Park Shin Hye Empress Ki

Empress Ki (Korean: 기황후 ; Hanja: 奇皇后 ; RR: Gi Hwanghu) is a South Korean historical drama television series starring Ha Ji-won as the titular Empress Ki.

A domestic and overseas hit, the series received the Gold Bird Prize for Serial Drama at the 9th Seoul International Drama Awards. Ha Ji-won also won the Grand Prize at the MBC Drama Awards for her performance.

The early working title was Hwatu (Korean: 화투 ; lit. Battle of Flowers) but the title was changed to prevt confusion with the similarly named playing cards.

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The series revolves around Ki Seung-nyang, a Goryeo-born woman who ascds to power despite the restrictions of the era's class system, and later marries Toghon Temür (emperor of the Yuan dynasty) to become a Yuan empress, instead of her first love, Wang Yoo. It managed to highlight the deep love the Emperor embedded in Lady Ki and depicts her loves and political ambitions.

A woman who was born in Goryeo but is st to Yuan as a child with a group of tribute wom. Her mother gets killed wh the group tries to escape, but she manages to flee, growing up as a boy th man and becoming a great warrior. She is a great patriot of Goryeo and serves the country with her life, disguised as a man. Initially the fiancée of Wang Yoo, she is later forcibly tak to the Yuan court. She evtually becomes the wife of Ta Hwan, thus making her the Empress Consort of the Yuan dynasty, as which she greatly influces politics.

A noblewoman who was the first wife and Empress Consort of Ta Hwan but wh her crimes are revealed, is deposed from her throne and is executed in front of her people. Tanashiri serves as the main antagonist of the first chapter who plotted to kill Seung-nyang’s frids and poison anyone who dare to take her throne.

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The evil second wife and Empress Consort of Ta Hwan after Tanashiri's death. She was also deposed from her position due to her cunningness.

Empress Bayan Khutugh's uncle who succeeded Yeon Chul's position as Yuan Dynasty's regt. He was later killed by Tal Tal for being greedy and evil like Yeon Chul.

According to a report by Taiwan's drama channel ETTV, the series was ranked as the best foreign program for 2014 with 5.35% viewership rating, becoming the second Korean drama after Jewel in the Palace (2003) to do so.

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Despite its popularity, the series was criticized for its inclusion of fictional elemts regarding the characters and storyline. Much concern was raised over the series' depiction of the titular Empress Ki, who was portrayed as a brave warrior in the series. Historians were worried that the audice would overlook the fact that the real-life Empress Ki was responsible for attacking her native land.

It aired on GMA Network from October 20, 2014, to April 14, 2015, on Mondays to Thursdays at 10:00 PM PST for 100 episodes.

Each episode runs 1 hour including commercial breaks. It was pre-empted on December 31, 2014, to give way to the Countdown to 2015 GMA New Year Special and on April 2 to 3, 2015 to give way on the Holy Week programming. The tire series was dubbed in Filipino. It was the highest rated Korean drama in the Philippines for 2015. It was re-aired on GMA News TV from July 12, 2016, to January 19, 2017.will be a 50-episode drama, this is a character description post for reference, translated from the drama’s official website. Some of the characters are fictional but those based on the real figures are following some historical facts, though mostly are from the writers’ imagination.

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The translation might be wrong and/or slightly deviate from the real meaning since my Korean is not that good yet 😉 For those who don’t really like spoilers, perhaps you should stay away…

She was dragged away to become a tribute woman to Yuan during her childhood but managed to escape the fate, only to have her mother die in the process. She grows up disguising as a man to avenge her mother’s death. Her target is the royalty Wang Go and she meets the King of Goryeo when carrying out her plan of revenge. Seung-nyang becomes a part of the army and she is given the task to escort the Crown Prince of Yuan in Goryeo, who is being exiled. Little did she know that she’s slowly embroiled in a conflict of the Yuan people. She protects Ta-hwan, the Crown Prince from demise and saves him, but her real identity as a woman becomes known to others. Seung-nyang is then sent away to Yuan as a tribute woman, succumbing to her original fate. She grows closer to Ta-hwan, but his betrayal causes the death of her father and she vows to avenge him. Becoming a maid in the Yuan’s royal palace, she constantly faces threats from Empress Tanashiri and Seung-nyang needs to fight for her life, defying the cruel destiny for herself.

