Dae Wang Sejong (2008): Season 1, Episode 38 - Episode #1.38 - full transcript
What is the meaning of this?
My woman is ill, Father.
How could you!
Summon the royal physician for me.
Are you out of your mind?
She is with my child.
You wouldn't turn away
an injured animal.
She has your grandchild, Father.
What are we doing here?
We should be at the audience hall.
We must beseech the King
to remove the Crown Prince!
You exposed the Crown Prince's immoral
conduct with leaflets in the palace?
I beg your pardon?
Digging up dirt on your political enemy...
You're getting good at this, Minister Shim.
Where am I?
It's the palace.
You're in my chambers.
I'm going to leave.
You don't have to.
Lie back down.
Lie back down and rest.
You lost your mind.
I think you're right.
Call the physician and keep visitors out.
But Your Highness...
Do as you're told.
Your Grace...!
Announce me.
But...
Do you want my neck hanging
on the crossbeam or
will you open that door?
Your Grace...
Control yourself, Princess.
Return to your chambers.
I'm going to kill myself.
Either that or set this palace on fire.
You must control yourself.
I am not you, Mother.
Princess!
They said I had to be like you
if I am going to be the Queen.
So I tried my hardest to imitate you.
But as a result, I lost my husband.
He is my husband before he is the
Crown Prince and the future King.
Ignore it.
Pretend that it's just you and
me and no one else is here.
How can I?
Try.
I shouldn't have acted so arrogantly
pretending I'm the mother of the state.
If I had been true to my own feelings
and shown him that my only true love
is the smart and kindly prince
I married at the age of thirteen,
he might still be mine.
I'm not angry because he brought
a lowly wench into the palace.
I'm angry because I,
the mother of his child,
have no place in my husband's heart!
Child...
Exploding with rage is
just about all I can do.
There's nothing I can do except kill
myself before him in spite, Mother.
How about your son?
What is to happen to him?
You'd abandon your child
because you lost your husband?
I'm hurting a lot of people...
Hang in there.
It'll soon be over.
I have postponed the royal lecture.
Then call Minister Hwang Hee...
Your Majesty...
Minister Hwang is no longer here.
I keep forgetting that I had him exiled.
I must be getting old.
Your Majesty...
I sent too many men away.
Now I have no one left to put my guard
down and complain about my son with.
Is this punishment?
Yes, I think I'm being punished...
My lady...
Would you see me out of the palace?
You should stay.
Before anyone finds out that I am in here...
Everyone already knows.
Someone posted slanderous leaflets
all over the city last night.
Leaflets?
Who did it?
Who maligned the Crown Prince?
Does it matter who did it?
What's important is that it's the truth.
You should go to the
Royal Lecture Hall now.
King should not skip his Royal.
How much more do you
wish to patronize me?
You walk in here after committing
such treacherous sins and dare...
I learned this all from you, Father.
What's the difference between taking
your wife's servant as your concubine
and taking a high lord's
concubine as your woman?
How dare you!
You are a bold woman.
How dare you come in
here and approach me!
Do you know the chaos
you've created in the palace?
You mean what you've created.
Did you have to do this?
I begged you not to.
Did you have to stoop this low?
You can't put Prince Choongnyeong on
the throne unless you destroy
the Crown Prince first?
Listen!
What does she mean?
What is this woman saying?
Your Highness...
Is she telling the truth?
Did you malign the Crown Prince
to put me on the throne?
Why would I need to?
I would not have started this fight in
the first place If you were an inferior
man that could not rise to the throne
without personal attacks on his enemy.
Then who?
Who exposed this if you didn't?
Would you order the Administer of
Memorials to prepare a decree?
I would like to depose the Crown Princess.
Jae!
I never loved her from the start.
I married her because
I was told to marry her,
and I slept with her on chosen
days for conception.
Both of us have played this
charade long enough, so...
When are you going to stop?
But I don't need two women.
That's the difference between you and me.
When are you going to stop?
When are you going to stop
breaking the laws and when
are you going to stop defying your father?
If the King can do no wrong,
neither can the future King.
Who says you're the future King?
