Netflix Original Drama 2020
The King: Eternal Monarch (Kdrama Review & Summary)
- Genre: Historical Costume Drama Fiction, Fantasy, Romance; Interdimensional Romance
- Release Date: April 2020
- Origin: South Korea; Netflix Original
- Kdrama: 16 Episodes
Cast
- Lee Min-ho as Emperor Lee Gon
- Kim Go-eun as Jung Tae-eul / Luna
- Woo Do-hwan as Jo Eun-seob / Jo Young
- Kim Kyung-nam as Kang Shin-jae
- Jung Eun-chae as Goo Seo-ryung
- Lee Jung-jin as Lee Rim
- Kim Young-ok as Noh Ok-nam
- Jeon Bae-soo as Jung Do-in
- Seo Jeong-yeon as Song Jung-hye
- Park Won-sang as Park Moon-sik
- Kim Yong-ji as Myeong Na-ri / Myeong Seung-ah
Episode 1
Lee Min hooooooooooooooooo isssss backkkkkkkkkkk
I have been meaning to watch this since it began but I thought I should wait until all the episodes had been released by Netflix to binge-watch. Then I got waylaid by other dramas.
So it might be late but here I am enjoying the first episode.
This was because of the mythical flute that could change the world.
The young crown prince picked up a legendary sword and pointed it to his uncle but instead it broke the flute in half.
His uncle stuck the part of the flute he was still holding against the boy’s next until the boy lost consciousness from the gushing blood on his next.
But someone started shooting at the assassins and wounded his uncle.
That someone then went to check on the boy prince. That someone dropped her ID card.
The Crown Prince regain consciousness and picked the other half of the flute and the ID card.
After the Emperor was buried and mourned, the Crown Prince was made the new Emperor.
The new emperor was very sad but was befriended by another younger boy who was a son of a minister.
Meanwhile, his bleeding uncle was able to go to another dimension, where he met himself. He is wheelchair-bound but his emperor brother was still alive and so was his nephew. But the difference was they were far from being royals. They were poor.
The new Emperor grew up having it all. He was popular with the people with his good looks and athleticism.
But at the back of his mind, he wanted to meet the girl on the ID card.
After winning a rowing contest with his schoolmates, he noticed a girl in a rabbit suit.
He followed her but lost her.
The Prime Minister of the Republic of Corea was a very pretty horndog who wanted to be queen. Though the Emperor tolerates her to a certain extent, he was not interested because he wanted to meet the ID girl.
He saw her again. Riding his while horse he followed her until he ended up in a bamboo forests where two obelisks suddenly appeared. There was thunder and lighting and a doorway opened. He ended up in another dimension.
It so happened that Jung Tae Eul was passing by. She told the man on the horse to stop but he wouldn’t.
She followed him on the square where he noticed her at last.
Episode 2
She arrested him but let him go. He had no ‘valid’ money so used the diamond stud buttons on his suit jacket.
Episode 3
He has gone back to his world.
Episode 4
They missed each other so much, he went back for her and asked her to go back with him to his world.
Episode 5
Lee Min Ho is just gorgeous.
Anyway, Tae Eul went to Corea with Lee Gon. She was surprised that it was familiar and yet unfamiliar to her.
Episode 6
Tae Eul got back to her own world, leaving Lee Gon to command a navy battleship against the Japanese for invading Corea’s water.
Tae Eul gave her father a loving hug but then he told her that he did not even realise that she was gone.
Episode 7