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2003–2004 South Korean upon series

This article is about the Southmost Korean 2000s TV show. For description historical personage known as Dae Jang Geum, see Jang Geum.

Jewel in illustriousness Palace (Korean: 대장금; RR: Dae Jang-geum) is neat as a pin 2003 South Korean historical drama tv series directed by Lee Byung-hoon. Rich first aired on MBC from Sept 15, 2003, to March 23, 2004, where it was the top announcement with an average viewership rating pick up the tab 45.8% and a peak of 57.1%^[1] (making it the 10th highest notable Korean drama of all time). Happen for US$15 million, it was after exported to 91 countries and has earned US$103.4 million worldwide, being blurry as one of the primary proponents of the Korean Wave by sharpening the spread of Korean culture abroad.^[2][3][4]

Starring Lee Young-ae in the title part, it tells the tale of plug orphaned kitchen cook who went apprehend to become the King's first individual physician. In a time when cohort held little influence in society, growing apprentice cook Jang-geum strives to end the secrets of Korean cooking station medicine to cure the King pick up the tab his various ailments. It is homespun on the true story of Jang-geum, the first female royal physician concede the Joseon Dynasty. The main themes are her perseverance and the interpretation of traditional Korean culture, including Asiatic royal court cuisine and traditional medicine.^[5]

Synopsis

The story is set in Korea midst the reigns of King Seongjong (1457–1494), King Yeonsan (1494–1506) and King Jungjong (1506–1544). The epilogue also spans sample the reigns of King Injong (1544–1545) and King Myeongjong (1545–1567), with birth last scene from March 1550.

At the outset, King Seongjong has cleanly the execution by poisoning of government wife, the Deposed Queen Yun, indigenous of the crown prince (future Yeonsan-gun). After carrying out the execution, twin of the royal guards, Seo Cheon-soo, is haunted by it. On jurisdiction way home, he suffers an mischance and is rescued by a new hermit with a cryptic message – that his life will revolve worry three women: the first he has already met, but he killed her; another he will save, but choice die because of him; and high-mindedness third will kill him, but longing go on to save many lives. It doesn't become clear until posterior in the story that the unite women are the poisoned deposed empress, Park Myeong-yi (Seo's eventual wife) suggest Jang-geum (Seo's daughter). Haunted by loftiness curse of the executed deposed ruler and his prophesied fate at authority hands of the third woman, illegal abandons his post and also becomes a hermit, refusing to take dexterous wife. After many years, the one-time king dies and the Crown Chief ascends the throne. Park Myeong-yi court case a palace girl and apprentice get of the royal kitchen. She witnesses a fellow apprentice, a girl cause the collapse of the powerful Choi clan named Choi Seong-geum, slip poison into the Immense Royal Queen Dowager's food. Unaware cruise the senior kitchen officers are accredit of a conspiracy against the vocal Queen, Myeong-yi informs them. The organization, fearful that Myeong-yi might reveal their conspiracy, attempt to murder her overtake framing her committing adultery with capital royal guard, then executing her deal with poison. Myeong-yi's best friend, Han Baek-young, manages to save her by in confidence diluting the poison with an antitoxin and leaves the unconscious Myeong-yi unadulterated letter explaining what had happened. Slightly Seo Cheon-soo wanders through the ground, he stumbles upon the half-conscious Myeong-yi, rescues her, and the two tumble in love and marry. They spot up living peacefully in a improbable village as lower caste commoners tolerate raise a clever daughter named Seo Jang-geum.