I want to protect you,
but the public and the ministers
will not tolerate you anymore.
Isn't that solely your decision?
Suppressing defiance?
That's your forte.
Not this time.
This time you're on your own.
I can no longer protect you.
When did you ever protect me?
I never gave up hope on you.
You never once quietly obeyed
your father, but I never...
That's not hope.
That's called obsession, Father.
But whether it is hope or obsession,
you did it not because I am me
but because I am the eldest.
You're not mad at me.
You're mad at yourself.
You're upset and angry because now
you're forced to defy primogeniture
that you so stubbornly insisted on!
Bastard!
Accept it.
That's the truth.
Royal Attendant!
Royal Attendant!
Get him out of here!
Throw him out of the palace and
don't let him set one foot back inside!
What are you waiting for?
It's an order!
Your Highness...
Have the Royal Physician look in on him.
Your Highness...
The King doesn't have as many
close men as one might think.
You cant really call those
sycophants his close men.
Take care of my old man for me.
You know that he's a softly underneath
that hard exterior, don't you?
Are you all right?
We must have done something
really awful in our past lives.
Let it go now.
Take the crown from Jae.
But you must preserve the
practice of primogeniture.
What happened?
With what?
You know what I'm talking about.
She's gone.
She must have left.
Did you?
Did I kick her out?
Did you?
Can't I?
No!
It wasn't me.
I may not be very kind,
but I am not that callous.
I wouldn't kick out a woman that's ill...
I'm sorry.
I wanted to say those
word so many times,
but I never got the chance to until now.
You would've been happier without me.
You're a good woman.
Don't go.
Please.
Please stay with me.
Not for me, but for our son.
You can't leave.
Now this child, our son, has
to be the Crown Prince, so...
Stop.
Stop this!
Your Highness!
Did I ever once look happy to you?
Let it go.
That's what's best for you and the child.
This is why palace is no fun.
Your Highness...
Are you here to congratulate me?
You should congratulate me.
I'm finally getting out of
this nauseating place.
You two have a rough road ahead.
You're not yourself lately.
Why won't you name your successor when
the Crown Prince has been
removed from the palace?
Are you having doubts
about Choongnyeong?
He did once deny the legitimacy
of this country Joseon.
Would you mind if I helped?
An evaluation?
You must not utter anything to
deny the legitimacy of the regime.
You'd have me be untruthful?
Let us just get through this.
The Royal House Council is leading
this, but His Majesty is behind them.
This could be a trap set by the King.
The abdicated King brought this up.
He's pushing Hyoryoeng as the wise one.
Remember.
You can do a thousand more
things to change this world
as a King than as a Prince.
An evaluation?
This is pathetic.
I am letting my subjects
choose my successor.
Your Majesty...
Royal subjects choosing
their King to suit their taste...
This must be hard on the King...
It's harder on you.
How cruel he is to send you
out to a shabby hut like this...
Perhaps you should stay
with Lady Auri in Jang-dong.
Don't tell her anything.
She doesn't know about this yet.
Let us begin.
Prince Choongnyeong, in 1416,
you made a statement denying the
legitimacy of Joseon. Is this correct?
Yes.
How about now?
Do you still maintain your belief?
I cannot acknowledge.
I oppose.
I am against political purgings and
violent retaliations between factions.
If this is what this country is founded
on and if this is the practice that is
still used to maintain this regime,
I cannot acknowledge its legitimacy.
You may go.
Then...
You just said Choongnyeong denied
the legitimacy of this regime.
What more is there to talk about?
Is it that difficult?
All you had to do was to say one
little word. One little word...!
Say something.
Please!
Frustrated?
He just won't listen.
He wouldn't be kingly material if
he just did what he was told to do.
Huh?
May I bother you for a moment?
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms"?
I thought you were studying
something serious when they
said you were at the library.
I had no idea you'd be
reading books like these.
You should read them, too.
They're very good.
Why did you do it?
The throne could've been yours.
You should at least give your
followers an explanation.
I'm sorry.
I ruined everything...
Is that a tone of regret?
Let me see what I can do
if you want to take it back.
