MBC has actually featured many great dramas and some of which i've already seen. Here are some of them ~
1% of Anything
All About Eve
Attic Cat
Autumn Showers
Bare-footed Youth
Be Strong Geum-soon
Best Drama Theater
Bool Sae - Firebird
Dae Jang Geum / Jewel in the Palace
Damo
Doctor Gang
Fireworks
Four Sisters / Story of Four Sisters
Geomsaekdaewang (Sunday Sunday Night segment)
Happy Shares Company
Heaven, Earth & Star
Heaven's Fate / King Flower Fairy
Hello! Franceska
How Much Love?
I Really Really Like You
Ireland
King Saturday
King Saturday segment: Thank You For Waking Me Up (SS501)
Let's Marry
Looking For Dorothy
Love Hymn
Love Letter
Miss Mermaid / Mermaid Lady
Mr. Cook King
Mr. Duke
My Love Patzzi
My Name Is Kim Sam Soon
My Name is Princess / Love or Nothing
Nonstop 4
Nonstop 5
Nonstop 6 / Rainbow Romance
One Fine Day
Over The Rainbow
Our Stance On How To Treat A Break-up
Palace / Goong
Prince's First Love
Romance
Ruler of Your Own World/Do As You Wish
Sad Love Story
Say You Love Me / Tell Me You Love Me
Scent Of A Man
Secret
Secret Lovers
Shindon
Show! Music Core
Sky Ground, Star Ground
Snowflower
Snowman
Someday
Soulmate
Special of My Life
Star in my heart
Sunday Sunday Night segment: Angels' Chorus/Angel's Singing/Chorus of Angels
Sunday Sunday Night segment: Jin Ho Yah I Love You
Super Rookie
Sweet Guy
The Book of Three Han: The Chapter of Joo Mong
The Lawyers
The love will not be stopped by anyone
The Sweet Spy
The Trio
The Truth / Jin-sil
Three Men Three Women
Tropical Night in December
Which Star Are You From
Wolf
Wonderful Life
Yeong-jae's Golden Age
Yoo Jae Suk & Kim Won Hee's "Noh Luh Wah" / Come To Play
From the list above, Damo, Jewel in the Palace, Shindon and The Book of Three Han: The Chapter of Joo Mong are period dramas.
It was mentioned in the article that came last week that GKFG will follow after JooMong air its last episode. But i doubt that this is possible with the many postponments in the shooting of GKFG.
Amongst the 4 period dramas listed above, Jewel in the Palace [which took years in making] is the most successful and have won many awards. It ranked so high and widely watch in Asia. This was Lee Young Ae's comeback drama after hibernating for years. With this drama, she even won Best Actress awards. On the other hand, ShinDon got the lowest rating. Joomong is currently showing in Korea and from the news that i've been reading it's getting popular every week. As of last week, Joomong's rating was 37.2% which is its highest since it started airing May 15. Damo is a fairly good drama and i personally liked it.
I've done a little research and here are some infos about these period dramas.
Damo [2003]
14 episodes
Hightest viewing rate - 26.7 %
Chae-ok - Ha Ji Won
Hwangbo Yoon - Lee Suh Jin
Ma Chook-ji - Lee Moon Sik
Damo, Chae-ok, is a Chosun dynasy female detective who shares a forbidden love with her mentor/superior (Hwangbo). While working undercover on a counterfeit ring case, she finds herself drawn to Sung-baek, the mysterious leader of the guerilla army she has infiltrated.
Jewel in the Palace (2003)
54 episodes
Highest viewing rate - 57.1 %
Jang Geum - Lee Young Ae
Lt. General Min Jung-ho - Ji Jin Hee
Choi Keum-young - Hong Ri Na
King Joong-jong - Im Ho
Kang Duk-gu - Im Hyun Sik
Lady Han (Jang-geum's cooking mentor - Yang Mi Kyung
Lady Choi - Kyun
This is a true story of the first female royal physician in the Korean royal house. She starts as an escort in the royal kitchen but thanks to her parent's teachings, she goes on to become the King's personal doctor. She is a real person in Korea's recorded history.
Shin Don(2005)
60 episodes
Viewing rate - last episode TV Rating 11.8%
Shin Don – Son Chang-min
King Gongmin – Jeong Bo-seok
Princess Noguk – Seo Ji-hye
Queen Ki – Kim Hye-ri
King Gongmin of Goryeo was taken by the Yuan Dynasty as a political hostage and was forced to stay there for 10 years before coming to the throne. After he became the King of Goryeo, he decided to make his country more independent. Shin Don was a Buddhist priest who enjoyed King Gongmin’s confidence. He was born as the son of a princess and a slave. Shin Don became so powerful that later he gained absolute control over the country. Though he was a Buddhist priest, he relied on political power more than compassion or loving kindness in order to survive the troubled times. He was an innovative philosopher who both despised and worshipped all the established ideas. While some people considered him a man blinded by greed for power, others believed that he was a true social reformer who struggled to revive Goryeo during a period of turmoil. This drama will introduce viewers to Shin Don’s ambitious life full of ups and downs, as well as the love and betrayal of King Gongmin and Princess Noguk.