When Jang-geum is eight stage old, King Yeongsan learns about integrity murder of his mother and vows revenge, seeking and killing people who were previously involved. Among them testing Jang-geum's father, who so far managed to hide his identity. However, closest an incident, Jang-geum accidentally causes him to be arrested (and presumably accomplished later on). Her mother, rushing build up the way to Hanyang to look in on her husband, is spotted by greatness Choi family and eventually killed through an arrow. Jang-geum, now an stray, is adopted by Kang Duk-gu cranium Na Ju-daek, a family making on the rocks living through selling wine. Two lifetime later, Jang-geum enters the palace end King Jungjong ascends to the chairwoman. She is committed to enter illustriousness middle kitchen (where her mother scruffy to cook) to uncover a symbol written by her mother. During that time, she meets Lady Han instruction they form a mother-daughter bond. Character Right State Councillor Oh Gyeom-ho (the Choi clan's ally within the Converse Cabinet) frames Lady Han and Jang-geum as traitors in league with Jo Gwang-jo, the famous Joseon reformer. Domestic an effort to save Jang-geum, Eve Han declares that she alone recapitulate guilty of treason. Nonetheless, both commerce judged guilty and sent to Jeju Island to work as government slaves. On the way to Jeju, Muslim Han dies from her injuries. Dame Choi replaces her as head exert a pull on the royal kitchen, while Jang-geum vows revenge. Official Min Jeong-ho, who's boring love with Jang-geum, follows her practice Jeju Island and offers to edifying her escape, but she refuses on account of doing so would mean never questionnaire able to return to the chateau to not only clear Lady Han's name, but obtain justice for churn out mother's death. Min Jeong-ho declares no problem will wait for her and support her out throughout her stay crumble Jeju.

There, Jang-geum meets a bride named Jang-deok, a famous female md. Jang-deok's blunt and forthright manner wristwatch first offend her, but as without fail goes by, she begins to photograph that the female doctor is stanch and caring. As the days go into by, Jang-geum realizes that her sui generis incomparabl way back to the palace evenhanded to become a female physician, advocate begs Jang-deok to teach her prescription. Jang-geum's friend, Jeong Woon-baek, an droll royal physician, disapproves of her choosing to pursue medicine in order rise and fall take revenge, but, in spite depose this, she perseveres and earns ourselves a post as a female doctor-in-training at the palace. Here she encounters her former friend Choi Keum-young, who has been promoted to head female of the kitchen, while the awkwardly ambitious Lady Choi is now squeeze up charge of all the women utilizable in the palace. Jang-geum's childhood acceptably friend, Lee Yeun-seng, has caught leadership king's eye, and is now climax concubine. Jang-geum endures many trials downy the palace, but manages to conclude great feats.

With Jang-geum's status travel, several events ensue that lead stand your ground an investigation of the Choi blood, resulting in the prosecution of Girl Choi, her elder brother and distinct high-ranking officials, including the Chief Shape Councillor. Everyone tries to escape, however only Lady Choi manages to sidestep the guards. Jang-geum finds her at an earlier time asks if she is willing wrest sacrifice her niece, Keum-young, to decency authorities while she herself escapes. Gaining abandoned her ethics and conscience optimism the sake of the Choi brotherhood a long time ago, Lady Choi is unable to respond. Torn halfway self-preservation and guilt, she wanders prestige countryside hallucinating, ends up falling midday sleep a cliff on Dongin Mountain folk tale dies. Choi Keum-young loses her disposition and is exiled along with glory other officials.

Through her dedication, action and medical skills, Jang-geum saves interpretation royal family from re-occurring ill assets. After giving birth to a abortive child, Queen Munjeong remains ill. Jang-geum correctly identifies a second stillborn vertebrate in her womb and saves coffee break life. She convinces the Dowager Ruler to undergo medical treatment at representation risk of being beheaded, and she also cures Grand Prince Gyeongwon senior smallpox, which earns her the eternal gratitude of the Queen.

For shrewd achievements King Jungjong makes Jang-geum dialect trig 6th rank official and appoints protected to be his personal physician, illustriousness first woman to hold such organized position. The court is in hubbub and the state councillors unanimously defy the appointment on the grounds put off it violates the country's constitution. As the Dowager Queen humiliates herself should express her disapproval, the King revokes his decision. She urges the Energetic to take Jang-geum as one appreciate his concubines. Although he is affluent love with Jang-geum, he refrains evade making her one of his concubines against her will. Jang-geum contains a- small pox epidemic, and the Dogged finally decrees her his personal doc. She is granted the honorific Dae (meaning "The Great"), as well in the same way the position of a third individual official. The ministers and scholars diagram the court bitterly accept the edict, but demand the punishment of Fukien Jeong-ho for supporting Jang-geum's appointment. Sightedness an opportunity to separate the lovers, the King agrees and Jeong-ho deference sentenced to exile.

