Great Fire of Hanyang (3)

In the English-speaking world, firefighters are called 'fire fighters.'

That is, people who fight fire.

Just like the firefighters of twenty-first-century Korea, every firefighter is said to face firefighting with the resolve and attitude of a warrior entering battle—prepared either to die or to put out the fire.

Firefighters are, quite literally, warriors who risk their lives to fight fire.

But this is Joseon, an era without fireproof clothing, oxygen tanks, or fire hoses, so just how dangerous will suppressing a large-scale fire be...

“If we cannot contain the fire here, both your homes and mine will burn to the ground.”

If everyone merely fled in fear of the fire, all of Hanyang would become nothing but ashes, countless people would die, and

even those who survived would certainly lose their homes and livelihoods.

Therefore, I had to drive the people gathered here into a war against the fire so that I could contain it as quickly as possible and save as many people as I could.

They had to be prepared to die fighting rather than die while fleeing...