Shin Don is one of the most disputed historical figures. He could be a mere vicious Buddhist priest or he could be a hero. Since there are many different stories about him and the truth remains unknown, his life seems almost mythical. The drama portrays him as a schemer obsessed with power, willing to resort to trickery. On the other hand, it also shows him as a revolutionist who tries to create a democratic power structure. Religion was his ideal; however, it was also his tool of seizing political power and winning popular support.
The Book of Three Han: The Chapter of Joo Mong (2006)
60 episodes
TV Rating (as of 7/3/06 – 7/9/06)- 37.0%
Jumong: Song Il Kook
So Seo-no: Han Hye Jin
Dae-so: Kim Seung Soo
Geum-wa: Jun Kwang Ryul
This drama is set in the Koguryo Kingdom which lasted from 37 B.C. to 668 A.D.Han Hye Jin and Song Il Kook will lead the large-scale 60-episode historical drama "The Book of Three Han: The Chapter of Joo Mong (삼한지-주몽 편, 三韓志-朱蒙篇)" aired by MBC in May of 2006. SIK plays King Joo Mong, the founder of the Goguryeo Dynasty in 37 BC. HHJ plays the role Soh Suh No (소서노) who is extremely intelligent and is Joo Mong (played by Song Il Kook)'s second wife. The PD of the drama is Lee Joo Hwan (이주환) whose previous work was the drama "Miss Mermaid (인어 아가씨)". Jung Hyung-Soo of 다모 (Damo) and his mentor Choi Wan-Gyu -- of 허준 (Hur Joon), 상도 (Sang Do) and 올인 (All In) -- will write. The production cost is around 30 billion Won. 70% of the filming will be in Korea while 30% will be in China.
Frankly, i'm not into korean history, but from what i read, the last 2 dramas have a relation with GKFG.
If you don't know yet some of the korean period dramas are quite long. [which makes me wonder why GKFG has only 24 episodes, i want to see 60 episode of yong joon]. They are also very colorful, costumes are fantastic, breathtaking sceneries, awesome and heavy headdress and with great and very interesting plots.
Here take a look at this beautiful costumes ~
Btw, did you know that the main lead in Joo Mong, Song Il Kook was offered to play a role in GKFG? It was even rumoured that he accepted it but it turned out to wrong.
For this year, aside from Joo Mong, MBC aired top rating dramas such as [ranking as of july 15 from twitch.com]
[read as : rank, rate, korean title, english title, station, genre]
02. 29.41% 주몽 (Jumong) - MBC
08. 22.20% 궁 (Princess Hours) - MBC [C]
20. 15.23% 넌 어느 별에서 왔니 (Which Star Are You From) - MBC [C]
25. 13.27% 진짜 진짜 좋아해 (Love Truly) - MBC
26. 13.22% 어느 멋진 날 (One Fine Day) - MBC
29. 12.78% 결혼합시다 (Let's Get Married) - MBC [C]
Above were taken from the top 30 dramas on the 1st half of 2006.
In 2005, MBC produced 2 top rated TV dramas ~
01. 50.5% 내 이름은 김삼순 (My Lovely Sam-Soon)
03. 40.1% 굳세어라 금순아 (Be Strong, Geum-Soon)
Last year, KBS dominated the top 10 dramas with 7 , followed by MBC with 2.
For next year, i hope and pray that GKFG will be amongst the top ranking dramas and that it will garner awards in any of the award giving bodies [but i read that korean award giving bodies tend to be chaotic. so much politic are going]. Likewise, i wish that the k-media will set aside any critical comments on Yong Joon and see GKFG as what it really is.
Goodluck to "Great King Four Gods Story".
source : soompi, mbc website, koreanwiz & twitch
2 comments:
good collection of info.
why only 24 epis? well all i know is...i was so so glad when told that its gonna be a 24-epi drama. so hopefully we will pay less for the set :p haha
thanks yokee!
you know? i'm already saving for my set of GKFG. i've a dilemma thought would i buy the limited edition for the director's cut edition??? ^_^ hee, for sure there will be 2 editions that will come out. *@_@* it's not only hard to love yong joon...expensive too.
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