Dae Jang Geum

Author: Liu Minzhu (Author), Xue Zhou, Xu Lihong (Translator)
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Publish Date: 2005-05-07
Features: This year's hot Korean drama "Dae Jang Geum" starring Lee Young-ae, which set a new viewership record across Asia, is the only original TV novel from China. In the mid-16th century, the orphaned Dae Jang Geum was only seven years old when her parents were brutally killed due to being involved in a palace struggle. To fulfill her mother's wish, Dae Jang Geum accidentally enters the royal palace. She is intelligent and hardworking, attracting much attention, but also faces repeated scheming and even exile to a remote island in the palace's political intrigue. However, Dae Jang Geum never submits to fate. She dedicates herself to studying medicine and integrates it into the royal court's cuisine, eventually saving the king's life by chance, becoming Korea's first female royal physician, and being ennobled as "Dae Jang Geum."