The Great Seer
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Title: 대풍수 / The Great Seer
Chinese Title: 大风水
Genre: Historical, Fantasy, Politic, Action, Romance
Episodes: 35 + 1 Special
Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period: 2012-Oct-10 to 2013-Feb-07
Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 21:55
Synopsis
Ji Sang (Ji Sung) is a gifted seer, born with the ability to see into people’s pasts and futures. There are those who believe falsely that he has dark supernatural powers, thinking him possessed by ghosts. When he comes of age in the late Goryeo era, he becomes a scholar of divination, and a reader of geography, faces, and the like to tell fortunes — an area with much influence at the time. He eventually becomes a “king-maker,” who holds the key to a major political shift in the overthrow of Goryeo and the rise of Joseon. He help the General Lee Sung Gye (Ji Jin Hee) become the first king of the Joseon Dynasty.
Lee Jung Geun (Song Chang Ui) is Ji Sang’s rival. Hae In (Kim So Yun) is Ji Sang’s main love interest and Ban Ya (Lee Yoon Ji) is Ji Sang’s first love. (source: dramabeans)
Cast
Main Cast
Ji Sung as Ji Sang
- Lee David as Ji Sang (young)
Kim So Yun as Hae In
- Son Na Eun as Hae In (young)
Ji Jin Hee as General Lee Sung Gye
Song Chang Ui as Lee Jung Geun
- No Young Hak as Jung Geun (young)
Lee Yoon Ji as Ban Ya
- Park Min Ji as Ban Ya (young)
Supporting Cast
Jo Min Ki as Lee In Im
Oh Hyun Kyung as Soo Ryun Gae
Lee Seung Yun as Young Ji
- Lee Jin as Young Ji (young)
Joseon Founder Party
Lee Young Bum as Hyo Myung
Choi Jae Woong as Dong Yoon
Kang Kyung Hun as Bong Choon
Ahn Kil Kang as Daesa Moo Hak (monk)
Goryeo Party
Ryu Tae Joon as King Gong Min
Bae Min Hee as Daejang Princess Noh Gook
Lee Min Ho as King Woo
Lee Moon Shik as Jong Dae
Jo Han Chul as Moo Young
Lee Won Jae as Noh Young Soo
Cha Hyun Woo as Won Hae
Son Byung Ho as Choi Young
Yoo Ha Joon as Shin Don
Others
Lee Do Yup as Lee Kang Dal
Kim Min Hyuk as Won Gae
Kim Da Hyun as Sung Bok
- Joo Min Soo as Sung Bok (Young)
Jung Soo In as Gisaeng Lady
Production Credits
Director: Lee Yong Suk
Screenwriter: Lee Soo Yun (이수연), Nam Seon Nyun (남선년)
Episode Ratings
| Date | Ep | TNmS | TNmS | AGB | AGB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nationwide | Seoul | Nationwide | Seoul | ||
| 2012-10-02 | Sp | 4.7 | 4.7 | (<8.0) | (<8.7) |
| 2012-10-10 | 1 | 6.9 | 7.7 | 6.5 | 6.7 |
| 2012-10-11 | 2 | 6.9 | 8.1 (20th) | 7.0 (20th) | 7.7 (19th) |
| 2012-10-17 | 3 | 10.4 (17th) | 11.7 (10th) | 10.6 (10th) | 11.8 (8th) |
| 2012-10-18 | 4 | 7.8 | 8.4 (19th) | 7.6 (20th) | 8.5 (19th) |
| 2012-10-24 | 5 | 9.4 (15th) | 11.0 (8th) | 9.3 (13th) | 9.8 (9th) |
| 2012-10-25 | 6 | 9.8 (14th) | 10.7 (10th) | 9.7 (10th) | 10.8 (10th) |
| 2012-10-31 | 7 | 10.1 (16th) | 11.9 (9th) | 9.8 (15th) | 10.6 (8th) |
| 2012-11-01 | 8 | 10.3 (18th) | 11.6 (11th) | 10.1 (14th) | 10.6 (13th) |
| 2012-11-07 | 9 | 8.7 (17th) | 10.0 (16th) | 8.5 (18th) | 9.4 (17th) |
| 2012-11-08 | 10 | 9.9 (17th) | 10.5 (15th) | 8.7 (18th) | 8.9 (16th) |
| 2012-11-14 | 11 | 9.6 (16th) | 11.2 (13th) | 8.1 | 8.3 (17th) |
| 2012-11-15 | 12 | 9.8 (18th) | 11.6 (15th) | 9.0 (17th) | 9.2 (15th) |
| 2012-11-21 | 13 | 7.5 | 8.8 (16th) | 6.9 | 7.1 |
| 2012-11-22 | 14 | 8.3 | 9.0 (20th) | 8.8 | 9.4 (19th) |
| 2012-11-28 | 15 | 7.7 | 9.3 (16th) | 7.5 | 7.8 |
