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Noble Blood

The King's Alphabet

Noble Blood

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

Society & Culture, History

4.813.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

King Sejong the Great is considered, well, the greatest king in Korean history. And his greatest contribution of all might have been twenty-four letters.

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0:00.0

The big guests continue on Las Culturistas. This week, it's the very funny Amy Polar.

0:06.2

Don't overthink it. They talk water. We did not drink water growing up. Water was not a thing.

0:11.1

Parenting. You got teen boys. This is like the black diamond of parenting. And of course. I don't think so, honey, horror movies. Okay. Okay.

0:19.7

Amy Polar is on Las Culture.

0:23.3

The latest episode is out now.

0:25.7

Listen to Las Culturistas on the IHeart Radio app or wherever you listen to podcasts.

0:30.9

Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of IHeart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Manky.

0:37.1

Listener discretion advised.

0:42.9

Jun Hyeongpil had to move quickly, but without bringing too much attention to himself or his mission,

0:49.5

he had 10,000-1 on him, which was enough money to buy several beautiful homes. But that money was for

0:58.3

something far more valuable than a city block of mansions, something far more precious than he

1:05.9

could let on. June headed south from Seoul toward the city of Endung, with his cash in tow and his mind set on purchasing one of the most important documents in Korean history.

1:20.5

The year was 1940, and Korea was in its 30th year under official Japanese imperial control.

1:29.1

As is fashionable for imperial rulers to do,

1:33.1

the Japanese government had made it a policy

1:36.4

to suppress the Korean people and Korean culture,

1:40.8

going so far as to outlaw Korean names. The government had also been chipping away

1:47.0

at Korean heritage and history through a variety of programs, including taking national

1:54.1

artifacts from the Korean Peninsula to mainland Japan. If the government knew about the existence of John's desired possession,

2:04.8

they would surely seize it and whisk it away, perhaps even destroy it. As a collector of

2:11.5

Korean antiques and artifacts and an ardent believer in the beauty of Korean art and history,

2:18.5

June could not let Japan's colonial regime steal an item so essential to Korean heritage.

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