Instead of living up to his reputation as Goryeo’s Crown Prince, he chooses to fool around with the street gang each day. But then, it’s actually part of his plan to deceive Wang Go while investigating the man in secret, meeting Seung-nyang in the process. Yoo gets embroiled in a conspiracy to kill Ta-hwan while the crown prince is exiled to Goryeo. He is deposed from Goryeo’s throne and exiled to Yuan. Unexpectedly, he meets Seung-nyang there with her true identity as a woman, working as Yuan’s palace maid. He protects her from harm and his feelings start to develop for her. Yoo helps Seung-nyang to return to the palace after she is ousted because of the evil scheming. He returns to Goryeo but soon finds out that Seung-nyang is now in stuck in between him and Ta-hwan.

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Although he’s born as Emperor Myungjong’s eldest son, his right to ascend the throne is defied by the powerful officials who places his younger step-brother on the throne instead of him. He’s sent to be exiled in Goryeo and just like his late father, he lives each day fearing for his own life and chooses to act like a fool in front of the officials. Deep in his heart, anger, hatred, and sadness haunts his lonely days. He falls for Seung-nyang when he meets her in Goryeo and she protects him with her lies. Ta-hwan eventually returns to Yuan and ascends the throne, but his heart continues to feel sorry for her. After he finds out that Seung-nyang is in the palace, his love and affection continues to develop for her. Seung-nyang later helps him to break the oppression from the officials.

He exercises great power due to his popularity among the court officials of Goryeo. He fosters good relationship with Yuan as a way to gain favour from the dynasty in order to promote himself as a suitable king of Goryeo. His greed for the power never stop and he never give up to seize the throne from Wang Yoo.

Daughter of the highest ranking official with a bad case of jealousy. She marries Ta-hwan because of her father despite the fact that she doesn’t have any feelings for him. However, she feels bad when Ta-hwan doesn’t love her. As the primary empress, she is expected to give birth to the successor of the throne. When she hears the news about Concubine Park being pregnant, her jealousy fires up, sending her on a witch hunt to kill the concubine and also weeding out the other palace maids that might have caught the emperor’s attention.

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Coming from the elite family of Mongol, she was the late king’s empress. She opposes Ta-hwan’s exile but fails; however, she continues to protect her nephew at all cost. Ta-hwan follows every word that she says. In the midst of the political struggle and conflicts happening in the royal family, she remains unscathed, maintaining her position in the Yuan court.

The person behind the assassination of the late king, he managed to block the attempt to place the late king’s eldest son Ta-hwan on the throne. He then sends Ta-hwan into exile and places Ta-hwan’s younger step-brother on the throne, acting as his puppet. Considers Goryeo as part of Yuan instead of an independent country.

Hot-tempered and ruthless, he knows no fear, to the point of pointing his swords towards Ta-hwan, the Emperor of Yuan. He won’t hesitate to get rid of those he hates. He tries to kill Seung-nyang per his sister, Tanashiri’s order but fails as the maid is protected by the eunuchs. He’s also General Baek Ahn’s rival.

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An unruly Yuan’s officer who manages the finance department but spends most of his time with money and women, particularly the tribute women from Goryeo while embezzling the money for his own benefit. Obeying only the words of his father and his older brother, he thinks lowly of Goryeo born, and doesn’t spare an ounce of respect towards the eunuchs and the  palace maids.

Coming from a prestigious Mongol family, he aims to revive the great power of Mongol’s royal family but Yeon-chul remains as his biggest