Sageuk Lover

I'm excited to see more of her in King's Affection. I like watching her in historical dramas as a teen actress before.

Totally agree. I'm not the biggest fan of this drama but having an adult female lead that acts better could have made this drama a bit better. I made a list somewhere here of alternative actresses they could have considered for the adult female lead during the time this drama was made.

I did give this drama a 6.5 since some parts of the drama doesn't make sense. However in a way, this drama didn't bore me. I like the interactions of the characters.

I’m not sure about this drama yet, but in Queen Seon Deok it was a bad omen to have twins since it meant no more boys will be born to the queen after.
Let’s just say people in historical times are a bit more superstitious

I may be the only one, but I prefer the other poster where she dresses in female hanbok

I suggest Jumong or Six Flying dragons for kdramas with a lot of battles. I havent fully seen 6 Flying dragons yet, but that one has many battles. There's a lot of swordfighting from what I read in the reviews plus politics there is interesting since it was set during the transition from Goryeo to Joseon Dynasty.
I'm still not yet sure with this drama, but with the cast (the young adult leads) they got here, you usually dont expect a sageuk with many battles with this kind of cast, a cast like ths usually are leads in romance sageuks.
The thing with this show is it's quite intriguing to have a female lead pretend to be a male crown prince since in Joseon dynasty, only a man can become king. Though we may not fully agree with historical people, we should also at least try to understand why these people would try to dress up a girl as a man. Power is at stake (I mean the crown prince position is very important, losing one can have great implications).
We might have to see more of this drama before we can judge it.

To be fair, the cross dressing aspect is necessary for the other drama (King's Affection). I think that drama is fictional but the drama is set in Joseon. In Joseon Dynasty (unlike other Dynasties such as Silla or Goryeo where women had been ruling monarchs), only men can become monarchs.

Child actress Choi Myung Bin is amazing. It's hard enough to play an actual boy as a girl, also hard to play a girl disguising as a boy, also hard to play a boy disguising as a girl, also hard to play double roles. Yet she nailed all the requirements of her role. Good luck to her future career.

We can still expect a happy ending even if Ji Woon's father is actually his father. A lot of sageuks in the past have a villain as parents of one character, yet the two leads still got together in the end.

As a kdrama watcher whose first kdramas are historical dramas from the 2000s, it's really nice to see Bae Soo Bin and Park Eun Hye (Rowoon's parents) here. Bae Soo Bin was a villain in Emperor of the Sea, a gay man in Jumong, King in Painter of the Wind, and Dong Yi's one sided lover in Dong Yi. Park Eun Hye was Jang Geum's best friend in Jewel in the Palace as well as the titular role's actual wife (Han Ji Min's role is a concubine) in Yi San.

She's an amazing actress. It's hard to nail a double, hard to nail a male disguising a female role, but she did both requirements so well. Plus she also did a male role while wearing girl's clothes and was somehow able to portray it differently from the actual girl in females clothes. Amazing! I'm glad to discover her from King's affection

I'm going to watch it as it runs, drama is really interesting (I dont want to miss watching this as I have a long watchlist). Excited to see Park Eun Bin in a lead role plus Bae Soo Bin and Park Eun Hye from my childhood historical dramas.

Not sure, but I think the king here is fictional. Of course, based on costumes it's from Joseon Dynasty

so pretty Kim Yoo Jung

Is it just me? I thought Prince Juhyang is very important tothe story, but I felt like he hasn't done anything significant to move the plot? I dont want more complications for our leads, but I need Prince Juhyang to act (the trailers did promote him as important to the show).

Sorry for fans of the second male actor, but even at the earlier episodes when he showed his fun and sneaky side of his character, I find him so bland in acting. I imagined a more charming actor would have made his character shine in the earlier episodes at least.

you can watch Flower of Evil or The Princess's Man where the female lead in this drama is very intimate with another actor, maybe it might help your watch with this drama more comfortable.

I still have few shows to watch, but will come close to watching Vincenzo soon (maybe I'll understand why many people are shipping him with the lead female). Though to be honest, given how public and how discussed his first confirmed relationship was (not to mention the female was an extremely popular hallyu actress since the 2000s), I'd rather his next relationship be with a private person.

He's saying "nangja", it means lady or miss. (source: I'm an avid historical drama watcher).

I already forgot where I found the comment, but the commenter mentioned he doesn't think Chae Won is a great actress just basing on her performance in Goodbye Mr. Black (a drama of hers considered not good)