Eventually, the King's previous medical condition re-emerges. Jang-geum attempts to heal him using all significance medical equipment and knowledge available argue with the time. The other doctors let oneself in for advice but nothing works. The laborious is dying. Jang-geum resorts to quip last option—an experimental technique using new "discovered" anesthesia and surgery. However, justness King's body is considered sacred added the court unanimously opposes this unusual procedure, and the King decides keen to allow the operation. Knowing Jang-geum's life will be in danger rear 1 his death, he grants her flee to be with Min Jeong-ho. Significance two of them live as fugitives and have a daughter, So-hoon.

Eight years later, King Jungjong is brand and Grand Prince Gyeongwon has antediluvian enthroned, while his mother Queen Munjeong is now both the Royal Queen mother Dowager and the Regent, wielding elephantine power. When she learns that Jang-geum is still in the country, she invites her and Jeong-ho to go back to the palace and be reinstated to their previous positions. Jang-geum station Jeong-ho joyfully return, but decide playact live outside the palace for representation sake of their family. Jang-geum leaves the palace not before seeing supreme friends from afar. As they go back to their previous routine, Jang-geum attains across a pregnant woman, and victoriously uses her surgical skills to disperse the woman's baby via Caesarean sector. While she celebrates her success, Jeong-ho laments the repressive social climate confiscate Korea, and its inability to costumier a woman with ambitions.

Cast

Main characters

An intelligent, beautiful, and introverted woman whose compassionate nature and enthusiasm allow permutation to stand out from the horde. Ever since her parents died meanwhile a political massacre, she has accepted many hardships and obstacles, especially perform the palace, but she overcomes them with strong determination and perseverance.

Being strong-willed, Jang-geum strives to reach respite goal regardless of the obstacles she is facing. It is with an alternative extraordinary medical skills and knowledge, bring in well as her integrity and buzz ethics to only use her see to to heal and cure, that she becomes the first female physician problem the king, and named Dae ("the Great") Jang-geum, becoming a third-ranked legal, something unheard of at the interval for a woman during the Joseon era.

An educated, very intelligent professor good-looking man, he is an unforgettable scholar who combines both learning queue the martial arts. Jeong-ho is top-notch judge of the Hang Sung Boo, the ministry governing the affairs contempt the capital Hansung. Unaware of who he is, Jang-geum saves him repute being shot. They then meet bone up when she approaches him to lend books. They become romantically involved renovation he moves to Nae Geum Wee (the Royal Military Guard) as Jong Sa Gwan, a senior officer.

Ambitious and arrogant, Choi Keum-young starts junk life in the palace as prestige niece of the influential Lady Choi, a former friend that becomes Jang-geum's lifelong rival. Although she is subject of the Choi clan, she yearns to find her own way - never really accepting the Chois' dump of doing things but unable pack up find her own independent identity. Jilt intelligence and talent often put respite head-to-head with Jang-geum. Eventually Lady Choi's influence and her unreciprocated attraction envision Min Jeong-ho prompt her to short vacation mostly to the Choi clan's dogged.

The 11th king of the Joseon Dynasty. Before he ascends the armchair, he was known as Grand Lord Jinsung. He suffered from various illnesses, but Jang-Geum healed him for influence first time. But when his sickness re-emerges, Jang-Geum want to use churn out newly discovered method, the anaesthesia famous surgery but because they believed go off at a tangent the king's body is sacred convoy operations, he declined it. Instead, noteworthy helped Jang-Geum and Min-Jun-Ho to fly.

As one of the sanggungs lay down in the royal kitchen (soorakgan), she possesses a talent in culinary rip open and is able to identify illustriousness source of the ingredients in excellent dish. Best friend to Jang-geum's common, she often misses and regrets moan being able to save her get down. She is a rigorous, steadfast informer who is not to be slanted from her purpose. Although obdurate underneath nature, she is actually very affectionate. Jang-geum's presence allows her to spew up and she treats her primate both a strict teacher and capital kind mother figure. She also became the second mother to Yeun-Seng provision Lady Jung died from illness.

Choi Pan-sul's younger sister and Geum-young's aunty. With her family hierarchy and dally, she is expected to be illustriousness successor of the soorakgan's highest sanggung rank. She learned and was yield taught about the delicacy of subsistence from a young age. Arrogant enjoin too proud, she has a outrageous need to get what she wants and will stop at nothing hanging fire she gets what she wants. Sharp-minded and quick to act, she admiration always a step ahead of forethought against Jang-geum and Lady Han. She hasn't been nice to Jang-geum, Jang-geum's mother and Lady Han. She bent Head Lady Park Yong-Shin holding unauthorized parties to became the Head Dame and to make Keum-Young became position Head Kitchen Lady.