| 2012-11-29 | 16 | 8.0 | 8.7 | 8.8 (20th) | 9.1 (19th) |
| 2012-12-05 | 17 | 8.1 | 9.5 | 7.9 | 8.2 |
| 2012-12-06 | 18 | 10.0 | 10.7 (17th) | 9.0 | 9.9 (19th) |
| 2012-12-12 | 19 | 7.5 | 8.8 | 8.0 | 8.5 |
| 2012-12-13 | 20 | 7.8 | 9.2 | 9.1 (20th) | 9.2 |
| 2012-12-20 | 21 | 8.1 | 9.0 (17th) | 8.2 | 9.1 (18th) |
| 2012-12-26 | 22 | 9.4 | 10.2 (18th) | 8.5 | 8.8 |
| 2012-12-27 | 23 | 10.1 (19th) | 10.6 (15th) | 9.8 (17th) | 10.3 (16th) |
| 2013-01-02 | 24 | 10.4 (20th) | 11.9 (14th) | 8.8 | 9.5 |
| 2013-01-03 | 25 | 10.3 (20th) | 11.8 (16th) | 10.8 (14th) | 11.3 (14th) |
| 2013-01-09 | 26 | 9.5 | 10.5 (17th) | 9.4 (19th) | 9.3 |
| 2013-01-10 | 27 | 10.7 (20th) | 12.2 (15th) | 10.2 (17th) | 9.5 (20th) |
| 2013-01-16 | 28 | 10.3 (16th) | 11.5 (14th) | 9.3 (16th) | 9.2 (18th) |
| 2013-01-17 | 29 | 11.6 (16th) | 12.8 (14th) | 10.2 (17th) | 10.3 (16th) |
| 2013-01-23 | 30 | 9.6 (17th) | 10.6 (15th) | 9.6 (16th) | 10.0 (15th) |
| 2013-01-24 | 31 | 11.1 (16th) | 12.6 (11th) | 9.0 (20th) | (<9.4) |
| 2013-01-30 | 32 | 9.3 (16th) | 11.2 (13th) | (<8.3) | 9.2 (18th) |
| 2013-01-31 | 33 | 9.9 (19th) | 11.4 (14th) | 9.6 (18th) | 10.4 (15th) |
| 2013-02-06 | 34 | 10.0 (17th) | 11.4 (10th) | 9.5 (18th) | 10.0 (17th) |
| 2013-02-07 | 35 | 10.3 (18th) | 11.4 (10th) | 8.8 (19th) | 8.9 (20th) |
Sources: TNmS Media Korea & AGB Nielsen Korea
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Note
- Go Soo were originally cast in the lead roles but he dropped the project due to the scheduling conflicts.
- Due to the President Election on 19/Dec/2012, Episode 21 has been postponed to 20/Dec/2012.
Awards
2012 SBS Drama Awards: Special Acting Awards (Drama Special), Lee Jin (The Great Seer)
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October 23rd, 2012 at 5:17 am
later goes on hope to Woochi i don’t thinks this drama gone be great as well as Arang but woochi seems good their story line offer to us viewer room to make story like on mind. Ready To Wooochi Hope its great. But my estimation depend on first episode to make a conclusion have this drama trash or make some value as a great drama
October 24th, 2012 at 5:45 am
@jedi
you are definitely right when you say i should “eat first to know the taste”. Thing is, sometimes, drama with very high ratings in Korea are’nt that famous in foreign countries, for example: My Name is Kim Sam Soong.
But you are right, there are lot of awesome dramas with low ratings
October 28th, 2012 at 11:05 pm
45@Hanako…..it’s a pity that you don’t like kim so yeon……i don’t really like her in ‘all about eve’ but i never like the drama ‘all about eve’ after all so i don’t really bother about her acting in it….But i can see in IRIS and in prosecutor princess, she’s quite good an actress…i really like how serious she took her acting…..for me she’s good. In this drama, at first i don’t really want to watch it because Lee Yoon Ji took the role as the ex-love for the hero beacuse i love lee yoon ji. However when i know that kim so yeon will take the role as the main love stream, i decided to take a tour…..hope it will be nice……………
October 29th, 2012 at 12:39 am
Hope the ratings will improve. : )
October 29th, 2012 at 4:37 pm
I love this drama! I Hope ratings gets higher!
November 1st, 2012 at 9:31 am
Finally the main casts will start next episode. I’ll tune in tomorrow then.
