The prime minister announces that they will celebrating the Dongmyeong Festival and a harvest festival. The  next day, King Yeoung Nyu leads the royal family and all the councilmen in a prayer ceremony for the coming year’s harvest. He then announces that the crown prince’s official installation ceremony will take place fifteen days after the Dongmyeong Festival, and that the prince will perform his martial arts skills on the last day.

Moo Young spies Choong walking in the palace and pretends that she is just around to let Choong sees and calls her. She talks about Choong’s day off and asks how he plans to spend it tries to get a chance that Choong might invite her but he unfortunately says that he has a friend downtown to meet. Moo Young then asks him to buy a book while he is in downtown. At the market Choong bumps into  stranger warrior which intrigues Choong’s caution.

Choong actually meets his buddy Jin Gu who all this time takes care of him. Happy to see how his old friend now turns into such a guard for the royal family, Jin Gu takes him out for a drink to celebrate it. On the way to the place they want to visit Choong catches a glimpse of the stranger he was bumped into. Choong sees the stranger is seeing Ohn Sa-moon, one of the ministers from General Yeon’s side. Choong accidentally overhears a part of their conversation, “On the last day of the festival, when the performance reaches its climax, a raven will soar and the descendants of the sun and river will fall.”

Too bad his friend then appears and gets him out of the place.The stranger is actually an assassin hires by Minister Ohn to kill the prince and princess. The minister tells him that the perfect time to assassinate the royal siblings is on the first day of the harvest festival, when tradition dictates that they will dress as commoners for a day to mingle with the people.

Moo Young tries her best to convince her brother to let Choong prepares him for his martial art skill performance, but clearly the crown prince has no interest both to practice or neither to perform. Choong steps forward, persuades the prince with his own way. He calmly rolls all the prince’s paintings, and coldly states that the king authorized him to use any means necessary to train the crown prince. And if the prince refused, he’s approved by the King himself to burn all his paintings.

The prince gets angry by Choong’s action and threatened him with a sword. Choong doesn’t even move and tells him that martial arts is about protecting what one loves and cherishes. Choong’s words touches the prince and he demands to be left alone to think. Few moments later he meets Choong in the practice room where he finds Choong is reading a book which happens to be one of the prince’s fave books. The book is actually the one Moo Young asked Choong to get in the market. She smartly planned that the prince might want to listen to Choong more if he finds out that he and Choong shares the same interest. In General Yeon’s resident, his loyal guard reports him that Choong now becomes the prince’s martial art instructor. The general then instructs his guard to convey a letter to his son in person. Hmmmm, intriguing.

Choong leads the prince and princess for their mingle-with-the-commoners-night tradition and begins alert when he notices the sight of the suspicious stranger he met in the market. The streets  are energetic with the festive spirit which seem to catch the royal siblings too. While they are taking a stroll in the street, a gisaeng grabs the prince’s arm, tries her best to get her guest for the night. The prince manages to escape and walks out from the gisaeng house. Then he  sees how Moo Young enjoys the street performances with Choong beside her. The prince smiles, noticing how the two seem to take pleasure in each other companion.

Hiding well from the crowd, the assassin hired by Minister Ohn gets a good spot to aim his poisonous dart to the prince. Unfortunately for him, the prince’s guard moves forward and blocks his sight to the prince …  only it then opens a clear range to hit Moo Young. It’s just such a fortunate night because unknowingly now Choong is the one who fails the assassin’s shot at the princess by keeping at her side.

Sensing a romance is in the air suddenly the prince says that he’s seen the celebration enough, making Moo Young almost sighing for leaving all the festivities. Cute Moo Young almost can’t contain her giddiness when her lil bro tells her that he’ll go back alone to the palace and asks her stay. Again the assassin tries another shot but he completely fails when the dart he spurts hits a cargo instead. The prince stays safe, and Moo Young enjoys the night with her broody hot guard.

