Whale Star: The Gyeongseong Mermaid

A Korean period drama romance set in the background of the anti-Japanese movement of independence activists during the Japanese colonial period. Joseon is under Japanese colonial rule in 1926. Heo Su A, a 17-year-old girl, works as a maid in the house of a pro-Japanese landlord in the Gunsan area for Yeo Yun Hwa. She was born into a poor family, and when she was five years old, she was sold to the Yeo family for a ransom of 6 yuan. One day, after dreaming of a wounded whale washed up on the beach, Su A finds an independence activist, Kang Ui Hyeon, lying on the beach with an injury. Su A takes care of Ui Hyeon, who has been severely injured, putting her life in jeopardy. She nurses him back to health, only to lose her ability to speak in a botched murder attempt by Ui Hyeon’s comrade, Song Hae Su. As she travels to the capital, Gyeongseong (present-day Seoul), to exact revenge, she finds herself becoming increasingly entwined with a strange, brave new world and the people within it. Kang Ui Hyeon was born into a wealthy family. He’s one of the few elites fluent in Korean, Japanese, and English. He runs a photo studio while working as an independence activist specializing in espionage photography and codebreaking. Although he studied law at Tokyo University under his pro-Japanese judge father’s wishes, he is ashamed of his father and aspires to become a judge himself to atone for his family’s sins. While studying in Japan, he felt deep despair at seeing himself as being of no help while watching the Great Kwantung Earthquake and the subsequent massacre of Koreans. He is shot while carrying a bomb needed for the independence movement, and is found unconscious on the beach in Gunsan and saved by Su A. While taking refuge in a cave, he runs into Yeo Yun Hwa, who has been following Su A, and he discovers that they share many similarities. (Source: Korean = NamuWiki || Translation = kisskh) ~~ Adapted from the webtoon “Whale Star: The Gyeongseong Mermaid” (고래별) by Na Yoon Hee (나윤희). Edit Translation

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