That's not necessary.
I can't change my answer
even if I were asked again.
What made me dare conceive of
the idea of rising to the throne is
my desire to stop the political purgings.
I can't compromise that.
You might consider
becoming more like Liu Bei.
He enjoys politics like a game.
All or nothing?
That's now how games are played.
Finding a middle point is
what makes games fun.
And FYI, Zhang Fei is my least favorite.
He was originally a butcher,
and there's a good chance
he'll treat his own child roughly.
It's Heaven's will.
It's wrong.
I'm walking off with the crown while my
two brothers are busy fighting for it.
So what?
What you do next is what's important.
It doesn't matter how you get the crown.
What matters is what you do with it.
I have to be
somewhere tomorrow.
Once I get back, I'll be able to take
a long break away from the city.
Would you come with me?
I'd like it if you'd come.
You weren't thinking of
leaving me here, were you?
I'll be back.
Take... care.
What kind of goodbye is that?
Just be safe.
You're going to be King soon, is that it?
You shouldn't get in the habit of
making your older brother wait.
Are you... happy?
Why not?
How about you?
Are you happy now that you will be King?
Does it matter to you whether
I am happy or not happy?
I'm not a bold man like you.
And I know how to conform and comply
with the demands of the world.
That's why you're not it.
What is your definition of wise one?
Your Highness...
Brother.
Call me brother.
I won't be the Crown Prince after today.
It's not you.
You're not the wise one.
You're too clean to be the wise one.
There's not a mark on you because
you've only walked on safe roads.
My definition of wise one is a hundred
times rougher than you are.
Someone who is not afraid to
get hurt for what he believes in.
That's the wise one.
Give it up.
I didn't break the King's heart
so you could have the crown.
Break the King's heart?
You mean those slanderous posters were...
Yeah.
I couldn't think of any other way
to make the old man give up.
Brother...!
Don't tell father about this.
Just let him be.
Let him live his way.
If you try to break him,
if you take away his pride...
It'll make him age even faster.
Why don't we give Prince
Choongnyeong another chance?
I'd like to give him another chance to
prove himself worthy before the King.
This is Jae's...
Doesn't this belong to the Crown Prince?
He told me to give it to you after
much time has passed, but...
He asked me to tell you to think
of him as an arrow that's left the
bowstring and forget about him.
And tell him that I won't keep a single
friend for the rest of my life.
I let him down and failed to
succeed his throne as King, but...
I will share and endure the loneliness
the King feels from where I am.
It's clear the throne was not meant for Jae,
and I don't think it is meant for me either.
Do not open your heart
to your subjects in haste
and do not fancy yourself their friend.
Such is luxury King cannot afford.
A King is a man who stands alone
and endures the pain of solitude.
I knew this day would come.
I knew I would have to
leave you someday...
But I didn't know how
heavy my heart would be.
I hear your voice in my head,
and I hesitate as take my first
step struggling to let go.
But the future is too daunting
to endure with love alone.
I don't have the strength
to watch your despair,
and I don't have the courage to forgive
myself for what I've done to you.
And so...
I return to the place
where your sadness rests,
where I first held the naive desire to
spend my life sharing your sorrows,
I return to this place to say good bye.
I pray that your remaining days
are not filled with sorrows alone
and that you'll find some
peace somehow...
The world says now that
you are not the wise one.
Do you still wish to put forth your effort?
Are you prepared to sacrifice
yourself for a state you do not
yet acknowledge legitimacy of?
I am.
As long as we know the principles
that cannot be compromised,
we will find a way to compromise.
As long as we're willing to
respect each other's opinions,
we will bring best and not worst results.
I will try.
Not alone, but with all
of the royal retainers.
You look well.
You look a little thinner.
"Yangnyeong."
It's your princely title.
Every time I bestowed titles to
my sons, I chose easy names.
Yangnyeong is a suitable name for you
who gave up your crown for your brother.
I'm unworthy of such a noble name...
Jae...
Yes, Father.
I am not forsaking you.
I know.
In this third day of June, 1418,
I hereby depose Crown Prince Yi Jae
and install my third son Yi Do
as the new Crown Prince!
