“I wrote Red Enemy based on the letters that Prince Myeong-Hwan exchanged with his friends, as well as the opinions of the people around him and the materials I obtained by combing through records and visiting historians. I didn’t write the script randomly.” Director Yoon Seon explained.

The director gave Woo-Jin a detailed explanation about the amount of effort and process he had went through in order to gather materials about Prince Myeong-Hwan. His face was filled with passion as he recounted his story and it was obvious that he genuinely adored and admired Prince Myeong-Hwan.

“Some say that Prince Myeong-Hwan enjoyed the arts and found pleasure in spending time with courtesans, but he actually had a mild case of mysophobia, so I’m suspicious about if he really embraced the courtesans,” he said.

Woo-Jin stopped eating and asked, “How do you know that?” He couldn’t help but be surprised because Director Yoon Seon pointed out a specific detail that wasn’t mentioned anywhere.

“Ha, that’s nothing! Seol Ha was a courtesan who was close to Prince Myeong-Hwan and there were records that stated that she taught the other courtesans. Since the prince didn’t like drinking from wine glasses that others had used, they had to prepare a separate wine glass, and they would throw away the cloth that he used to wipe himself. Since Prince Myeong-Hwan didn’t allow a...