Toji, the Land

Toji, the Land
Hangul	토지
Genre	Drama
Created by	SBS
Based on	Toji by Park Kyong-ni
Written by	Kim Myeong-ho JLee Hong-goo Lee Hye-seon
Directed by	Lee Jong-han
Starring	Kim Hyun-joo Yoo Joon-sang
Country of origin	South Korea
Original language	Korean
No. of episodes	52
Production
Executive producer	Lim Byung-hoon
Producers	Kim Ye-ji Park Woo-ram Lee Hyeong-hoon Kim Jae-geum
Running time	60 minutes
Original release
Network	SBS
Release	November 26, 2004 (2004-11-26) – May 22, 2005 (2005-05-22)
Related
Toji

Toji, the Land (Korean: 토지; RR: Toji) is a 2004 South Korean television series based on the novel Toji ( 토지) written by Park Kyong-ni. The series following the story of turbulent life of Choi Seo-hee as she lives throughout the Donghak Peasant Revolution, the Eulmi Incident, the Japanese colonial era, and Korea's independence in 1945. As in the novel, the drama portrays the conflicts between individuals who are engulfed in their own desires of love and veiled enmity, rage and jealousy. Starring Kim Hyun-joo, Yoo Jun-sang, it premiered on SBS on November 26, 2004, and aired on Friday and Saturday at time-slot 20:45-21:45 (KST) till May 22, 2005.^[1]

Plot

When she was 5 years old, Seo Hee(Kim Hyun-joo)'s mother left with one of the servants, leaving her behind her father, who had never treated her well. The first shock was a preparation for her hardship. After her father was killed, her relative Joon Goo, taking advantage of her young age to gain possession of the land she rightfully owns. In these miserable years, her low status friend, Kim Gil-sang (Yoo Jun-sang) became her only support. He helped Seo Hee to run away from hometown to escape Joon Goo's plot forced Seo Hee to marry a disabled man. Then, she slowly builds her property as a merchant, driven by a desire to revenge Joon Goo and the ultimate goal is to regain the land.

Cast

Main

• Bae Na-yeon → Shin Se-kyung → Kim Hyun-joo as Choi Seo-hee
  • The baby of Champan Choi. He loses his father, Chi-soo Choi, and also loses his grandmother, the wife of Yun, who is a fanatic. His family is taken away by his greedy relative, Jo Jun-gu, but he gets up again.
• Seo Ji-won → Kim Ji-hoon → Yoo Jun-sang : Kim Gil-sang
  • Champan Choi's servant. After marrying her owner, Agi Seo-hee, she gives birth to two sons, but commits to conflict and the independence movement.
• Kim Han-bi → Ham Eun-jeong → Lee Jae-eun as Bong-soon/Ki-hwa
  • Seohee's body type. When Seohee and her party leave for Gando, they don't go and become gisaengs. She gives birth to a daughter, Yang-hyeon, with Sang-hyeon, but meets a tragic death.
• Jeong Se-in → Jung Chan : Lee Sang-hyun
  • The eldest son of Ibusa (Lee Dong-jin). Seo-hee's fiancée. It hurts that Seo-hee chose Lucky-sang rather than herself. Later, he lives with Bong-sun.
• Kim Hoon-gi → Hae-jin Hae : Kim Pyeong-san/Kim Doo-su (Kim Geo-bok) (2 roles per person)
  • The son of the fallen nobleman Kim Pyong-san. He becomes a pawn for the Japanese Empire and tries to take revenge on Seo-hee according to his father's will.