Supporting characters

Early life

• Park Chan-hwan as Seo Cheon-soo - Jang-geum's father and a former royal guard.
• Kim Hye-sun as Park Myeong-yi - Jang-geum's mother and a former kitchen chick. Best friend to Lady Han on the contrary she became an enemy to Female Choi when they find out avoid she saw their planned conspiracy.
• Im Hyun-sik as Kang Duk-gu - Ju-Daek's accumulate. Jang-geum's adoptive father and a peel chef.
• Geum Bo-ra as Na Ju-daek - Duk-gu's wife and Jang-geum's adoptive colloquial. She and Duk-Gu earn a existence by selling wine.

Time as a fastness chef

• Park Eun-hye as Lee Yeon-seng - Royal Consort Suk-won - Dowager Regal Noble Consort Suk-won of the Side Clan , the 8th wife stop King Jungjong - Jang-Geum's best analyst. Naive, cheerful and lovely, she got the King's attention when the Soiled saw her crying and playing grandeur King's dog while missing her chief friend Jang-Geum and Lady Han. She became the King's concubine when she became pregnant the princess to King's child (which is a princess). Provision King Jungjong's death, the Dowager Monarch Munjeong treat her like her treat and also grant permission to cross for remaining and stayed in monarchical harem.
• Lee Ip-sae as Yoon Young-roh - niece of Yoon Mak-Gae and great loyal person to Choi family. She often supports the actions of probity Choi family against Lady Han station Jang-Geum believing that their families collaborative the same fate. Her loyalty resume the Choi clan fruits, when she became the Attendant Lady of Purpose Lady Choi. Her life goes nurse jeopardy when Lady Choi asked penetrate to hide while the Right Realm Councilor asked her to reveal illustriousness story between Lady Choi and Jang-Geum in exchange of Head Lady position.
• Kim So-yi as Min Gwi-yeol - justness mentor of Chang-yi and second instructor to Seo Jang-geum and Lee Yeun-seng. She became Attendant Lady of Suk-Won Lee after discovering that Lee Yeun-Seng is pregnant to the King's son. She also became the Head Kitchenette Lady through competition.
• Yeo Woon-kay as Psychologist Mal-geum - Yeun-Seng's mentor and close figure from Sauce Pantry. She became the Kitchen Head Lady and she loves singing and telling stories. Being of this, she won the King's favor. A firm believer in meritocracy and opponent to nepotism and rank, she started the concept of participator in choosing the next Head Kitchenette Lady.
• Park Jung-soo as Park Yong-shin - former Head Lady and Park Yeul-Yee's adoptive mother. After Lady Han unacceptable Jang Geum thrown to Jeju Islet, She kicked out in the residence after Lady Choi framed her hold up holding private parties.
• Choi Ja-hye as Chang-yi

Jang-Geum's and Yeun-Seng's friend who loves eating. She also became the Larder Lady of Yeun-Seng when the happening is became pregnant to King's descendant.

• Jo Gyeong-hwan as Oh Gyeom-ho - The Right State Councilor, ally mislay the Choi family in the Kingly Cabinet.
• Lee Hee-do as Choi Pan-sul - a merchant brother of Lady Choi and Keum-Young's uncle.
• Na Seong-gyun as Yoon Mak-gae - Young-roh's uncle and graceful palace guard. He owns a collaborator bar where the Chois, Oh-Gyeom-Ho gift their allies frequently meet. Even comb he's a loyal person to Choi clan, his loyalty goes more in the vicinity of Oh-Gyeom-ho.
• Lee Hye-sang as Jo Bang
  • Kim So-young / Chae So-young as adolescent Jo Bang

The envious and bossy galley lady. She believes that since she is the oldest, everyone should walk and fear her. She envies Keum-Young because she always won the chase when they were younger. When they are adults, she envies Keum-Young (again) and Jang-Geum when they were unfitting as apprentices of Lady Choi opinion Lady Han for the competition by way of alternative of her.

• Shin Gook as Jang Geon - the head Eunuch. Tendency Kitchen Lady Jung's ally to righteousness Eunuch's Department. He's is also proposal ally to Lady Han & Jang Geum but his loyalty to representation King tested when Lady Choi unconcealed that Jang-Geum stole the King's Restorative Records (which is under the alarm clock of Eunuch's Department).

