Will it be worth waiting week to week or should I wait until it’s finished? I don’t mind waiting week to week…
I am watching as it airs. Since this has 32 episodes.I might not have time to watch it full. If you plan to watch many other dramas next year, I think it's best to start now.
Is there any historical drama with more love story and less politics?
The Princess Man is a historical drama that intertwine the politics and the romance very well. It's hard to find legal sites to watch it though so you have to go to illegal websites to find it (ex: dramacool and kissasian). Moon Lovers, while I don't think is the best, is very popular and has also a lot of romance. There is politics, but they focus on romance more. In fact the I feel this drama tries as much as possible to avoid politicking scenes (ex: some just explain how a political problem is resolved, before going back to their focus which is the romance of the leads/characterizations of other princes and their lovers). There is a love triangle however, and the male lead has few scenes in first half of the drama since female lead falls for someone else first.
Nice seeing the lives of palace maids and court ladies for a change. I’ve always wondered what it’s like.
Jewel in the Palace (although it is lengthy and has 50 something episodes) is a very good drama about palace maids. You learn a lot more about their rankings and positions in that show. It was the first historical drama that became hallyu. Trivia: Lee Se young was there as the childhood version of the female lead's rival.
What I love about this drama, I feel that there are no unnecessary scenes. The very few lighthearted scenes, they seam very well through the rest of the drama.
Could You Pls Stop Talking Crap.. She is one of the most successful actresses, And People Don´t Judge her only…
Her negative comments are so annoying, if only I could block her (just like twitter) so I would not see her comments I would. (If you can, please post more positive comments on her here so more people will see the positive comments on her instead of the negative one).
I'm commenting again as I don't want to see negative comments about her as the first comment to be seen on her page (sorry, I'm just simply annoyed by the hater's comments and I wish I could never see her comments ever again). Ha Ji Won is one of my most favorite actresses. While she may not be considered a top beauty in general, I still find her really beautiful. Especially in the drama Hwang Jini, where she showed her beauty and where she was able to express the many talents of a Joseon gisaeng. Actingwise, I really love her. I'm a big fan of historical dramas and I am always impressed by her sageuk presence and her acting. In Damo, Hwang Ji Ni, and Empress Ki, I really enjoyed all her performances. Her characters from these three historical dramas are very different from each other. In Damo, she was a slave that became a policewoman, in Hwang jini a gisaeng, in Empress Ki a woman who lost everything and then rose through the ranks to become Yuan's empress. She was versatile in all three dramas. One thing in common with these three dramas is that her roles are very taxing and requires a lot of movement, but she nails all three. She's good in modern works too. I like her action and romcom in Secret Garden plus her movies Tidal Wave and 100 days with Mr. Arrogant. I hope this praise is enough to be seen by people for people to notice how great she is as an actress and performer and general.
Actually, it's hard to identify who is the lead or the second lead actor in this drama. I think the opening shows Joo Jin Mo (Wang Yoo) first before Ji Chang Wook (Tahwan) plus the I remember the drama promoting it as Ha Ji Won and Joo Jin Mo as leads, but as this drama progresses she spends more time with Ji Chang Wook's character.
So annoying people leaving bad comments about her. Watch Hwang Ji Ni (2006) and Damo (2003). These are old historical dramas from the 2000s but Ha Ji Won was so good in these roles. She even won a daesang for Hwang Jini! And I read somewhere that Damo was the first fusion sageuk that became popular in Korea (there were sageuks before, but they're more like Jewel in the Palace types, sageuks that the typical international kdrama audience wouldn't watch) . So this means without her performance and the popularity of Damo in Korea, the popular fusion historical dramas like Sungkyunkwan Scandal, Moon Embracing the Sun, Moon Lovers wouldn't exist (thus the actors who became popular from these dramas would have to find other dramas to breakthrough). Ha Ji Won has big impact in historical kdramas that is why I find those people leaving bad comments so annoying and I wish they should just leave (if only I could block their comments so I would not see them I would).
She is not popular because of her looking but instead of her dramas and movies. I don't know why you said she…
I dont understand why people think she's overrated. Are they basing it on Secret garden? I saw her in Hwang Ji Ni, Damo, and Empress Ki, all historical dramas very difficult to perform but she did so well. She won awards on those showsl
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Moon Lovers, while I don't think is the best, is very popular and has also a lot of romance. There is politics, but they focus on romance more. In fact the I feel this drama tries as much as possible to avoid politicking scenes (ex: some just explain how a political problem is resolved, before going back to their focus which is the romance of the leads/characterizations of other princes and their lovers). There is a love triangle however, and the male lead has few scenes in first half of the drama since female lead falls for someone else first.
Ha Ji Won is one of my most favorite actresses. While she may not be considered a top beauty in general, I still find her really beautiful. Especially in the drama Hwang Jini, where she showed her beauty and where she was able to express the many talents of a Joseon gisaeng.
Actingwise, I really love her. I'm a big fan of historical dramas and I am always impressed by her sageuk presence and her acting. In Damo, Hwang Ji Ni, and Empress Ki, I really enjoyed all her performances. Her characters from these three historical dramas are very different from each other. In Damo, she was a slave that became a policewoman, in Hwang jini a gisaeng, in Empress Ki a woman who lost everything and then rose through the ranks to become Yuan's empress. She was versatile in all three dramas. One thing in common with these three dramas is that her roles are very taxing and requires a lot of movement, but she nails all three.
She's good in modern works too. I like her action and romcom in Secret Garden plus her movies Tidal Wave and 100 days with Mr. Arrogant.
I hope this praise is enough to be seen by people for people to notice how great she is as an actress and performer and general.
Source of Damo as first fusion sageuk: http://www.koreaittimes.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=20462
---> this site also mentioned her drama Hwang Jini having made it to the 2007 MonteCarlo Festival (an international festival).