Goong Palace Story

Did you remember Princess Hours drama series?? This drama series became hits a few years ago. Princess Hours is a drama comedy series based on Goong Palace Story comic book by Park So Hee. Actually I know this after buying Goong Palace Story comic at Publisher Bookstore. I bought the first six comic book edition and the next edition never came. I came to all comic book store at Mataram and I didn’t found it and I was disappointed at that time. I decided to buy online by googling and finally I found it. I got the other editions but it still continued until now (also in Korea), and than I feel so so so bored reading the story. It’s funny but the story is to long……

Btw, Princess Hours drama series become popular at Korea in 2006.  Set in an alternate 21st-century reality where Korea possesses a royal family, since 1945 to present, this show revolves around the lives of the Crown Prince (Hwangtaeja) Lee Shin, and his new bride, Chae-kyeong. The depicted royal family in the show is modelled after the last royal family of Korea, which in reality reigned until the start of the Japanese Occupation in 1910 and was not reinstated after Japanese surrender in Second World War, 1945.

The series starts off with the news that the King, Shin’s father, is very ill. With the grim outlook on the King’s health, the royal family scrambles to find a wife for Shin, so as to allow him to take over the royal throne if the situation requires. Despite being in love with another girl, the ambitious and talented ballerina Hyo-rin whom Shin initially proposed to (she rejects him to pursue her ballet dreams), Shin eventually marries a commoner to whom he was betrothed by his late grandfather in an old agreement with the girl’s grandfather. Shin marries the headstrong yet lovable Chae-kyeong after Hyo-rin’s rejection. Despite initially feeling nothing for Chae-kyeong, love eventually blossoms between the couple as time passes.

In the meantime, however, matters are further complicated with the return of Lee Yul and his mother Lady Hwa-Young, who was once the Crown Princess (Bingoong) before the death of her husband, the late Crown Prince, older brother of the current King. Yul and his mother were chased out of the palace some time after the death of his father, and it is later revealed that this was due to the King’s discovery of an affair between Yul’s mother and the current King who was his father’s younger brother. Yul’s mother had returned with a sinister motive in mind; to restore her son back to the throne, which would have been his eventually, if his father had not died. A series of events befall the palace with the schemes Yul’s mother carries out, and is further intensified by the various scandals involving the royal family, which are inclusive of the Shin’s continuing relationship with his old flame Hyo-rin, and the budding love Yul develops for Chae-kyeong, his cousin’s new-found bride. Things gets out of hand and many incidents happened. (wiki)

Well, I think all of you know the complete story. The story exactly the same as the comic book. So, have you read Goong Palace Story comic book?? What do you think??

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