The princess spots a street fortune teller and wants to hear what he says. Taking Choong’s hand to the stall she stops there, making the fortune teller guy thinks that they are a couple therefore insists to read their future. The fortune teller asks them to throw a dice together and then read what the dice says to them. It’s so funny, the dice predicts that if Moo Young and Choong spends a night together in the full moon then they will have a son! Whoohoo.

Moo Young and Choong have no idea that all the time they are watched by Cousin Jang. At that time, while the two lovers sheepishly smile to each other at the thought of that surprising prediction, a street boy steals Choong’s sword. Without thinking, Choong grabs Moo Young’s hand and together they chase after that kid through the crowded streets. Moo Young thrills with the sensation of holding hand with Choong, while all Choong thinks is that he needs to get his sword back but at the same time he still has to guard the princess. They lose the boy, but suddenly General Yeon’s guard appears and gives Choong his sword back. Cousin Jang sees all the exchange and looks troubled.

Choong showed Moo Young the place he used to live, makes her wonders how nice it must have been for him to be able to come and go whenever he pleased. Choong responds with, “Though you’re always smiling, I know that you’re heavily burdened in the palace,” he understands her well now. In a chat with her, then Choong reveals that he had a mother.

While they’re chatting Moo Young notices some word games carved in the wall and then tries to play some with him, giving him clues and ask him to guess the full character. He gets the easier ones, so she gives him the more the difficult question and this time she expresses what she feels through the word game. She asks, “What about the character where the words inside one’s heart are confined by threads?” (The character means love and yearning). Choong looks he doesn’t know the answer but I guess he does though, he just doesn’t want to get them both into an uncomfortable situation. He is the one who knows best that their romantic relationship might not bring them anywhere but dead end.

After they come home to the palace Choong goes to the backyard and quietly finds his father’s letter is  attached to his sword. Basically his general dad disagrees with his staying in the palace. He burns the letter, unknowing that Jang secretly watches him from behind. Choong perks up when Moo Young unexpectedly appears. She asks what he just burned, but Choong distracts her by asking why she comes to meet him there. It turns out that she just wants to give him a gift, a hairpin she bought at the market. The one actually Choong chose at the same day they met at the accessory shop. She is thankful that Choong able to persuade the prince to take part in the martial art skill performance.

The next day the prince and Choong start their training day.  Choong teaches him about learning his opponent moves to block their attacks and then defeat them. Jang visited the practice room and somehow Choong’s fighting style reminds him of almost similar movements from the fight he had in the rain with the masked assassin.

Moo Young comes by to train too, and now the prince convinced that his martial art instructor and his sister like each other. He tells Choong a story about his beloved sister, letting him know more about the woman he likes. In a flashback it showed how Moo Young demonstrated her sword fighting skills in front of their King dad, all the minister and also foreign delegates. She won, and everybody rejoice at the thought of how powerful their princess is. But she isn’t. Later when her brother visited her with a bunch of lovely flower, he found out how the fight wounded his sister. In a banquet with the King and the statesmen the princess perfectly hid her wound and appears in from of everybody as the royal princess their country can proud of.

The prince tells Choong how he refuses to fight not because he’s afraid but it’s just that he hates fighting. He never does what he doesn’t want to, but his sister selflessly does anything she can for him, for her father, for their country. Amazed with what he finds about the princess, Choong promises, “You’re not alone, Princess. I will be by your side.”

On the last day of the Festival Day, the royal family enters the meeting hall filled with all the councilmen dressed to enjoy a special performance. The poisonous assassin is among the performers disguises as a crow dancer. The prince opens the gala with his martial art performance and successfully defeat his opponent, he glanced a thankful look to Choong who received that with a smile and a bow. Then a traditional acting troupe come to the stage, performing a show. They’re this sophistication and just beyond gorgeous to stare at.

While the performance takes place, Choong notices how anxious Minister Ohn in his seat. His anxiousness triggers an extreme caution to Choong, makes Choong watches every move with sharp eyes. He sees how Minister Ohn then talks to his dad, and now he also sees the assassin backstage.

