Who is the Great King?! – The Great Seer

I am watching a Korean TV drama currently on the Astro S One Channel (channel 393) and I would like to recommend it to you all. The title is called “The Great Seer”. It is a historical television series, starring Ji Sung, Ji Jin-hee and Song Chang-eui. Set during the turbulent decline of Goryeo, it is about practicers of divination and the power that they hold over the fate of the country. It is aired on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 36 episodes.

The story of “The Great Seer” is set in the late Goryeo Dynasty in which a group of Feng Shui advisors to the government authorities help the hero Lee Sung Gye become the first king of the Joseon Dynasty.

 

Title         : The Great Seer  / 大风水

Genre      : Historical, Politic, Action, Romance

Episodes : 36

Story     :

The Great Seer begins during the reign of King Gongmin (Ryu Tae-joon). But despite being about seers, geomancers, divinators and the like, this drama is less about the fantasy and more about the political movers and shakers — people who had the power to advise, and therefore control, kings. Ji Jin-hee plays Yi Seong-gye, the general who led the overthrow of Goryeo and established the Joseon Dynasty, becoming its first king.

Mok Ji-sang (Ji Sung) is a gifted seer/geomancer, born with the ability to see into people’s pasts and futures. There are those who believe falsely that he has dark supernatural powers, thinking him possessed by ghosts. When he comes of age in the late Goryeo era, he becomes a scholar of divination, and a reader of geography, faces, and the like to tell fortunes — an area with much influence at the time. He eventually becomes a "king-maker," who holds the key to a major political shift in the overthrow of Goryeo and the rise of Joseon when he backs General Yi and effectively shapes the future of Korea as we know it.

Kim So-yeon plays a healer whose destiny is tied to General Yi, but she falls in love with the seer. And Song Chang-eui plays the rival advisor. Lee Yoon-ji joins the cast as Ban-ya, a woman who was sold off as a gisaeng at a young age, but becomes a concubine to King Gongmin’s advisor, and bears a son. King Gongmin takes in that son as his, and the boy becomes King U of Goryeo — the king that General Yi dethrones in a coup d’état.

 

Cast

Ji Sung as Ji Sang

Lee David as young Ji Sang

Song Chang Ui as Lee Jung Geun

No Young Hak as young Jung Geun

Ji Jin Hee as Lee Sung Gye

Kim So Yun as Hae In

Son Na Eun as young Hae In

Lee Yoon Ji as Ban Ya

Park Min Ji as young Ban Ya

Jo Min Ki as Lee In Im

Oh Hyun Kyung as Soo Ryun Gae

Lee Seung Yun as Young Ji

Lee Jin as young Young Ji

 

I like 2 actors in “The Great Seer”. They are Ji Jin Hee and Ji Sung. I like the actor Jin Jin Hee since the TV series “The Jewel of Palace”, and then followed by “ Yes, Captain!”  I think he is a very good and cool actor. As for Ji Sung, he acts very good in this drama, I think. He is a smart person in the series. Let us take a preview of “The Great Seer” below.

 

 

Frankly speaking, I am really enjoying watching “The Great Seer” as the story is interesting and quite exciting. Moreover, you able to know some knowledge about the Feng Shui. I did not know that Korean so believe in Feng Shui besides Chinese. Haha! :P

“The Great Seer” has also won an award in Year 2012 SBS Drama Awards: It is the Special Acting Award for Drama Special, Actress (Lee Jin).

If you are interested to catch this exciting series, please click into “The Great Seer” to join the Feng Shui world.

Enjoy watching! J