Friday, January 7, 2011

Korean Drama- My Princess




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Another drama i have started following is this 16 episodes Korean MBC Wednesday and Thursdays romantic comedy drama "My Princess" starring one of my favorite Korean actress Kim Tae Hee and Song Seung Heon which started showing in Korea on 5 January 2011. Good reviews are continuously coming up about actress Kim Tae Hee and her return drama since "Iris". Viewers give her their highest compliments at the way she is carrying out the tomboy role so well in the drama she will lead along with actor Song Seung Heon. To Kim Tae Hee's acting skill that plays out the determined college girl – princess in one night role so well, viewers respond, "It suits her so well", "There was anxiety but she seems so natural it was surprising". "My Princess" will be Song’s first drama in two years, since he headlined the epic-tragic-melodrama "East Of Eden".

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In the first episode, there is a scene where Kim runs into Song Seung Heon while working part time in an ancient palace dressed as a Chosun princess and she was such a natural in the scene.

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I watched the first episode earlier and it was really entertaining. Kim Tae Hee is really cute and lively in the drama. However, the plot seems abit similar to "Princess Hours" and i'm curious how the drama will evolve and whether it will employ a fantasy twist and bring back the old monarchy which will be really interesting to watch. Episode 1 was interesting and i can't wait to watch future episodes online at (http://www.jacinda1st.com/2011/01/my-princess-english-subtitles.html).

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In "My Princess" Kim Tae Hee stars as an ordinary college student, Lee Seol, who suddenly finds out that she's a princess. She supposedly has within her the last secret of the imperial family. There’s a “special bond” between Emperor Sunjong and chaebol businessman Park Dong-jae (played by Lee Soon-jae) who is the grandfather to Song Seung Heon's diplomat character. Grandpa CEO Park uses some of his clout to reinstate the monarchy and goes out of his way to locate the lost granddaughter. The grandson of Daehan Group, Park Hae Young (Song Seung Heon), is put in charge of educating Seol the lost princess on proper etiquette.

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This drama also marks Ryoo Soo Yeong’s comeback; he’d only recently returned from military service, and this is his first project since Lawyers of Korea back in 2008. Ryoo Soo Yeong stars as Nam Jeong-woo who is Seol's university archaeology professor and Seol has a huge crush on him. Park Ye Jin stars as Oh Yoon Joo and she recently chopped off her hair for this drama. Park’s character is the daughter to executive secretary of Daehan Group, a large corporation, and works as the director of a museum. Described as a highly ambitious femme fatale, she chucks her first love Jeong-woo who she had dated in college and uses Hae Young, while acting the formidable rival for heroine Seol. Things get complicated, of course, when Yoon Joo's last relationship comes to bear on the new one.

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Pictures From The Press Conference:

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More About Each Character

Song Seung Hun
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as PARK HAE YOUNG 박해영
~ 31 years old. Diplomat. The Group Chairman’s grandson
Korea’s  Highest, Largest and Most Powerful Business Group Only Heir. Born rich,  doesn’t care about having shortcomings. Good looking, academic  qualification from Ivy League Schools. Has a profession of diplomat.  Simply perfect. In a nutshell, he is the modern version of a  prince…Thought this is the case until his grandfather, Chairman Park,  declares that “he wants to return his money to the community.”
It  seems that he met Lee Seol, before she becomes a Princess…He mistook  that she is his grandfather’s illegitimate daughter. When Lee Seol’s  princess identity is revealed, he keeps asking “This kind of person is a  princess?” His chairman grandfather requested him to be the teacher of  the princess. To avoid the princess from making a fool in front of  foreign diplomats, media and nation, he has to teach her foreign  languages. But the princess thinks instead of learning English and  Chinese, a princess should be communicating more with the people (from  all walks of life). Instead of learning social dance, she thinks she  should learn how to recover cultural property that has been seized  abroad. Upon hearing these, his heart is affected. Why is she able to  follow the news so keenly? Even went in tears when reading the list of  lost cultural property. His heart is moved…Seems to go crazy. Seeing  her studying so desperately, he hope he doesn’t force herself too much  and go to bed quickly. Seeing her secretly calling her foster parents,  he will get angry.

