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Country of origin South Korea No. of episodes 100 First episode date 8 July 2006 Network Seoul Broadcasting System Genre Historical period drama | 91% AsianWiki Original language(s) Korean Final episode date 17 June 2007 Number of episodes 100 Language Korean | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Lee Tae-gonHwang In-youngLee Jung-gilSon Tae-young Running time Saturday and Sunday 20:45 (KST) Similar Age of Warriors, Shin Don, The Dawn of the Empire, King Sejong the Great, The King of Legend | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yeon Gaesomun (연개소문; 淵蓋蘇文) is the title of a television historical drama.
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In the summer of 2006, the South Korean television station SBS began a 100-episode drama on the life of Yeon Gaesomun. Its production cost was very high, about 40 billion South Korean won.
Synopsis
Yeon Gae Somun is the general who killed the penultimate King of Goguryeo, Yeongnyu, in 642. It was a period of tremendous instability, both because of the pressure by Shilla, but also because the political situation in Goguryeo was very confusing. After General Yeon put Yeongnyu’s nephew Bojang as his puppet on the throne following his coup d’etat, he tried with little success to calm down Yeon’s two sons in trying to gain power, and started repressing Buddhism (the Kingdom’s official religion) in favour of Taoism.