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The Real History Behind Netflix’s Korean War Epic Uprising

Uprising, Netflix’s new Korean action-war epic, spans decades as it follows the fraught friendship between Cheon-yeong (Broker’s Gang Dong-won), a nobi slave with a knack for swordsmanship, and Jong-ryeo (The 8 Show’s Park Jeong-min), the son of a noble family struggling to reconcile his ideals with his privilege. The two men grow up in the same household—side by side, but never equal in their access to comfort, freedom, or opportunity within late 16th century Joseon’s Neo-Confucianist society.

 

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