Suddenly it’s clear for Choong that Minister Ohn hires an assassin to kill the royal siblings. So when the assassin who disguises as one of the raven performer shows up and tries to shoot his poisonous pills Choong is ready and flies to the center of the room to block the attacks.

The assassin fights Choong back and slices Choong’s arm at the same place Jang has wounded him. The fight finishes when Choong cuts the silk used by the assassin to dangle, make him falls flat to the ground.

Because the fight is so sudden, no one can really understand what just happened, not to mention how the King is so mad at Choong’s abrupt interruption. He demands to know why Choong ruined the performance, and Choong frantically tries to defend himself as best as he can without involving his general father.

He can’t reveal that there is an attempt to murder the royal descendants because immediately the attempt will be related to his father as the King’s biggest enemy. So he protects his dad by lying that he just misunderstood the situation and thought that there was a threat to the royal family. Both Moo Young and the prince do their best to defend Choong, explaining that it was a mistake he made out of a loyal spirit from a guard to protect the royal family. At first everything seems to be solved smoothly when the King accepts their explanation and wants to let the case as it is.

But it’s just not a good day for Choong indeed. Jang speaks up and revealing a hidden old wound on Choong’s arm, recognizing the wound he gave to the mysterious assassin who killed the attackers to royal convoy back then. The king then turns to Choong to ask him if he infiltrated the palace as a spy. Moo Young is so surprised with all this and pleads Choong to say that the accusation is wrong. Choong keeps silent because he doesn’t know what to do to get out of this situation without involving his dad but everybody takes this as a statement from Choong that he is indeed a spy.

Choong then replies that he came to the palace as a guard and that he really isn’t a spy, but when Moo Young asks him why he has a wound from Jang’s sword, Choong can only say that he had a reason for doing what he did that day. Choong keep denying the spy accusation on him but then Jang throws down a huge fact. That Choong made contact with General Yeon through a letter which then he burned so nobody will know.

Choong can’t let himself to keep being accused as spy because it will lead to an idea that his father is a rebel who wants to kill the royal family. So finally he decides to say the truth. That he’s an illegitimate son of General Yeon. Everybody is shocked with this confession, and it seems that it hurts Moo Young the most. The man she loves is a man she doesn’t know anything. Choong carefully approached her, hid the fact from the very beginning that he knew she’s a princess, and he’s the son of her father greatest enemy.

The king uses this opportunity to hit General Yeon. He announces that Choong is gonna be beheaded under the law, to see how the general is going to react. The general does his best though to defend Choong. He knows his son knows about the plan from his side to murder the royal descendants. He rejected the poor kid, refuses to acknowledge him as his son. But the kid is still loyal to him. Loyal enough to put his life in danger to be beheaded rather than revealing the murder plan.

When the King still questions the truth about Choong being his son but works as a palace guard General Yeon says, “I have nothing to do with him. He is of my blood, but he’s never been part of the Yeon family and is an illegitimate child without a name.” The General’s statement shocked everybody, and we can see how it hurts Choong.

Despite General Yeon’s statement to defend Choong’s life and clear the accusation, the king decrees that Choong will be beheaded in the middle of the capital square in public.

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She then puts an apple on her head and stays very still while few meters  away in front of her Choong prepares to shoot his arrows blindfolded. Even though Moo Young logically worries for her safety, she puts utmost trust to Choong and bravely lets him shoots his arrows.

The crowd break with cheers when Choong succeeded shooting the apple and his best buddy-manager gives Moo Young half of their earn as they promised, but while Moo Young takes the money she sees Choong leaves. She runs after him, clearly looks for any chance to have a small chat with the guy she has a crush so much. She wants to give the money back saying it’s better for the one who needs it but Choong insists that the money is hers now because that was promised to her.

