Post by 𝔰𝔢𝔞𝔫𝔪𝔞𝔠𝔩𝔞𝔦𝔯 on Oct 3, 2022 0:13:30 GMT -5
Episodes: 45
Broadcast Date: April 12th~June 11th, 1976
Broadcast Time: Mon~Fri @ 8:30 PM
Director: Pyo Jae Sun
Writer: Lee Eun Seong
Cast: Kim Ho Young as Choi Museon
Additional Cast: Jeon Yangja, Jo Gyeong Hwan, Kim Sang Sun, Kim Young Ae, Im Chae Mu, Kim Bo Gyeong, Guk Jeong Hwan, Han Seong Jin
"The story of Choi Museon, a great eccentric who dedicated his life to the invention of gunpowder."
Biopic about Choi Museon (1325~1395), whose prowess with gunpowder passed down to his son Choi Hae San. In the drama, he and his other son Choi Daesan saved Lee Seonggye while fighting Japanese pirates in late Goryeo. The Japanese raided Museon's village and killed his daughter. Museon and his family run off to a village where they meet a Chinese gunpowder specialist named Ga Bodeok (Jia Baode? totally fictional so no Hanja to read from here), who teaches him and Daesan more about gunpowder. Museon also meets Lee Won, an official established in Goryeo's gunpowder department. Lee Won had a wife and a Chinese daughter named Sukyoung/Shuying, but they were both murdered by the Japanese. Lee Won makes money off his experiments, while Museon experiments for enjoyment. But, Museon's experiments often piss off his neighbors and sometimes even prove fatal. Museon always strives to learn from Lee Won.
Daesan falls in love with and eventually marries a girl named Ok Dan, losing interest in gunpowder. After a particularly deadly experiment, Museon is tortured and imprisoned, but later freed by Lee Seonggye. Meanwhile, the people in the area are fed up of the experiments and set fire to the Gunpowder Department, causing an explosion in which Lee Won dies. They also break into Museon's house and beat him up. Soon after, Museon hears that the Japanese murdered Daesan and Okdan. Nevertheless, Museon is engrossed in gunpowder and the Gunpowder Department, with reluctant assistance from his wife Mrs Kim. Eventually another one of Museon's children named Hee moves to a mountain village to live with extended family, and Seonggye asks Museon to work for him, to which Museon flatly refuses. This catches the attention of Choi Young, who gives him a post in the Gunpowder Department.
I think I've shown everyone a clip from the show as shown in MBC's 30th Anniversary Special:
