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The Slave Hunters

Season 1 · 24 episodes · Jan 6, 2010

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    Episode 1

    Episode 1

    Jan 6, 2010

    Slaves who ran away were rounded up by bounty hunters called chuno-kkun. “Chuno” itself is a portmanteau word combining “chase” with “slave”; hence, slave hunter.

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    Episode 2

    Episode 2

    Jan 7, 2010

    In the Manchu war, amidst the chaos and fighting, invaders had raided homes and dragged off their inhabitants.

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    Episode 3

    Episode 3

    Jan 13, 2010

    Chun Ji-Ho is nothing if not an opportunist. He tells his men to fire away. If he manages to kill Dae-Gil and the runaway slave, that's like killing two birds with a few dozen arrows.

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    Episode 4

    Episode 4

    Jan 14, 2010

    Seol-hwa blocks Dae-gil’s path and refuses to budge until he agrees to bring her along on their mission to catch Tae-ha. Dae-gil is just about to turn his horse the other way, when Eop-bok fires his musket.

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    Episode 5

    Episode 5

    Jan 20, 2010

    There is only one son of the Crown Prince left alive, and Tae-Ha must save him. Tae-Ha, with his secret message from the Crown Prince himself, must get to and save the last son of the Crown Prince and avenge his master’s murder.

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    Episode 6

    Episode 6

    Jan 21, 2010

    Aware that they’d be overtaken easily if they tried to escape on horseback, Tae-ha sends a riderless horse galloping away to misdirect the slave hunters once again.

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    Episode 7

    Episode 7

    Jan 27, 2010

    Choi and Wang-son cannot believe it; they’ve seen it before more than a few times. But Dae-Gil is adamant – Un-Nyun is alive!

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    Episode 8

    Episode 8

    Jan 28, 2010

    Seol-hwa is jolted awake by the slave hunters demanding to know what she did with their horses and money. Seol-hwa says she sold the horses and spent all of the money on food and drink.

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    Episode 9

    Episode 9

    Feb 3, 2010

    Tae-Ha was not born a slave. Rather, he chose to swear an oath to defend the Crown Prince, thus he endured the loss of his command, the torture, the permanent branding of slave symbol on his forehead, because he had a greater purpose.

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    Episode 10

    Episode 10

    Feb 4, 2010

    Dae-gil had begged his father to allow him to marry Un-nyun, saying that he couldn't live without her. Furious, his father had ordered that Un-nyun be locked up in the storage room, where she would be left to die from dehydration.

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    Episode 11

    Episode 11

    Feb 10, 2010

    According to Dae-gil, in this world of slavery co-existing with Neo-Confucian ideals of virtue, Good and Evil don’t really have meaning.

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    Episode 12

    Episode 12

    Feb 11, 2010

    King Injo asks his number two man, the Left State Minister Lee Gyeong Shik, about the happenings in Jeju Island, where the last surviving son of the murdered Crown Prince So-Hyeon was supposed to be killed.

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    Episode 13

    Episode 13

    Feb 17, 2010

    Dae-Gil has found his beloved, but she has apparently forgotten about him.

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    Episode 14

    Episode 14

    Feb 18, 2010

    Just as it seems they might have to settle in for a long and cold wait, one of the slaves spies the yangban approaching in the distance. The slaves immediately scramble to their positions.

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    Episode 15

    Episode 15

    Feb 24, 2010

    Scholar Jo and his cohorts grow anxious as it seems that General Song Tae-Ha may not merely follow orders and do as he is told.

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    Episode 16

    Episode 16

    Feb 25, 2010

    There are certain fates that are just not meant to be. After Dae-gil's relentless chase to find Tae-ha and Un-nyun, he hits a dead-end where he has to face reality and accept that Un-nyun has moved on and has found happiness.

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    Episode 17

    Episode 17

    Mar 3, 2010

    Both Tae-ha and Dae-gil get captured by Officer Hwang and get tortured until they disclose the whereabouts of the Crown Prince.

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    Episode 18

    Episode 18

    Mar 4, 2010

    Execution day. Both Tae-ha and Dae-gil are sentenced to die since they failed to reveal the whereabouts of the Crown Prince and follow orders.

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    Episode 19

    Episode 19

    Mar 10, 2010

    While trying to escape to keep the Crown Prince safe, Hye-won gets caught by officers because they are suspicious that she is carrying the Crown Prince.

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    Episode 20

    Episode 20

    Mar 11, 2010

    In order to keep the Crown Prince safe, Dae-gil guides them into the deep mountains, where his slave hunting comrade lives in a village surrounded by other slave hunters.

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    Episode 21

    Episode 21

    Mar 17, 2010

    Dae-gil is now reunited again with his chuno brothers, General Choi and Wang-son. A welcoming festivity is prepared for Dae-gil and the rest of his crew.

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    Episode 22

    Episode 22

    Mar 18, 2010

    The Qing Emperor sends his soldiers to the small village to get the Crown Prince so that they can take him back to Qing for his safety.

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    Episode 23

    Episode 23

    Mar 24, 2010

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    Episode 24

    Episode 24

    Mar 25, 2010

    Eop-bok discovers that the leader of their revolution regime used them as part of their scheme to get rid of certain people that the Left Prime Minister did not want around.