It's great to be able to read Chinese (at least some). Hahaha! I finally in desperation thought of Funshion when I couldn't get anything online on
Viki and
Youku using free US and China proxy servers (didn't work).
Download Funshion. Easy and fast. There is English version, and Chinese.
Once it launches, type the Chinese words for Faith "信义" into the search engine. It'll be launched in the Funshion viewer and plays immediately.
Starts out with legend of Hua Tuo, the invincible physician who can cure any illness. Once the great general Cao Cao had a headache and Hua Tuo was able to cure it. Cao Cao wanted to keep Hua Tuo by his side as personal physician but Hua Tuo declined saying he didn't want to be of service to just 1 man. Troops were then sent to capture Hua Tuo, kill if the physician declined. Just before he could be taken, a gust of wind blew from the sky and zapped Hua Tuo away.
Forward to AD1351.
Older rider sees a red plume rising in the mountains: Over there, a mirage?
Rider goes up to Min Ho: We're being followed.
Min Ho: I know.
Rider: Seems to be no ordinary farmer.
Min Ho: I know.
Trapped carriage: 1,2,3, Effort! Once more!
Min Ho: Is the boat ready?
Running lad: General! Boat... there isn't any.
Older man: How is that possible? So many boats and can't find even one?
Lad: They said there isn't any ready to sail. What am I to do? The fastest, need to wait for tomorrow in the day, perhaps there might be a few ready to go.
Minho to carriage person: We'll have to stay the night.
Older man: Stay the night? Why here?
(zine ed: Why is he questioning the general? Min Ho's voice is so soft and weak to be a general). Once we pass this river, we'll arrive at Goryeo. Why...
Min Ho: Fine, do it your way. (to carriage person) I'll make the preparations.
Older man: I say Shou Tai Chi... Shou Tai Chi...
(zine ed: no idea what Shou Tai Chi means, just a term of address).
Min Ho: Get going. Towards an inn for the night.
At the inn:
Man: Innkeeper, my two masters got married barely a few days, but these two are sensitive, perhaps may need to trouble you. Right! Here, enough? Consider fortune struck for you. Go take a break.
Innkeeper: Yes.
Man: And get rid of those as well.
Innkeeper: We're closed. Leave after you're done. Don't just stand there.
Customer walking out: What the hell!
Customer: Unhand me!
Man speaking to Min Ho: Whoever drove away the boatmen, are still on us.
Min Ho: I guess.
Man: Then they should be able to anticipate we would be staying the night here.
Min Ho: Yeah, wasn't it said a nearby inn would be this one?
Man: You well know, and yet stay here?
Min Ho: What then? Stick a flag into the vast farmland and shout?
Man: Then now, how shall we defend?
Min ho: Defend, in all, seriousness.
Man: Right. Group A, close the windows, move the tables to block the doors. The enemy has arrived sooner than us. Don't let your guard down not even for a moment.
Voice behind drawing man: Once at Goryeo, first must severely punish that Shou Tai Chi general brat. I knew it when he was sent to escort the carriage at Goryeo. This is such a slight on your royal highness. Shindaigu, yes, once past Shindaigu, your royal highness will finally be able to return to Goryeo. To put it nicely, it's Prince Gongmin. When you were still young, you were forcibly taken away. These years, how have we gotten through? Now after all the hardship, your royal highness is able to return to Goryeo. How is this considered an escort? A grand escort with flags and armies of men and horses isn't too much to ask for! What? Can't even wear elaborate robes and can't show our faces? Nobody is allowed to call out to your royal highness. These band of despicable and rude escort guards...
Min Ho enters. Old guy shouts at him: How dare you, brat!
Min ho: The empress will also be staying here.
old guy: You brat! Entering without even knocking first!
Min Ho: If we have to guard 2 houses, we would be very tired.
(zine ed: I'm surprised by this intelligent strategy from the soft-spoken Min Ho.). I know the relationship between you 2 is sensitive, but hope you'll understand.
Old guy: Insolence!
Min Ho: Can you use a sword? You can guard that window.
Old guy: Guard that window? You ask me to guard window? You damn...
Enter the empress
(zine ed: Hwahhh... so fierce-looking. Whoa man... what's up between them?).
Guy coming up the stairs being asked: Where are you going? If you don't stay by us, it will be difficult for us to protect you.
Guy: My own life, I can take care of.
Fighting. Min Ho: The enemy number is greater than expected. Even if you are afraid, do not flee from my side. Can you do that?
Royal highness: I will not flee.
Min ho: Good then, I will protect you with my life.
(zine ed: ehh hehehe... look at that old guy pulling the table to hide himself instead of protecting his king).
