Korea: Admiral Yi - V: Martial Lord of Loyalty - Extra History

Oh yea, There is debate between whether the battle of MyeongRyang was 13 vs 133 or 13 vs 333. Can we clear that up on lies once and for all? I too am very curious.

Edward Kim

wow what a fuck

Robert S

Yeah, especially since he had previously survived a shot in the shoulder, I was also hoping he would somehow make it through... but no.

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...I might have cried then as well- I've got a kind of crappy memory sometimes XP (But I swear, if you get better at giving me feels then you're going to start getting bills for the tissues I'm going to need.)

Meghan

Glad you liked it! We were proud of how it came out.

Extra History

Thank you. <3

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Maybe one day he can come up in a different series!

Extra History

Mostly with posthumous titles and awards. It was certainly too little, too late, and one account of the scene says that the king was stone-faced and appeared unmoved during Yi's eulogy.

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I'm not aware of any contemporary portraits of Yi's son or nephew, so yeah, the artist's rendering of them with different facial hair was a choice made to show they were different. Even in real life, though, if they were mainly shouting orders in the middle of a hectic battle, I doubt anyone was taking the time to look very closely at their faces - much less notice their voices probably had a different timbre. ;)

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If it had been a work of fiction most of us would have rolled our eyes at how unrealistic it seemed. ;D

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You mean we didn't get you at the end of the World War I series? Nuts. We'll have to try harder!

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It was episode three when he got shot.

Sean Sarff

I actually teared up after watching this. I expected Yi to be fine since he just would walk out of most problems though his life. But I guess his legendary luck just ran out during that battle.

Sean Sarff

There is another General in Korea called Eulji Mundok who fought the 1 million army troops of Sui dynasty with 30,000 men and wiped them out... I mean he killed all the million troops in one battle. It is recorded as the biggest fight in world history in terms of man power. (Only 2800 went home out of a million).He is considered in par with Yi in Korea.

Edward Kim

how did the joseon court try to make up for their fuckery?

Robert S

That's not the only foreshadowing. In the second episode (please fact check me) Yi was shot in the shoulder and no one realized it.

Parker

PS was Yi's son and nephew being clean shaven an artist choice and they actually had beards? Or were these guys the best actors in history?

Parker

It's sad about how this story ends. Yi pulled Korea through the war and went through more bull$#!+ than any character I have ever heard (fictional or otherwise). He did not deserve to die from a stray bullet.

Parker

That couldn't have been a better story if it had been written as a work of fiction. Damn. Just.... damn.

Nessf

Excellent end to a great series. Well done guys. Well done.

Jesse

This man *defines* the word "Legendary". As does this episode.

Much agreed Sir. Sad end to another grear seris by you guys. Keep up the good work.

Michael William Hamilton II

Okay, I am going to admit it- this episode made me outright cry. The timing of the music and the flow of the narrative got to me and had me tearing up. I think the only other one that got to me like this was the Sengoku Jidai series.

Meghan

The Kiners' music really brought this one together.

Extra History

Not having to teach to a curriculum helps us a bunch, since we can go and cover history like this, that often isn't covered in the west.

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I'm glad you enjoyed it! Yi has been one of our favorite stories to tell.

Extra History

Wow, you guys. Just, wow.

ReaperNX

Shrek probably.

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:D It was originally released with a slightly different name, since I was working off a different translation, but the intent was always to foreshadow this moment. Once I saw the translation James used, I updated the title to match it exactly.

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Defiantly and the music was added at just the right time too. Soooo good!

Tristan Murphy

holy shit episode 1: KEEP BEATING THE DRUM you foreshadowing bastids

Robert S

you're giving me chills, guys. keep up the astounding work

Robert S

Who the fuck is cutting these onions?

SovietWomble

I think that...yes, that's a tear. Man, thanks for such a great work you are doing on this channel.

Pablo Camarasa

keep up the great work EC, i've learned more from your EC History than in textbooks! awesome work.

Tommie Gordon

Thank you. <3

Extra History

Welcome to our little community, then! Hope you enjoy it!

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I'm gonna go ahead and say it was the former. ;) A lot of these people that looked foolish compared to him, on both the Korean and the Japanese side, won battles or showed great leadership in other situations. Even Won Gyon, who wound up losing the fleet, had been a very successful campaigner against the Jurchens to earn his high-ranking position.

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And on rarely do they survive close inspection and still come off seeming like good people.

