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That plot looks boring unfortunately. It just the same story told so many times in sageuk... nothing original for the moment.

Looking forward to Seung Hyub new performance as an actor !

Excited for a new drama with Seung Hyub in it.

Another Ji Chang Wook project! But not only that, the director is good, Ryu Seung Ryong is a great actor too, and the original story is very interesting. The plot of this drama is quite original, very excited for it, I hope it will be confirmed.

It's done. I don't know if it was already submitted though, we will see in the next hours. ;)

Four years to wait after the end of season 1 for season the second season, and with a totally different cast, that personally don't excite me at all. I think they have lost many fans of the first season by dragging things this much and all the changes. Too Bad.

Simply very, very good.

I totally agree with you, but we had a few over the last years:
Bloody Heart (2022)
The King of Tears, Lee Bang Won (2021)
Drama Special Season 12: The Palace (2021)
My Country: The New Age (2019)
Definitely not enough, for sure. I also look forward to Queen Woo to be a short but epic sageuk. The story, the characters and the cast, they have everything for it to be a superb dramatic sageuk.

The story is centred on Queen Woo, not King Gogukcheon, so no, he will not be the main lead character. And the cast order here is just the same as TVING announced. Prime Minister Eul Pal So died six years after King Gogukcheon and remained at his position under King Sansang so the character will have a center part in the succession battle showed in the drama.

The plot seems to focus on the battle over the succession of King Gogukcheon, has Queen Woo was at the center of it and is the main character of the story, yes, we will probably see him die.

I personally hope they will stick to the real History as much as possible. And based on the plot, it seems it will focus on the succession battle so I think, and I hope, they will avoid cheesy romance or rom/com. With this cast, and this story, there is all the potential for a great and epic sageuk. These actors are more looking for recognition as seasoned actors than just fame over romance stories, so I guess they chose this project for the dramatic potential of the script and their characters.
And I'm really looking forward to see who will be cast for Prince Go Yeon Woo/King Sansang has it will be one of the main characters, and also Prince Go Gye Su, another brother, if he appears in it.

Yes, of course. Go Nam Mu was actually a wise ruler of Goguryeo, known as King Gogukcheon posthumously. He succeeded to his father probably quite young (his birth date is unknown though), and reigned for 18 years between 179 and 197, so he is a really ancient historical figure, considered in old scriptures as having good judgment and a strong appearance.
He is known for having won a great battle against Han dynasty from China with only 5 000 soldiers against 30 000 in 184, and most importantly for being the first Korean ruler to establish a meritocratic system for selecting government officials, which lead to commoners, like Eul Pa So (that will be played by Kim Mu Yeol in the drama), to become ministers. He also had a great care for his people and established a law to help them have a low-interest loan for borrowing grains for cultivation, and the system remained for a very long time until Joseon era.
He didn't had children with Queen Woo, and seems to have died from natural cause (maybe a disease). Queen Woo then supported his young brother Go Yeon Woo (King Sansang, I'm looking forward to whom will be cast for this character) and married him after he became king, but they didn't had children neither. Then she was the queen dowager under the rule of Sansang's son, King Dongcheon, that he had with another woman, that Queen Woo tried to have murdered.
From the ancient records Queen Woo and her clan seems more like power grabbing people than meritorious and great people, so I wonder how the story will be told in the drama.
So I think we can expect a tragic yet great role for Ji Chang Wook as King Gogukcheon. ;)

We have a great tragic and political story, taking place during Goguryeo era, based on real historical figures that have never been portrayed before in a sageuk, with an amazing cast, especially Ji Chang Wook as King Go Nam Mu. This will be great, an epic sageuk, finally again. Looking very much to it next year.
P.S.: People submitted edits for sageuk should stop putting just the name of the character for the cast. It's important to indicate the title of these characters too.

That's amazing news indeed. It's the kind of role I was waiting the most for him to play again. I was already looking forward to this sageuk, but with Chang Wook playing King Go Nam Mu it sure will be a great one. ;)

I was already very interested by this one considering it seems to be finally another serious and epic sageuk, taking place during Goguryeo era, but with this cast, it is totally exciting. It will soon be the 10th anniversary of "Empress Ki", and we will have a new role of king played by Ji Chang Wook next year, what a treat!

Wow... That's a great movie. Such a powerful story. Totally depressing in a way, for sure, but at the same time, very beautiful and thoughtful, with a great message of hope and courage. It's a clever movie. Needless to mention that the cast is brilliant and these characters perfectly portrayed by all the actors.

Too bad for Kondo Shori. The start was good, even though he was paired with the disaster Yutaro (really not a good actor for romance, for me he is like a fish out of water, I really hope they stop to cast him for BL dramas), but that story became quickly boring and the drama disappointing. I was still impressed by him as an actor, looking forward to his future roles.

I really don't understand what's going on with these films, because even with the pandemic effect that stopped productions for a while, it's been a very long time now. The first and second films were also mega hits in Korea, so it doesn't make sense that it is delayed this much.

At least this sageuk don't look like a rom-com. There is hope that it will be interesting.

That's for sure, yes.