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Main character. An intelligent and beautiful
lady who are outgoing and enthusiastic. She suffers from
all sorts of difficulties and hardships, but survives
them all with strong determination and perseverance. She
spends her childhood with her parents in a rural village
where butchers, one of the bottom classes of the time
live together. Her parents originally of a high class
live in the village to hide themselves away from a certain
accident where they got involved. She eventually parts
from her father due to Gap Ja Sa Hwa(甲子士禍), a political
massacre and her mother dies.
At the age of 10, she joins the palace with her dream
of becoming the best cook of the palace and is recognized
for her talent as her strenuous efforts pay off. However,
she gets framed and kicked out of the palace for her involvement
in a plot targeting Han Sang Gung and become a government
servant in Jeju Island. She learns the medical skills
there and stages a successful comeback to the palace as
a medical assistant. She finally becomes the best medical
assistant and the first royal doctor in the history. She
is referred to as Dae Jang Geum which means the Great
Jang Geum in the records of the King Jung Jong era. |
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| Min Jung Ho is a judge of the Hang Sung
Boo, a government ministry governing the affairs of the
capital Hang Sung. He puts himself in crisis of getting
killed as he tries to help Jang Geum find a golden pheasant.
They become romantically involved as he moves to Nae Geum
Wee, the Royal Military Guard as Jong Sa Gwan, a senior
officer. Even though Min is an administrator who passed
the senior administrative government official examination,
he temporarily works for the Royal Military Guard for
his outstanding martial arts skills. Min is an intellectual
and good-looking gentleman.
After his wife died, he volunteers to work on night
duty and get close to Jang Geum. Gyo Suh Gak is the
place of their rendezvous.
Min is impressed by Jang Geum’s intellectual beauty
and passion for learning. He falls in love with her
as he tries to help her, but puts himself in danger
several times in the process. Later, he gets impeached
by Sa Hun Boo, the Government Intelligence Agency and
fired for his efforts to help Jang Geum after he becomes
a senior official of Nae Eui Won, a government agency
in charge of healthcare and drugs.
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She is a Na In working in Soo Ra Gan
who entered the palace as Saeng Gak Si with Jang Geum.
She works with Jang Geum as a colleague for long years.
She is a beautiful, ambitious and success-driven career
woman. Given her family background as a niece of Choi
Sang Gung, she is conceited and arrogant. Despite the
social class difference, she has secretly admired Min
Jung Ho who is a relative on the mother’s side of the
Choi family, sine she was a little girl.
Geum Young and Jang Geum as friends and competitors strive
to become the best chef of the palace. She manages to
sleep with the king under the sophisticated plot of the
Choi family and becomes Sook Won, one of the titles given
to women who have slept with the king and become one of
many king’s women. Geum Young, now as a Sook Won meets
Jang Geum again in the palace, but their rivalry continues.
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| The 11th king of the Chosun Dynasty.
He is gentle but indecisive. He is the son of Ja Soon
Dae Bi who has become the king after Yeon San Gun was
dethroned. The king gets to know Jang Geum in the midst
of his aggressive efforts toward pushing for a reform
in conjunction with hiring Jo Gwang Jo into his administration.
The king grows fond of Jang Geum for her warm personality
and outstanding talents. Later, he falls in love with
her, his doctor. |
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