A girl tries to take revenge on her brother, but accidentally mistakes another man for him. She comes up behind him and grabs his backside, teasing him all the while. Then he turns around and she is horrified to see he is not her brother. She screams, crossing her arms across her chest as if he had been the one who had grabbed her. He is completely dumbfounded, yet rumors spread through the onlooking crowd about him assaulting her. Overall, the scene is very comical.

The Hwarang are sometimes seeing showering together, but nothing is shown.

A girl refers to a male character as 'Master Pervert'. He is always talking about the two of them 'sleeping together' in the past, when in reality, he had simply dozed off to her storytelling. At one point, he advanced on her and forcibly kisses her until she eventually knocks him away.

Combat with swords, bows and arrows, spears, and knives as well as hand-to-hand combat, sometimes resulting in death. Blood ranges from mild amounts to severe. At one point an open wound in shown with blood gushing from it. People are knocked unconscious as well.

A man occasionally mentions various gruesome forms of execution.

In at least three separate scenes, severed human heads are shown briefly.

On different occasions, two characters experience nightmares of another person throttling them in the middle of the night.

In a test, the Hwarang have to drink several cups of strong liquor in quick succession. Before long, they are all hopelessly drunk and spend the rest of the evening reeling aimlessly or fighting each other before eventually passing out.

A girl quickly drinks an entire pot of liquor in one go and becomes ditzy.

A man pours poison on his blade to kill another man and the two begin to spar. Just then, the attacker's younger brother (Kim Taehyung ) realizes what is happening and grabs the poisoned blade with his bare hands. Blood trickles down his wrists as his brother yells at him to let go. It isn't long before his younger brother collapses and starts convulsing from the poison. They try to bring him help, but it is too late and he dies. This is a very intense, emotional scene.

A man occasionally suffers from fainting spells; his vision becomes blurry and he collapses.

A group of characters are threatened to be tortured to death. They are tied to chairs and the torture instruments are shown though nothing happens.

A man is whipped briefly while his younger brother watches helplessly.