November 5th, 2012 at 12:37 am
This drama needs lead female that worth to watch too…
November 5th, 2012 at 5:54 am
two word to long
November 6th, 2012 at 9:54 am
I’m only on Epi. 4 & I hope their ratings improve for those who really like this drama. I think this drama has great acting, but I haven’t connected with or have an affinity with the characters they portray. If i don’t care about what happens to the characters, what’s the point in watching? Will watch a few more episodes & hope I can like somebody. I really miss Faith.
November 7th, 2012 at 7:47 am
Is it strange to be rooting for Ji Jin Hee? I think the other actors and actresses really does not pull me with their acting.
November 8th, 2012 at 3:30 am
I’m gonna watch becoz of Ji Jin Hee.. MMuuaahhh
November 14th, 2012 at 6:56 am
I like this drama because I think it shows more history than “Faith” did. So, I’m mostly enjoying the history and hope it continues. The actors are okay, but I especially like Ji Jin Hee and am most curious about his story.
November 15th, 2012 at 2:21 am
This drama is the continuation of The Soldier (God Of War) korean drama tv series wherein Yuan dynasty (Mongols/China) invaded Goryeo (Korea). Yuan Dynasty controls Goryeo by appointing King who will be loyal to the them and dethroned whenever shows a sign of rebellion.
King Gongmin (appointed King Goryeo) rebels against Yuan Dynasty but can’t produce a succesor/child so he adopted Banya Son (Monino) later King U. Yuan Dynasty was crumbling because of the new Empire Ming Dynasty has risen. King Gongmin was a Pro-Ming so he was assassinated by General In-Im (Anti- Ming) and appointed King U as king.
King U ordered General Yi Seonggye to attack the Ming Empire but he refused to obey instead he returned to Kaesŏng and, after overpowering the royal court’s defenders and removing (then killing) General Choe Yeong, Yi Seonggye usurped the throne from Goryeo’s Dynasty and took control of the government. King U was deposed and replaced with his son King Chang, but only one year later both of them were poisoned, and replaced with prince Gongyang.
November 21st, 2012 at 6:19 pm
No wonder in the drama Faith, the High Doctor was worried when she saved the live of Yi Seonggye, as he would later kill Gen Choe Yeong. Also, the High Doctor could not bear to tell the Queen that she will not be able to produce an heir.
November 21st, 2012 at 6:26 pm
This drama would require much patience to watch and understand the plot. The storyline is rather twisting (hitting around the bush) with much of plots that centres on the relationship of Gen In Im with high prietess plus the Seer himself in trying to find his mother. Since this is going to be 36 episodes, there is much more story plots that the writer will be dragging into the drama until in the end when Yi Seonggye will be the key person determining the future king.
November 22nd, 2012 at 4:50 pm
@swift
I agree with you…watching this drama really need a long long patience…unlike other dramas the build up is too slow or to set up the plot of the whole story and characters seems to long… so i find now the reason why this drama seems to suffer a low rating even though the cast are really good and famous…..actually while watching this drama sometimes i want bang my head in the wall haha..
November 24th, 2012 at 11:00 pm
I like this drama even though rating is not high as the story line and actors and actress r good in performance . I hope that will up and up.I keep watching bc I need to know
November 24th, 2012 at 11:41 pm
what the story will be going on .
November 25th, 2012 at 12:09 pm
i hope the rating will improve , cause this is a great drama,, specially hows Ji Jin Hee role ,,, love him and this drama,,,
December 1st, 2012 at 6:18 pm
December 7th, 2012 at 2:09 am
Thank you for the historical info #63 @Great Fan.. Very useful.
I too am a fan of history and period dramas. I love the court protocols mainly because of elegantly it is structured to support a hierachical order whose function it is to protect its people. Something not understood today nor taught.
But I would concede that such a system would succeed only if the king were truly pious. Power corrupts as you well know.
The drama is not holding my interest as much as expected. Maybe because I am a little put off by the plastic in some performers. Hardly suited to period dramas. But thankfully there aren’t bleached blondes, pierced nose rings or rap music.
December 8th, 2012 at 4:33 pm
Hope the rating will get better… But I will watch it anyway, don’t care about the rating. Fighting .. Kim So Yeon !! You are the reason I watch this long drama.
December 8th, 2012 at 6:13 pm
In episode 18, did I hear correctly that the King’s mother said that the King is only 40 years old? How could that be or did I get it wrong?
December 16th, 2012 at 5:00 am
We are enjoying this drama, LOVE Ji Jin Hee and the actor playing Mok Ji Sang. Sorry to see ratings are low, can anyone tell me if the 36 episodes have already been filmed? I would hate for this one to be cancelled without seeing all 36 planned episodes.
Somethings I do have to shake my head at, how does a ‘great Seer’ not know his foster father is reporting things to the bad guys? How is the Seer’s mother, the Princess, so clueless about so much? LOL
It is still fun to watch, glad they have put as much humor in this as they have.
December 18th, 2012 at 5:50 pm
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