The BEST episodes of The Slave Hunters
Every episode of The Slave Hunters ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Slave Hunters!
Dae Gil is born off a nobleman. He's loved by Eon Nyeon, a slave. Her brother kills Dae Gil's parents.
#1 - Episode Seventeen
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/3/2010
Both Tae-ha and Dae-gil get captured by Officer Hwang and get tortured until they disclose the whereabouts of the Crown Prince.
#2 - Episode Eighteen
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/4/2010
Execution day. Both Tae-ha and Dae-gil are sentenced to die since they failed to reveal the whereabouts of the Crown Prince and follow orders.
#3 - Episode Fourteen
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/18/2010
Just as it seems they might have to settle in for a long and cold wait, one of the slaves spies the yangban approaching in the distance. The slaves immediately scramble to their positions.
#4 - Episode Two
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/7/2010
In the Manchu war, amidst the chaos and fighting, invaders had raided homes and dragged off their inhabitants.
#5 - Episode Eleven
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/10/2010
According to Dae-gil, in this world of slavery co-existing with Neo-Confucian ideals of virtue, Good and Evil don’t really have meaning.
#6 - Episode Thirteen
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/17/2010
Dae-Gil has found his beloved, but she has apparently forgotten about him.
#7 - Episode Fifteen
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/24/2010
Scholar Jo and his cohorts grow anxious as it seems that General Song Tae-Ha may not merely follow orders and do as he is told.
#8 - Episode Nineteen
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/10/2010
While trying to escape to keep the Crown Prince safe, Hye-won gets caught by officers because they are suspicious that she is carrying the Crown Prince.
#9 - Episode Six
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/21/2010
Aware that they’d be overtaken easily if they tried to escape on horseback, Tae-ha sends a riderless horse galloping away to misdirect the slave hunters once again.
#10 - Episode Twelve
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/11/2010
King Injo asks his number two man, the Left State Minister Lee Gyeong Shik, about the happenings in Jeju Island, where the last surviving son of the murdered Crown Prince So-Hyeon was supposed to be killed.
#11 - Episode Twenty-four
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/25/2010
Eop-bok discovers that the leader of their revolution regime used them as part of their scheme to get rid of certain people that the Left Prime Minister did not want around.
#12 - Episode Twenty-one
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/17/2010
Dae-gil is now reunited again with his chuno brothers, General Choi and Wang-son. A welcoming festivity is prepared for Dae-gil and the rest of his crew.
#13 - Episode Twenty
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/11/2010
In order to keep the Crown Prince safe, Dae-gil guides them into the deep mountains, where his slave hunting comrade lives in a village surrounded by other slave hunters.
#14 - Episode Sixteen
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/25/2010
There are certain fates that are just not meant to be. After Dae-gil's relentless chase to find Tae-ha and Un-nyun, he hits a dead-end where he has to face reality and accept that Un-nyun has moved on and has found happiness.
#15 - Episode Ten
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/4/2010
Dae-gil had begged his father to allow him to marry Un-nyun, saying that he couldn't live without her. Furious, his father had ordered that Un-nyun be locked up in the storage room, where she would be left to die from dehydration.
#16 - Episode Five
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/20/2010
There is only one son of the Crown Prince left alive, and Tae-Ha must save him. Tae-Ha, with his secret message from the Crown Prince himself, must get to and save the last son of the Crown Prince and avenge his master’s murder.
#17 - Episode Four
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/14/2010
Seol-hwa blocks Dae-gil’s path and refuses to budge until he agrees to bring her along on their mission to catch Tae-ha. Dae-gil is just about to turn his horse the other way, when Eop-bok fires his musket.
#18 - Episode Three
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/13/2010
Chun Ji-Ho is nothing if not an opportunist. He tells his men to fire away. If he manages to kill Dae-Gil and the runaway slave, that's like killing two birds with a few dozen arrows.
#19 - Episode Nine
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/3/2010
Tae-Ha was not born a slave. Rather, he chose to swear an oath to defend the Crown Prince, thus he endured the loss of his command, the torture, the permanent branding of slave symbol on his forehead, because he had a greater purpose.
#20 - Episode Seven
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/27/2010
Choi and Wang-son cannot believe it; they’ve seen it before more than a few times. But Dae-Gil is adamant – Un-Nyun is alive!
#21 - Episode Twenty-two
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/18/2010
The Qing Emperor sends his soldiers to the small village to get the Crown Prince so that they can take him back to Qing for his safety.
#22 - Episode Twenty-three
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/24/2010
Since both Dae-gil and Tae-ha are both wanted alive in the capital city, they try to find a way to escape and get back to the village to send the Crown Prince to Qing along with the Qing Emperor.
#23 - Episode Eight
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/28/2010
Seol-hwa is jolted awake by the slave hunters demanding to know what she did with their horses and money. Seol-hwa says she sold the horses and spent all of the money on food and drink.
#24 - Episode One
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/6/2010
Slaves who ran away were rounded up by bounty hunters called chuno-kkun. “Chuno” itself is a portmanteau word combining “chase” with “slave”; hence, slave hunter.