Iljimae Synopsis

"ILJIMAE" KOREAN DRAMA SYNOPSIS


Main Cast
Lee Jun Ki as Iljimae / Yong / Lee Geom
Han Hyo Joo as Eun Chae
Lee Young Ah as Bong Soon
Park Shi Hoo as Shi Hoo / Ja Dol

Does your favorite actor is Lee Jun Ki? Then you should not miss to watch Iljimae Korean Drama. The story is almost like Robin Hood, a hero who become a thief for the poor people. But Iljimae has another purpose beside helping the poor people. He want to investigate the reason of his father’s death.

His father was a good nobleman and a loyal supporter to the emperor. He became the witness who saw some people were killing his father when was 8 years. He changed his real name “Lee Geom” to “Yong”. Swe Dol become his father since he adopted him as his son. He is rescued him from the killer by bringing cupboard where Geum used to hide.

Yong grew up as a civilian market but finally he has his own life purpose being a thief to find his father’s murder and also to help poor people. The people call him “Iljime” a black maskes thief who steals from the corrupt government officials and share it to the poor people.

This is a heroic story but also have a romantic touch scene. Yong has someone he loves whose name is Eun Chae. She is the step sister of Shi Hoo his rival but actually Shi Hoo is his brother. Yes, it’s complicated story, I try to tell you the outline only. But, you will see how charm and talented Lee Jun Ki as Iljime, you should enjoy yourself. Actually, Shi Hoo loves Eun Chae since they were child, he always try to protect her.

In the last episode, finally Iljime found the one who manipulated his father’s death “The King”. His father is the King’s brother, he killed him because he didn’t want to lose his throne. But Iljime couldn’t kill the king, he just pulls him to kneel down in front of his father grave. And Chun, the king’s bodyguard slashing his back with his sword and Iljime gets bad injured. On his way to leave Iljime, Chun meets Shi Hoo who has realized that he is also the son of Iljime’s father and Shi Hoo kills Chun.

In my opinion, this story is Happy Ending Story because Iljime actually is alive. If you remind the first episode where Iljime try to enter the palace to steal something valuable for the poor people, there is flash back scene to Iljime’s past. And in the last episode after Chun slash his sword to Iljime’s back, four years later the scene is back to the beginning where Iljime want to steal in the palace. So, this story is telling about Iljime’s past when finally he found his father’s murder and his brother Shi Hoo.