Oh, I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing!

"The King of Tears, Lee Bang-won" Eps 2 - 9.4%.

Well, another sageuk is off to a good start, and I'm glad that authentic sageuks is still popular in Korea.

@marcusnyc20 @kiara
I've only seen the teasers for THE KING OF TEARS but I was sold. "Authentic sageuks" are my jam (so we're no longer using "fusion sageuk?"). It seems in this version the Yi family is at centre stage. I don't think the women and other brothers were prominent enough in recent versions so I'm very very intrigued. I must make time during the holidays to catch up on sageuks!

@wishfultoki,
So good hearing from you Toki! After BOSSAM (Dae-yeop rip) I had a long sageuk dry spell until the Taec vs Junho horserace began. Now with LEE BANG WON commencing its 32 episode run I am up to my ears in sageuks. The next three weeks are going to be a challenge.
It looks like you might be getting back into the mix with LEE BANG WON so that is great.

@marcusnyc20, @wishfultoki

It's kind of nice to sit back and relax.
I'm not quite sold with Joo Sang-wook's Bang-won yet, but we'll see. Kim Young-chul, on the other hand, is always majestic in sageuks.

Toki, yes, it's nice that the focus is on the Yi family. It's nice to see all of the Yi brothers in this version.
Bang-won's wife is getting her fair share of screen time, so I like that. Bang-won's biological mother is part of the show, too, so it's interesting to see the two wives together.

I hope you'll be back soon, Toki.

OMG, that is awesome!
We've been complaining for years about how these epic sageuks from the golden era are collecting dust somewhere in the studio and hoping they'd release them.
I believe @mrskorea did the subtitle for YISAN. I wish they'd keep it, but I understand that viki will do their own.
So there is hope that TEARS OF THE DRAGON. 🙏🏽

MBC should do a JUMONG mini-series then release the original.

I have a long list of 3 kingdom-era sageuks I'd love to watch with English subs.

Thank you so much for this, @marcusnyc20.

@kiara, It would be great.
FYI, LEE SAN is available fully subbed on Viki US. My impression is that Viki is now picking up subs from Kocowa.
Also available subbed on both Kocowa and Viki US:
1. MBC’s DAE JANG GEUM/JEWEL IN THE PALACE (2003/4)
2. KBS’s THE PRINCESS’S MAN (2011)
3. SBS’s JANG OK JUNG, LIVING IN LOVE (2013) and
4. KBS’s BRIDAL MASK (2012).
(These are just some of the dramas that I have noticed appearing on Kocowa over the last few months.)

@marcusnyc20

It's not hard to find the 2011 sageuks with subs since licensing started. The older one from the late 1990s-2010 is harder to find with subs.

DAE JANG GEUM was very popular overseas, and the subs were always available. Same with JUMONG.

It's sageuks like TEARS OF THE DRAGON (KBS 1996), (HUR JUN ( MBC 1999), EYES OF DAWN (MBC 1991), SANGDO (MBC 2001), and more that is still hard to find with subs.
Maybe they are too old, too long, and not in demand but still very much an essential part of this genre's glory days.