Sageuk Lover

The modern drama What Comes After Love is so good though, you should try it!

I really don't understand why some people think the female lead is annoying?? She did the best she could, balancing her role as a wife vs her role as a cop? Why can't characters like her be complex and imperfect without being labeled "annoying?"

What's wrong with expressing my honest feelings? Lots of people in this page call the female lead character stupid as well? I always thought Boys Over Flowers is overhyped. I'm not even visiting those drama's pages.

The end is the afterlife. Remember that Deok Im told him to go back to his duties 3 times, which he refused to do as he chose to stay with her? That is actually interpreted to be what is happening in the afterlife while the King's clothes are being waved in the air 3 times to symbolize calling him back to life after his death. The fact that they showed a clip of Yisan remembering her death (meaning he's likely to go back to a world without her) before he chose to stay instead with her just proves that the last scene is him joining her in the afterlife

She wasn’t dating the male lead until the end of the series, so she’s not cheating on him by hanging out with second male leads. She is just a good friend to the second male lead

She’s doing another sageuk: https://kisskh.at/779214-my-secret-romance

She’ll be good but I think if she does another sageuk, her role must be bigger than the male lead. From the synopsis, it seems the male lead has a bigger role.

It would be unfaithful to history if they ended at that episode, you can't show the love of Deokim and Yisan without showing her death.

He's so good in The Red Sleeeve, he won a baeksang for it. I really love his acting there. Consider my praise to be special as I usually dislike having idols in my dramas but his acting in The Red Sleeve is simply amazing, he knows how to adjust his voice and body well depending on his character's age.

She's a professional singer. She played Eponine in the Korean production of Les Miserables (a very popular musical). Her version of On My Own is as good as people well loved for singing it like Lea Salonga and Samantha Barks. Here's her version of On My Own: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OcpVuV9gxQ

I still dont understand why female lead Moon Chae Won wasn't nominated at Baeksang though, she did so well in this drama.

I don't think this needs a remake in Korea. Lee Joon Gi and Moon Chae Won can never be replaced.

I only heard of this drama now. Very interesting that Yoojung is in a drama set in Japanese colonial era of Korea.
Plus I like the fact that she's with a veteran actress rather than some mid actor! I'm excited to see this project (though it's not showing til 2026).

I'm watching for Nam Ji Hyun!

What I really like about this show is how they depicted what it feels for a free-spirited woman to live under the restrictions of the life of a court lady and then life of a concubine while respecting the historical facts about what happened to them in real life.

- You might check this one scene from episode 16 (when she’s a concubine already) to understand what she had given up when she agreed to be the king’s concubine (prior to this scene, she was telling her friends that she can’t ever leave the palace again so they enjoy their day-off without her): https://x.com/sha88so/status/1692760169464143884?s=46
- when she learned she was pregnant, king wanted to visit her but she ended up waiting for him the whole night because he had to visit the queen (his wife) to comfort her not having a child. Deok Im of course understands it, but it is still a reminder that she shares her husband with someone.
I really think people should check out episodes 16 and 17 to understand what Deokim gave up (and people should imagine themselves in her shoes as well to understand her). She was happy being loved by Yisan, but she doesn’t exactly like the life of a concubine of a king.

You should try to watch this one.Not just because it’s better than Moon Lovers (at least for me, but even Koreans, with its high ratings, and the awards shows think the same), but because the love story portrayed here is based on the love story of one of Joseon’s greatest Kings and his beloved concubine.

She miscarried twice before giving birth to her son. After her son was born, she also gave birth to a princess but that princess died. Then her son died when he was just a very small young boy, after which she also died while pregnant with her fifth child. We can't show all in the drama, the drama only showed the death of the son that lived past infancy and that the drama mentioned she was pregnant after her son was dead (just a few scenes before her death, so it means she died while pregnant)

The King has a wife (not shown in this drama but she is sometimes mentioned), she doesn't want to be a concubine. You might want to check out Episode 16-17 how it was really depressing for her being the King's concubine (especially when he's at work) despite the fact that she loves him.

Watch The Crowned Clown for Yeo Jin Goo's stellar lead sageuk role (Lee Se Young of The Red Sleeve is his female lead here)