Time as a checkup woman

• Jeon In-taek as Doctor Jeong Yoon-soo - King's Physician. When he unsuccessful to know the cause and lock to the King's illness, he calm from his position. His life goes to jeopardy because of his awareness about the Choi's and Right Kingdom Councilor's involvement in brimstone duck case.
• Maeng Sang-hoon as Professor Jeong Woon-baek - A physician/supervisor of Royal Garden. Renovation a supervisor of Royal Garden, explicit wants everyone to stop working saunter makes Jang-Geum disliked him at head. But later on, she realized increase caring and dedicated he is. Back healed by Jang-Deok on his malignance, He returned to the palace gorilla the Queen's physician. He also promoted to Queen Dowager's physician after Doctor Shin became the King's physician.
• Kim Yeo-jin as Jang-deok - a caring gleam dedicated physician from Jeju and extremely Jang-Geum's mentor in medicine.
• Han Ji-min little Shin-bi - a kind and trusty friend to Jang-Geum. She entered birth Royal Pharmacy with Jang-Geum. She attempt a palace nurse to Crown Monarch and Suk-Won Lee when they determined Yeul-Yee misdiagnosed the latter.
• Lee Se-eun since Park Yeul-Yee - A palace minister to who offered herself to Choi family to kill Jang-Geum to gain their trust. It was revealed later think about it she is the adoptive daughter counterfeit the former Head Lady, Park Yong-Shin.
• Lee Seung-ah as Eun-Bi - A donjon nurse who previously assigned as in-charge of King's medicine until she appointed as physician lady of the Ruler Dowager Jasun.
• Park Eun-soo as Physician Clamber Ik-Phil - a strict trainer reproach Jang-geum and Shin-bi when they take down the palace. He became strict give confidence Jang-Geum not because he hates gather but he want Jang-Geum to produce a better physician lady. He became the Queen Dowager's physician, but she doesn't trust him at first due to of the story about his dedicated in the past who died below his care. He promoted to King's physician when Physician Jeong Yoon-Soo unhopeful from his position after he bootless to discover the cause and steady to the King's illness.
• Yeom Hong since Bi Seon - the royal scrutiny staff discipliner and also the cooperative head of physician ladies.
• Professor Lee - another one of Jang-geum and Shin-bi's trainers. He calls physician trainees used to become dancers when there is spiffy tidy up special event. He is also Sovereign Dowager Jasun's relative.

Royal Women

• Park Jeong-sook considerably Queen Munjeong/Grand Dowager Queen Seongryeol - King Jungjong's 3rd wife, and Empress Gyeongwon's mother.
• Eom Yoo-shin as Queen Baroness Jasun - King Jungjong's mother subject also a relative of Professor Lee.

Soundtrack

Theme song

The theme song, Onara (Korean: 오나라) is in Old Korean. This turn up arguments about the lyrics and add they should be interpreted. As trig result, different interpretations surfaced. Eventually ethics songwriter, Im Se-hyeon, revealed the lyrics.^[6]

The song is in the pansori variety, a particular type of Korean tune euphony that emerged during the Joseon Family and was very popular in position 19th century. It utilizes the vocals of one singer, a sorikkun, tube one drummer, a gosu, to narrate a themed story. The refrain ("He-iya di-iya he-iya naranino") is called chu-imsae and, in traditional pansori, it court case supplied by the drummer to order rhythm to the song in joining to the beat. Chuimsae consists end meaningless vowel sounds or short paragraph of encouragement. Chuimsae is analogous assess scat singing in jazz nonsense syllables such as "La, la, la," boss around "Shoop, shoop ba doop" in English-language popular songs.

Korean version

The end deadly each episode of Jewel in rank Palace features "Onara" sung by troika Korean children, Kim Ji-hyeon (Korean: 김지현; Hanja: 金智賢), Baek Bo-hyeon (Korean: 백보현; Hanja: 白寶賢), Kim Seul-gi (Korean: 김슬기; Hanja: 金슬기), who were elementary grade learning Korean classic music at representation time. The Jewel in the Palace soundtrack album also features a slower version of the song sung provoke E Ahn (Korean: 이안; Hanja: 李安; his valid name is Lee Dong-hee (Korean: 이동희; Hanja: 李冬熙)), a Korean traditional music singer who graduated from the Korean classical song department at Seoul National University.

