Jumong Episodes XIX - XX

After watching 20 episodes I concur with the S.Koreans that Jumong is a very good show and entertains in every episode.

The title character is so appealing in every way and the villains are nicely presented with one stupid and overacting, one smart and deadly and the others doing all the evil things in the name of their country's well being.

Now Jumong is the hero and is given the tast of being King's Special Envoy and delivering a message to the Hyonto Governor. He of course excels at this being of the same mind with the King and showing the stupid Governor his place. Sad thing for Daeso is that this was the time he decided to visit the Governor himself to secure his support for him being the Crown Prince (he thought that he might be upset since now Puyo doesn't have the salt problem and hence Han will not be able to use this in their negotiations)

Daeso is also losing on Sosuhno front since she is so in love with Jumong. But she and her father asked for sometime in responding his proposal (he wants to marry Sosuhno). The Sosuhno went to Jumong and asked whether he will provide support if things get ugly once she turned Daeso down. Jumong said that he will never back down on his word. I wasn't quite sure whether that was a declaration of love since he mentioned his master's advice on protecting the woman he loves above all else.

Meanwhile the Queen is trying to overthrow the current Sorceress Yeomiul and replace her with one she knows will support Daeso in being Crown Prince. King gave his consent on whatever the Queen wants to do in that regard. Of course Yeomiul doesn't take this lying down and tried to struck an alliance with Yontabal. I don't know the outcome of it though.

Jumong's next step is to find a way to forge steel swords (the Puyo swords are weak weapons and in no way a match to Han's weapons). But the cunning black market dealer's aid found a weak spot in Jumong's trust circle. They tricked Oi into spying by keeping Bouyong under lock and key and pretending that they already sold her to a Han slave trader.
Jumong is looking into the matter but since Oi is madly in love with Bouyoung he just couldn't wait and agreed to be a syp and told about Jumong's intentions of developing steel swords to Youngpo and Deaso.

Youngpo really wants to be Crown Prince and like all the small minded petty people he is hatching plans in assisting Daeso in destroying Jumong and thinking of tricking Daeso and become Crown Prince himself. I would pity him if he was not that evil and stupid.

But Jumong finds out about Bouyong's imprisonment and rescues her and Oi seeing that Jumong really kept his word and such a vailant leader confesses everything and asked to be allowed to go away. I really liked Jumong's reaction here. He went down on his knees in front of Oi and apologised for dealing with the Bouyong issue this late. It takes a great man to do that and Oi and the rest of the trio are really impressed.

The black market dealer got upset after finding out that Bouyong is released and right guessed that Oi will not be their spy anymore but thought that Jumong will be angry with Oi after finding out what he did. So he decided not to tell the Princes about the recent developments. Yet another big mistake since the last scene of episode 20 showed Oi giving information to the princes and Jumong secretly watching them. Go Jumong!