Crown Prince Maui (; born 912), born Gim Il () was the last

Silla Silla or Shilla (57 BCE – 935 CE) ( , Old Korean: Syera, Old Japanese: Siraki2) was a Korean kingdom located on the southern and central parts of the Korean Peninsula. Silla, along with Baekje and Goguryeo, formed the Three Kingdoms of K ...

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as the son of its last ruler, King Gyeongsun. The name ''Maui'' means "

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dress", and comes from the fact that he spent his whole life wearing clothes made of hemp linen. His father was killed in the civil war by a lone warrior. After hearing the news, the prince fled to the southern mountains in

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. He was also the creator and the originator of the Nakan (낙안)

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clan, which branched out from the Gyeongju Kim Clan. After fleeing to Jeolla, he became a Buddhist monk. There are currently 130 Nakan Kim families in

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In popular culture

TV series & dramas

*Portrayed Lee Byung-wook in the 2000–2002

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TV series ''

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''. *Portrayed by Ahn Chi-yong in the 2009 KBS TV series ''

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''.

Novel

*Portrayed in a Historical novel ''Crown Prince Maui'', written by

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and was serialized in the ''

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'' from May 1926 to January 1927. It was published in January 1928 as a book in the Bakmunseogwan (博文書館). The story tells the life of Maui as a young man on

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, after his father,

Gyeongsun of Silla Gyeongsun of Silla (896–978) was the 56th and final ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla. Biography A sixth-generation descendant of King Munseong, he was the son of Hyogong by Princess Gyea, who was the daughter of King Heongang. His wif ...

, tried to surrender to

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