Sageuk Lover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_dqUlQPOko -> first teaser

then Yoon Hee is pitiful, she's also getting close to grandma but she can't be family with her, she can't be adopted since she has her own family.

Kim Shin Rok really deserving.

I really pity the real Ri Moon Sung, wish he can be with grandma. But at the same time,I don't want grandma to cut relationship with Jae heon and Yoon Hee

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==> the second male lead has a few scenes with female lead that makes some people think there might be a one sided love, but as more you watch the series, it's more like him and the female lead are competing for the king's attention. second male lead want's male lead's praises after all thing's his done for him but male lead is grateful for the female lead more (who herself did things to help male lead as well)
2. This is based on the real love story of King Yisan and his palace maid. Male lead has been desiring the female lead since the early episodes, female lead loves him back, but seeing as she is only a palace maid with little rights compared to the king, she is often declining him. She values what little freedom she has (time with her palace maid friends who are her equals/etc). They got together in the last two episodes but the female lead is not exactly happy since as a concubine she can no longer leave the palace (when she was just a palace maid she can leave on her day off). That being said, she loves the male lead enough to accept his request to be his concubine since she can't bear not seeing him again. You'll understand more as you watch the show.
3. The female lead left the palace for about 2 episodes before she became his concubine. That's the closest to a breakup they have (since they're not an official couple til the last 2 episodes though they have few kissing scenes and romantic moments before that).
4. Historically the female lead died just 6 years after becoming king's concubine. All their children died too. However, this drama's ending is interesting. We see the male lead dying and then he wakes up in the lap of the female lead (shown in a very similar way to how he was with her when she was alive as a concubine in the previous episode. Then he was about to leave her place but decided to not leave and instead kisses her. Koreans interpret this ending as the male lead choosing to be dead to be with the female lead in heaven. But some international fans who can't accept sad ending think the male lead was just dreaming (of the death of the female lead and the sad lonely life he had after she died) and that the female lead was actually with him all the time.
===> So whether this drama is happy or sad ending depends on you. You can think it's sad since the female lead died way before the male lead and all their children died too. But if you think the female lead's death is just a dream, then it can be happy. Or you can also think of the male and female lead being together in death (as interpreted by Koreans on the ending) as a happy ending.
Sorry for the long reply but it's kinda complicated to explain. You'll understand if you watch the drama.

people should imagine themselves in the female lead's situation. evem though she's a detective, her personal life is already involved, her world crashing down, very normal for her to cry. even if she's crying, she try her best to hide it from her coworkers.
she is strong in her own way, a woman crying doesn't equate to weakness.

This is described as 80% melodrama and 20% romance since the press conference. No point in comparing.

Through the Darkness was a great drama. So is Reborn Rich (unpopular opinion, this is better than Vincenzo though Vincenzo is really funny).

she's young and she's a carefree young woman. sure she had some education, but she's very sheltered at the same time, so she's not exactly aware of all political happenings around her at the first few episodes especially since she wasn't present in many political scenes (when ministers and king are meeting). remember, this is the historical period, so it should be forgiven she's not super aware of what's happening. she gets mature once she becomes aware though. plus the trigger for decision to cut her ties with her father was when the father put the young former king in exile, this shows she had been more aware of what's happening when she matured.

she was quite popular in the 2000s. I I remember seeing a fanmade video that time and she was included in the creator's fave actresses. She also had a movie with the second guy in Meteor Garden, I might check it out for her.

it was entertaining but part of the reason i can't give it a 9.5 is I just finished rewatching another Chae Won drama (The Princess Man, 2011), older than this show but which was a masterpiece in storytelling compared to this one. not gonna deny this was entertaining though and this show's advantage is that it has song joong ki, one of Korea's best actors.

this feels like an old kdrama, so the kdrama audience who were not kdrama fans in the 2000s might not like it.
I like the grandma very much, having watched both Under the Queen's Umbrella and Reborn Rich (both good shows), it's nice to see a very genuinely nice grandma who cares for her family more than her ambitions

I actually predicted that they will feature 9/11 in this drama since they were featuring real life events (since 2521 featured real life events too).
What a coincidence that since some episodes in the past weeks were postponed , they showed episode 9-11 in the same weekend were the 9/11 attacks are shown in an episode.

yeah, but blood connection is often stronger. plus this family do things for their own sakes, not gonna be surprised if grandma is also the same,

not sure. but what I really want is for Chae Won to have an equally important part in the drama as Lee Sun Kyun, but it doesn't seem like it based on the posters and stills released. Hope the poster above isn't final.

the grandma isn't dojun's father's mom, so it's easy for her to ignore him

is she crazy? she's willing to kill her husband?
and i thought the grandma in queen's umbrella was bad.
ok well, both of them are bad.

me too since I think Law Money is the direct Korean translation

they're changing titles, it's quite common.

i cringe whenever she speaks.