Seeing that she can talk more with him, Moo  Young tells Choong she thinks his excellent martial art skills should be used for a better advantage, like being a palace guard. Choong looks like he tries his best not to smile and teases her saying, “Yeah, your guard to be exact, right babe?”, luckily he knows to use his head and shuts his mouth. He seems to ignore her offer but then he turns around and looks back at her in deep thought.

The next day a senior palace guard announces the palace is seeking for new palace guards and everybody above 15 years old and have good martial art skills can try over and the good thing is, slaves are allowed to participate in the test too. Choong hears the announcement and seems like he considers to join the test.

In the palace another hot debate takes place. King Yeong Nyu wants to send Crown Prince to Tang as a symbol of peace in order to prevent war. The king believes that sending a peace delegation is an honorable act representing peace and a willingness to compromise though what the King wants is to buy more time to prepare their best for the upcoming war, on the contrary General Yeon’s party thinking it’s just a coward move. Meanwhile in a different place, 49 applicants for the palace guards test gathering to receive a briefing about their test. Choong is one of them, and far back from the participants Moo Young sneaks around to see if Choong takes the test. She smiles when she finally sees him there.

The first test for the palace guard applicants is; they will be divided into 7 teams consist of 7 men and will be put into a prison just so they can fight the prisoners. The prisoners themselves are promised to be freed if they can take down the applicants, so basically it is a life and dead survival game. Back to the palace, the King somehow sees that a most recent Tang attack is a great reason to fasten the wall building and a perfect opportunity to send General Yeon out of the country. The King says General Yeon is the most eligible person to supervise the wall building. Refuses to back down without fighting, General Yeon argues that such a big decision should come from a grand ministers meeting instead of just the King’s solely decision.

Choong passes the test first round then with some other applicants begins the second and the final phase of the test, in form of more extreme survival test. Basically they have to shoot an arrow with the same color of ribbon tied to their arm only after they able to cross a high steep cliff, then they must swim across the sea and pulls the flag tied on a buoy there if they can dive down to get it, the flag has to be the same color with their arm ribbon too because each applicant has different color as their code. The first one success showing their flag above the sea water, is the chosen palace guard who will later assigned to personally guard the royal family member.

Choong’s wounded arm from his fight with Moo Young and Cousin Jang weakened him, not to mention that other fellow applicants try to slow him down by attacking him. Nevertheless Choong’s memory of his beloved mother gives him strength and finally Choong able to shoot his arrow and maintains his leading position in the test.

He dives into the sea but he is so tired he loses his consciousness and unable to pull his flag. However,  Moo Young who secretly watches him from distance jumps in to help him and reach the flag for Choong. Cousin Jang and the senior palace guard sees Choong’s red flag and declare he passes the test, unknowing that it’s Moo Young actually in the water.

Moo Young lays Choong on a beach to let him gain his conscious back and a young man, Shi Woo, from the King secret organization, appears. He wonders why Moo Young is so keen to help such an unknown man like Choong, he asks whether actually Moo Young has feeling for him. Moo Young sincerely answers that yes, she has a feeling for him. A feeling moves her so much, so even if she doesn’t know him very well she can’t help not to help him. Choong silently opens his eyes, he hears everything.

Choong who at first wants to take advantage from Moo Young’s crush thinks that it’s just so dishonest for him to move further as a palace guard, especially since his pass is helped by Moo Young. He believes he cheated, so he gives up the position and decides to leave Pyongyang. Moo Young hears this and immediately chases him, refuses to just simply let him go. She feels defeated after Choong explained how he tried to take advantage of her feeling but then she flares back, “You only care about yourself, your own feelings. You don’t consider feelings of the other person who show him kindness.”

In the evening King meets his prime minister to discuss about the last development. The prime minister somehow gets an impression that King wants to eliminate General Yeon and preserves his prime minister position in the palace. Never occurs to him that King and General Yeon secretly are plotting a move, an assassin is sent to kill him that night so then both King and General Yeon can get what they want. A new prime minister election for the General, and the crown prince instalation for the King, a win win solution for the two parties. Which is ironic because actually the prime minister himself sends some other assassins to kill General Yeon at the same time. Though they’re just all killed by General Yeon’s mighty guard.

