In Popular Culture
Yi (in his turtle ship) and his turtle ships appear in the game Age of Empires II: The Conquerors. However, for the purpose of balance, the turtle ships are wrong in two areas of the game: they are slow (in reality they were quite fast) and they can only fire the cannon out of the dragon's mouth/bow (the turtle ships actually fired broadsides and used the front mostly as a sulfur smoke blower and ram).
Yi also appears in the RTS game Empires: Dawn of the Modern World where he and his ship, the turtle boat, are playable characters. Yi's character is only playable in the campaign devoted to his plight in the Imjin war
Yi is the main character in a full-color graphic novel published in the United States with the title Yi Soon Shin: Warrior and Defender. The series is drawn in a modern western style made popular by graphic novels such as Frank Miller's 300.
Read more about this topic: Yi Sun-sin
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