My woman is ill, Father.
How could you!
Summon the royal physician for me.
Are you out of your mind?
She is with my child.
You wouldn't turn away
an injured animal.
She has your grandchild, Father.
What are we doing here?
We should be at the audience hall.
We must beseech the King
to remove the Crown Prince!
You exposed the Crown Prince's immoral
conduct with leaflets in the palace?
I beg your pardon?
Digging up dirt on your political enemy...
You're getting good at this, Minister Shim.
Where am I?
It's the palace.
You're in my chambers.
I'm going to leave.
You don't have to.
Lie back down.
Lie back down and rest.
You lost your mind.
I think you're right.
Call the physician and keep visitors out.
But Your Highness...
Do as you're told.
Your Grace...!
Announce me.
But...
Do you want my neck hanging
on the crossbeam or
will you open that door?
Your Grace...
Control yourself, Princess.
Return to your chambers.
I'm going to kill myself.
Either that or set this palace on fire.
You must control yourself.
I am not you, Mother.
Princess!
They said I had to be like you
if I am going to be the Queen.
So I tried my hardest to imitate you.
But as a result, I lost my husband.
He is my husband before he is the
Crown Prince and the future King.
Ignore it.
Pretend that it's just you and
me and no one else is here.
How can I?
Try.
I shouldn't have acted so arrogantly
pretending I'm the mother of the state.
If I had been true to my own feelings
and shown him that my only true love
is the smart and kindly prince
I married at the age of thirteen,
he might still be mine.
I'm not angry because he brought
a lowly wench into the palace.
I'm angry because I,
the mother of his child,
have no place in my husband's heart!
Child...
Exploding with rage is
just about all I can do.
There's nothing I can do except kill
myself before him in spite, Mother.
How about your son?
What is to happen to him?
You'd abandon your child
because you lost your husband?
I'm hurting a lot of people...
Hang in there.
It'll soon be over.
I have postponed the royal lecture.
Then call Minister Hwang Hee...
Your Majesty...
Minister Hwang is no longer here.
I keep forgetting that I had him exiled.
I must be getting old.
Your Majesty...
I sent too many men away.
Now I have no one left to put my guard
down and complain about my son with.
Is this punishment?
Yes, I think I'm being punished...
My lady...
Would you see me out of the palace?
You should stay.
Before anyone finds out that I am in here...
Everyone already knows.
Someone posted slanderous leaflets
all over the city last night.
Leaflets?
Who did it?
Who maligned the Crown Prince?
Does it matter who did it?
What's important is that it's the truth.
You should go to the
Royal Lecture Hall now.
King should not skip his Royal.
How much more do you
wish to patronize me?
You walk in here after committing
such treacherous sins and dare...
I learned this all from you, Father.
What's the difference between taking
your wife's servant as your concubine
and taking a high lord's
concubine as your woman?
How dare you!
You are a bold woman.
How dare you come in
here and approach me!
Do you know the chaos
you've created in the palace?
You mean what you've created.
Did you have to do this?
I begged you not to.
Did you have to stoop this low?
You can't put Prince Choongnyeong on
the throne unless you destroy
the Crown Prince first?
Listen!
What does she mean?
What is this woman saying?
Your Highness...
Is she telling the truth?
Did you malign the Crown Prince
to put me on the throne?
Why would I need to?
I would not have started this fight in
the first place If you were an inferior
man that could not rise to the throne
without personal attacks on his enemy.
Then who?
Who exposed this if you didn't?
Would you order the Administer of
Memorials to prepare a decree?
I would like to depose the Crown Princess.
Jae!
I never loved her from the start.
I married her because
I was told to marry her,
and I slept with her on chosen
days for conception.
Both of us have played this
charade long enough, so...
When are you going to stop?
But I don't need two women.
That's the difference between you and me.
When are you going to stop?
When are you going to stop
breaking the laws and when
are you going to stop defying your father?
If the King can do no wrong,
neither can the future King.
Who says you're the future King?
I want to protect you,
but the public and the ministers
will not tolerate you anymore.
