A yangban(aristocrat) wearing joongchimak(중치막, 中致莫, everyday cloth for aristocrats during Joseon dynasty. Derived from Ming dynasty cloth 中單.).
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Actually, it deviates from any specific myth to focus on a tae kwon do student who seeks to attain enlightenment by acquiring the relics of the Buddhist Eightfold path. I was thinking of having 1 villain and two partners for the protagonist, one of them being a female who can use the five magical elements (fire, wood, water, metal, and earth) and the other a tiger swordsman who eventually gets the Four Tigers Evil-Cutting Sword. I want the storyboard to have lots of narrative detail as well, like flower motifs, the creation stories with Taebyolwang and Sobyolwang, details of how mortals came to be gods, Haenggi Pond as the entrance to the underworld (and possibly the role of Kangim as its death messenger) and the laws of creation as a plot point: specifically, creation can only be attained by combination or division, and anyone who could create something from nothing would become all-powerful. (You might have noticed I'm a bit of a stickler for details.)
Ah, so, it will largely be based on shamanistic myths of Jeju island. Interesting. While mixing Tae kwon do with Buddhism feels rather unnatural(as the philosophy of Tae kwon do has no connections with particular religion, and actually more in common with Taoism or Confucianism), I find it quite amazing that there is someone who is trying to use Jeju shamanistic myths for storyboard outside of Korea.
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