“Let me warn you, if I start explaining what happened back then, we will be here forever. The average person now is living a more hygienic life than the emperors back then. Most likely,” said Kang Jin-Ho.0

“It was that bad? But, we're talking about emperors...?”0

“It's not the matter of whether it's possible or not. If the emperor willed it, he could've constructed a waterfall of hot water around the palace. No, the real problem is with awareness.”0

The modern-era folks would never fully understand the staggering difference in awareness between them and their ancient counterparts.0

Those people looked like humans, yet Kang Jin-Ho just couldn't bring himself to view them as his fellow human beings. It might have been easier to accept that they were aliens disguised as human beings.0

In those days, you could find human meat for sale in the middle of a street. Trying to fully imagine the barbaric nature of the ancient past would be an exercise in futility.5

Sure, crimes of cannibalism often popped up in the modern era, too. However, could anyone truly imagine the scene of their good-natured neighbor, whom you had been sharing a pleasant evening talk with, going home to enjoy a pot of human flesh stew?1

Grotesque actions deserving of harsh punishment by today's logic were accepted as exceedingly-normal things back then. No one viewed them as bizarre or cra...0