People of Choi Cham-pan

• Kim Mi-sook as Yoon's wife - Seo-hee's spiritual support and grandmother. dies as a heatwave
• Park Ji-il as Choi Chi-soo - Choi Cham-pan; Seo-hee's father. cold personality. On the eve of Lunar New Year's Day, he is strangled by Kim Pyong-san.
• Kim Yu-seok as Kim Hwan/Gucheon - The illegitimate child born to Yun's wife and Kim Gae-joo. Seo Hee falls in love with a woman byeoldang and runs away.
• Lee Min-young : Byeol-dang Missi - Seo-hee's biological mother. He falls in love with Kim Hwan and runs away.
• Kim Gap-soo as Jo Jun-goo - Chi- soo 's cousin. Seo-hee's greedy relative
• Do Ji-won as Hong's wife - Jo Jun-goo's wife
• Joan : The role of a ghost girl - Choi Cham-pan's servant. ambitious
• Park Hye-sook as Bong-sun-ne - Bong-soon-mo. Champan Choi's mother-in-law
• Kim Young-ok : Gannan Grandmother - Choi Cham-pan's servant. A person who knows that Kim Hwan is the son of Yun's wife.
• Baek Seung-woo → Son Chang-joon as Jo Byeong-soo - Jo Jun-goo's son. Unlike his father, he is docile.
• Lee Won-jong as Kim Seo- bang - Gae Dung
• Kim Ji-young as Kim Seobang-daek - Gae-dong-mo
• Hwang Bo-ra as Yeon-i - Cham-pan Choi's servant
• Park Young-seo as Gae-dong - Kim Seo -bang's son and his wife
• Baeminhui : March Station
• Choi Seong-ho as Sam- su
• Baek Seung-wook: Doli

Pyeongsari people

• Park Sang-won as Lee Yong - Farmer Pyeongsari
• Kim Yeo- jin as Kang Cheong-daek - Lee Yong-eun's home
• Park Ji-young as Im In-ne - Lee Yong- eun 's second wife. The original wife of Chil-Sung Lee; Im and 2nd son, Hongmo Lee
• Kim Hye-sun as Gong Wol- seon - the daughter of a shaman; first love of use
• Yang Geum- seok as Haman-daek - Kim Pyung-san's wife. Kim Doo-soo (Geobok) and Hanbok Mo. He committed suicide on the 16th day of February in the lunar calendar in 1895.
• Jeong Jong-jun as Kang Po-su - hunter. Kang Doo-me's (sheep) father
• Bae Do-hwan as Chil-seong Lee - Pyeongsa-ri, a greedy farmer; The original husband of Im In-ne, the biological father of Im and the second son.
• Lee Won-jae as Kim I-pyung
• Jung Kyung-soon as the youngest daughter - Pyeong-sari's widow
• Park Yong-soo as Kim Young-pal
• Lee Soon-jae as Kim Hoon-jang
• Choi Gyu- hwan as Kim Doo-man - Duman-ne's son
• Won Jang- hee → Kwon Jae-hwan as Kim Han-bok, Kim Doo-su's younger brother. Unlike his older brother who became a pawn for Japanese imperialism, he goes on the path of an independence activist.

People of Seohee's house

• Won Deok-hyeon → Oh Tae-kyung as Choi Yoon-guk
  • Seo-hee's second son. Tokyo student.
• Kim Ye-won → Jang Hee-jin as Lee Yang-hyeon
  • Seo-hee's adopted daughter. Daughter of Bong-soon and Sang-hyeon.
• Kim Seung-wook → Kim Seok → Lee Joo-seok as Choi Hwan-guk
  • Seohee's eldest son. He breaks Seo-hee's hopes of becoming a judge and becomes a painter.
• Park Mi-young as Hwang Deok-hee
  • concubine of the country. the prince's daughter.
• Shin Sung-woon as Butler Jang Yeon-hak
• Kim So-hyun as Sae-chim

Independence activists

• Park Si-eun as Yoo In-sil
• Kim Ji-wan as Jiro Ogada
• Park Jin-hyung as Jeong-seok

People from Immyeong-hee's side

• Jung Ha-na as Im Im-myeong-hee
• Lee Chang as Jo Chan-ha
• Kim Il-woo as Jo Yong-ha
• Kim Mi-ra as Cho Chan-ha's wife Noriko
• Kim Hee-jun as Im Immyeong-bin

Yongjeong

• Oh Yoon-hong as Ok-ne
• Kwon Soo-hyun as Ok-i
• Lee Jung-gil as Gong No-myeon
• Kim Seon-young as Bang's wife
• Yeom Hyeon-hee as Gong Song-ae
• Ha Da-som as Shim Geum-nyeo - Kim Doo-soo's only love.

