Lee Seong-gye is a traitor...Yi Sun-shin, great general X North Korean defectors' testimony surprised Jeon Hyun-moo (class that crosses the line)

Jan 08, 2025

 Lee Seong-gye is a traitor...Yi Sun-shin, great general X North Korean defectors' testimony surprised Jeon Hyun-moo (class that crosses the line)



"I learned Lee Seong-gye as a traitor who sold his country."

MBC 'Class Crossing the Line', which aired on the 7th, depicted North Korean defectors' mothers (North Korean mothers) encountering a world completely different from the history they learned in North Korea through lectures by Seol Min-seok, Jeon Hyun-moo, and Yoo Byung-jae on business trips. The lecture, which completely fascinated North Korean defectors, was highly immersive, and the ratings rose.

North Korean defectors surprised everyone with their unusual past, including former soldiers and workers at weapons manufacturing plants. A North Korean defector mother who risked her life watching the drama `Stairway to Heaven' said "Kwon Sang-woo kept telling her to come over (?)"When she watched a South Korean drama, she reported the situation in North Korea where she was being executed, "I watched it secretly under a blanket".




North Korean defectors applied for lectures because they wanted to learn history properly for their children. The history education they received in North Korea was completely different from that of South Korea. North Korean defectors didn't learn that King Sejong invented Hangul", "I learned that the reason why Yi Sun-shin was a great general was because he did not have the leadership of a great leader (the Kim family)," he said, describing his experience of learning a completely different history.

Above all, the evaluation of King Taejo Lee Seong-gye, who founded Joseon, shocked everyone. North Korean defectors learned Lee Seong-gye as a traitor who sold off the country", "In North Korea, pork is called "Seonggye Meat", "The origin of the rice cake is that "I want to twist the neck of Yi Seong-gye", "If someone betrays me, it is called "a guy like Yi Seong-gye". I lived thinking that Lee Seong-gye was the equivalent of Lee Wan-yong, a pro-Japanese group. Jeon Hyun-moo was surprised to learn that Joseon was not called Joseon, but that it was the period of the feudal era of King Ijo, and put pressure on Seol Min-seok, saying, `I think you should tell me really well.'

 Lee Seong-gye is a traitor...Yi Sun-shin, great general X North Korean defectors' testimony surprised Jeon Hyun-moo (class that crosses the line)
In response, Seol Min-seok began his lecture on the theme of Lee Seong-gye's founding history of Joseon. The invasion of foreign powers, the situation of Goryeo, which is tilting amid the tyranny of the Gwonmunse, and the emergence of armed Lee Seong-gye from the periphery in the difficult times were unfolded in dramatic stories. Regarding Lee Seong-gye's choice for the people rather than orders from his superiors at the time of the Weihua-do Reunion, Seol Min-seok said, "The difference between revolution and treason seems to be whether or not the people's hearts are on their backs." He explained, "Not all Goryeo people would welcome Lee Seong-gye's army, but I think it would have been a light of hope for the Kwon Mun-se people or the numerous needy people who were tired of shouting."




For North Korean defectors who knew Lee Seong-gye as a 'traitor'Magukno', a new world had unfolded. Seol Min-seok expressed the history of the late Joseon Dynasty realistically by mobilizing the Hamgyeongdo dialect and combat situation drama, and North Korean defectors were enthusiastic about Seol Min-seok's revolutionary lecture, which they couldn't take their eyes off even for a moment, saying, `It would have been a big deal if you were born in North Korea.' Seol Min-seok's lecture, which made people think about the historical situation along with the trend of public sentiment at that time, gave North Korean defectors a new fun to learn history.

At the end of the broadcast, Jeon Hyun-moo and Yoo Byung-jae turned into anchors and reporters, respectively, and broke the news of Goryeo's history. The fate of the founding of Joseon, which faced a crisis due to Lee Seong-gye's fall accident and Jeong Do-jeon's return, was predicted, making people curious about next week's broadcast.






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