Lost Love (MBC 1980)

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Episodes: 132

Writer: Shin Bong Seung

Director: Pyo Jae Sun

Broadcast Date: March 31~August 30th, 1980

Broadcast Time: Monday to Saturday at 8:35 PM

Cast:

• Kim Young Ran as Nan Yi
• Lee Jung Gil as King Sejo
• Jeon Yang Ja as Queen Jeonghee
• Oh Ji Myeong as Han Myeong Hoe
• Son Chang Min as King Danjong
• Kang Su Yeon as Queen Jeongsun (Deposed Queen Song)
  
• unknown roles: Jung Wook, Lee Hyo Chun, Park Gwang Nam, Hong Seong Min, etc...
  

"The Joseon Dynasty's 7th King Suyang! The heroes of the times around him are tangled in a historical drama about life, death and love."

"The heroes of history. Under their shadow, a bloody story unfolds as women of the Lee Dynasty live a pitiful life of heartrending, passionate love and bitter betrayal."

"Suyang, who burns with great ambition! Han Myeong Hoe, a genius of his time! And the tragic woman Nan Yi. Their meeting starts a hectic dance with history..."

A lot of ways to say this is about King Sejo killing Danjong, with some fictional characters included. The title itself comes from a poem written by Wang Bang Yeon, who was a State Tribunal officer at the time. He accompanied Danjong to his place of exile, and witnessed his death. The poem he wrote translates to:

"Bereaved of my love on the long road,

My heart sits at the lonely stream.

The water cries like my heart, as it flows into the night."

Or something like that.

This story was later adapted to 500 Years of Joseon's Apricot Tree in the Snow, the 1988 movie Premature Apricot Tree in the Snow and KBS2's Han Myeong Hoe, with focus on more historical events than the romance of the fictional characters.

I feel like this could've been in TBC's 500-Year History series if Shin Bong Seung hadn't stopped writing for TBC after Lady of the Side Chamber.

Short clip of the show:

Sejo: "I think the Royal Grandson's death was a divine punishment given to me by Heaven."

[ajk]

This is very strange because the timeline has an entry for a 1980 KBS series called Dance of Breaking Sky about the very same subject. Says that it was cancelled after twelve episodes by government order. Something about it resembling the current political situation too closely. So MBC had their own version of the same story that same year and theirs survived? Apparently so.

Anyway this is new to me and will be a very significant addition to the timeline so thanks for the post.

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Both of them are shows about Sejo from separate channels, that both have MBC and KBS adaptations, it's just the story that's different. Dance of Breaking Sky was a Sunday sageuk (precursor to the Daeha genre) while Lost Love was a historical daily, kind of like Hanjungrok vs Oh, Heaven! in 1988. If it helps, Yoo Joo Hyeon wrote Dance of Breaking Sky's source, while Shin Bong Seung wrote the source for Lost Love.