Kim Tae Hee
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as LEE SEOL 이설
~ 25 years old. Seorimdae Archaeological History of Science student
Briefly,  she is a person with birth secret. Goes through hardship initially.  Works hard in the day while attending Archaeology classes by her  favorite lecturer. Lives a busy and enriched life, a vibrant young girl  adopted at age of five and strives hard to reach university. She falls  for her lecturer and does everything to get close to him. One day, she  wakes up and becomes the Princess of Korea. Her sister, her foster  parents’ daughter, gets jealous of her and is instigated by Oh Yun Ju to  swap her identity with Lee Seol so as to become the princess by using  the sachet she has stolen from Lee Seol when young.
The princess  has to learn five (5) languages, current international politics and  financial markets, conditions of World Trade Organization, in addition  to national geography, history, dining etiquette, fashion, vocal music,  horse riding, social dance…. Poor princess… She is forced to learn  all day under the mean teacher Park Hae Young, who is nice to her in  front of others but changes face during private tutoring. Behind this  bully, she calls him “big devil” and thinks of gathering the guards to  beat him up… 

Park Ye Jin
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as OH YUN JU 오윤주
~30 years old. Museum Administrator – Daughter of Oh Gitaek
The  evil woman who tries to win the heart of Park Hae Young so as to become  rich and powerful. Seeing that Hae Young falls for Lee Seol, she gets  jealous and plots to make Lee Dan become the princess instead.
Ryu Su Young
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as NAM JEONG WOO 남정우
~32 years old. Mist University Assistant Professor of Archeology Art Department
A  handsome and upright lecturer who loves to dig and examine stones. He  is called the “idol lecturer”. He keeps all his savings for digging  work. One day at some fieldwork (digging), he discovers that Lee Seol is  the real princess and he becomes a consultant to the Royal Heritage  Committee.

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Lee Sun-jae (이순재) as Park Dong-jae

~88 years old. Chairman for the Group. Grandfather of Hae-young.
Owner  of Korea’s best group, the total number of general business.  Transparent corporate management, elimination of the inheritance  management, noblesse oblige respected in practice from the family  business and the owner of a tragic past.
Has  a historical background connected to the royal family but fled with  military funds under special circumstances… He decides to spend all  his money to groom the princess, as a means of paying back his betrayal  in the past.

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~58 years old. Secretary to Chairman for the group.
A  loyal staff of Hae Young’s grandfather for a long time. Serious and  hardworking hence trusted by the Chairman and treated like a friend.  Supported and helped the Chairman wholeheartedly. In return, the  Chairman appointed his daughter as curator of the museum. He is thankful  for this but his daughter didn’t think the same and  felt depressed  instead.

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Lee Sung-min (이성민) as Lee Young-chan
~52 years old. Republic of Korea President
Youngest  president. Has a sense of justice, cool and thorough. A politician with  a conscience. Went through hardship to become president with the help  of Chairman Park, who in turn has a condition that he pushes the issue  of national vote.

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~25 years old. Sister of Lee Seol
Lee Dan and Lee Seol both grow up in the same orphanage and were adopted by  the same parents. She has a hardworking and kind nature, but out of jealousy and instigation by Oh Yun Ju, she decides to steal the sachet  which will make her the princess.

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~46 years old. Adoptive mother of Lee Seol and Lee Dan.
Their foster mother is soft-hearted and easily tempted to buy goods on promotion. She will regret buying them but afraid to be reprimanded by her husband and Lee Dan, so she is always busy finding hiding places to  store her goods. She is not sociable type so is closer to the quiet Lee Dan but she is heartbroken upon seeing Lee Dan goes astray out of jealousy.



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~22 years old. Court Assistant Chef.  
A good looking man who has a sweet personality; he is someone who is able to attract the ladies, even during his kindergarten days. However, he later got tired of being popular and decided to enter the army early. It was when he ate a bowl of ramen made by a senior officer that he became interested in the world of food and flavor.


(Source: http://www.hancinema.net/korean_drama_My_Princess.php)

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