.
Blood oath of alliance!
With this blood,
we vow to serve you to the end.
Enemy that threatens
you will be our enemy,
and we will offer our blood at the altar
of sacrifice for your peaceful reign.
Offer your blood?
I do not want anyone
to shed blood for me.
But if you wish to give
your life for Joseon,
I will accept your loyalty with gratitude.
And now my life is yours and we are one,
we will protect each other with our lives.
Gyeongsung, Hamgil Province
Is anyone in?
May I help you?
I am Yi Chun of the Bureau of Weaponry.
Where is Prince Choongnyeong?
Which one of those men
is Prince Choongnyeong?
There he is.
Right over there.
hour and take Yi Bangwon's head!
Stay calm!
We learned that there are
secret passages in the palace.
The passage we discovered by studying
the construction archives is...
a well that leads to the Eunuch's quarters
and the Royal bedchambers.
Search the tunnel for other outlets!
Your Highness, it's the rebels.
You must evacuate immediately.
The Queen's hall?
You mean there is another outlet?
When greed for power crushes loyalty...
The door is opened for treason.
Eunuch Gim Sahaeng who
built an underground
secret escape route in the palace for
the sole purpose of protecting the King...
First Strife of Princes: A revolt incited
by the battle the throne
that resulted in the death of
Jengg Dojeon and Crown Prince Bangseok.
If your father Yi Bangwon had not struck
down his loyalty, his secret passage would
not be used now as an attack route
for the revolutionary army.
You must send someone to the palace.
You must find out if His Majesty is all right.
The battle has begun.
Hurry!
Forgive me, Your Majesty.
I must borrow your Royal gown.
The rebels are drawing near.
You must save yourself.
Your Majesty...
Keep it up.
We're almost there.
Thank goodness you're all right,
Your Majesty.
It appears you don't
appreciate being a live.
Neither do you.
Do you think you can stop me?
You're unarmed?
You want to die for your father?
Get out of here.
It's the last favor I can do for you.
I'm sorry.
My father will never say those
words even at the verge of death...
And yet...
And yet I had to come
back because he is my father.
Won't you take me instead?
If there's a crime that you want my father
and this country Joseon to pay,
can't I pay instead?
Get out of here I said!
Why are you trying to let
the enemy get away alive?
Are you going to let your feelings
interfere with your duty?
He is unarmed.
Kill him!
Ilji!
Leave them to me and
get back to the master.
Didn't you hear me?
Get out of here.
Now!
Take him to safety...
Ilji, Ilji!
Ilji...
Ilji, open your eyes!
Would you... get me up?
Darn it... I still have so much to teach
you about the Chinese language...
It's not arrogance.
It's foolishness.
A fool that considered me
as your teacher? No, a friend?
Even though you knew
I was your enemy...
It wouldn't be a bad idea to leave
a fool like you behind in this world...
No, don't wake him up.
A friend is sleeping.
The light in the audience
hall is still lit up.
I guess it's time to end the fight.
Relay my message to Yi Bangwon.
The rebel leader requests a meeting.
I've come to die.
Would you allow me to take
my own life among my friends?
No, Your Majesty.
You must rip him from limb to limb,
and hang his...
Your Majesty...
At least you know how
to be a graceful winner.
You!
I admit defeat.
You are the winner.
But you are not a King yet.
How dare you!
Dynastic revolution...
Changing the surname of
the King from Wang to Yi...
That is all that your sword can do.
Remember.
Goryeo fell twenty years ago not
because you were strong but
because we were weak and corrupted.
But if you replace that corruption and
weakness with tyranny and oppression,
not only will you never be a true king,
but that tyranny and oppression
will be the cause of your demise.
I ask you for the people of Joseon
who were once children of Goryeo.
Let me be your last enemy.
Would you remember us?
Remember me and my comrades not as
merciless killers with seething rage
for the government, but as revolutionaries
who died fighting for a better world.
Did you come back to save the
King and protect the regime?
If so...
No.
I came back because
I couldn't let my father die.
My mind has not changed.
Do you still think you're right?
I wish to abdicate the throne.
Why are you silent?
Do as you desire.
Abdicate the throne.
No, Your Majesty!
Oh dear...
Perhaps abdication is not an option since
the Royal Attendant is so dead set against it.
