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Post by π°π’ππ«πͺππ π©ππ¦π― on Aug 21, 2023 21:31:02 GMT -5
Episodes: 31 Broadcast Date: 1981/10/08~1982/10/14 Broadcast Time: Wednesdays @ 7:00pm
Episodic anthology about various Korean folk customs, mainly in Joseon - not sure if any other eras were covered. Cast includes all of MBC's big names at the time, including Lee Mi Suk, Yu In Chon, Na Mun Hee, Lee Hyo Chun, Lee Miji, Choi Myeong Gil, Kim Hae Suk, Lee Hye Suk, Kim Young Ran, Go Du Shim, and a lot more! Found a couple episodes on Youtube actually:
Ep 3-5: Surrogate Woman
Episode 22: Surrogate Man:
Episode 26: Eunuch
Episode 28: Flower Palanquin
Bloodline:
Male Acrobat:
Court Ladies:
Mother's Room:
Butterfly Lady:
Keun-meori chire (Refers to a tall hairstyle you won't see the entire episode lol)
Goose House:
Chastity:
Flower Blooming in Wanggol:
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Post by ajk on Aug 23, 2023 8:06:43 GMT -5
Choe Myeong Gil was in this? Wow it would be one of the first things she ever did! I scanned through a bit of it but couldn't find her...but I'm not sure I'd even recognize her so young.
Unfortunately in Googling around on this I discovered that she just finished starring in...of all things, a time-travel drama. Of course you take the work where you can get it (especially as an older woman in a youth-centric business). But still, how pathetic is it that someone with her talent gets wasted in that kind of silliness. Ugh.
Anyway thanks for digging this up; I'll add it to the timeline. Too bad there are no subs because it sounds like it might be interesting.
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Post by sageuk on Aug 23, 2023 10:51:46 GMT -5
I think thatβs Chae Sira in the last one
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Post by π°π’ππ«πͺππ π©ππ¦π― on Aug 23, 2023 22:09:20 GMT -5
Choe Myeong Gil was in this? Wow it would be one of the first things she ever did! I scanned through a bit of it but couldn't find her...but I'm not sure I'd even recognize her so young. Unfortunately in Googling around on this I discovered that she just finished starring in...of all things, a time-travel drama. Of course you take the work where you can get it (especially as an older woman in a youth-centric business). But still, how pathetic is it that someone with her talent gets wasted in that kind of silliness. Ugh. Anyway thanks for digging this up; I'll add it to the timeline. Too bad there are no subs because it sounds like it might be interesting. Note about that drama (I've been watching it): her character's daughter-in-law is in love with her and the writer does nothing with that information until the last episode where she admits she confessed for revenge. Considering the writer wrote Aurora Princess (the most incoherent Korean daily drama to date), it's nothing too surprising for her. |
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Post by π°π’ππ«πͺππ π©ππ¦π― on Aug 23, 2023 22:33:55 GMT -5
Choe Myeong Gil was in this? Wow it would be one of the first things she ever did! I scanned through a bit of it but couldn't find her...but I'm not sure I'd even recognize her so young. Unfortunately in Googling around on this I discovered that she just finished starring in...of all things, a time-travel drama. Of course you take the work where you can get it (especially as an older woman in a youth-centric business). But still, how pathetic is it that someone with her talent gets wasted in that kind of silliness. Ugh. Anyway thanks for digging this up; I'll add it to the timeline. Too bad there are no subs because it sounds like it might be interesting. Watched a couple of episodes unsubbed actually, so I'll put what I got from them here:
Surrogate Woman
A noble family has no children because the legal wife is unable to get pregnant. The parents decide to find a surrogate, to which the husband strongly opposes. But, his mother derides him saying he favors his wife too much over his parents. They pay a man from the Surrogate village for his daughter, inspect her, then instruct her on the process while trying to rehabilitate her into "a person" before bringing her to the husband to impregnate. A shaman is called to chase away any bad luck from her. The wife is made to supervise the process, and ends up running away in jealousy(?) on the night of copulation. She also faints while praying for the copulation to work, to the husband's dismay. The surrogate spends her pregnancy locked into a room, entertained by the bird impressions of some weirdo obsessed with her. He offers to run away with her, and begins blackmailing the noble family for money, lest he spread the word that they're using a surrogate (considered shameful in the episode). Eventually the surrogate gives birth, and her baby is immediately taken away from her as they lock her into the room. The weirdo, who's on good terms with the father, successfully blackmails the nobles out of their house as they run away with the child in tow. The surrogate remains locked in her room crying for her baby while the weirdo and the surrogate's father and mother rejoice in their new residence.
Surrogate Man A noble family has no children, and everyone suspects it's the wife's fault. The family decides to bring in a concubine against the husband and wife's protests. After 3 months, the concubine doesn't get pregnant either, so the mother-in-law decides to get a surrogate man (sperm donor?? maybe that's the better term) to impregnate the wife. The surrogate gets paid a large sum to spend the night, while the mother-in-law lectures the wife on which direction to stretch her legs for maximum sperm retention. The donor is sent off with more money, and prances along the river shouting about spending the night with a noblewoman. Angered, the husband shoots him with an arrow. Meanwhile, the wife goes through the prenatal care lectures, and everything seems fine until the husband comes to tell her word got out that her child is not the husband's. She gives birth on the spot in distress(?) to a healthy boy, and kills herself while the child is announced to the ancestors.
