
S01E01 Episode 1
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.
In the Manchu war, amidst the chaos and fighting, invaders had raided homes and dragged off their inhabitants.
Dae-gil is the leader of a group of slave hunters that are hired to find a runaway slave named Tae-ha, who was once a great warrior.