The historical background to help understand Ep. 29~30
■ Cheok Sa-Gwang (척사광)
Yoon-Rang (윤랑) a.k.a. Cheok Sa-Gwang (척사광) is a fictional character, because the last king of Goryeo didn’t have any second wife. I guess the SFD writers wanted to create a beautiful tragic love story between the king and his female bodyguard. The king’s fate was so sad and miserable.
I also think Cheok Sa-Gwang will be involved with Moo-Hyul because herGoksan swordsmanship (곡산검법 谷山劍法) is supposed to be the original form of Moo-Hyul’s “Eastern Twin Dragon” swordmanship (동방쌍룡 東方雙龍). His master Hong Dae-Hong created his own skill based on the Goksan swordmanship by adding the best parts of many other sword skills. I guess Moo-Hyul’s 6th dragon credit will be given when he surpasses the original’s successor, Cheok Sa-Gwang.
■ Cheok Joon-Gyeong (척준경 拓俊京, ?～1144)Although Cheok Sa-Gwang is a fictional character, her great-great-grandfatherCheok Joon-Gyeong (척준경 拓俊京, ?～1144) is a legendary historical figure. He is “physically” the strongest warrior in the Korean history.
In February 1104, during Jurchens’ invasion, Goryeo army was hopeless in total defeat. A mere soldier named Cheok Joon-Gyeon asked supreme commander Yim Gan to give him a horse and a weapon. When his request was granted, he rode his horse at the enemy single-handedly, and killed the enemy general and recaptured 2 prisoners. When he was coming back, hundreds of mounted troops chased after him. But he shot arrows and killed 2 more enemy generals, and then safely returned to the castle.
In another battle against Jurchens, renowned general Yoon Gwan (윤관 尹瓘, 1040~1111) asked him how to take the enemy’s castle. The Jurchens were taking stand in it and strenuously resisted. Cheok Joon-Gyeong volunteerly climbed up the wall of the castle, and killed several enemy soldiers single-handedly just with a sword and a shield. His move created high morale among Goryeo army and led to a huge victory.
In January 1108, when 20,000 Jurchens sieged Yoon Gwan’s army in Youngju castle, Cheok Joon-Gyeong said “The number of enemy soldiers are increasing. The provisions are running out. No reinforcements in near future. It is impossible for us to held out in this castle.” So, he volunteerly led a group of soldiers to go outside and triumphantly came back after defeating the Jurchens.
Next month, when tens of thousands of Jurchens sieged Woongju castle, Commander Choi Hong-Jeong ordered Cheok to break through the siege and come back with reinforcements. Ceok Joon-Gyeong really made it. After he wore worn clothes like a common soldier, he climbed down the castle single-handedly and succeeded to break through the siege. He defeated Jurchens with the reinforcements.
It is neither an exaggerated folk tale nor an unreliable legend. It is the official historical records written by Joseon-era historians who hate to praise the Goryeo’s traitor.
Right, unfortunately the valiant warrior ended up as a traitor. At that time, the Goryeo court was in the hand of Yi Ja-Gyeom (이자겸 李資謙, ?~1126), the king’s most powerful maternal relative. King Injong planned to regain his royal authority by assassinating the treacherous subject. However, of all persons, Cheok Joon-Gyeong’s son and younger brother were accidently killed by the king’s assassins during the revolt. Cheok Joon-Gyeong was so infuriated that he broke into the palace, set fire to it, killed all of the assassins, and saved Yi Ja-Gyeom in the corner. The king’s revolt ended in failure due to Cheok Joon-Gyeong’s anger.
Later, the king used clever schemes to get Yi Ja-Gyeom and Cheok Joon-Gyeong to turn on each other. He also successfully persuaded Cheok to turn into his ally. Finally, Yi Ja-Gyeom was ousted, and the king honored Cheok by appointing him to prime minister. However, a few months later, Cheok was also impeached and exiled as a traitor who had set fire to the palace. For that reason, he went down in history as a traitor. A few years later, he died of illness.
For his unbelievable inhuman military achievement, Korean netizens, especially those who love online fighting games, have jokingly called him “the best swordmaster in history” or “Cheokminator (Cheok +Terminator). The SFD writers seem to use it for fun. Of course, Cheok Sa-Gwang’s Goksan swordsmanship is a fictional device created by the SFD writers.
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Post time 14-1-2016 10:04 AM
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