Yeah this was something Dan Jones was covering in Power and Thrones.

It's kind of wild how little interest historians have historically had in geography and the environmental context of history.

I've just started watching this recently and yes, so far it's been thoroughly good.

> I guess most koreans don't talk about that part since it doesn't fit into the whole "hero" narrative.

I mean, it was both far from unusual for the period and achieved what it needed to, in helping to give Yi Sun-sin the army he needed to save his country.

Like if this upsets you don't check out the shit Richard the Lionheart got up to.