Isn't that solely your decision?
Suppressing defiance?
That's your forte.
Not this time.
This time you're on your own.
I can no longer protect you.
When did you ever protect me?
I never gave up hope on you.
You never once quietly obeyed
your father, but I never...
That's not hope.
That's called obsession, Father.
But whether it is hope or obsession,
you did it not because I am me
but because I am the eldest.
You're not mad at me.
You're mad at yourself.
You're upset and angry because now
you're forced to defy primogeniture
that you so stubbornly insisted on!
Bastard!
Accept it.
That's the truth.
Royal Attendant!
Royal Attendant!
Get him out of here!
Throw him out of the palace and
don't let him set one foot back inside!
What are you waiting for?
It's an order!
Your Highness...
Have the Royal Physician look in on him.
Your Highness...
The King doesn't have as many
close men as one might think.
You cant really call those
sycophants his close men.
Take care of my old man for me.
You know that he's a softly underneath
that hard exterior, don't you?
Are you all right?
We must have done something
really awful in our past lives.
Let it go now.
Take the crown from Jae.
But you must preserve the
practice of primogeniture.
What happened?
With what?
You know what I'm talking about.
She's gone.
She must have left.
Did you?
Did I kick her out?
Did you?
Can't I?
No!
It wasn't me.
I may not be very kind,
but I am not that callous.
I wouldn't kick out a woman that's ill...
I'm sorry.
I wanted to say those
word so many times,
but I never got the chance to until now.
You would've been happier without me.
You're a good woman.
Don't go.
Please.
Please stay with me.
Not for me, but for our son.
You can't leave.
Now this child, our son, has
to be the Crown Prince, so...
Stop.
Stop this!
Your Highness!
Did I ever once look happy to you?
Let it go.
That's what's best for you and the child.
This is why palace is no fun.
Your Highness...
Are you here to congratulate me?
You should congratulate me.
I'm finally getting out of
this nauseating place.
You two have a rough road ahead.
You're not yourself lately.
Why won't you name your successor when
the Crown Prince has been
removed from the palace?
Are you having doubts
about Choongnyeong?
He did once deny the legitimacy
of this country Joseon.
Would you mind if I helped?
An evaluation?
You must not utter anything to
deny the legitimacy of the regime.
You'd have me be untruthful?
Let us just get through this.
The Royal House Council is leading
this, but His Majesty is behind them.
This could be a trap set by the King.
The abdicated King brought this up.
He's pushing Hyoryoeng as the wise one.
Remember.
You can do a thousand more
things to change this world
as a King than as a Prince.
An evaluation?
This is pathetic.
I am letting my subjects
choose my successor.
Your Majesty...
Royal subjects choosing
their King to suit their taste...
This must be hard on the King...
It's harder on you.
How cruel he is to send you
out to a shabby hut like this...
Perhaps you should stay
with Lady Auri in Jang-dong.
Don't tell her anything.
She doesn't know about this yet.
Let us begin.
Prince Choongnyeong, in 1416,
you made a statement denying the
legitimacy of Joseon. Is this correct?
Yes.
How about now?
Do you still maintain your belief?
I cannot acknowledge.
I oppose.
I am against political purgings and
violent retaliations between factions.
If this is what this country is founded
on and if this is the practice that is
still used to maintain this regime,
I cannot acknowledge its legitimacy.
You may go.
Then...
You just said Choongnyeong denied
the legitimacy of this regime.
What more is there to talk about?
Is it that difficult?
All you had to do was to say one
little word. One little word...!
Say something.
Please!
Frustrated?
He just won't listen.
He wouldn't be kingly material if
he just did what he was told to do.
Huh?
May I bother you for a moment?
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms"?
I thought you were studying
something serious when they
said you were at the library.
I had no idea you'd be
reading books like these.
You should read them, too.
They're very good.
Why did you do it?
The throne could've been yours.
You should at least give your
followers an explanation.
I'm sorry.
I ruined everything...
Is that a tone of regret?
Let me see what I can do
if you want to take it back.
That's not necessary.
I can't change my answer
even if I were asked again.
