Updated: September 24, 2023
Here’s a collection of quotes from the Korean series, Song Of The Bandits (2023):
Episode 1
- “I did more than enough. So let me go now.” – Lee Yoon
- “Things are very different now. Back then, I had no reason to live. But I do now.” – Lee Yoon
- “Oh well, money’s the only way a slave girl can get some respect.” – Seonbok
“I may have made a ton of money. But my body still remembers poverty.” – Seonbok
“Why bother fighting for independence if you’re just gonna get killed like that?” – Seonbok
“Here, the independence fighters aren’t humans. They’re money.” – Seonbok
- “Chinese land, Japanese money, and Joseon’s people. Which one do you think will take over this place?” – Seonbok
- “I didn’t come here to live.” – Lee Yoon
- “Nothing good will come out of being involved. It’s best to avoid them.” – Seonbok
“We don’t have a country to protect us. We have to fend ourselves and survive, you know?” – Seonbok
- “No matter how nice money is, people need their sleep.” – Seonbok
- “Bandits are not the type to follow the rules.” – Lee Yoon
“I know everyone has a story to tell in this day and age, but whenever I see her, my heart aches a bit.” – Choi Choong Soo
- “You should have left without a trace. How could you be so sloppy?” – Eon Nyeoni
- “My entire life, I have only taken and obeyed orders. As an uneducated lowborn unable to learn anything. I thought I couldn’t know right from wrong and that I shouldn’t try to.” – Lee Yoon
- “Because of me, so many of my compatriots died.” – Lee Yoon
- “I have no right to repent for my past or ask for your forgiveness.” – Lee Yoon
“This is one twisted world we live in. Both you and I.” – Choi Choong Soo
- “When we tried to do something because people had died, more people ended up dying.” – Choi Choong Soo
- “Get things taken away from you everyday. Run away everyday. Try living in pain everyday.” – Choi Choong Soo
- “I suppose you wanted to live like a king now that your country has fallen.” – Choi Choong-soo
“Would you like to live up to your name? Will you consider your compatriots here as your family and protect them and care for them until the end?” – Choi Choong-soo
“I don’t have anything to my name right now. No power, no money, no land. To survive in a place like this, we need to gather people.” – Lee Yoon
“Those who can no longer stand always getting their things taken away, running away, and living in pain. Those people will come to us.” – Lee Yoon
“We fight. If you fight for your country, that would make you a soldier. But if you fight to protect your family, that would make you a bandit, wouldn’t it?” – Lee Yoon
Episode 2
“This Invader’s Pass is the path that leads into Myeongjeong from Hoeryong! This means if you so much as take a step forward, you will be invading our land! Any of you make a single move and I will crush you all into dust!” – Choi Choong-soo
“I miss every nook and cranny of my hometown. I would have seen, touched, and felt the things that were important to me just once more before I left if I had known I’d be away for so long.” – Choi Choong-soo
- “It’s strange how she comes to mind whenever I’m here. She was my first in everything, you see.” – Lee Yoon
- “She was the first member of the gentry to ask my name, not my master’s, hold my hand, and smile. And she was the first person to make me feel happy just by looking at her.” – Lee Yoon
- “If I had known I would miss her so much, I would have seen more of her.” – Lee Yoon
- “To me, money is the heavens.” – Eon Nyeoni
“I am a Joseon-born woman, so I don’t do anything that I can’t get away with.” – Eon Nyeoni
“Fighting through life tooth and nail has changed my mind. Revenge, grudge, all of that, I realized that they are useless. Taking care of myself is all that matters.” – Eon Nyeoni
“I may work on the dangerous side, but I live my life on the safe side.” – Eon Nyeoni
“We can’t keep running away forever, you know. For once in our lives, we should live like human beings.” – Lee Yoon
Episode 3
“I do not know how you have ended up all the way here but I hope that your gun and sword will not be pointed toward the weak and our compatriots.” – Nam Hee Shin
“Everything in this world is like a flower, you see. No flower stays red for ten days.” – Lee Sangguk
- “Do not let your chase of the new age blind you from the flow of history. The new age may make wrong decisions, but history never does.” – Lee Sangguk
- “History will not fail to properly evaluate your current actions in due course.” – Lee Sangguk
“Are you worrying about me or threatening me? Or is this a threat under the guise of worry?” – Eon Nyeoni
Episode 4
“You can be indifferent about your people but you should never betray them. You can’t do such a thing if you’re a human being.” – Choi Choong-soo
“There are five classes in this country. Outcasts under commoners, commoners under merchants, the merchants under gentry, and the gentry under the Japanese!” – Hwang Sam Deok
“Only trusting money is different from being blinded by money.” – Eon Nyeoni
Episode 5
“You need to stay alive to act according to your beliefs.” – Lee Yoon
- “There is only one thing you must do now. Stay alive. You must stay alive for as long as I live.” – Lee Yoon
- “No matter what happens to me, I have to protect this money. Only then can we get our country back.” – Nam Hee Shin
“No person can be lowly in status. There can only be lowly thoughts.” – Nam Hee Shin
“Don’t dwell on those who merely pass by. Just focus on getting out of here. That’s best for both of us.” – Lee Yoon
Episode 6
“A world in which you can only be rich if you follow the Jappos. A world in which you can only survive by betraying your compatriots. We are the one who made this world.” – Choi Choong-soo
- “You should keep smiling. It looks much better on you than frowning.” – Nam Hee Shin
- “I think you’d start calling me by my name if I called you by yours first.” – Nam Hee Shin
- “I have never betrayed my country or my friend. Because they were not mine to begin with.” – Lee Yoon
- “Don’t get riled up. Think rationally. Or you might get bitten by the dog that left home.” – Lee Yoon
“I tried to save a country beyond my means and failed to save my family, the most precious thing.” – Choi Choong-soo
“You live your life so that you won’t have any regrets. I’ll live mine so that I won’t have any regrets.” – Choi Choong-soo
“It’s not right to cross swords with a fellow compatriot.” – Choi Choong-soo
Episode 7
“Revenge for my parents, grudge, all of that. People like us are not entitled to such things.” – Lee Yoon
“I realized I had become the same person as those who killed my parents. Killing my compatriots with my own hands, betraying the people I should have protected.” – Lee Yoon
“Don’t bear the pain of the times by yourself. We should share it together with people like us who are suffering the same pain and living through the same times.” – Nam Hee Shin
- “The kind that makes themselves heard through the singing of their swords. It’s about time we let the Japanese hear the song. The song of the bandits.” – Lee Yoon
- “Stop worrying about us and fight for the country now, kid! Leave the fight for our family up to me. I’ll play the song of the bandits.” – Choi Choong-soo
- “Please shed all the guilt in your heart. You must get to the end of that road safely for the sake of Joseon’s future.” – Lee Yoon
- “Please stay alive. You must stay alive for as long as I live. So that we’ll meet again.” – Nam Hee Shin
“And when we meet again, please tell me your name. I don’t care if it takes two or 20 years. Let’s stay alive and meet again.” – Nam Hee Shin
Genre: Historical, Action, Thriller
Also known as: Thief: Sound of the Sword; Bandit: The Sound of the Sword; Bandit: The Sound of the Knife
Synopsis: In the lawless land of Gando, fierce bandits will stop at nothing to fight for their precious homeland and loved ones, even if it means life or death.
No of episodes: 9
Cast: Kim Nam-gil, Seohyun, Yoo Jae-myung, Lee Hyun-wook, Lee Ho-jung
Writer: Han Jeong-hoon
Director: Hwang Jun-hyeok
Network: Netflix
Date: September 22, 2023
Subtitle translation / Images: Netflix
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