Goong (Princess Hours)

Cast: (Credits to DramaWiki)
Yoon Eun Hye as Shin Chae-kyung
Joo Ji Hoon as Lee Shin
Kim Jeong Hoon as Lee Yul
Song Ji Hyo as Min Hyo-rin

Synopsis:

Goong (궁) is based on the same titled manhwa by Park So Hee.
Goong is a story about young love in face of tradition, politics, and intrigue. In the imaginary world, modern-day Korea is a constitutional monarchy and the Royal Family lives in a grand Palace, the Goong. Story opens with the sudden death of the reigning the King. Faced with the decreasing popularity among the public for the Royalty, a grand wedding for the Crown Prince, Lee Shin (Joo Ji Hoon), is decided to be the best publicity move to improve the image of the Royalty and at the same time prepare Shin for immediate succession. The intended bride? The headstrong, awkward, and sweet spirited Shin Chae-kyung (Yoon Eun Hye) that just happens to go to the same exclusive art school. Chae-kyung was betrothed to become the next Crown Princess by her grandfather and Shin's grandfather.
After 14 years of living in England with his mom, Lee Yul (Kim Jeong Hoon) appears all of a sudden. He is Shin's cousin as well as the former Crown Prince. Everything seemed to be going normally until Chae-kyung's optimistic spirit wins the heart of internally lonely, Yul. As the Crown Prince Shin and simple-minded Chae-kyung's relationship appear to developing deeper feelings, a series of scandals are exposed to the public right after the pair were officially announced married. Will love prevail all in a world of political pressures and martial hardships? Or will being in the spotlight of the public be too much for the young newlyweds to endure?

(Taken from DramaWiki)

Review:

I'm not going to make a very long review for this drama and for the upcoming ones after. Takes too much time to type :P Goong from the start was giving me different vibes in if I should actually take the time to watch this drama. I saw it once in the Philippines, dubbed in Tagalog of course, but it wasn't that interesting to me. Especially with all the episodes which made it very time consuming for me :( It was worth it after I watched the whole thing, kind of confusing but way different from what I've been watching all along. This was more of the imperial household involving royalty, the only other drama that came close to royalty was Romantic Princess. But even then, the storyline wasn't as specific as it was in Goong. All of the actors/actresses in this drama were not even known in drama's yet. Well, maybe the main girl was since she did play in Coffee Prince, but even that was after Goong was made into a drama itself. The characters where lovable so it made it possible for people like us to actually understand the story line. She was forced to marry because of her grandfather's wish to his friend. Self-explanatory right there, her love was doomed from the start. Her wild, energetic personality causes her to get into the most craziest situations. The guy who played Yul looked like Rui in Hana Yori Dango :P (mostly the hair colour I suppose)

Rating out of 10: ********