A nation's history overturned.
The President of South Korea races against time to prove the seal on documents from long dead King Gojong is fake by charging outspoken historian Choi Min-jae, and a descendant of the royal bloodline Kim Yu-shik, to find the long lost seal in order to prove that the Japanese claim to railroads is false, a claim that will stop the reunification of the two Koreas.
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Cho Jae-hyun Cha In-pyo Ahn Sung-ki Moon Sung-keun Kang Shin-il Kim Sang-joong Kang Soo-youn Baek Il-seob Dokgo Young-jae Choi Il-hwa Park Yong-soo Lee Han-wi Park Kil-soo Jung Ho-keun Jo Min-jun Jung-sung Lee Yoo Chae-mok Kim Eung-soo Lee Kan-hee Kwon Tae-won Min Young Choi Jung-woo Song Keum-Sik Lee Il-sub
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