King Gwanggaeto is like Alexander of Macedonia. He drastically expanded the Goguryeo's territory during his rein. However, episodes dealing with his westward expansion toward China, and battle against Japanese troops who invaded Silla were dropped from the story.
Still it is not enough for China, I guess. To me, Guardian is more like Goguryeo Yonga(or Sonata) where suave royal prince weaves many love affairs with female deities or real girls in acient Goguryeo.
I have to question why it has to be King Gwanggaeto to make the drama work. I know it is the most attention-drawing choice, but Gwanggaeto is not known as a love prince in any known accounts of history. He was rather quite busy running the state and waging a war.
Well, BYJ is Yongsama, afterall. He's hotter in Japan than he is in Korea. They aren't going to upset the apple cart on the other side of the East Sea (Sea of Japan).
King Gwanggaeto is like Alexander of Macedonia. He drastically expanded the Goguryeo's territory during his rein. However, episodes dealing with his westward expansion toward China, and battle against Japanese troops who invaded Silla were dropped from the story.
There was quite the talk about the changes in the script which caused the delays in the airing of the program. It was supposed to air in May 2007 and they postponed it until Sept. 2007. I read that BYJ encouraged them to restructure it. I read BYJ basically told them they should either focus on the mystical or the literal. It seems they're focusing a bit more on the mystical.
Still it is not enough for China, I guess. To me, Guardian is more like Goguryeo Yonga(or Sonata) where suave royal prince weaves many love affairs with female deities or real girls in acient Goguryeo.
Yeah, well, he is a cutie! LOL! Can't let that go to waste.
I have to question why it has to be King Gwanggaeto to make the drama work. I know it is the most attention-drawing choice, but Gwanggaeto is not known as a love prince in any known accounts of history. He was rather quite busy running the state and waging a war.
Goguryeo is quite fashionable lately. I guess the Choson dynasty has been done, re-done and over done! Besides the reign of King Gwanggaeto is seen by many historians as the zenith of Korean power in North Asia. You know they were going to do something about it sometime. It just took Korea's biggest Hallyu star to make it into the most popular program on Korean TV (even more popular than Winter Sonata was when it originally aired on Korean TV back in 2002.