The death of the prime minister makes the palace pepares for the prime minister election. Both King and General Yeon’s party frantically try to get support from General Yang Moon, a general who represents the neutral party to balance the power of the two giant forces in the palace. General Yang is a hidden force for each party to gain in order to ensure victory in the election.

General Yang refuses to meet the King because he disappoints after finding out that King is behind the action of killing the prime minister just so the King can maintains status quo with General Yeon. However, Moo Young’s determination takes her to see General Yang and finally convinces him to keep supporting the King. On the other hand, General Yang refuses meeting General Yeon, leaving him in a gloom.

The surprise thing is, when Moo Young leaves General Yang’s house the guard who is waiting for her outside is Choong. In a short flashback we get that Choong finally reconsiders Moo Young’s word and realizes how insolent he is to someone that kind to him. So he comes back to the palace and claims his position, he then is assigned as Moo Young’s personal bodyguard.

Choong begins to understand the princess more and how she is also a statesman, she cares about palace/state matter too and not just a spoiled princess. Unknowing that Choong is actually General Yeon’s son, Moo Young says how she hates the General for always against the King’s decision and maybe it is better for the country if the General is dead. Choong doesn’t know how to respond to her statement and keeps silent. When she asks about his father, Choong says though he is alive but his father isn’t a family for him.

The next day the prime minister selection begins. King busily concentrating with his giant calligraphy to less his stress and Moo Young anxiously waiting in her chamber accompanied by Choong. When  it’s the last batch time to vote after both parties have their turns, General Yang puts his vote for King’s prime minister candidate, hinting a victory for the King’s side because it means the neutral party will vote for King’s side.

Alas, something unpredictable happens. The other ministers from General Yang’s supposed to be neutral party all vote for General Yeon’s candidate. The new appointed prime minister is from General Yeon’s people.  As General Yeon about to leave the hall assuming that he wins, there is this shocking twist. The newly chosen prime minister announces that he commands General Yeon to go to the border to supervise the wall building.

General Yeon’s candidate has backstabbed him. The King wickedly blackmailed General Yeon’s man, pulling him into King’s side. Standing in shock General Yeon has to face another huge hit. Choong, his rejected illegitimate bastard son stands right in front of him, dressed in the official palace guard uniform.

The last scene we see is how surprised Moo Young when she finds out how Choong sits in the court hall with her father greatest enemy, General Yeon. Choong can only looks at her, guilty is seen on his face.

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After Sooyeong (Girls Generation), another idol making short appearance on Kim Eun Suk’s drama “Gentleman’s Dignity”. Yesterday (July 3rd) frontman of CNBlue, Jung Yong Hwa has wrapped filming for his short scene with Jang Dong Gun and Kim Ha Neul. the filming took place on Italian restaurant in Ilsan.

On the script, Jung Yong Hwa plays as the member of a rock band and also former student of Seo Yi Soo (Kim Ha Neul). With the casual outfit he looks so cool, no doubt he is the real rock star indeed. Beside this amusing drama becomes his favorite, Jung Yong Hwa also feel honored to be able to take a part on this great drama project, and sparing his acting ability with the seonbae-deul that he respects a lot.

Meanwhile, his band-mate, Lee Jong Hyun, has got the regular role on this drama as Colin, ‘the abandon child’ who’s looking for his biological father.

Jung Yong Hwa’s appearance will show up on thirteenth episode on July 7th at SBS.

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Listening to CN Blue’s new single from the latest mini album Ear Fun, “Hey You”, I somehow feel a relieve. I’m happy that these guys are back to their CN Blue’s type of song. I can’t really accept their Japanese album because for me it’s a bit too hard and a bit going out of their trace. And even the MV, they’re really back to their “CN Blue’s trademark”. If you’ve been following their musical, you should know what I mean.

