Princess Hours - Korean Drama

Princess Hours (also known as "Goong")
Episodes: 24
Genre: Romantic, with a touch of humor.
Different from "Goong S"
This is a Korean drama based on the manga "Princess Hours". It is set in modern day 2006, but there is a monarchy that still puppet rules Korea.


---Cast---
Main Cast:
The Crown Prince, Shin, is played by Joo Ji Hoon
The Crown Princess, Chae Kyung, is played by Yoon Eun Hye
The former Crown Prince (later the Royal Prince), Yool, is played by Kim Jung Hoon.
The Ex-Girlfriend of Shin, Hyo Rin, is played by Song Ji Hyo
Extended cast:

Chae Kyung's family:

Im Ye Jin as Chae Kyung's mother

Kang Nam Gil as Chae Kyung's father

Kim Suk as Shin Chae Joon (younger brother)

Shin's friends:

Choi Sung Joon as Kang In

Lee Yong Joo as Jang Kyung (glasses)

Uhm Sung Mo as Ryu Wan (the kid who is always taping)

Chae kyung's friends:

Jun Ji Ae as Lee Kang Hyun (glasses)

Lee Eun as Kim Soon Young

Dan Ji as Yoon Hee Soong (mirrors)

Palace:
Lee Yoon Ji as Princess Hye Myung (Shin's sister)
Shim Hye Jin as Lady Hwa Yong (Yool's mother)

Kim Hye Ja as the Queen Mother (Yool and Shin's Grandma)

Yoon Yoo Sun as Queen Min (Shin's mother)

Park Chan Hwan as King Hwang (Shin's father)

Lee Ho Jae as Shin's Butler

Lee So Won as one of Chae Kyung's Attendents :)

This is not the full cast.

Storyline:
This is the typical story about a stuck up, lonely boy who doesn't know how to express himself in his suffocating world, who gets together with a cheerful carefree girl. 
This drama starts with the King shown as ill. Concerned with what might happen, should he pass away, the royal family decides to marry the Crown Prince, Shin. They plan to marry him to a girl who was betrothed to the Crown Prince when they were babies. Shin, however, does not want an arranged marriage in the 21st century, so he asks his girlfriend Hyo Rin, an aspiring ballet student, to marry him. Hyo Rin, however, tells him that she does not want to give up her dream of becoming a world renowned ballerina, thus rejecting him. When he does not come back to the royal family with a fiancée, the royal family goes through with preparing his marriage with the betrothed girl.The intended bride? A headstrong, cheerful, carefree commoner girl from his school, Chae Kyung. Her life is simple, having fun with her friends, eating tok-poki, and being with her family. Her and Shin's grandfathers were best friends, and made a pact to marry their grandchildren. Of course, they don't get along at all, beginning with a run-in at their school. 
Anyway, they end up getting married, him for convenience, and her for the money to support her poor family. This is the first time a commoner is married into the royal family, creating much interest in the country. 
Shin has not always been the Crown Prince... he only received that position when his uncle, the King, passed away and his father became the new King. According to palace rules, Yool, the original Crown Prince and his mother had to leave the castle (though we find out later on that there was a much darker secret that made them leave). They move to London. Soon they return, however, when they hear the news of the marriage. Yool's mother wants revenge for being removed from the royal household, and is set out to return Yool to what she considers his rightful position - next in line for King - and she will stop at nothing to get that goal.
Yool was the original Crown Prince, and he is also Shin's cousin. He falls in love with Chae Kyung's personality, and starts to harbor envious feelings to Shin as he feels that Shin doesn't deserve her. He is also aware of the fact that if his own father had not passed away, HE would have been Chae Kyung's husband. It is because of this that he assists his mother in the attempts to bring Shin down and reinstate himself as the future King of Korea. Scandals break out. Yool's mother has a newspaper company on her side, and she makes sure to use it. The royal family is in chaos. The Queen, Shin's mother, knows something weird is going on with Yool's mother - suddenly coming back after dissapering for 14 years with no communication? She tries to caution her husband, the King, and the Queen Mother, but no one listens to her.
Princess Hye Myung, shin's sister, returns from her studying abroad. She is a nice girl, who has gone all around the world helping poverty stricken countries. She is very smart, and advises her mother and the Queen Mother to keep their cool, as someone is playing them.The scandals keep coming...
Chae Kyung has begun to fall for Shin, but little does she know, he has fallen for her. Through a series of events and misunderstandings, she assumes he wants to divorce her and go back to Hyo Rin after 2-3 years. She gets close to Yool, as he is in her class at school, and he always gives her a shoulder to lean on. Shin is jealous and angry when he sees her being so kind to him, and fears that she will love Yool instead. So, as the story goes, he deals with that by being really mean to her and dragging her away everytime she talks to Yool, as well as even punching Yool. 
Then Shin discovers something disturbing, putting him in bad terms with Yool's mother... but it's not only about her. It involves someone from the palace as well...

Watch all episodes here (with english subs).