Court Ladies A new batch of saenggakshi child maids are being trained in the Palace during King Heonjong's reign. The old doting Head Court Lady, strict Vice Court Lady and the various ladies and maids educate the children in their speech, walking, etiquette and Palace structure. They console them when they miss their mothers (and whip them when they get too loud), punishing them for acting in any way not befitting a Palace woman. One girl is introduced to the King and Queen, and becomes their storyteller (a practice that occurred frequently in Heonjong's reign when he married Queen Hyojeong), for which she is rewarded richly. The Head Court Lady, who's been in the Palace for 60 years, feels her death coming and asks to leave, as Court ladies cannot die in the Palace. Her leave is granted, she absolves all the saenggakshi of their punishments, and dies not long after leaving the Palace, her body left in the forest by two passersby.
Eunuch A family of eunuchs and their wives have recently adopted a castrato so pretty that he can wear girls' clothes with no problem. He dreams of being a eunuch just like his adoptive father and grandfather. While he attends eunuch school, the grandfather and father attend to their duties in the Palace. But while the wives love their husbands, they long to be embraced in sexual intimacy, and spend their nights crying into each other's arms. The father, who was castrated using the "string method" as a baby, regains his sexual functions one day and gets his wife pregnant. Good news for the wife, but bad news overall as this loses the eunuch his job and his place in the family. The grandfather is so shocked that he spends one final day in the Palace reminiscing about how he became the King's most trusted servant as a child, then dies on his own adoptive father's grave. Interesting fact the narrator tells us: Eunuchs only began to be castrated in Korean dynasties from Yuan-occupied Goryeo under Chungryeol's reign.
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Post by π°π’ππ«πͺππ π©ππ¦π― on Sept 18, 2023 23:11:39 GMT -5
Flower Shoes/Silk Shoes Part 1
In the dead of night, a noble family brings a baekjeong shoemaker to measure their maiden's feet. This shoemaker's shoes are said to bring good luck, but to measure them he must measure the wearer barefooted (big problem if you're a noble maiden). Nevertheless, they let him measure the ticklish maiden and send him off on his way, with a small silver pin as payment. Among other things (I'll list them below), a baekjeong having a silver pin is illegal, so when the magistrate discovers it in his daughter's hair while collecting some shoes, the shoemaker and his wife are flogged and jailed. The magistrate gives the shoes he collected as a bribe to some Court officials, who note the shoes' mastery and handiwork and wish to make the shoemaker a Royal Shoemaker. Unfortunately the magistrate had already left him for dead with his wife on a hill in the woods. The magistrate sends guards to collect him, finding him severely visually impaired and wandering the forest screaming for his now dead wife and missing daughter. He escapes and ends up in the hands of his previous noble customers, who hide him from the police and take care of his injuries. He runs back to his cave home when the noble family's house is raided for a search, only to run into the Court officials who wish to employ him in the first place. He's cleaned up and escorted to the Palace as a Royal shoemaker, and he's promoted from baekjeong to sangmin, or commoner status. A neighbor of his lauds his promotion.
Things we learn about baekjeong shoemakers (gatbachi) from the narrator: - They are regarded as beasts, not humans. Therefore they cannot act like humans in front of higher classed citizens.
- As such, they must walk on all fours and not speak unless spoken to when in their presence.
- They are not allowed to farm or own land, and they can't use or make money.
- Their status is hereditary - their male children will become shoemakers (no mention of what happens to the women).
- They cannot own anything unfitting of their status - silk, silver, gold, jade, jewelry.
- If anyone of higher status murders a baekjeong, they will experience no consequences.
- They can escape their status and become a commoner if employed by the Palace (i.e. making shoes for Royals).
- While many shoemakers became commoners and even middleclassmen by the Korean Empire, the notion that shoemakers = lowly lasted well into the 1930s.
Part 2 15 years later, the shoemaker now makes shoes for hire at a widow's house. The widow constantly nags at him for late work, because he's always drifting down memory lane instead of making his shoes. Now fully blind from the flogging 15 years ago, all he can see are repeated visions of various flowers, which contribute to his masterful designs. Among his belongings are a pair of custom-made flower shoes for his missing daughter (she has six toes on one foot), which he holds to his face ever so often. A neighbor's young maiden often comes to see him, bringing him food and treating him as her grandfather. The maiden's father always cautions her never to associate with shoemakers, because they're no better than beasts. One day the maiden visits the shoemaker and learns about his missing daughter Chorong. The shoemaker shows the maiden Chorong's flower shoes and offers to make a similar pair for the maiden. The maiden agrees, and the shoemaker removes her socks to measure her. But upon feeling her foot, he remembers his daughter's foot and is immediately heartbroken. Days later, the shoemaker delivers the shoes, then disappears. While delivering the shoes, he runs into the maiden's father. The father doesn't recognize him instantly but finds him suspiciously familiar. As it turns out, the maiden's father is the shoemaker's neighbor from before, but doesn't mention it at all. The shoemaker, being blind, fails to recognize the neighbor's voice. Later when the maiden comes back, he tells her the truth: that she is Chorong, the shoemaker's daughter. He found her crying over her mother's corpse 15 years ago and adopted her, raising her so nobody would know she's a shoemaker's daughter. Chorong runs away to chase after the old shoemaker, but he's long gone. Her cries echo across the village as she looks for him.
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