Korean Drama - Princess Hour

Princess Hour / Goong (궁)

Rating: 9.0/10

CAST:

Yoon Eun Hye as Shin Chae-kyung
Joo Ji Hoon as Lee Shin
Kim Jeong Hoon as Lee Yul
Song Ji Hyo as Min Hyo-rin

About the Drama:

Goong (궁) is based on the same titled comic by Park So Hee.

Goong is a story about young love in face of tradition, politics, and intrigue. In the imaginary world, modern-day Korea is a constitutional monarchy and the Royal Family lives in a grand Palace, the Goong. Story opens with the sudden death of the reigning the King. Faced with the decreasing popularity among the public for the Royalty, a grand wedding for the Crown Prince, Lee Shin (Joo Ji Hoon), is decided to be the best publicity move to improve the image of the Royalty and at the same time prepare Shin for immediate succession.

The intended bride? The headstrong, awkward, and sweet spirited Shin Chae-kyung (Yoon Eun Hye) that just happens to go to the same exclusive art school. Chae-kyung was betrothed to become the next Crown Princess by her grandfather and Shin’s grandfather.

After 14 years of living in England with his mom, Lee Yul (Kim Jeong Hoon) appears all of a sudden. He is Shin’s cousin as well as the former Crown Prince. Everything seemed to be going normally until Chae-kyung’s optimistic spirit wins the heart of internally lonely, Yul.

As the Crown Prince Shin and simple-minded Chae-kyung’s relationship appear to developing deeper feelings, a series of scandals are exposed to the public right after the pair were officially announced married. Will love prevail all in a world of political pressures and martial hardships? Or will being in the spotlight of the public be too much for the young newlyweds to endure?

Comments:

This is one of the dramas that I have borrowed from a friend and later bought the DVD for it as it is really a humourous and romantic show. A very heart warming drama, something imaginary since there are no longer monarchy in korea, this is the first drama I've seen with Toon Eun Hye acting as the "bride of the prince", she is such a darling! Her lovely, cheerful character in the drama totally wins my heart.

Joo Ji Hoon, as Lee Shin the "Crown Prince", he look so high and all mighty, but you will eventually like him a lot. I especially find him lovable when he was doing all the thoughtful things to his wife.

Kim Jeong Hoon as Lee Yul seems a bit girly to me.

I find the King (bad husband and bad father) especially unfair to his son (Lee Shin) as he favors his lover's son (Lee Yul). Totally disliked the king's attitude. He is totally being unfair to his own wife.

Was very disappointed that they did not do a sequal for this show. Hope one day they will.

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