Go Young Tak Kim Myung Wook Dae Jo-yeong (Korean: 대조영; Hanja: 大祚榮; RR: Dae Jo-yeong; MR: Tae Joyŏng) is a South Korean television series aired from September 16, 2006, to December 23, 2007, on KBS1.

Filmed at Hanwha Resort near Mount Seorak with a budget of 35 billion wons,[1][2][3] it was a critical and ratings success.

We are also introduced to Xue Rengui (Seol Ingui in Korean), a man with a brilliant mind who comes up with a plan to bring down Liaodong Fortress.

The order is given and water is released through the tunnel underneath the mountain, causing it to collapse and it crushes hundreds of thousands of Tang soldiers.

So his father flees from the Supreme Commander Yeon Gaesomun, who wishes to kill the baby, only to be captured as his wife and son try to escape on a raft.

The Supreme Commander intended to kill them at first but when General Yang Manchun tells him that perhaps the heavens sent Dae Jo-yeong to protect their country after they die, he changes his mind.

General Dae Jungsang is told his wife and son are dead and ordered to command Goryeo Fortress.

He also (when he grown up in 660) begs the Supreme Commander's eldest son (Yeon Namsaeng) to allow him to join the martial arts contest because the reward is emancipation (freedom), but he refuses.

Yang Manchun, not wanting to hurt him by letting him think he has a chance, tells him to fight the best fighter (Geol sabiu) in Yodong Fort.

He surprises everyone and is about to smash the Geol Sa-Biwoo's head with a rock when General Yang Manchun stops the fight.

Seol teams up with Bu Kiwon, one of the civil officials, and hires some assassins to kill Yeon Gaesomun.

Right before the contest begins the assassins go to the same barn Dae Jo-yeong was locked in to form a plan (each of their swords are laced with a deadly poison).

Dae Jo-yeong hears them talking and figures out what they are up to, but he then makes a tiny noise which immediately catches the assassins' attention.

One of the assassins tells the others to go ahead since the martial arts contest was beginning and stays to take care of Dae Jo-yeong.

Dae Jo-yeong is nearly killed by Li Kaigu, Geolsa Biu is captured by Tang, and the second Goguryeo is destroyed after a Silla-aided coup d'état in 674.

While in battle, to rescue the people captured in the collapse of the Dong Myeong Cheon Ki Gae Tse, Dae Jo-yeong and Heuk Sudol are captured by the Chinese commander Li Wen in 681, who hates Dae Jo-yeong with all of his heart.

Dae Jo-yeong took over Shin Seong, Liaodong, Beakam and Ansi of Wu Zetian in the east.

The Khitan country is nearly destroyed by a Tang-Göktürk alliance in 697, but the few defenders are rescued by Dae Jo-yeong, after he finds out that Geom is his son.

Dae Jo-yeong is leading the last of the refugees and all of his army from Ansi, Liaodong, Baekham and Shin Seong to his base in Mount Dong-mo, where he intends to create a new Goguryeo.

Dae Jung-sang is killed, and that fuels the morale of the Goguryeo-Mohe army so much that out of 30,000 Tang soldiers to enter, less than 1000 leave.

Dae Jo-yeong wins Li Kaigu and Xue Rengui's forces at Cheonmunryeong with help of Malgal Tribe.

Tang almost loses so Li Wen thinks that the only way to survive is to send Dae Jo-yeong a peace treaty.

Finally Geom decides to leave the country, thinking that if he stays there will be dissension among Dae Jo Yeong's followers about the succession.

He tells Geol Sabiwu what he wants most is to be close to Jo Yeong, but if they try to make him the successor he will take his own life.

Li Kaigu, who was one of Khitan's greatest warriors and had loved Chu-lin for a long time, offered to protect mother and son and raise Geom as his own.

He and his original remaining followers, Geolsa Biu and Mimosa, bow before it, promising that never again will their people suffer as they have in the past.