Eight Days, Assassination Attempts against King Jeongjo
| Eight Days, Assassination Attempts against King Jeongjo | |
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| Also known as | Eight Days Mystery of Jeongjo Assassination |
| Genre |
Period drama Drama |
| Based on |
Journey by Oh Se-yeong |
| Written by | Kim Won-seok |
| Directed by | Park Jong-won |
| Starring |
Kim Sang-joong Park Jung-chul Jung Ae-ri Lee Seon-ho Hee Won |
| Country of origin | South Korea |
| Original language(s) | Korean |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Han Chang-hoon |
| Producer(s) | Go Jang-won Kim Do-yeon Ahn Sang-hwi Lee Joo-hyung |
| Running time | Saturdays and Sundays at 23:00 (KST) |
| Release | |
| Original network | CGV |
| Original release | November 17 – December 16, 2007 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
| Korean name | |
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| Revised Romanization | Jeongjo Amsal Miseuteori Pal il |
| McCune–Reischauer | Chŏngjo Amsal Misŭtŏri P'al il |
Eight Days, Assassination Attempts against King Jeongjo (Hangul: 정조암살미스터리 8일) is a South Korean television miniseries starring Kim Sang-joong, Park Jung-chul, Jung Ae-ri, Lee Seon-ho, and Hee Won. The series ran for 10 episodes, and was aired by CGV from November 17, 2007 to December 16, 2007. This show is placed in the context of the Eight Days procession organized in 1795 by King Jeongjo of Joseon to visit the tomb of his father at Hwaseong Fortress. This historic event was a huge one, involving 5,661 people and 1,417 horses.
The screenplay is based on the novel Journey (Hangul: 원행; RR: won haeng; lit. "a round trip") written in 2006 by Oh Se-yeong. The background of the action is the 1795 procession organized by King Jeongjo of Joseon for the 60th birthday of his mother, Lady Hyegyeong that also commemorated the 60th birthday of his deceased father, the Crown Prince Sado. During the eight days period when the Court left the palace for the ceremony, the show introduces several assassination attempts against the King. A first one comes from the Moon In-bang's group (a millenarist sect). But this plot is used by the Noron Faction to pursue its own agenda, attempting an armed suppression against the Sipa Faction and the King as well.
Apart from the fictional elements, a major focus is placed on two historical sources. The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyeong is extensively used during many flashback sequences relative to events that occurred before the death (1762) of Crown Prince Sado, while the official documents from the Joseon Royal Library are used for the current events: the "Wonhaeng Eulmyo Jeongni Uigwe" (Eulmyo=1795) for the Procession itself, and the "Hwaseong Seongyeokuigwe" concerning the Hwaseong Fortress as a whole.
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