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SEOUL December 9 (Yonhap) -- In order to find the potential candidate for marriage, King of Choson Dynasty Lee Heon issues a marriage ban throughout the Choson Dynasty after the mysterious death of his crown princess.
People’s crave for love and marriage continues on due to the marriage ban which continued on for seven years, therefore scammer So-rang looks for a way to use the issue to make profit.
While getting apprehended while secretly telling people ways to get married, So-rang gets dragged into the castle due to things she addressed in the process of her attempting to get out of apprehension.
South Korean broadcasting channel MBC’s upcoming traditional drama series “The Forbidden Marriage” is about the story of King Lee-heon and scammer So-rang who lies to the king in order to get out of her troubles.
“It all started from the fun and entertaining imagination of ban of marriage throughout Choon Dynasty for 7 years,” adding “The biggest difference between normal historical drama is that ‘The Forbidden Marriage’ is bit more free of its original formats,” director Par Sang-woo addressed throughout the press conference held at the CGV located in Yongsan Seoul, South Korea.
Both drama version of “The Forbidden Marriage” and the original web novel were written by Chun Ji-hye. In order to replicate as much and preserve most of the setting Choson was set as the background of the series.
“In order to break free from the preservation of basic settings we have included the idea of multiverse, we had a lot of help from the original writer Chun Ji-hye so we called her up and bothered her very often,” adding “Every little details were carefully portrayed throughout the story.” addressed director Park Sang-woo throughout the press conference of the drama “The Forbidden Marriag.”
Moreover, director addressed “We have tried our best to enhance visual and sound effects throughout the series,” adding “props, clothes, places we shot the scene were carefully selected in order to incorporate Korean tradition, and we used a lot of traditional instrument to fulfill the sounds for the audience.”
Throughout the series actress Park Ju-hyun, actor Kim Young-dae, and Kim Woo-seok who are not familiar with one another will showcase the love triangle.
The King Lee-heon acted by Kim Young-dae gets attracted to very outgoing So-rang, however King looks at his best friend, Lee Shin-won also his bodyguard acted by Kim Woo-seok getting close with So-rang from a distance controlling his emotions.
“Even when I first read the script I immediately fell in love with the role of So-rang, she is very good with his words, and she is very keen to the change of her surroundings,” adding “ She is a go getter, she achieves what she desires by working her best.” addressed actress Park Ju-hyun throughout the press conference of “The Forbidden Marriage.”
Continuing on, actress addressed “I think I have never seen a female character like her, throughout the production I had so much fun acting So-rang.”
Actor Kim Young-dae who acted out the king character Lee Heon addressed “The character Lee Heon is very emotional character, therefore I took time to really think about how to portray such mood changes,” and actor Kim Woo-seok, addressed “Lee Shin-won the one I acted out is not familiar with showcasing his emotions, therefore I tried my best to portray to a point where audiences will be able to see the changes in emotion.”
(This article is translated from Korean to English by Joonha Yoo)
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