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Post by ck on Aug 22, 2013 13:54:22 GMT -5
Hi,
I have been reading this board as a Guest since Age of the Warriors.
On my cable, I have an daily presentation of two historicals. One is the Land at 8:00 and the other is the King and I at 8:30.
Does anyone else catch these?
CK
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Post by TheBo on Aug 22, 2013 15:08:04 GMT -5
Hi, I have been reading this board as a Guest since Age of the Warriors. On my cable, I have an daily presentation of two historicals. One is the Land at 8:00 and the other is the King and I at 8:30. Does anyone else catch these? CK OMG CK, were you lurking here for what, almost ten years? LOL. Actually, that's more common than you'd think. I hope you posted when we allowed guest posts, though. I wish we could have kept it that way, but people being the way they are on the Internet, I guess it had to end one day. On to your questions. I believe those shows are being aired on Channel 41. Here is the thread for King & I, and here is one for The Land. I am not watching them at the moment, I can't get Channel 41 and I do not have cable. I don't see any other discussion threads for these dramas, but you might find one if you do a global search (click search in the first panel below "Chicago" picture banner above). However, I did watch the King & I about 2-3 years ago. I thought it was excellent, mostly due to two people: Jun Kwang-ryul as the head eunuch Jo, and Ku Hye-sun as grown-up Yun So-wha. What do you think of it?
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Post by ck on Aug 22, 2013 15:18:50 GMT -5
Lurking is right, I was on more than once everyday during the hey day. Exposure to this site has grown into a Korean history hobby for me.
I am enjoying it. It appears that the basic history is sound in terms of the deposed queen, her end, the interference of the concubines and the wrath of her son.
I agree, my favorite is Eunuch Jo. The woman who plays the Queen (deposed) bugs me but that is so minor I shouldn't even mention it.
The most fascinating part is the Eunuch life. The whole adoption business is something I didn't know anything about. I would recommend it.
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Post by ck on Aug 22, 2013 15:22:12 GMT -5
Not the Euncuh adoption, I would recommend the series.
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Post by ajk on Aug 24, 2013 12:31:04 GMT -5
Darn it, and I was just about to adopt a eunuch....
This was quite a surprise. Thanks for joining us ck--I know there are visitors here but wow, you've been coming here for so long. Did you watch IYSS and DJY and Sejong and Iron Empress? Curious to know what you've watched over the years and what you liked/didn't like.
I watched bits of The Land from time to time and almost started watching regularly but never did. Sorry we don't have more activity here for the two shows you're watching. Actually I didn't realize anybody was watching those Arirang shows or I might have made the effort to watch one and do a proper board for it. Maybe we can do one in the future. Always helpful to hear what people are watching so it's good you told us.
If you feel like it, you can certainly post in the show threads that Bo flagged for you, just to let us know what you think about the shows. If only for future reference it helps to have some reaction to these shows, for people who consider watching them in the future.
You might look into getting an antenna for your TV so you can watch 24.5 and 24.7 over-the-air. Even if have cable, you can get a switch that lets you flip back and forth between antenna and cable. Hopefully your cable system will start carrying 24.5 and 24.7 soon...but I don't think any of the channels in the 24 group have been picked up by cable systems yet, so it could be a while.
Very good to hear from you.
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Post by ck on Aug 26, 2013 8:54:31 GMT -5
I have really enjoyed your synopsis over the years, ajk. I followed the entire Queen Seonduk show by reading them. You obviously put alot of time into them. Fantastic.
Thats for the tip on the way to get the 24.X. I really need that. I have been watching MhZ international mysteries but I really miss KBS.
I watched all four of the shows you mentioned, and enjoyed three of the four immensely. Iron Empress, not so much. IYSS was really a pleasure. I didn't know anything about the Imjin War, Hideyoshi, the weak king of that era etc. It was an eye opener. I am sitting here looking at a small turtle boat replica on my desk. I really like the actor that played the Admiral but I haven't seen him in anything else.
DJY, IYSS and Sejong just got me hooked. Wish I had a better handle on pronounciation and language. Also loved the AOW. Of the 'new' shows, I got a big kick out of Yellow Hankerchief, the Chill Sisters and the one about the mad Mom.
Thanks to this forum, I have kept up with what is going on. Here a couple of books I am reading: Currently reading Your Republic is calling You (fiction) by Young-Ha Kim. The main character is a North Korean spy and From Wonso Pond (fiction-colonial Korea) by Kang. Kyong-ae.