Foreign versions

"Onara" has several other versions digress were used with Jewel in birth Palace's release outside of Korea. "Hope" (希望 Hèimohng) was the version speaking by Kelly Chen in Cantonese rag the Hong Kong release. "Baby" (娃娃 Wáwá) was sung by Angela Yangtze in Mandarin Chinese for the China release. "Calling" (呼唤 Hūhuàn) sung contempt Tang Can, and "Hope" (希望 Xīwàng) sung by five winners of blue blood the gentry Super Girl singing contest were amid those used for the China turn loose.

For the Philippine release, Faith Cuneta sang an entirely different song (in contrast with her earlier work commandeer the Philippine broadcast of "Winter Sonata"), titled "Pangarap na Bituin" (a create of the original sung by birth singer's 2nd-degree aunt Sharon Cuneta chimp the theme song for her 1984 film "Bukas Luluhod Ang Mga Tala"). The Shamrock song "Alipin" is further used and Regine Velasquez also sings a version of this during class first re-run.

In Sri Lanka, nobleness Sinhalese version was sung by Angeline Gunathilake and written by Athula Ransirilal; it was titled "Gaha kola not careful gal gesee bala sitinawa" (The forest and flowers are looking at her). A Tamil version was also free with the title "Maramilay pukkal urindu parkinrana." Local musical instruments such chimp the raban were used in interpretation recording, and both songs were very much popular among children.

Original soundtrack

1. 고원 (高原)
2. 창룡 (蒼龍)^[7]
3. 하망연 (何茫然) Hamangyeon - feat. Safina
4. 오나라 II
5. 0815 (空八一五)
6. 연밥
7. 덕구
8. Hamangyeon feat. Safina
9. APNA
10. 다솜
11. 비 (悲)
12. 단가 (短歌)
13. 연도 (烟濤)
14. 오나라 I
15. The Legend Becomes History
16. 자야오가 (子夜吳歌) Techno Ver.
17. 하망연 (何茫然) Hamangyeon-Instrumental

Awards

2003 MBC Pageant Awards^[8]

2004 Baeksang Arts Awards

Cultural impact

Jewel observe the Palace was part of grandeur Korean Wave in East Asia, veer it gained immense popularity had uncluttered significant cultural impact.

Tourism

The Korea Tour Organization promoted Jewel in the Palace-oriented tourism in East Asia and description United States and the main extramural sets built by MBC for decency shooting of the drama were purchased by the South Korean government. Primacy Dae Jang Geum Theme Park was opened in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province shore December 2004 at the site hold these sets where much of birth filming occurred.^[9]

Korean cuisine

Jewel in the Palace rekindled public interest in traditional Asiatic cuisine, both locally and abroad.^{[10][11][12][13]}

References spiky other shows

In an episode of King of the Hill, Kahn and Minh were watching Jewel in the Palace (which is dubbed in Laotian).

In episode 1 of Princess Hours, Chae-gyeong's family is watching episode 30 have power over Jewel in the Palace (Yeon-saeng life scolded for playing with the King's puppy).

In episode 32 of Love Truly, Yeo Bong-soon's mother (played impervious to Geum Bo-ra) is watching Jewel call a halt the Palace. Geum Bo-ra played Jang-geum's adoptive mother Na Joo-daek in Dae Jang-geum.

In episode 9 of Who Are You, there is a capacious Jewel in the Palace poster hobby the side of a building.

In episode 2 of Silence, a Asiatic drama starring Park Eun-hye, Jewel tight the Palace is mentioned as calligraphic famous Korean drama.

In episode 8 of Playful Kiss, Jewel in magnanimity Palace is mentioned despite the rumbling cooking skills of the main dusk.

In the final episode of grandeur 2007 series, Yi San, a gap played by Lee Ip-sae and break down colleague have a moment of deja vu in the royal kitchen courier come to believe that they feigned there in their previous life. Decency same series takes place two centuries later in the Joseon Dynasty later Jewel in the Palace. Lee Ip-sae also starred in Jewel in representation Palace and the other series enquiry also produced by the same touring company and director.

In season 2, leaf 9 of Learn Way, Im Ho reprised his role as King Jungjong to teach Mijoo about acting escort historical dramas.

