KING MAKER: THE CHANGE OF DESTINY / WIND, CLOUDS, AND RAIN, Ep. 20

Queen Min’s oppa sentenced to janghyeong?!
https://ubitto.com/blog/korean-words-in-historical-dramas-you-should-know/

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    The subtitles I’ve been reading didn’t translate janghyeong. Thanks to Evangeline See’s handy-dandy glossary, I now know that nanjanghyeong means flogging, which Sageuk Geeks know can be fatal.

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      I recall from NOKDU FLOWER that Queen Min’s brother, Min Young-joon (played by Choi Dae-hoon), appeared in a few later scenes. Thus I suspect that KING MAKER’S Min Seung-ho did not survive the flogging meted out to him and his Andong Kim buddies. I’ll chalk up the disparity in the generational name to poetic license.

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    @pakalanapikake,
    I hope you are well. Sorry I am a little late to this post. Thanks for the link. Perhaps because of your language background you find some great language/linguistics sites.
    I found the writer’s choice of sageuk terms interesting. I wouldn’t have thought ‘flogging’ would make the top 12 to discuss but there you go. I liked that YSY’s image was used in the Grand Prince definition. Lol. Good taste.
    I really enjoyed KING MAKER. What a performance from Jun Kwang-ryul! Maybe not pc nowadays to say this but I thought Park Si-Yoo gave a fine performance and held his own with JKR which is saying something considering the way JKR dominated his scenes.

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      Aloha, @marcusnyc20 bong-soo!
      Thank you so much for touching base. I hope you’ve been okay over in Queens during the excitement Tropical Storm Isaias brought us. All the surrounding municipalities — and even most of the rest of our own little dorf — lost electrical power. By an odd quirk, our neighborhood, which is situated in a sheltered saddle between hills and has buried utility lines, only lost power 3-4 times for very brief periods throughout the day on Tues., 8/04. My folks’ house (about a 20-min. drive to the east) lost electricity and the landline at about noon that day and was dead in the water for 32 hours (power was restored last evening), but otherwise my namdongsaeng was safe. Yeodongsaeng up in Woostah was also okay. Our Dad had been released from the hospital on Monday afternoon and sent back to the subacute rehab where he has been getting physical therapy following a partial hip replacement about 2 weeks ago after falling on Mother’s Day when taking flowers to Mom’s grave. He didn’t know he’d broken it for about 7 weeks, but was deathly afraid of going to a hospital because of Covid-19, so went home and put up with it until namdongsaeng was at the end of his own rope. I didn’t blame Dad after the carnage in nursing homes in NY and Florida. God has been good, and he is recovering well and making excellent progress. He’s nearly 94 and highly motivated to regain his ambulation and condition after being bedridden for 7 weeks. Last week he had a spell that was apparently brought on by low sodium levels, and that sent him off to the hospital for a few days.

      I was relieved that he was not at home when the storm hit. There have been several other power outages in recent years. One of them during the winter lasted for a week or more. Luckily, one of my buddies invited me and Mr. P to crash at her place when we lost power, but I asked if Dad and bro, who was still working in retail, could take refuge instead. She ended up thanking me for lending her my kinfolk. Her own dad had died when she was a young teen, and it was a treat for her to have a pseudo-Dad and pseudo-bro around. They all had a lovely time, and Mr. P and I were relieved that they were in good hands. I was afraid Dad would get pneumonia if he stayed at home.

      I’m way behind on Kdrama watching, and still haven’t seen the subtitles for the final two episodes of KING MAKER: THE CHANGE OF DESTINY. I’ve been a little under the weather (not with that virus, AFAIK), but have not had the mental energy to watch any Kdramas since July 29. — I’ve also been kind of emerging from hibernation and returning to real life after about 4 years of hiding out in Kdramaland. It was a necessary hiatus, but now I feel my ch’i shifting. I’ve been on a long-overdue cleaning spree. I swear, I feel as if aliens abducted me, and I’m really a changeling. (But if I were truly a changeling, how would I ever know?!) I’ve also been cooking up a storm, something I quit doing years ago.

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      Continued, Part 2

      I’ve knocked myself out with the cleaning and cooking more than once over the past week or two. Our dishwasher conked out a month or so ago, so I’ve been handwashing the dishes, and have found it to be oddly relaxing and meditative, even as my feet and joints kill me. I used to enjoy cooking, and just this week whomped up my second big batch of pasta sauce loaded with fresh zucchini and summer squash, carrots, celery, and onions, with Aussie grassfed ground beef in a base of tomato basil sauce (all organic to minimize pesticide exposure). I’ve also been enjoying live lactofermented sauerkraut with various wurst, and am about to cook pork with apples and bosc pears in ye olde south German manner. Mr. P found me a bottle of Belgian Trappist brown ale (Chimay Premiere Red Dubbel brewed at Scourmont Abbey), and I think I’ll be enjoying a bit of it with dinner later tonight. One of my faves. 😉

      Back to Kdrama: I’m so glad you enjoyed the linguistics post. I literally saw only the first 15-18 minutes of ep. 20 because the lack of a translation for janghyeong stopped me in my tracks and sent me off on a quest for terminology. I was so frustrated! Then I got distracted with real life, and too tired to focus.

      I did manage to see the end of MY UNFAMILIAR FAMILY, which was one of the most interesting family dramas I’ve seen in a long time. It repeatedly dodged my expectations, and had a fine ensemble cast. I consider it a pretty realistic cautionary tale. I felt cheated that there was not more of Shin Dong-wook in it, but I enjoyed his portrayal of Mr. Player — who was certainly not what he appeared to be at first blush. I was able to keep up with IT’S OKAY TO NOT BE OKAY for a week or two after KING MAKER ended, and then got distracted. Ditto for TRAIN, whose finale I may have missed by now since it’s only 12 episodes. I’ve lost track of MEN ARE MEN with Yoon Hyun-min, Seo Ji-hoon, and Hwang Jung-eum, which I had been enjoying. I want to catch up on all of my shows. I haven’t even seen the premiere episode of FLOWER OF EVIL, so will probably be booted out of the Lee Joon-gi fan club.

      I had already finished KKONDAE INTERN (and was recently inspired by it to conduct my own taste test of Nong Shim’s Shin Ramyun Black and Paldo’s fiery garlic NAMJA RAMYUN — for Science!), which I enjoyed very much. Kim Eung-soo is one of my fave ajusshis and sageuk actors. SWEET MUNCHIES frustrated me in certain ways with the missed opportunities and doofy characters. I felt as if Jung Il-woo’s character was assassinated, and was pissed at leading lady Kang Ji-young’s character, but not her performance. I got such a kick out of seeing Kim Seung-su as the senior director — what a contrast with his cutthroat Kim Byeong-woon of the Andong Kim clan in KING MAKER! It was such a treat to see him facing off against his erstwhile Dad, Prince Kumhwa of JUMONG).

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        @bong-soo,
        I’ll be back with Part 3 but have to get cracking on making dinner. It’ll be a while — perhaps not until tomorrow or so. Stay tuned for further pontificating. 😉

        Again, hope that all’s well with you in the wake of Isaias. Take care! 😉

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