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| A Genius Who Can Notice A Genius Who Are Jealous of A Genius Kim Hong-do Park Shin-yang With an outstanding talent, he drew an portrait of the king in his young age. Everyone in Joseon eagar to have a peice of his painting.
He is a playful and humorous guy who has a stately presence and gets along well with everyone. But when it comes to painting he is an absolute genius who maintain his pride in any moment. He noticed Shin Yoon-bok's talent and his eyes lighted up when he met him at the apprentice chamber of Dohwaseo(the Royal Bureau of Painting of Joseon). Looking back his easy life through the appearance of Shin Yoon-bok, he is jealous of Yoon-bok's talent that he doesn't have. Through the experience of DongJeGackHwa(two painters' drawing on the same subjet) that the king Jeong Jo orders, Hong-do starts to match his skills against Yoon-bok and to fall into Yoon-bok. Finally he feels something more than that as a teacher... |
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Lee In-moon Park Hyuck-gwon A friend of Kimg Hong-Do who is good at landscape. He is a good-natured guy who gets along well with everyone. |
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A Tragic Genius Who Had To Live A Man's Life, Inspite Of Her Extraordinary Talent. Shin Yoon-bok Moon Geun-young Because of her talent she chooses a man's life hiding her woman's body. A woman who are kept in strict Dohwaseo and forced to paint in a conventional way by the desire of his father to carry on his family name.
However she proudly shows her painting created in her own way, which brings her to a crisis of being expelled from Dohwaseo. The absolute genius, Kim Hong-do notices her talent and protect her from being expelled. As Kim Hong-do famous for his good temper is particular only to Yoon-bok and lashs out only at her, Yoon-bok makes every efforts not to lose to Hong-do. Jeong Jo assigns Yoon-bok and Hong-do a secret mission. Through the process of working for the mission, Yoon-bok becomes aware of Hong-do's hearts and finds herself looking for Hong-do's images ... |
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Shin Han-pyung Ahn Seok-hwan The father of Shin Yoon-bok and Shin Young-bok. One of the senior members of Dohwaseo and a part of prestigious family. For an honor to his family, he makes his own son a criminal and breeds his daughter a man without a guilty conscience. He is a small-fry who play petty tricks rather than a man of ability. |
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| Shin Young-bok Lee Joon The elder brother of Yoon-bok and the only one who knows Yoon-bok is a woman in the apprentice chamber. Watching Yoon bok and her talent from his childhood, he is deeply impressed not only with her excellent skill but also her personality. Although he is an elder brother of Yoon-bok, he loves her in secret. With his noble and pure love, he protects and takes care of her in her back. |
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| Wining everything but people's hearts Kim Jo-nyeon Ryoo Seung-lyong He was of low class by birth and abandoned in a marketplace. Starting with nothing, thanks to his business sense and brilliant decision making, he becomes a big player of Joseon market by monopolizing silks and papers in Sijeon(The biggiest market in Joseon). A trader of papers, Kim Jo-nyeon extends his power as Jeong Jo ascends the throne, who attachs great importance to making a record.
Through trades, he comes across advanced culture and gets an aesthetic sense. Although he buys a genealogical table of aristocrat and marry a woman from aristocrat family to escape from his low class, he knows they look down on him behind his back. Kim Jo-nyeon relives his loneliness with Jeong-hyang's gayageum(a twelve-stringed Korean harp) tune. He is a man of influence who has rich personal networks from Jo Young-sueng of Byuck-Pa to Qeen Jung-soon. |
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The Strongest Ruler,
but hiding a deep longing for his father inside King Jeong Jo Bae Soo-bin Since he has been grown up watching all sort of conspiracies of ministers and high-ranking officials from his childhood, he tries to be the strongest king. He resolutely carry out reformation plans despite interferences of Byuk-Pa and assigns Hong-do and Yoon-bok a secret mission to reinstate his father, Sadoseja. The mission is to reveal a secret related to a death of a painter 10 years ago and to find a portrait of Sadoseja. Jeong Jo tries to escape from Qeen Jeong-soon and Byuk-Pa who shake his throne calling him a son of sinner and makes effort to open a new world. |
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Hong Gook-yeong Jeong In-Gi Dosuengji (the Chief Presidential Secretary of today) He is the right hand of Jeong Jo and the man who gets things done for Jeong Jo. He is ambitious, diligent, and utilitarian. Keeping not too far and not too close relationship with Hong-do and Yoon-bok, he saves them when they are threatened to be killed by Byuk-Pa and he holds Jo Young-seung and Jang Byeok-soo in check. With Seo Myung-seon, he supports Jeong Jo's political power. |
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| Queen Jeong-soon Lim Ji-eun She is cunning as a snake and is full of ambition with political sense tempered by bloodless wars around the palace from her early age. She likes rarities such as relics handed down for generations or rare chinas from Ching. |
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| Jang Byeok-soo Kim Eung-soo He is on the Byul-Je, the prime position of Dohwaseo. He esteems strict regulation and discipline not only in arts but also in personal relationship. However he has no regard for accepting a little bribes or threatening others using his power. |
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| Jang Hyo-won Park Jin-woo The son of the Byul-Je of Dohwaseo, Jang Byeok-soo. He entered Dohwaseo at the top and was the president of the apprentice in his apprentice years. He passes Hwa-won(Royal Painter) examination on his first try. He can everything by the books. However, given a free subject, he is frightened out of his wits. He always answers by the book, does a right thing and he is proud of being a right person. |
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| Jeong-hyang Moon Chae-won The best gisaeng famous for her gayageum(a twelve-stringed Korean harp) skills and her beauty. She is captivated by Yoon-bok who are different from other guys she has met before. Despite Kye-wol's advice, 'Don't give your heart', she becomes Yoon-bok's secret model and falls in love with Yoon-bok more and more. However, she is sold to Kim Jo-nyeon who love Jeong-hyang one-sidely. |
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| Mok Kye-wol Lee Mi-young The owner of Kye-Wol-Ok She is a gisaeng who seems to have been beauriful in her young years but now she is old. Proud of being a gisaeng, she is still haughty and stiff-necked. However, comparing to young Jeong-hyang, she feels like she has experienced all sort of hardship in the field. |
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| Kang Soo-hang Yoon Joo-sang The teacher of Kim Hong-do and Seo-jing The only one who noticed Hong-do's talent from early. Despite the opposition of senior members of Dohwaseo, he made much of Hong-do's talent and supported him. Since he tried to enhance creativity of apprentices and to let them know the pleasure of painting, many apprentices loved and admired him. He dies mysteriously after completing a painting that Jeong Jo asked him secretly before he ascends the throne. |
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| Seo-jing Han Jeong-soo He was a talented painter of Dohwaseo but met mysterious death 10 years ago. |
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| Myeong Lee Kyeong-hwa The wife of Seo-jing |
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