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Princess Hours (Korean: 궁, Hanja: 宫, romanized as Goong and also known as The Imperial Household, Love in Palace, Palace Love or Palace, its literal translation and alternate official title) is a popular soonjong manhwa (Korean girls' comic) by Park So-Hee. It was adapted into an even more well-known live-action comedy/drama series, which had its first season run from January 11 to March 30, 2006. It was distributed by Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation, which ran episodes on Wednesdays and Thursdays every week until the show's completion. The original manhwa (which, as of January 2009, has run for 17 volumes in Korea, and by 2012 17 in America) is being published in English as Goong, while the drama has been released on DVD in North America as Palace by YA Entertainment.

Princess Hours became one of MBC's most popular dramas of 2006, second only to Jumong[1]. Overall, the show was the tenth most popular drama of 2006, according to TNS Media. Due to the success of the first season, a second season was to be produced, a rare occasion in the Korean television industry. However, there was controversy over who had the rights to make the sequel, and as a result, two separate parties planned different seasons. However, the sequel, Goong 2 will no longer be produced due to the withdrawal of two main actors. The spin-off Goong S started its run on January 10, 2007.

Season 1

[edit] Synopsis
Set in an alternate 21st-century reality where Korea possesses a royal family, this show revolves around the lives of the Crown Prince (Hwangtaeja) Yi Shin, and his new bride, Chae-kyeong. The depicted royal family in the show is modelled after the last royal family of Korea, which in reality reigned until the start of the Japanese Occupation in 1911 and was not reinstated after Japanese surrender in WW2.

The series starts off with the news that the King, Shin's father, is very ill. With the grim outlook on the King's health, the royal family scrambles to find a wife for Shin, so as to allow him to take over the royal throne if the situation requires. Despite being in love with another girl, the ambitious and talented ballerina Hyo-rin whom Shin initially proposed to (she rejects him to pursue her ballet dreams), Shin eventually marries a commoner to whom he was betrothed by his late grandfather in an old agreement with the girl's grandfather. Shin marries the headstrong yet lovable Chae-kyeong after Hyo-rin's rejection. Despite initially feeling nothing for Chae-kyeong, love eventually blossoms between the couple.

In the meantime, however, matters are further complicated with the return of Yi Yul and his mother Lady Hwa-Young, who was once the Crown Princess (Bingoong) before the death of her husband, the late Crown Prince, older brother of the current King. Yul and his mother were chased out of the palace some time after the death of his father, and it is later revealed that this was due to the King's discovery of an affair between Yul's mother and the current King who was his father's younger brother. Yul's mother had returned with a sinister motive in mind; to restore her son back to the throne, which would have been his eventually, if his father had not died. A series of events befall the palace with the schemes Yul's mother carries out, and is further intensified by the various scandals involving the royal family, which are inclusive of the Shin's continuing relationship with his old flame Hyo-rin, and the budding love Yul develops for Chae-kyeong, his cousin's new-found bride.


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[edit] Shin Chae-Kyeong (신채경)
Portrayed by Yoon Eun Hye, Shin Chae-kyeong is a very creative and outgoing, normal high school girl. She attends the same school as Yi Shin, the Crown Prince of Korea. Her grandfather was best friends with the previous King. To honor his friend, the previous King dictated that Chae-kyeong is to become the Crown Princess, which means that she is to marry whoever is the Crown Prince at the time of the marriage (Yi Shin) . Although she often seems immature and irritating, she is a kindhearted, innocent, honest person. Often called "Pig" by her younger brother, Chae-kyeong marries the prince to save her family from bankruptcy. Her initial reaction to Yi Shin is one of irritation but she falls in love with him in the earlier part of the series, not knowing that he, in return, feels the same way, until the last few episodes. Although she regards Yi Yul only as a friend and cousin-in-law, he falls in love with her.


[edit] Yi Shin (이신)
The crown prince of Korea, Yi Shin, as portrayed by model and actor Joo Ji Hoon, is seen as a smug, indifferent, insensitive young man. After getting rejected by his girlfriend when he proposes to her, he decides to go along with his elders' arranged marriage with Shin Chae-kyeong. At first, he was irritated by her naivete and enthusiasm, but as he recognizes how genuinely sweet she is, he begins to open his heart to her, and falls in love. Throughout the series, it becomes obvious that inside, he is just a lonely, sensitive, warm and kind young man. He also owns a teddy bear, Alfred, the only thing that he can let his guard down for, which is used as a focal point throughout the series. As his cousin re-enters the picture after being forced out of the country many years earlier, the prince quickly butts head with him, as Yi Yul is a contender not only for the throne, but for the crown princess Chae-kyeong's love. Chae-kyeong does not realize this until later on in the story.


Yi Yool
Kim Jeong Hoon plays Yi Yool, Shin's cousin. He returns from a long stay in England with his mother, the widow of the former crown prince. He is the opposite of Shin, he is warm, kindhearted, sweet, romantic, and charismatic -- an instant hit with the girls. Interested in Chae-kyeong, their friendship grows to love on his side, while she remains innocently unaware of it until much later. Although the position of the Crown Prince originally belonged to him, it was given to his cousin when Yool's father died in a car accident and his mother was found to have had an affair with his uncle, who she was originally in love with, but she decides to marry his brother, the crown prince, wanting her son to inherit the title of crown prince. Originally uninterested in the throne, Yool decides to follow his mother's wishes and compete with Shin for the throne after falling in love with Chae-kyeong. In the end, after realizing that Chae-kyeong and Shin truly love each other, and after discovering his mother's affair with the King, he passes up both the chance of being King and having Chae-kyeong as a wife.


