Emperor Of The Sea (HDTV Series)
Emperor Of The Sea is a 51-episode KBS (Korean Broadcasting System) HDTV drama, based on the Choi In-ho’s novel of the same title. The drama depicts the life of Jang Bo-go (? – 846 AD), who dominated the sea of East Asia and the international trade during the unified Shilla Dynasty (676 – 935).
Jang Bo-go also eliminated pirates by installing Cheong Hae Jin on Wando, which is a geographically important sea route. Likewise he erected the order of the marine trade in East Asia from Dang (China) and Japan to the north China sea.
The Drama Emperor Of The Sea will show the historical figure of Jang Bo-go’s growth, the emerging as Emperor of the sea and love and add artificial figures (Madam Jami and Jeong-hwa) to add more spice into the story.
Choi Soo-jong, who has shown impressive performance in the historical drama ‘King Wang-geon’ will play as Jang Bo-go. Chae Si-ra will play as Madam Jami, who is a noble of Shilla and fights for the trade rights in the south asian sea against Jang Bo-go.
Song Il-gook will play the role of Yeom –jang, who is a comrade of Jang Bo-go and competes to win the love from the same woman against Jang Bo-go. Song Il-gook has shown good performance in the recently concluded weekend drama ‘Terms of endearment’. Many new faces are cast in the drama too.
Jang-hwa who falls in love of destiny with Jang Bo-go will be performed by Soo-ae. The last son Kim Heung-soo of ‘More beautiful than flowers’ will perform as the confidant of Jang Bo-go.
Since 15 Billion Won will be spent for the production, there will be lots to catch audiences’ eyes.
Visitor’s house, market place, the Shilla office in Dang, ports were built as sets, not to mention Cheong Hae-jin In Wando, Jeon-nam, home to Jang Bo-go. For two months from August, overseas shooting in Shanghai and desert area Dunhwhang in China is planned.
The large scale war scenes and the sea fights for eliminating pirates were processed using computer graphics techniques.
Director Gang Byeok-taek says, ‘I want to focus on the human aspect of Jang Bo-go who starts from lowest social class but rises to the position of controlling the East Asian Sea, instead of simply reviving a historical figure’.
Director:
Kang Il-soo & Kang Byeong-taek
Cast:
Bae Soo-bin
Chae Si-ra
Choi Soo-jong
Jeong Ho-geun
Jo Dal-hwan
Kang Seong-pil
Kim Ah-joong
Kim Heung-soo
Kim Hyeong-beom
Kim Kap-soo
Kim Yong-woo
Lee Hee-do
Lee Jae-yong
Lee Won-jong
Lee Yeon-hee
Park Yeong-gyoo
Park Yeong-hak
Seo Do-yeong
Seo Jin-wook
Song Il-guk
Soo-ae
Yeo Ho-min