I started watching this mainly cuz, one, Han Ye Ri was amazing in Six Flying Dragons as cheok sa gwang ( she was so COOL! though i know stuntmen played a major role here, but i always appreciate women who fight and on that drama she proved invincible and better than even the best swordsman of the nation, even though, i read the actual history, and came to know she never existed in the first place) and Yoon Shi Yoon is my favorite actor, though he is the villain here and he DIES =( =( =(. But he still proved flawless in his role and i didn't like him at all =). First few episodes were creepy to be honest, it gave too much "six flying dragon" vibes and almost like half the cast is ripped right off from that drama, so i actually thought of dropping it as it got boring- i thought it was lacking originality. But i kept watching considering the facts that it's a true story and i get to see Yoon Shi Yoon, and i am truly TRULY glad that i did, because, many reasons, Ja In and Yi Kang s' chemistry is just so good and i can't help smiling whenever they are together, also our bad guy Yi Hyun is SO BAD that i kept praying to the writers ( yeah like after almost two years the drama was released), please don't kill him, and they went ahead and did that very thing (it was gruesome!!! SUICIDE???!!! =( =(=( But i have always seen him as a good, great person and always the hero so this was refreshing but....(i don't think i wanna see it again) it definitely proves that he is an actual versatile actor. In short, i loved this drama. It made me realize that reality was always not as perfect, i mean how many dramas have we seen evil conquering the good? Either we see a happily ever after or something near to happily ever after . i'm giving it 9/10. Please do watch it, it was sad, i cried a lot when Yi Hyun died and also when Korean men fell one after the other ( i thought it was stupid though at some point, why attack without no strategy whatsoever when you KNOW you can't win against the Japanese with all their weapons? why go on a suicide mission? i don't call that bravery but i guess that is what actually happened in the history, Japanese massacring hundreds of thousands of koreans =( Still, recommend it.