NIP CHI YUEN (Steven Ma), who works in the anti-smuggling camp, is determined to wipe out the Tau’s Fort, which is the stronghold for salt smugglers. He pretends to be a down-and-out scholar. TAU SING SUET (Tavia Yeung Yi), daughter of the chief smuggler, sympathizes with YUEN and puts him up in the village. (more…)
No CommentsDuring the mid 1820s, a natural disaster hit the city of Wuxi. Running out of food supply for the citizens, governor Hong Chi-Wing (Wong Wai Leung) used the city’s military food supply to feed the citizens. A few days after the disaster, an official from Beijing arrived to the city to check the military supply. (more…)
No CommentsJu-Mong was the founder of Goguryeo in 37 BC. He was the son of General Hae Mo Su and Lady Yoo Hwa and was raised by King Geum Wa who took him and his mother in when Hae Mo Su was believed to have been killed in an ambush by the Han Dynasty. Soh Suh No was a merchant’s daughter who helped Ju Mong in realizing his dream to build a new country and later became his second wife.
About 500 years ago during the time of Chosun Dynasty, Korea boasted a rigidly hierarchical and male dominated social structure. Set in this period, “Jewel in the Palace” is based on a true story about a legendary girl (Jang-Geum) who became the first woman to be the supreme royal physician of her times.
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