

While Dae Jang Geum revolves around the culinary arts and medicine, Dong Yi focuses on music and investigation, the latter being the driving force for many of the arcs in the series. It can be considered as a Spiritual Successor to the earlier historical drama Dae Jang Geum in the sense that both series features a Plucky Girl protagonist who is subjected towards numerous trials and tribulations within the palace and ultimately overcoming them all through hard work, determination and sincerity. 1675-1720) and mother of the future King Yeongjo (r. From then on, she has to contend with the rich but complex (and often difficult) life in the palace as well as the incessant palace intrigues that lurks in the background while still maintaining a positive outlook in life.ĭong Yi is a 2010 South Korean historical drama that is loosely based on the life of Consort Suk of the Choi clan, a concubine of King Sukjong of Joseon (r. She survived however and managed to enter the royal palace to work as a servant in the Bureau of Music, so as to preserve her own life as well as to wait for an opportunity to redress the wrongful deaths of her father and brother. It turns out that Dong Yi's father is the leader of the society and he and Dong Yi's brother are killed in the process. Tragedy ensues when the conspirators framed the illegal but innocent commoners' secret society Geom Gye for the murders and proceeded to exterminate them. It will be a long time before she gets to wear those clothes.Ĭhoi Dong Yi, a commoner child, was living a peaceful life with her coroner father and palace musician brother when one day, she found a dying man lying by a riverbank and is unwittingly caught within a massive political conspiracy involving the murders of key government officials. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace. All new trope pages will be made with the "Trope Workshop" found on the "Troper Tools" menu and worked on until they have at least three examples.Pages that don't do this will be subject to deletion, with or without explanation. All new pages should use the preloadable templates feature on the edit page to add the appropriate basic page markup.


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