Guy: Catch 'em alive! Don't let them escape!
Physician with needles: General, need your internal strength.
(zine ed: Oh.. so the general has some kinda magical power..)
Voice: Catch him! Don't let a single one escape!
Guy: Don't kill them! I told you not to kill them!
Voice: What happened? What's happening?
Guy: Didn't I tell you not to kill them, you brat? Need to investigate who sent them, didn't I say?
Guy: It's not what you think.
Guy: What not?
Guy pulls off enemy's mask: This wicked fellow. Took poison and killed himself.
Old guy comes down the stairs: Jang Bin, are you mad? What the hell are you doing?
Jang Bin: As you see, I am...
Old guy: I say, you have to save the Empress! Do you know what kind of situation it is now? We're going to lose our lives! Hurry, hurry let's go.
Jang Bin: Come.
Guy: Yes.
Jang Bin: Take care of this.
Old guy: Come, come. It's going to be the end of our Goryeo. Highness, of what personage is the empress? Is she a princess from the Yuan dynasty? How can we let such a personage die by the side of the road? Originally, there is already gossip that Goryeo will be made Yuan Dynasty's vassal state. If the princess dies here, this will give them an edge on us. The very edge that will allow the Yuan dynasty to absorb Goryeo.
Highness: Is there really no hope?
Jang Bin: A major artery was badly ruptured. After doing (this and that procedure), the bleeding has temporarily stopped. But it is only a make-do measure.
Old guy: The artery is badly ruptured, can't it be joined up?
Jang Bin: It wasn't easy just lowering the heartrate by half. If blood pressure is disturbed, the bleeding can't be stopped, the result will be disastrous.
Old guy: No, no, we must save her.
Jang Bin: Unless it's a miracle physician, there is no other way.
Old guy: What? Miracle physician.
Highness: If that woman dies, our country will be destroyed. General, do you think so too?
Min Ho: I am but a warrior, don't know about politics.
Highness: It appears that just upon my ascension, the country will be destroyed. What a great king I am.
Old guy: There is, your highness. A miracle physician. Just nearby here. I know where it is.
Min ho: Where is it? Ask the men to find him.
Old guy: He is in the sky. I know the gate to the sky. It's over there.
Sees Jang Bin: Jang Bin is Goryeo's best physician. Even he says he can't save her, so we can only plead to heaven.
Highness: Plead to heaven? Will heaven save her?
Old guy: The point is to plead to heaven. If highness will not plead with all heart and sincerity to heaven, it's hard on those watching by the side. Need to plead for consecutively 3 days and 3 nights. Let it reach the ears of the Yuan king.
Highness: To appease the Yuan dynasty's anger.
Old guy (adviser): Yes, for the sake of Goryeo.
Highness: You go prepare.
Adviser: I'll handle it.
Min Ho: Can the empress be moved?
Jang Bin: No
Min Ho: I'll divide the men into 2 batches. The one with the larger number will be left here.
(zine ed: I'm surprised and momentarily impressed by his sacrifice). Seems the enemy is targetting the empress.
(zine ed: I see.)
Highness: General. From Goryeo to Yuan dynasty's Swallow capital is far?
Min ho: Of course.
Highness: Such a long journey, when you came to escort me, what were you thinking on the road?
Min Ho: I don't usually ponder.
Highness: I am asking you, how do you see me as a king.
Min Ho: A wise and kind king is ascending. Truly the fortune of hundreds of commoners. That's what I thought. Do I continue?
Highness: You hate me, don't you?
Min Ho: Me?
Highness: From the start, before you saw me, you hated me, right?
Min Ho: Highness, to answer this sort of question, my head will fall.
Highness: Why do you hate me? I am your king. Just speak the truth. Do I have to order you before you'll do so?
Min Ho: The previous king, when he ascended, was only 14 years old. Because he was too young to rule, Yuan dynasty removed him of his position.
Highness: I know.
Min Ho: Your highness is now 21 years old. In my opinion, 14 or 21 years old, is still young. Moreover, your highness was sent to Yuan Dynasty at the age of 10, grew up there. The Yuan thinking is surely in your bones. To get such a person to be king of Goryeo, our country's people are really unfortunate. I've also thought of this before. I'm done speaking.
Highness: Many people think like that, right? The people of Goryeo. In the span of 12 years, you are already the 5th king. Who knows, perhaps the people of Goryeo don't care.
Highness: Thanks for saying what you think.
Min Ho: Your highness. That being the case, I don't hate you much.
