Yay!! I need someone to talk to. It makes watching sageuks fun.
Fingers and toes crossed for a happier sageuk.

Sadly, I do not think that I would pass the camera test. Plus, I am only just starting to learn Korean.

But thank you for the thought.

Could it be a Gageodo? It has a dual purpose for fishing and transport. They still make it today with 2 sails.

I don't trust that painting to be accurate.

One of my birthday presents this year was a DVD copy of ADMIRAL: ROARING CURRENTS. It was hugely entertaining but not a historically accurate account of the Battle of the Miryeong Strait, although as far as the ships it was probably relatively accurate. The primary motive power of those ships was oars- sails were important but really secondary. In a sense the ships used by the Japanese and the Koreans were much more like the galleys of the Turks and the Christians which fought at Lepanto about thirty years before the Battle of the Miryeoung Strait (which remains the most incredible and remarkable naval victory of all time).

The Europeans at this time had a far superior sailing technology, the legacy of the Vikings to Europe. Rather than sails attached to spars which are then hoisted up from the deck to deploy the sails (as was shown in THE ADMIRAL) the Vikings set the spars up high and on pivots so that the spars could be swung back and forth. The sails were then unfurled from above by sailors who had to climb up the rigging and stand on ropes strung beneath the spars. Doing this daunting task required both a lot of skill and a lot of guts but had the effect of both doubling the amount of power from the sails and, even more importantly, the ability to swing the sails to catch the wind about 300 degrees- allowing the ship to sail in any direction, even sailing in the direction that the wind was coming from by tacking.

On the other hand, the cannon used by Admiral Yi were essentially identical to the British and European ones. It was in the use of those guns that Admiral Yi's genius really showed. The fight of the British against the Spanish Armada happened only 4 years before the Imjin War began. What a lot of people do not know is that the British and the Spanish fired a lot of metal at each other but to only limited effect. The only really effective tactic used by the British was sending fireships into the Spanish fleet when it anchored at Gravesend- something straight out of the Middle Ages. The reason: both sides stood off and fired from a distance- so that the kinetic energy of the cannon ball was largely spent by the time it hit the other ship, even assuming that you hit it.

It was Admiral Yi who taught the world how to use solid shot in naval warfare: Get close to the enemy, almost close enough to board. By firing up close the shot hits with all of the kinetic energy originally imparted by the gun. The effect is massively destructive. That was how naval fights happened for the next 230 years- all the way the Napoleonic Wars. If you have seen the movie MASTER AND COMMANDER, THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD the fight between the British and French Frigates is conducted in that very way.