Goong is based on the same titled manhwa by Park So Hee.
Manhwa, in Korean, is a general term for comics and cartoons (including animated cartoons). Outside of Korea, the term usually refers to South Korean comics.
Although manhwa is distinct from Japanese manga and Chinese manhua, all three terms are cognates.
Manhwa is read in the same direction as Western books, horizontally and from left to right, because hangul is normally written and read horizontally (although it can also be written and read like Chinese and Japanese, that is, vertically from right to left).
As opposed to Japan, the comics are rarely turned into animated movies; however, there have been cases of dramas series or movies created in adaptation to the manhwa. Full House, 2004, and Goong (Palace, Princess Hours), 2006, are prominent examples as they have been accounted as the best dramas of their years.
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"Goong --aka-- Princess hours SYNOPSIS"
Princess Hours is a drama that starts with the interesting premise; What if modern Korea were a constitutional monarchy with a king?, and offers two types of fun; the romance arising between a noble prince and an ordinary girl, and the familiarity of all this happening in modern-day Korea.
A perfect boy from a noble bloodline, with good looks and a sense of unpolished beauty has to marry against his will at the age of 17. An ordinary girl from an ordinary family, with a clumsy character, average grades and average looks oversteps the prejudice and barriers surrounding her. The process how they fall in love with each other unfolds with excitement.
Shin Chae-kyeong and Lee Shin, because they dont know each other well, go through numerous incidents in which they end up fighting.
Chae-kyeong witnesses the scene where Lee Shin proposes to another woman to avoid their arranged marriage and this is how the two become fully aware of each others feelings. The story evolves from the fact that Chae kyoungs grandfather was very close to the former monarch, whose wish was for her and Shin to get married. This gives some impetus to the otherwise unrealistic union of the two. As the drama progresses, many other fine men, including Lee Yool, a cousin of the royal family, make their appearance. The story of the two characters, who keep quarreling about structural problems such as the rules of the royal household in the midst of the difficulties of being a prince and of the arranged marriage, will unfold in an interesting way. The shows fun lies in the episodes concerning the status gap that exists between a prince and an ordinary citizen.
As more problems of status arise, the uniqueness of being a prince will be more greatly exposed, and doubling the fun of . When the kings illness gets worse, Crown Prince Shin receives an order to get married his arranged marriage partner. Shin realizes that there have never been personal choices available in the life of a Crown Prince, though hes only nineteen.
Prince Shin proposes to his girlfriend Min Hyo-rin. Taking it as a joke, Hyo-rin shows her cute smile and takes off to practice for an international ballet competition. Shin doesnt hold onto her but just smiles faintly as she turns away and leaves. Chae-kyeong has a dad who stays at home as a full time house-husband after his business failed and a mom who works as an insurance consultant. Chae-kyeongs family, which was able to create happiness in the midst of difficult times, suddenly becomes in-laws with the royal household. To Chae-kyeongs parents everything seems much more like a dream, as they see that the arranged marriage grandfather always boasted of become realized. Chae-kyeong cries out loud, not willing to accept the fact that she has to get married at the age of nineteen, but Shin accepts the marriage, not caring about who becomes the queen. To him, shes not a person hell ever love anyways and shell just live in the palace like a doll. Meanwhile, Hyo-rin engages herself only in her ballet practice abroad without knowing about her boyfriends marriage. Yool, second in line to the crown and the son of Crown Prince Hyo yeol, who abandoned his position 15 years ago and left with his wife for England, comes back to his motherland. Upon hearing this news, the king instinctively senses the danger of Crown Prince Shin losing the crown and orders Shin to be careful of Yool. Shin just laughs at the fight over the crown and ignores the kings words. Chae-kyeong enters the Oon-hyeon palace, the palace of the new queen - bride, to get educated as the future queen. Shin, who visits the detached palace, is stunned by the beautiful presence of Chae-kyeong in her ceremonial dress