(zine ed: I was thinking the same. :) A king who can sincerely ask for opinion about his subjects' thoughts, who cares what his subjects think, is a good king. It's obvious he's shorter and smaller than Min Ho, but has a grand, kingly bearing that commands respect. I like his facial expressions. Good actor, though looks older than 21).
Adviser (preparing the altar): Your Highness. It's said that natural well is the gate. A 1000 years ago, Hua Tuo flew to the gate of the sky through here. In that sky, Hua Tuo trained many disciples. Every 300 years, disciples are sent down to earth through this gate.
Highness: There is such a legend? In other words, it allows me to send my plea through this gap?
Adviser: This is no gap, but a gateway to the sky/heaven.
Voice: What is that?
Min Ho: B group, increase vigilance. Group A, block the outer section.
Adviser: Your highness, the sky gate is open. The sky gate is open! Entering it, your highness, you'll see Hua Tuo, your highness. Your highness, please order him to come out. Whether it is Hua Tuo, his disciple, or a miracle physician. Hurry give the order, your highness, before the gate closes. Hurry, your highness.
Guy behind: Then, why don't you who know so well, go for a trip!
Adviser: Brat! (to his king) The one who can save the empress, the miracle healer in the sky is there, your highness.
(zine ed: Actually... the king is not supposed to endanger his life. The correct way should be a trusted man going in, but not the king. His men should be preventing him from going in case something happens, even if he wants to. Or, the king can enter taking one or two trusted men with him. /// Among the men, the King looks really small-sized. Can it be he's really 21 yrs old? I think the Empress is bigger-sized than him, no wonder she doesn't like him. Imagine them in bed, she riding him. O.O).
Highness: Although I cannot believe all that he says...
Min Ho: Please give your order.
Highness: ... but need to at least give it a try.
Min Ho: I'll go.
Guy: General..
Min Ho: It's an order.
Guy: General!
2012.
Woman in present time: Hey, did you see that? Saw it?
Man: What?
Woman: There. The guy who came out from there.
Man: You must have seen wrong.
Woman: Really! Look.
Man: What.
Announcement regarding sunspot activity eruption warning. According to research report, from 6pm onwards, there is no damage report. Equipment within the country has been affected by solar flare, currently routing round polar routes.
Min Ho: Priest. High Priest, please stop. I'm from the world below, named Choi Young.
Priest: Below?
Min Ho: I know this is not a world for mortals. Please, you must help.
Priest: What can I help you with?
Min Ho: I am looking for a miracle healer.
Priest: Miracle healer?
Min Ho: It is said Hua Tuo came here.
Priest: Mister Hua Tuo...Ah! Doctor, right?
Min Ho: Yes.
Priest: Every doctor's specialty is different. Internal, external, gynae, dentist. Where is the injury?
Min Ho (demonstrates): This area here.
Priest: Here..Ah! Plastic surgeon.
Min Ho: Do you know where?
Priest: Plastic surgeons are plenty. This is after all Gangnam.
Min Ho: I'm not looking for just any ordinary physician. It's the miracle healer.
Priest: Seems you are looking for famous person. Ah! I have seen Coex plastic surgery convention here. If you look there, surely will find a reknown specialist.
Min Ho: Co..
Priest: Coex.
Mh: Which direction is that?
Priest: It's just here. You can see it.
Mh: If it's over there, I was just there. But... how to go there?
Priest: Just walk over there.
Mh: Just.. walk? Ah! I see. Thanks.
Priest on phone: Hey bro, our temple seems to have installed a hidden camera. If we were shooting a drama, I surely would know. You don't know, either, right? Hello, hello? This lousy phone.
Min ho: Just... walk over there.
Surgeon: The originator of removing wrinkles in the 70s... subcutaneous lift. What we commonly refer to as facial cosmetic surgery. Like this from the area above the ear, slice to the front. After lifting the skin...to remove excess skin. This view is of lifting the skin away. If not carefully done, there will be risk to the blood vessels. Need to be really alert. So like this pulling up to join, this is the photo 10 days after. As you can see, a little scar is left. This type of surgery, besides leaving a scar, also has many disadvantages. One of the biggest question is, the effect is not long lasting. Those who undergo this surgery, will look for the surgeon again within 2 years, to pull again. The next surgery to intro is the AQ Lift.
(In restroom) Oh I don't know. Super fed up. An idiot actually walked in and messed up my seminar. What the hell. Early in the morning, that bad old man just takes his male disciples around.. Really, it's troubled. Just wait and see. 3 years later, I will open a shop in Gangnam. Speaking of which, could you invest in my hospital? Hey, didn't you marry into a riches? Spend a little!
