(SBS)

SBS’ 50-episode period drama “Six Flying Dragons” kicked off Monday offering insights into corruption during the late-Goryeo era.

Young Lee Bang-won, son of General Lee Seong-gye, enters Goryeo’s capital Gaeseong and witnesses both the vibrant marketplace and the hunger-stricken backstreets.

Actor Yoo Ah-in as grown-up Lee Bang-won (SBS)

Bang-won befriends sibling panhandlers Boon-yi and Ddang-sae with whom he sneaks into the grand mansion of tyrannical overlord Yi Yin-gyeom.

They find Yi had separated young peasant mothers from their newborns and coerced them to give milk to suckling piglets to be served on the feast table as sumptuous dish.

While the piglets swelled in size the abducted women’s deserted babies starved to death.

Young Lee Bang-won shocked by what he sees (SBS)

Shocked and enraged Bang-won pleads to his father to get justice, and help free Boon-yi and Ddang-sae who were unluckily captured by Yi’s guards.

The next episode of “Six Flying Dragons” will air Tuesday night at 10 p.m. on SBS.

MBC’s “Glamorous Temptation” and KBS2’s “Sassy, Go Go” broadcast at the same hour.

By Lim Jeong-yeo (kaylalim@heraldcorp.com)

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