I have tried to read the condensed version of The Land. Has anyone read it? One thing about that program is actor that was a Choi in AOW is the bad guy in this show.
I am really happy to finally join.
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Post by TheBo on Aug 27, 2013 11:45:10 GMT -5
CK, here's a list of Kim Myung-min (Admiral Yi) dramas. I only saw White Tower, in which he was excellent. (I had some quibbles with the character's denouement, but that's me. Always the critic, never the bride. LOL.) I tried to like Beethoven Virus, but was just too irritated to go past the first 20 minutes--but he's supposed to be great in that, too.
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Post by jojo on Aug 27, 2013 13:44:10 GMT -5
Hi ck! There is an excellent English-language book on the events in IYSS, call "The Imjin War" by Samuel Hawley. I'm looking at the prices on Amazon, and yikes! New is $186 to 540. Used range from $80 to 1,000.
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Post by ck on Aug 27, 2013 14:47:10 GMT -5
Wow, that is pretty high. I read the Samurai Invasion by Turnbell and it was about $40.00 used. I will keep my eyes open to see if Hawley book ever reduces. Thanks, jojo.
I also say thanks to TheBo for the list of dramas with Kim M-m. I will look them up on Dramafever. Very exciting.
There was another book I wanted to mention called Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick.Is it ok to do that here? This book is about 6 people who got out of North Korea during last decade, very powerful. The depiciton of the shenanigans that occur on the Chinese-North Korean border paint quite a picture of corruption.
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Post by ajk on Aug 28, 2013 12:26:11 GMT -5
ck if you have a turtle ship replica on your desk then you belong here. You can help keep the rest of us in line! Glad you liked the QSD summaries; they were a little too long but I'm trying to work on that with Shin Don. That Hawley book, I got it a few years ago and posted about it here: deiner.proboards.com/thread/5376/new-book-imjin-warApparently they've cranked up the price since I bought mine. Ugh. Definitely mention any other books you think are worth mentioning, good or bad. Always welcome good suggestions, or for that matter warnings about junk. Do you still have an outdoor TV antenna? Most people who get cable take theirs down...If you still have one, then it's just a matter of hooking up an a/b switch to flip from cable to antenna. If you don't have an outdoor antenna, an indoor one might work but I don't know enough about indoor digital antennas to say. You may have to ask around, and actually buy one and try it out. Good luck with it; hope you can find a way to get KBS. (You'll also get MBC too.)
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Post by ck on Aug 28, 2013 15:10:03 GMT -5
Thanks for the link to the old thread. I agree with your thoughts on the Turnbull book. Will just have to bread down and buy Hawley. I am trying to remember what military magazine I saw a few years ago that heralded the admiral as close to the greatest naval hero ever. I am going to try to find it and share it. I loaned it to someone, you know how that goes.
The antenna situation is just going to have to be resolved at my house. Thanks for the tips. I don't have a outside one anymore so I will have to get one of those little boxes and figure it out.
That little turtle boat I have is a real conversation starter. Usually I can get people to go to youtube to watch some of IYSS. Everyone who goes that far has something to say about the Japanese battle gear.
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Post by TheBo on Aug 29, 2013 12:18:57 GMT -5
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Post by ck on Aug 29, 2013 14:04:31 GMT -5
I am glancing through this website now. I had never heard of the blood ceilings in Kyoto, This site is going to be a real find. Thanks so much for sending it. Can't wait to read.
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Post by TheBo on Sept 3, 2013 9:38:52 GMT -5
And I bought a book over the weekend, it was recommended by someone in an old thread I was just reading last week and now I can't find that thread again! I think it was sageuk. I don't know if that discussion was in "other shows" or what...do you remember the one I'm talking about ajk? We were discussing a whole raft of books he recommended and other people had added to it. Anywho, the book I bought is this: A New History of Korea by Lee Ki-baik (Edw. Wagner trans.) It's supposed to arrive this week. Will update (for ck).
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Post by ajk on Sept 3, 2013 11:50:16 GMT -5
Yeah, I have that one. I like it; some people complained about it being too dry but it didn't bother me. And it has some good maps in it that have been helpful more than once when I've been confused about something in a drama.
It doesn't really have a lot of detail about earlier history but it's just a one-volume general overview so it can only cover so much. You'll be glad you have it; it gave me a big-picture understanding and tied together the little pieces I had seen in different dramas.
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