Are you mocking the King?
I was just going along with
Your Majesty's humor.
Have I overstepped my bounds?
Naughty old man...
Prolonged physical weakness has
made you weak emotionally as well.
I will go personally to
the Palace Dispensary
and order medicinal potion...
I am serious about the abdication.
Your Majesty...
Would you be the Prime Minister?
Take the Royal court so the Crown Prince
can take over the throne smoothly.
I want to make sure while I am
alive that this county Joseon is
strong enough to last a thousand years.
I will never rest in peace otherwise.
An important announcement.
I wonder what it could be.
We'll find out soon enough.
Where is Counselor Yun anyway?
I hope he's not drinking again.
Your body can't take
this drinking every day.
Who cares what happens to my
body when my heart is gone?
Counselor Yun...
You're really something.
I just can't figure you out.
How could you think to enter this
filthy political arena after sending
Prince Choongnyeong off the way we did?
Everybody has their own way
of punishing themselves.
I am deeply troubled by my inability
to administer state affairs effectively
due to my poor physical condition.
For this reason,
I am placing newly appointed
Yu Jeonghyun in charge of
personnel affairs of six ministries
and other important posts,
and the Crown Prince will attend to
all other state affairs with exception
to military and foreign relations.
Let there be no objections.
Administer state affairs excluding
personnel and military affairs?
An acting king!
The world belongs to
the Crown Prince now!
And it belongs to you, sirs, as well.
The rumor has it
this is a preface to abdication.
Then we should be
contrite before the King.
It is gravely disloyal to take
delight in the King's abdication.
We're making small talk about a rumor.
I think you're overreacting.
Are you the one that recommended
me for the Prime Minister position?
His Majesty made the decision.
Do you think it was wise?
I'm used to working in
the regional government.
I can't get used to the
colorful central politics.
Like the political mud
wrestling, for example?
If you were used to
dirty political mud wresting,
His Majesty would not have chosen you.
By the way, what's to happen to the
court now that His Majesty is handing
over the right to implement personnel
management over to Prime Minister Yu?
What is to happen?
Power is shifting over from
the head of the six ministries
to the head of the Supreme Council.
Right, Minister Shim?
Why, I wonder.
How did Minister of Personnel lose
His Majesty's trust overnight?
I doubt you were slacking on your job...
Have you been preoccupied
with something else?
Where are you getting at?
For example, plot your banished
son-in-law's glorious return, or...
That's absolutely ridiculous!
Be careful, Minister Shim.
Strong denial can be misread
as admission in this situation.
What are you doing in the capital city
when you should be in Gyeongsung?
I returned for my mother's 70th birthday.
You're going through
much trouble for my son...
No, Your Highness.
Choongnyeong...
Is Choongnyeong all right?
He suffered a cold over the winter,
but otherwise he is well.
Such pitiable fellow...
He is a young man.
He should be unfazed by the winter cold.
Perhaps the Royal Physician
can concoct some herbal potion.
He will send it back.
He didn't even accept the cotton quilt.
Then I will instruct the Royal Kitchen to see
what we can send instead of herbal potion.
Prince will not refuse if it is
a simple item that Chief Gang can take.
What is this unseemly behavior?
Look at your sloppy attire.
Which section do you serve?
The Royal Kitchen...
Answer her properly!
How dare you give the
queen a one word answer!
That's no way to discipline a child who
makes a playground out of the palace.
Get my palanquin ready.
I'm going to the Royal Kitchen.
I will take care of it, Your Highness.
It is for my son.
If I can't send fruit I have grown myself, at
least I can add my love by packing them.
You're...
You must need more whipping.
What are you doing here?
I... I heard this is going to
Prince Choongnyeong...
And I thought they would rot on the
way if they weren't packed right, so...
There you go again cutting off
your sentence.
Leave us at once!
No.
Your Highness...
Is that why you needed
pine needles this afternoon?
I'm asking you if you were collecting
pine needles to use as preservative.
I heard pine needles keep
fruit from turning bad, so...
Very well.
I will take care of this, so you may go.
Are you upset?
Sure.
You were misunderstood and
whipped, so upset you must be.
No, it's not that.
I miss him.
I wish I could see him if only just once.
Goodness!
You speak of longing
for the Prince before the Queen?
