The Return of Iljimae

The Return of Iljimae is a Korean television drama series broadcast on MBC in 2009.

Synopsis

The story is about a man fighting against the selfish and corrupt government to save the ordinary peasants. Iljimae was abandoned by his birth father and adopted by a Chinese couple. He returns to Korea to find his birth family and realizes how unjust the world really is. He watched as his first love, Dal Yi, was wrongfully put to death. Iljimae then vows to help the commoners from the corrupt government officials.

Cast

• Jung Il Woo as Il Ji Mae
• Yoon Jin Seo as Dal Yi / Wal Hee
• Kim Min Jong as Goo Ja Myeong
• Jung Hye Young as Baek Mae

Extended Cast

• Lee Kye In as Jeol Ch
• Park Geun Hyung as Kim Ja Jeom
• Park Chul Min as Wang Hyeong Bo
• Oh Young Soo as Monk Yeol Gong
• Kang Nam Gil as Bae Seon Dal
• Kim Yoo Hyun as Princess Mo Ran
• Lee Hyun Woo as Cha Dol Yi
• Sandara Park as Rie
• Jun Soo Yeon as Soo Ryun
• Lee Ho Jae as Kim Joong Hwan (Iljimae's biological father)
• Jung Joon as Kim Joon Seo (Iljimae's half brother)
• Seo Hye Won as Choon Wol
• Hwang Jung Ri as Miyamoto Musashi
• Harisu as Ki Seon Nyeo
• Kwak Min Suk as Cham Mo
• Yoon Yoo Sun
• Park Chan Hwan
• Lee Ga Hyun
• Jun Hae Ryong

Production credits

• Original work: Comic by Ko Young Woo
• Production Company: Group Eight
• Director: Hwang In Roe & Kim Soo Young
• Screenwriter: Kim Kwang Sik (writer) & Do Young Myung

Notes

• Both MBC and SBS will air their own version of Iljimae in 2008 and 2009.
• MBC has the copyrights to the original comic book.
• Drama will be filmed in Japan.
• The title was changed from "Iljimae" to "The Return of Iljimae" to avoid confusion with the SBS version.