Well, this is the awesome battlescene
I watched yesterday. I feel sorry for Yi-San…his first official night as King and the bad guys send him a ninja/samurai/asassin/stalker after him.

WOAH, watch that ninja/samurai guy GO!! You can barely see him!

LOL towards the beginning of the clip, there’s a short appearance of my favorite character…Hong Gook-Young. (the guy shuffling through papers with the blue robe)
Well, aside from Yi-San, that is. His character is just too funny!
He’s REALLY smart, and he’s the guy who keeps Yi-San alive. Like, he is only one step behind (and sometimes ahead) on the villains’ plots.

But there is a disadvantage on being a genius, and that is the fact that he’s kind of paranoid. LOL If he wasn’t right most of the time, he’d come across as…EXTREMELY PARANOID. It’s a good thing he’s mostly right. Oh, and he talks to much…He tends to provoke the villains…which is not a good habit.

He’s sarcastic and also uses weird metaphors. OH and he’s random.
Like in one episode, everyone in the palace was looking for him…and he was no where to be found and everyone was all like: WHERE DID HE GO?!

And guess where he was. He was fishing. By a lake. Yeah. LOL

In another episode, Hong gets beat up by this weird, psychopath gangster-like nobleman (stereotype! D: : Nerds can’t fight!),
(Because of his smart mouth…I think he spun one of his metaphor things to secretly insult him or something)
And afterwards, when Dae-su (Man, Dae-su is like everywhere Hong is…it’s like what Hong says, “From the way you follow me around and fuss about me, people would think that we’re a married couple”) finds him and asks him what happened, he’s all like: “I just got bitten by a mad dog” with a weird look in his eyes.

Dae-Su: Huh?
Hong: (angry look in his eyes) And you know what’s the best way to get rid of a mad dog?
Dae-Su: What?
Hong: You shoot the dog, skin it, and eat it in a stew. (Okay, this might sound gross, but eating dogs is quite common in the Korean countryside. Deal with it.)

And what really ends up happening is that he exposes the weird gangster-dude’s plot to assasinate the king and causes the dude to be exhiled and stripped of his nobleman rank. LOL.

The dude who plays Hong got like best Actor…LOL. YAY!

I could go on and on about Hong, but let’s go back to the little clip.

I also feel sorry for the samurai-dude…death by hairpin. Man, that has got to suck. Yi-San is so smart…and so…talented. Direct hit…Wow. I can only imagine how sharp the hairpin is if it was able to kill that dude. No, actually. I can’t. o.o

I apologize in advance for not being able to post the video directly onto this post. Apparently WordPress only supports Youtube and Google videos.

I watch Yi-San with subs on MySoju
I mean, I can understand Korean, but Korean has three different forms: Casual, Formal, and Palace.

I can understand casual and formal pretty well, but PALACE is like…a whole different language. (I guess it’s kind of like Old English…or whatever version of English uses “Thee”s and “Thou”s.)

For example:
If you would say, “sorry”, you would say:
“Mi-ahn” or “Mi-ahn-heh” in casual.
“Je-song-ham-ni-da” or “Je-song-heh-yo” in formal.
And…
“Song-o-ha-om-ni-da” in Palace.

Now, only the Palace form is only used when talking to high-ranking people (officers, noblemen, royal family)…or when they themselves are speaking…which is most of the drama. LOL.

When the normal people talk, they use casual or formal. (Dae su, the dude with the purple uniform, is a perfect example…what he says tends to be really short)

(You can see the difference of how it sounds when Hong talks with Dae-Su, Hong tends to use palace speech most of the time)
Complicated, eh?