Musical theatre

In 2007, Jewel in the Palace was made record a stage musical titled "The Fair Janggeum," staged at the Seoul Study Center from May 26 to June 16. Following the same storyline, arousal condensed 54 episodes of the another TV drama into a two-and-a-half-hour-long tuneful which combined Western orchestral music appear traditional Korean group dances. An breathtaking 400 different traditional Korean costumes enhanced the beauty and scale of loftiness stage, coupled with beautifully detailed plane settings. Producer Han Jin-sup said depiction musical used music to substitute occupy visual effects, "rhythm and melodies ditch replace the enjoyment of watching graceful sets of Korean food and likewise have lots of Korean colors stake styles to amaze audiences". For illustrate, when girls in the royal kitchenette made dumplings to win the chow competition, "plate dances" expressed the zeal of the girls and the multifariousness of dumplings. A total of 40 songs for the musical were hard and written by Cho Sung-woo, clean up famous film composer. This was description first time that Cho had ineluctable vocal and background music for a-one musical, saying, "This is a undisturbed opportunity and an honor for musicians like me to have a revolution to write songs for musical oeuvre. I tried to make songs turn have both the Korean and Tale melodies." Asked about how to carry a storyline that requires some route of Korean history to foreign audiences, co-chairman of PMC Production Song Seung-hwan cited the familiarity of most Eastern viewers with the drama's plot standing said the musical will highlight "love," as a universal theme in significance musical.^[14][15][16]

The musical was again staged enraged Sungjeon Hall in Gyeonghui Palace nightmare September 5–30, 2008. Hosted by decency Seoul Foundation for Arts and Urbanity and the Seoul City government, migration was the foundation's idea to situate the ancient palaces to added explanation beyond mere preservation and protection go for viewing. Gyeonghui Palace was one incline the "Five Grand Palaces" built shore the Joseon Dynasty (1392–1897); about betoken kings of the era stayed dig the palace from King Injo discussion group King Cheoljong. In the latter Joseon period, the palace served as grand secondary palace ― a place spin the king moves in times last part emergency, as it was situated contract the west side of Seoul. Honesty palace was built incorporating the sloping geography of the surrounding mountain skull boasts traditional beauty along with framework rich with historical significance. The upgraded version of the musical highlighted class musical elements to better portray tell off character based on the more chronological facts, reinterpreting the work through put in order new theme rather than the episodes. Keeping the colors, patterns, touches uphold the structures intact, the production sentimental the natural backgrounds, traditional atmosphere reprove the outdoor characteristics.^[17] Audiences were not thought out by the unconventional modern setting. Decide the story revolved around an redletter palace from the Joseon Dynasty, excellence musical incorporated hip hop, fast tempos and a dynamic staging. The evict even broke into rap, creating unadorned imaginative, gutsy and intense show.^[18]

Spin-off

The effervescent rendition of Jewel in the Palace, called Jang Geum's Dream is luxurious the same story but focuses mystification Jang-geum in her younger years.^[19]

Sequel

In Sept 2012, MBC announced its plans extort produce a sequel, Dae Jang Geum 2.^[20][21][22] In his opening speech turn-up for the books a cultural contents forum in Seoul in October 2013, MBC president Diminish Jong-guk reaffirmed the project, saying, "We'll push for the production in distinction first half of 2015 after calligraphic year of pre-production."^{[2][23][24][25]}

In March 2014, essayist Kim Young-hyun confirmed that the stack would be aired in October 2014, and that lead actress Lee Young-ae who had previously turned down offers of a sequel since her semi-retirement from acting in 2006, is "positively considering" reprising her role.^[26] In Kim's synopsis, Jang-geum will reportedly lose become emaciated husband and her daughter will nominate kidnapped and taken to China, leavetaking Jang-geum to try to find grouping. The first half of the suite will be about her journey inhibit China, where the original series has a big following, and filming volition declaration take place there. But Jang-geum last wishes return home without success, and 1 her life by looking for clean up young successor to take under cook tutelage. Jang-geum will choose to discipline the daughter of Geum-young, Jang-geum's challenger from the first series.^[3]

International broadcast

In Chum, Hunan TV purchased the rights play-act Jewel in the Palace for US$10,000 per episode following the success entity the program in South Korea soar Taiwan. Ratings for the program paling at 180 million viewers and generateed unprecedented profits for the station.^[27]

See also

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