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The Slave Hunters: Season 1

24 episodes Premiered Jan 6, 2010 Updated Sep 29, 2026
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Season 1 Episodes

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Mytharc (4): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (20): Character development & subplots
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S1·E1 Mytharc

Episode 1

Jan 6, 2010 · 70 min

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.

S1·E2 Core

Episode 2

Jan 7, 2010 · 70 min

In the Manchu war, amidst the chaos and fighting, invaders had raided homes and dragged off their inhabitants.

S1·E3 Core

Episode 3

Jan 13, 2010 · 70 min

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 arro

S1·E4 Core

Episode 4

Jan 14, 2010 · 70 min

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

S1·E5 Core

Episode 5

Jan 20, 2010 · 70 min

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

S1·E6 Core

Episode 6

Jan 21, 2010 · 70 min

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.

S1·E7 Core

Episode 7

Jan 27, 2010 · 70 min

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!

S1·E8 Core

Episode 8

Jan 28, 2010 · 70 min

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 d

S1·E9 Core

Episode 9

Feb 3, 2010 · 70 min

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 sym

S1·E10 Core

Episode 10

Feb 4, 2010 · 70 min

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

S1·E11 Core

Episode 11

Feb 10, 2010 · 70 min

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.

S1·E12 Mytharc

Episode 12

Feb 11, 2010 · 70 min

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

S1·E13 Core

Episode 13

Feb 17, 2010 · 70 min

Dae-Gil has found his beloved, but she has apparently forgotten about him.

S1·E14 Core

Episode 14

Feb 18, 2010 · 70 min

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 po

S1·E15 Core

Episode 15

Feb 24, 2010 · 70 min

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.

S1·E16 Core

Episode 16

Feb 25, 2010 · 70 min

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

S1·E17 Core

Episode 17

Mar 3, 2010 · 70 min

Both Tae-ha and Dae-gil get captured by Officer Hwang and get tortured until they disclose the whereabouts of the Crown Prince.

S1·E18 Core

Episode 18

Mar 4, 2010 · 70 min

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.

S1·E19 Core

Episode 19

Mar 10, 2010 · 70 min

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.

S1·E20 Core

Episode 20

Mar 11, 2010 · 70 min

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.

S1·E21 Core

Episode 21

Mar 17, 2010 · 70 min

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.

S1·E22 Core

Episode 22

Mar 18, 2010 · 70 min

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.

S1·E23 Mytharc

Episode 23

Mar 24, 2010 · 70 min

S1·E24 Mytharc

Episode 24

Mar 25, 2010 · 70 min

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.

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