What made me dare conceive of
the idea of rising to the throne is
my desire to stop the political purgings.
I can't compromise that.
You might consider
becoming more like Liu Bei.
He enjoys politics like a game.
All or nothing?
That's now how games are played.
Finding a middle point is
what makes games fun.
And FYI, Zhang Fei is my least favorite.
He was originally a butcher,
and there's a good chance
he'll treat his own child roughly.
It's Heaven's will.
It's wrong.
I'm walking off with the crown while my
two brothers are busy fighting for it.
So what?
What you do next is what's important.
It doesn't matter how you get the crown.
What matters is what you do with it.
I have to be
somewhere tomorrow.
Once I get back, I'll be able to take
a long break away from the city.
Would you come with me?
I'd like it if you'd come.
You weren't thinking of
leaving me here, were you?
I'll be back.
Take... care.
What kind of goodbye is that?
Just be safe.
You're going to be King soon, is that it?
You shouldn't get in the habit of
making your older brother wait.
Are you... happy?
Why not?
How about you?
Are you happy now that you will be King?
Does it matter to you whether
I am happy or not happy?
I'm not a bold man like you.
And I know how to conform and comply
with the demands of the world.
That's why you're not it.
What is your definition of wise one?
Your Highness...
Brother.
Call me brother.
I won't be the Crown Prince after today.
It's not you.
You're not the wise one.
You're too clean to be the wise one.
There's not a mark on you because
you've only walked on safe roads.
My definition of wise one is a hundred
times rougher than you are.
Someone who is not afraid to
get hurt for what he believes in.
That's the wise one.
Give it up.
I didn't break the King's heart
so you could have the crown.
Break the King's heart?
You mean those slanderous posters were...
Yeah.
I couldn't think of any other way
to make the old man give up.
Brother...!
Don't tell father about this.
Just let him be.
Let him live his way.
If you try to break him,
if you take away his pride...
It'll make him age even faster.
Why don't we give Prince
Choongnyeong another chance?
I'd like to give him another chance to
prove himself worthy before the King.
This is Jae's...
Doesn't this belong to the Crown Prince?
He told me to give it to you after
much time has passed, but...
He asked me to tell you to think
of him as an arrow that's left the
bowstring and forget about him.
And tell him that I won't keep a single
friend for the rest of my life.
I let him down and failed to
succeed his throne as King, but...
I will share and endure the loneliness
the King feels from where I am.
It's clear the throne was not meant for Jae,
and I don't think it is meant for me either.
Do not open your heart
to your subjects in haste
and do not fancy yourself their friend.
Such is luxury King cannot afford.
A King is a man who stands alone
and endures the pain of solitude.
I knew this day would come.
I knew I would have to
leave you someday...
But I didn't know how
heavy my heart would be.
I hear your voice in my head,
and I hesitate as take my first
step struggling to let go.
But the future is too daunting
to endure with love alone.
I don't have the strength
to watch your despair,
and I don't have the courage to forgive
myself for what I've done to you.
And so...
I return to the place
where your sadness rests,
where I first held the naive desire to
spend my life sharing your sorrows,
I return to this place to say good bye.
I pray that your remaining days
are not filled with sorrows alone
and that you'll find some
peace somehow...
The world says now that
you are not the wise one.
Do you still wish to put forth your effort?
Are you prepared to sacrifice
yourself for a state you do not
yet acknowledge legitimacy of?
I am.
As long as we know the principles
that cannot be compromised,
we will find a way to compromise.
As long as we're willing to
respect each other's opinions,
we will bring best and not worst results.
I will try.
Not alone, but with all
of the royal retainers.
You look well.
You look a little thinner.
"Yangnyeong."
It's your princely title.
Every time I bestowed titles to
my sons, I chose easy names.
Yangnyeong is a suitable name for you
who gave up your crown for your brother.
I'm unworthy of such a noble name...
Jae...
Yes, Father.
I am not forsaking you.
I know.
In this third day of June, 1418,
I hereby depose Crown Prince Yi Jae
and install my third son Yi Do
as the new Crown Prince!