This song is actually about a hurt of a break up, but like they always do in their songs, they can make a heart break song sounds cheerful and keep the nice beats.

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And here’s a little sneak peek on Youtube:

You want to see more? Me too. Let’s wait for the official release…

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Wohoo I never knew that this kid had such a lovely voice. After all this time sitting adorably cute behind the drum, CNBLUE’s maknae Kang Min Hyeok is singing. In comparison to Yong Hwa’s song in OST Part 1, this song a bit strays from CNBLUE’s songs’ path. It reminds me of their early singles, though.

I like the composition of guitar play, bass drum and Min Hyeok’s voice. This song suits him. Nice song .

Kang Min Hyeok – Star

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Apparently Jung Yong Hwa and Kang Min Hyuk have to put aside CNBlue for a while for the sake of Heartstrings (You’ve Fallen For Me), because in this drama they also become bandmates, but no longer as CNBlue members. Their new band is named “Stupid”..what a stupid name I think..

Of course they both will play this drama so naturally since their characters and activities are not much different from their real life as a band. On their real band, CNBlue, Yong Hwa is a guitarist and the lead vocal, and Min Hyuk as a drummer, and so it is their fiction band, “Stupid” (oh please change this name! ). Yong Hwa will often plays guitar and sings for the band while Min Hyuk will enjoy beating his drum.

“You’ve Fallen For Me” will begin airing in MBC on June 29.

So nice look the band member playing on the drama, but I hope they still focus as musician, because for me, they look cooler as musician.

[Rizz: to all BOICEs everywhere…we can’t miss this drama! Wish the other two guys will appear as cameos in one of the episodes, Jeong Hyeok and Jeong Shin..fingers crossed ]

[by Blossom]

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CNBLUE on Yu Hui Yeol's Sketchbook

Yu Hui Yeol’s Sketchbook episode April 22nd, I missed it. Ohh i missed so many things this past a couple of weeks because things kept coming up in my life that I barely managed to bear…anyway, I read this article and it made me laugh out. Surely i’ve been out of date in comparison to Blossom or anyone who keep their eyes on Korean showbiz industry, but I still want to write it.

It said that CNBLUE had revealed their “name history” in that show to Yu Hui Yeol (Oh I love this musician and his show too). What made me bursted in to laughter wasn’t really the abbreviation of the word “BLUE”, but the way they said it. Yu Hui Yeol told them that he’s curious of what CNBLUE stood for. The band said that the word “BLUE” is the abbreaviation of each of their characteristic.

Next moment they introduced themselves:

“Hello, I’m the “Burning” Lee Jong Hyeon.” (i was like…what??)

“I’m the “Lovely” Kang Min Hyeok.” (okay, he IS always the lovely one)

“I’m the “Untouchable” Lee Jung Shin.” (nooo wayyy…gaaahh)

“I’m the “Emotional” Jeong Yeong Hwa.” (ha!!)

Okay, I need an encore, please…

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left to right: Lee Jung Shin, Lee Jong Hyun, Jeong Yong Hwa, Kang Min Hyeok

CNBLUE’s song is not a work of plagiarism, period. For CNBLUE’s fans, BOICE, you’ve probably already known about “I’m a Loner” song plagiarism allegation. They were sued by an indie band “Ynot”, who claimed that “I’m a Loner” was pretty much the same as their song, “Bluebird” and that the song writers of “I’m a Loner” plagiarized theirs. After a worrying wait, on April 13th, the court finally ruled that “I’m a Loner” was not a work of plagiarism.

Well, i’m not calling myself a BOICE, but i’m a very big fan of this band. I love their musics very much, so it was kind of annoying when I heard about the allegation. So this news is a big relief. I always feel that “I’m a Loner” song suits me very well in so many ways.

And this is their latest song from their first full length album, First Step, released last March 21st: “Intuition”. Here the four cool  guys are vandals, rebel characters, which I think make the whole package of the song even much more cool

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