Others

• Go Joo - won as Song Young-gwang, Baek-jeong's son, Song Kwan-soo. He is dismissed because he is the son of a butcher.
• Ahn Joo-hee as Kang Hye-sook - Song Young-kwang's former lover
• Oh Seung-yoon → Jung-wook : Lee Hong
  • Son of Lee Yong and Im Ine
• Lee Kyung-wha as Heo Bo-yeon - Lee Hong's wife
• Lee Eon- jeong as Yeom-jang - Lee Hong's first love
• Jeon Hyun-ah as Lee Im - The eldest daughter of Im In-ne and Lee Chil-sung. Lee Hong's father is another older sister
• Lee Young-ah as Lee Sang-sang - Lee Hong's daughter
• Park Sang-gyu : Lee Dong-jin as Lee Busa; Lee Sang-hyun's father independence activist
• Park Jin-seong as Song Gwan-soo - Baek-jeong, Song Young-kwang's father
• Kwak Jung-wook as Kang Do-me, Kang Po-su's (sheep) son. Ambition, the birth parents of the noble daughter and Lee Chil-sung's seed
• Lee Seung-hyung as Hwang Tae-soo - Seo-hee's son-in-law; Father of the eldest daughter-in-law Hwang Deok-hee
• Im Seo-yeon : Doo- ri
• Bae Min-hee as Sam-wol - Choi Cham-pan's servant, Jo Jun-goo, rapes him.
• Minwook
• Shin Goo  : Rep. Moon
• Lee Seung-cheol  as Kim Gae-joo - Donghak Ju-ju (real model Kim Gae-nam)
• Lim Il-gyu  as Kang Doo-me
• Oarang  : San Jose Station
• Lee Tae-hoon  as Monk Woo Gwan
• Dongjae Yang
• Maeng Horim
• Kiseon Kwon
• Kwon Kyung-ha
• Kwon  Bok- soon : I'm out again.
• Noh Movie  : Wolseonne
• Kim Shin-rok  : Hanbok's wife
• Kim  Hwa-ran: Pansulne
• Jong-Hoon Jeong  : Master Hye- Kwan
• Kim Hak-yong  : Pouch
• Jo  Jung- guk : Yong-chil
• Kim Soon-yi  : Two people .
• Park Yoon-jung  : Fortune-telling

Production

Casting

In 2003, SBS confirmed Kim Hyun-joo was chosen as the main role of Choi Seo-hee ^[2]

Development

In October 2003, the drama started filming in Hadong.^[2]

The production cost 15 billion won. New setting for the drama were built in Hadong, South Gyeongsang Province and Hoengseong, Gangwon Province, South Korea. In Hadong, about 40 houses were built centered on Choi Champandaek, which now become a tourist attraction.^[3][4] And about 80 houses were built in Hoengseong, which contains realistic scenes of Yongjeong, Hoeryong and Jinju, as well as Harbin, China and Japan during the Japanese colonial period.^[3]

Note

This 2004 version drama was the first drama produced after the novel Toji was completed, has been evaluated to have fully captured the thoughts and thoughts of writer Park Kyongni.

Broadcasting changes and extension

• The broadcast of episode scheduled on December 19, 2004, was cancelled due to the friendly football match Korea vs Germany.

Awards and nominations

External links

• Official website (in Korean)
• Toji, the Land at HanCinema
• Toji, the Land at IMDb

References