In custody: I say, uncle. Which company's salesman are you? I say uncle! I'm asking which company you're from. Got entrance/exit pass? Hey, you deaf?
Mh: May I know how do I get in there? Do I get in through here? Could you please open this? This physician in here, I have to see her.
Security guy: Physician? You kidding me, right? We don't have all the time on our hands. Look at you. What's that. Is it ketchup? Wow.. Ow.. Wait wait wait... we can talk it over. (gets thrown) Hang on, I'm fine. You... you just got violet with me!
Guy: Are you ok?
Security guy: Quick call the police. Just say a madman crashed in. Damaged stuff and was violent to security. And.. the possession of illegal weapon. I'll make sure you pay for it. Rascal! (gets his baton sliced) Ahh!! I'm outta here!
Man in suit: Ah! Doc, how do you do? Please take a look here. These days, gotta use these gizmos to liven up the shop. Take a look at this. This product has 2.5 times base maginification. And it's made of super light material. Some surgeons even forget to take it off after surgery. Just directly go home wearing it. And the LED in the middle, blinking light... (sees Minho)... Ahhh... recently the way of selling is really all sorts...
Doc: Selling wearing this? And I thought he was a small-timer.
Man: Look at that get up. Eh... he's come over.
Mh: There is a life in danger.
Doc: So?
Mh: According to our doc, the neck artery has ruptured. Can you help?
Doc: Why are you asking me?
Mh: Can you help?
Doc to saleman: Isn't he a little weird?
Salesman: Perhaps he's too immersed in a game.
Doc: This product can be delivered, right?
Salesman: Of course! Just leave hospital address, I'll send it over right away.
Security: That's him. Him. That sword on him is real.
Policeman: Please put down that weapon. Put down that weapon!
Mh: Can that patient be saved?
Doc: That depends on having seen the patient, then will know. Which area, how serious.
Mh: How serious... will know after seeing?
Police: Put down the sword.
Mh (to unconscious security man): Who asked you to keep following. (dumps the guy on the chair). Exactly like this wound caused by a sword. The depth is about the same. Can save?
Doc: Call an ambulance! Quick dial 119, hurry!
Mh: If can't save this person, I'll use him for another try out.
Salesman: Spare me, spare me!
Doc: You're asking me to save him? Here?
Mh: There isn't time. Please begin.
Doc (after examining the guy): Need equipment. Clamp & hook required.
Salesman: Oh god, if you let me live through this, I'll ..
Doc: Please grab hold of here...
Salesman: Please forgive my earlier sins...please guide me...
Mh hits the table with his sword hilt.
Salesman: What what?
Mh: If this man dies, it will be your turn.
Salesman: What?! Ah! yes, yes.
Doc: Mask. Sanitize. (fixing up the bleeding) Found the bleed point, have stopped the bleeding. Get ready to sew up, help me to hold open the wound here.
Cops: I am Gangnam's police. What's going on inside? Can someone tell me? I'm going to call the phone in there. Hope to talk to someone. I'm calling now.
Security: Hey, still not here yet? There are a man and woman being held hostage, according to witnesses. The perp is wearing black and carrying a blade. Should be a nutcase. And the situation of the wounded guy is really bad.
Doc: Ok, snip. Good work.
Salesman: Doc, is it over?
Mh (checking pulse): This man is... alive.
Doc: Still need observation. Need to give him antibiotics..
Salesman: Saved! Look, the surgery is a great success, right?
Mh: You'll have to come with me.
Doc: Me? Why?
Mh: It'll just be you.
Doc: Uncle, I haven't done surgery in a long time and...
Mh: Might get dangerous on the road, you must follow me closely.
Doc: Look, uncle...I...
Mh: Don't get lost. Follow me closely.
(zine ed: laughing at the doc trying to run while minho starts chasing. Her face so cute).
Radio voice: The perp is coming down with the hostage. Everyone get ready for the ambush.
Mh: I told you to come with me, so come with me.
Doc: Going where? All cops outside. Where can you take me?
Mh: Break out directly.
Security: Shut the doors, shut the doors. They are going out.
Doc: Uncle, Wait wait, uncle, really... Uncle, give yourself up, Ok? Surrender.
(zine ed: Ooohh... his powers work even here, and so powerful. Telekinetic?).
Mh: Then... I'll have to be impolite.
Doc: What do you mean? (gets carried off and released) Spare me.
Mh: Just get in there.
Doc: Please let me go. Let me go.
Mh: I will not kill you. As long as you can save her, I definitely will let you return.
Doc: Liar. I've seen your face. In the movies, once the perp's face has been seen, will be silenced. I know all of that.
