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North and South Korean soldiers form a joint team and train together. Lee Seung-gi plays a slacker prince who is forced to enlist in the military and take part in this collaboration. Among the North Korean contingent is a tough young woman who nonetheless possesses a certain feminine vulnerability. Initially, it seems this North-South alliance cannot possibly work; then, an announcement is made that the two are to be married. They waver back and forth—first refusing, then agreeing, then refusing again—only to find that, even if they were willing, the South Korean public would never accept a North Korean princess.
The King of South Korea—the prince’s older brother—is killed, and suspicion immediately falls upon the North Koreans. The prince thus becomes the new monarch. Certain subjects close to the new King, deeming him unworthy and unfit for the throne, throw their support behind the rebels, acting in open defiance of his will.
The people, disapproving of his girlfriend from the North, pressure him to send her back to her own country. After learning that she has had an abortion—though they were never even shown being intimate—he goes to see her, only to be ambushed; she ends up saving him. They rekindle their relationship, and he takes her back to the South to marry her.
Meanwhile, his sister—who is in a wheelchair because the villains poisoned her deceased brother (the king)—holds the key to exposing the true culprits, but the trauma has caused her to develop amnesia. The criminal organization led by this psychopath is eventually uncovered.
Episodes 14 and 15 feature a ridiculous mission; it’s as if the Koreans are completely inept.
It’s like no one is capable of putting two and two together.
They know who the culprits are, yet they do nothing.
The secretary—who is a mole—is merely fired and sent off on "vacation," despite being guilty of truly serious offenses.
After his mother and fiancée are kidnapped, they manage to rescue the mother (and, given that reinforcements arrived by plane, I couldn't help but wonder how they even had combat-ready weapons)—but why didn't the North Korean soldiers stay behind to look for their missing comrade?
Then there’s the guard who keeps asking the King what his father did—why doesn't he just ask his own father directly? He eventually does, and after seeing how much the Princess suffered—partly due to his father’s actions—he goes and reconciles with him? (I get the whole Confucian emphasis on respect for one's parents, but this really crosses the line.)
A series of the year 2012 with rather poor and basic acting.