Min Hyo-rin
Portrayed by Song Ji Hyo, Hyo-rin is a skilled ballerina. She is beautiful, intelligent, accomplished--basically, perfect in every way possible,but she is also poor. Prince Shin and her ballet instructor paid for her tuition fees at school. In the beginning, she is Shin's girlfriend, and he proposes to her. However, she rejects him, not only because she thinks he is joking, but also because she does not wish to give up her dreams of becoming a star ballerina. When she sees Chae-kyeong and Shin's wedding and how Chae-kyeong is loved by the people (similar to Diana, Princess of Wales), she regrets her hasty decision, and does everything she can to oust Chae-kyeong from her position. Hyo-rin finds ways to draw Shin back to her, including a "chance" meeting in Thailand, but simply ends up hurting herself, resulting in attempting suicide. Later, however, she decides that Shin does truly love Chae-kyeong, and she ultimately gives him up and decides to just concentrate on her ballet.


Family History
The fictional family history was released by MBC, as follows:

First year of the Gwanghwa Era1945: After World War II, Korea's common people wanted the royal family (House of Yi) to remain in the country, even as they act as symbols of Korea's past.
Fortieth year of the Gwanghwa Era 1984: Crown Prince Yi Soois married to dancer Seo Hwa Yeong, who becomes the Crown Princess (consort) .
Forty-first year of the Gwanghwa Era 1985: Grand Prince Yi Hyeon to Lady Min.
Forty-third year of the Gwanghwa Era 1987: Grand Prince Yi Hyeon sires a daughter, named Hye Myeong .
Forty-fourth year of the Gwanghwa Era 1988: Crown Prince Yi Soo sires a son, named Yool. Grand Prince Yi Hyeon sires a son, named Shin ).
Forty-seventh year of the Gwanghwa Era 1991: Shin Chae Kyeong's grandfather dies.
Forty-eighth year of the Gwanghwa Era 1992: Crown Prince Yi Soo dies in a car accident. His brother the Grand Prince Yi Hyeon becomes the Crown Prince upon his brother's death. Meanwhile, Yi Soo's family, the Crown Princess (consort) Seo Hwa Yeong and his son Yool are chased out of the palace, emigrating to Great Britain.
Forty-ninth year of the Gwanghwa Era 1993: Emperor Seongjo , Yi Soo and Yi Hyeon's father, dies. Crown Prince Yi Hyeon becomes the next Emperor of Korea, thereby changing the former era name of Gwanghwa to Inhwa(1993 becomes, thru implication, first year of the Inhwa Era).
Third year of the Inhwa Era 1995: Yi Shin becomes the next Crown Prince .
Twelfth year of the Inhwa Era 2004: Yi Shin enrolls into a well-known arts and cultures school in Korea centering on film and movie. Yi Yool , while in Britain, enrols in to an art-school.
Fourteenth year of the Inhwa Era 2006: Crown Prince Yi Shin is married to Shin Chae Kyeong after an old agreement between his grandfather and Chae Kyeong's grandfather.

Cast
Yoon Eun Hye as Shin Chae-kyeong
Princess Consort to the Crown Prince of the Empire Shin Chae-kyeong
Joo Ji Hoonas Lee Shin
Grand Prince Lee Shin
Crown Prince of the Empire Lee Shin
Kim Jeong Hoon as Lee Yool
Crown Prince of the Empire Lee Yool
Grand Prince Lee Yool
Prince Uiseong
Song Ji Hyo as Min Hyo-rin
Lee Yoon Ji as Hyae-Myeong
Princess of the Empire Hyae Myeong
Jeon Ji Ae as Rhee Kang-hyun
Nah Eun-kyeong,as Kim Soon-young
Dan Ji as Yoon Hee-soong
Kang Nam Gil as Chae-kyeong's father
Im Ye Jin as Chae-kyeong's mother
Kim Suk as Shin Chae-joon (Chae-kyeong's younger brother)
Kim Sang-joong,as Yi Soo (Yool's deceased father)
Crown Prince of the Empire Yi Soo
Park Chan-hwan ,as Yi Hyeon (Shin's father)
Grand Prince Yi Hyeon(by birth, the youngest offspring of Emperor Moo)
Crown Prince of the Empire Yi Hyeon
Emperor/King Yi Hyeon
Kim Hye-ja,as Yool and Shin's grandmother
Dowager Empress Park
Shim Hye-jin,as Lady Hwa-Yong (Yool's mother)
Princess Consort to the Crown Prince of the Empire Seo Hwa-Yong(wife of Crown Prince Yi Soo)
Yoon Yoo-seon,as the Queen (Yi Shin's mother)
Princess Consort to the Grand Prince Min
Empress/Queen Min
Choi Seong-joon,as Kang-in
Lee Yong-joo,as Jang-kyung
Uhm Seong-mo,as Ryu-hwan
Choi Bool-am,as Emperor Seongjo(Shin and Yool's grandfather) (deceased)
Lee Ho-jae,as Gong Nae-kwan
Jeon Su-yeon,as Choi Sang-goon