Mh: I am a Goryeo warrior, Choi Young. On my honour as a warrior, I guarantee with my life, will let you return. I promise.
(10 days earlier...)
Fortune teller: So, what is it you wish to know?
Doc: Men. When will I meet the man of my life?
Fteller: Can you give me your birth details?
Doc: Here's my name and birth details. Not the ordinary kinda guy. One with loads of cash, that sort. Can you tell me next week's lottery numbers?
Fteller: Of course not. If I could predict, I would have bought them.
Doc: So then, I want to ask when and where will I meet a rich guy.
Fteller: I get it, I get it. (utters some words)
Doc: If possible, best is he's handsome.
Fteller: Quiet!
Doc: Even if he's rich, he also shouldn't be ugly, right?
Fteller: Ah! this year, April 5th, heaven and earth will be filled with light. If you don't meet such a man at that time, fulfil your wish.... What does it say? Where will I meet him? The best meet this week. I need cash badly. But I'm not buying branded bags, that sort of thing... I now have a research topic, to do with cell extraction. At a critical time, spent all the research funds.
Fteller: Wow! Why is like this? Give me your hand.
Doc: What?
Fteller: This prediction/lot... is saying.. I need to refer to the book. This type of lot rarely comes up. Need to refer. It's a guy that heaven has destined.
Doc: How is that possible? Did you say heaven destined?
Fteller: But
Doc: But what?
Fteller: It's a man you met from the past.
Doc: The past?
Fteller: It means, look among the ex-guys that you used to go out with.
Doc: What?
Fteller: Among them, is the man of your life. That's what the lot says.
Doc: It can't be....From student till ... a total of 3 years and 4 months. There was a guy I was with, my elder. The guy who even got me to write his graduation thesis for him. (enters lift) Senpai/elder, you worked overtime yesterday, right, didn't eat breakfast, right? I bring you bento, I made it myself. This is fish... not this... this is ... yes, this is the one.
Elder: Eun Soo.
Doc: Oh, quick eat this.
Elder: I'm sorry.
Doc: You had breakfast already, right?
Elder: I have another woman. A rich family's daughter, is going to sponsor me a clinic.
Doc: How rich?
Elder: It's said quite a few buildings in Gangnam...That woman is much uglier than you, personality is also rotten. But no choice, she can help me open a clinic. Sorry. I'll leave first.
(back at fteller's) Doc: Number 2 liked me alot, he didn't know what to do every time he saw me. Here and here, can be made fuller. Here can make slimmer. Don't you worry. Should be a small problem, need any Botox? If want a V-shaped face..
Man: Eun Soo doc..
Doc: Yes?... We went out for about 3 months.
Fteller: Then what happened?
Doc: Oh, truly cannot. No matter how rich, see the face...
Fteller: Didn't you say you need someone rich?
Doc: It can't be him... Heaven destined...
Fteller: THe guy that Heaven destined...
Doc: To be honest, I don't want to get married. Get engaged will do. After getting the cash, once I'm done with the research topic, companies will want to buy the patent. Using deposit, will clear the debt, I still can do it. This way will be great.
Fteller: But it will not go according to your wish.
Doc: Why?
Fteller: Next draw... (utters from the lot) Pronunciation is really difficult. (utters again) Means, not so long in the future, you'll go on a long trip.
Doc: Where can I go? Was difficult finding a hospital. How can I just leave like that?
Fteller: In other words, this lot, is saying a romance road, go out and meet fate. Go out, then will meet. Meet then will come true.
Doc: I want to know, that guy... That guy with cash, where, how do we meet?
Fteller: The match arranged by heaven, those who never meet their match are countless.
Doc: Really. Just leave it. You...
Fteller: Think back carefully. Among those you met in the past.
Doc: You know in this building, where is the most powerful Tarot card person staying? This question is rather impolite, right? Sorry. I'm going. Guys I met in the past... (thinks back)
Back to the past:
Guy: Heard about it?
(zine ed: ... sorry translate till here. It's getting rather long-winded and hard to translate the later it gets. I've been translating while watching for hours. It's now 1.02 am. Hot sticky tired. I think Ep 1 is funny at parts, but... I think they should cut to the chase and not prolong unimportant parts. And those art type of drawing scenes... it just drags it. Stick to live action and don't go into anime which the Japs are super at. Hmm.. so it ends with his past when he first joined them. Ahh... are we going to have to put up with a long story about his past? *grimace* Ahh.. one other thing... Is there no language difference between 1351 and 2012? I mean, surely, the Korean language pronunciation and words have not always been the same throughout the centuries?).