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Worth all that build-up from episode 1, huh? :D

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Me too. :*)

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It's not honorable, and it's not pretty, but it would have been a risk to let Japan retreat with all their armies intact. What if the political situation changed, and they wanted to reinvade in the future? Plus, there is literally a mountain in Japan of around 40,000 noses that they cut off Korean and Chinese people during this invasion and turned into a monument. That sort of brutality is not easily forgiven.

Extra History

Wow. Amazing.

Tommy Laukkanen

Man, i will patron after this. / amazing end. the music, dan voice. all of it.

Agus Perez Moreno

Well, that's probably right, but the way you tell the story brings it to a whole new level. All of it is amazing.

Martin Ockovsky

Sad, huh? But he is also Korea's national hero, and while he didn't live to enjoy his accolades, he's celebrated all over the country now.

Extra History

It's streaming on Netflix in several countries! I know it's on in the USA, not sure about others.

Extra History

Yeah, the Kiners knocked it out of the park on both the main theme and the drums!

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Yi makes it easy to tell a good story. :)

Extra History

Yeah, absolutely check this movie out if you want more! It's streaming on Netflix in several territories. Fair warning, though, the Japanese are very much demonized in this movie.

Extra History

Thank you! Yi deserved a great series.

Extra History

Thank you! We actually rewrote this episode after Sean and Dean sent us a preview of the drumbeats. It was too good not to make it part of the series!

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Not gonna lie, I've watched the final cut about 6 times since Dan sent it to me. Gets me very time!

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Me too!

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Hideyoshi wasn't there commanding in person! And while it definitely turned against them very severely, I can't fault them for taking the fastest route to relieve a city under siege when every delay meant the city might fall on its own. And during Myeongnyang, well, if we weren't looking at it through the 20/20 of historical hindsight, we'd have thought they were ridiculous to avoid an engagement with 13 ships, when they had over 100. Which actually would have turned out all right for them, I expect, if Yi hadn't deliberately baited them with those tides they didn't know about.

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Seriously though, why didn't the Japanese just avoid passing through narrow straights? Losing, how many was it... 3 battles due to getting bottle-necked? Was it that difficult to circle around the coast? Is the slightly shorter travel time worth the risk? The Japanese were inherently overconfident but you'd think a man like Hideyoshi would have the brains to order them not to do it (even if he was reportedly going clinically insane at the time).

Michael Waisfeld

Great job, guys! I hope at some point you guys cover Saladin.

Hasan Mahmood

Not gonna lie.... this actually made me tear up a little

David May

Beautiful! Simply beautiful! I loved the drumbeats as the narrative went into the final phase of Noryang. It felt so climatic. You guys did a splendid job of this series, truly honoring the memory of Yi. Here wishing for a similar success for further series!

Hung Nguyen

For more information, it's called The Admiral: Roaring Current and is a movie I greatly recommend. Even though there are dramatic embellishment, it mostly stays true to the events of Myeongnyang and no is better at portraying Yi than Choi Min-sik.

Hung Nguyen

That was beautiful! You guys did an amazing job!

Stormy Weather

Wow! Powerful stuff.

Jason Youngberg

For those who want more Yi and even more details, they made a movie about Admiral Yi some years back. Great job EH, I loved how you included the sound of the drum!

Mask

The most amazing stuff ever created:P

Martin Ockovsky

i like video

shadowolf

Wow that music was amazing!

Tristan Murphy

Fascinating story! Every Friday I was expecting a new chapter . Now I'm interested in the movie: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDoL8BCm0p0" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDoL8BCm0p0</a>

Luis Antonio Tejeda

Yi: Rewarded for his loyalty with treachery, demotion, attempted assassination, and eventually, death.

Michael Jebbett

The flipside of honour in effect: It's not enough that the enemy who caused you harm has ceased causing it, you must avenge the original crime. I doubt Yi is unique when it comes to this.

RMS Oceanic

My respect for yi kinda faultered when he insisted on hunting down and killing a beaten enemy trying to retreat, when they could have just signed a peace treaty, and avoided further bloodshed.

Luknai

Only rarely does history produce one so committed and brilliant.

Michael William Hamilton II

Wow, you gave me chills!

Sponsor

Not going to lie but I am crying man tears at that ending. Rest in peace Admiral Yi!

Farzad Mansouri

I cannot decide whether Yi was as much of a bada$$ as this series makes him out to be, or if the rest of the military of that era were just idiots. Either way he was truly a man of honor to his country.

Corey Wallen

Wow...

Riaan Van der walt

Man, that ending... so dramatic!!!

Zachary Taylor