The Great Seer
| The Great Seer | |
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Promotional poster for The Great Seer
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| Also known as | The Great Geomancer |
| Genre | Historical |
| Written by | Lee Soo-yeon Nam Sun-nyeo |
| Directed by | Lee Yong-suk |
| Starring |
Ji Sung Ji Jin-hee Song Chang-eui Kim So-yeon Lee Yoon-ji |
| Country of origin | South Korea |
| Original language(s) | Korean |
| No. of episodes | 35 |
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| Location(s) | Korea |
| Running time | Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 (KST) |
| Release | |
| Original network | Seoul Broadcasting System |
| Original release | 10 October 2012 – 7 February 2013 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | To the Beautiful You |
| Followed by | That Winter, the Wind Blows |
| External links | |
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| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 대풍수 |
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| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Dae Pung Su |
| McCune–Reischauer | Tae P'ung Su |
The Great Seer (Hangul: 대풍수; Hanja: 大風水; RR: Dae Pung Su, also known as The Great Geomancer) is a 2012 South Korean historical television series, starring Ji Sung, Ji Jin-hee, Song Chang-eui, Kim So-yeon and Lee Yoon-ji. 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 aired on SBS from October 10, 2012 to February 7, 2013 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 35 episodes.
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. Yi Seong-gye (Ji Jin-hee) is 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.
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