Hyunmoo Jeon, why did you get scared…Unlimited imagination in the description of foreigners during the Joseon Dynasty (Sunnumkle)
Mar 04, 2025
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MBC 'Class Crossing the Line', which will be broadcast on the 5th, will be organized into an episode 'Joseon around the country' with 'Korean foreigners' who love Korea. Seol Min-seok, Jeon Hyun-moo, and Yoo Byung-jae are invited to the 「Foreign Foreigners」 (Party of Lonely Foreigners) and give customized business trip lectures.
The main character who commissioned the lecture was Lucky, an Indian broadcaster. Lucky, who has been friends for 10 years with Jeon Hyun-moo, applied directly to Jeon Hyun-moo.
Introducing his friends from Rwanda, Turkiye, Italy, and Egypt, Lucky is very interested in Korean history. If you don't know history, you can't live in Korea." He/she burns his/her will to study Korean history to pass the nationalization examination, which is famous for its difficulty.
Seol Min-seok begins his history lecture by announcing the existence of foreigners who made a surprise landing in Joseon about 400 years ago, which is 'original Korean Foreigner'. The story of Park Yeon, the first Westerner naturalized in Joseon, and Hamel, who drifted to Jeju Island and escaped after 13 years, unfolds spectacularly.
Lucky and his friends are surprised to hear the seniors who have experienced wars, infectious diseases, and famine, raising questions about how they came to remain in Joseon and what kind of situations they went through.
On the other hand, the point that Koreans were surprised to see Westerners with different looks at the time stimulates everyone's infinite imagination. Jeon Hyun-moo reacts sharply to the story in the record that `Westerners have eyes on their chests.' It arouses curiosity about what the reason is and what rumors Koreans made when they saw Westerners.
MBC 'Class Crossing the Line' is a travel history lecture program held in an unexpected place and airs every Wednesday at 9 p.m. Lecture applications can be accepted on the official website of 'Class Crossing the Line' and on Instagram.
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