Even the Queen, the most feared
person in the palace, misses her son...
And when I think of how I wasn't
there for my poor, ailing mother
and how she must've wanted so
much to see me before she passed...
Did you lose your mother?
In spite of all Prince Choongnyeong
did to help...
But I'm sure she went in peace.
I'm sure she went in peace believing
you will do well no matter where you
are because she raised
you to be kind and smart.
Your Highness...
We mothers, we worry, but we want
to believe everything will be all right.
Because if we don't, it feels like our
whole world is crumbling down on us...
The right to implement
personnel management?
I need a few loyal men to serve me
closely to manage state affairs smoothly.
Leave personnel affairs alone.
The Prime Minister and I will
do the appointing and removing.
And don't forget to be humble
to those who assist you.
They are your teachers in the
world of politics more than
they are your servants for now.
Then do they keep
a scorecard of my performance as well?
What happens to me if I get bad scores?
That will not happen if you respectfully
adhere to their teachings.
That is not what I saw growing up,
but I will try my best.
What is this?
I jotted down some ideas for
the personnel reshuffling.
Does it reflect His Majesty's desire?
Or is it...
It will help you either way.
What is the purpose with
such drastic measures?
You're an interesting fellow.
Where are you going?
Can't you tell?
If you're going to the palace,
you should leave that flute behind.
Then this guy here will be bored to death.
He has a long way to walk.
The least I can do is
to give him some music.
He's like a son to me.
Take good care of him.
You're still an eccentric soul.
I know you've been away from the city
for many years, but you should know
that animals belong in the barn.
You should thank me
for not taking him into the conference hall.
Sir.
What's the difference between
this place and an animal pen?
It's loud, it's filthy...
I do not like these derogatory
remarks about the court!
Then you can start changing
that by lowering your voice.
I may not be much, but I don t like
having disrespectful subordinates.
Subordinates?
Then are you the newly...
I did hesitate a little when I heard you
were appointed as the vice-minister.
Meng Sasung as Minister of Rites?
That's not all.
Shim On is remaining in office
as Minister of Personnel,
and Hwang Hee got pushed
out to Ministry of Public Works.
What?
Hwang Hee as Minister of Public Works?
That's ridiculous!
How can you work at a time like this?
I can't believe you're being cut
down from Minister of Rites,
the most important position in the
court, to Minister of Public Works.
You should watch your words
around junior officials.
The six ministries are divided
by the work we do.
There is no pecking order.
Don't be naive.
You denying that pecking order
does not exist will not make
the pecking order disappear.
What is His Majesty's intent?
If it weren't for you, His Majesty
wouldn't be here today.
And we, too, have done everything for him.
How could he treat his most
loyal subjects this way?
Let us be patient.
I'm sure His Majesty and
the Prime Minister has good reasons.
Good reasons?
What good reasons?
He's conspiring to clean up
the court of the merit subjects
and in-laws so he can call all the shots.
That tyranny...
I can stop that.
Didn't you say you had one
other man to recommend?
I am Yi Chun of the Bureau of Weaponry.
Why did you draw this map?
Conquest of Liaodong and recapture of
old territory is not your dream alone.
I'd like to share that dream with you.
Leave us.
But Your Highness,
you expressed interest in meeting him.
This good man came forward to serve you.
This is your last chance to back out.
I will drive you to the edge
to use you as an advance guard
in the conquest of Liaodong.
You cannot back out once you're in.
I see I frightened you already.
A warrior does not fight his enemy
with his tongue, Your Highness.
I like you.
You won't be disappointed.
Then I guess all we have left
to do now is to take an oath.
Blood oath of alliance!
With this blood,
we vow to serve you to the end.
Enemy that threatens
you will be our enemy,
and we will offer our blood at the altar
of sacrifice for your peaceful reign.
Offer your blood?
I do not want anyone
to shed blood for me.
But if you wish to give
your life for Joseon,
I will accept your loyalty with gratitude.
And now my life is yours and we are one,
we will protect each other with our lives.
Gyeongsung, Hamgil Province
Is anyone in?
May I help you?
I am Yi Chun of the Bureau of Weaponry.
Where is Prince Choongnyeong?
Which one of those men
is Prince Choongnyeong?
There he is.
Right over there.