Jejoongwon’s production team at prayer ceremony
Is that not a beautiful photo? Jejoongwon [제중원], the drama also called the “Joseon-era White Tower,” held its customary opening prayer ceremony on the afternoon of October 14 as the series heads into filming.
Jejoongwon has been steadily preparing its production over the past year and is the follow-up for writer Lee Ki-won, who wrote the excellent contemporary medical drama White Tower, which starred Kim Myung-min in a standout performance as an ambitious surgical genius. Jejoongwon is the name of Korea’s first modern hospital which opened in the late 19th century, and stars East of Eden’s Yeon Jung-hoon as a nobleman who gives up his privileged status to enter its ranks.
The drama had previously been looking at a late fall showing, but now has announced that it will air on SBS early next year, premiering January 4.
I’m a little iffy about the historical-medical drama (it does sound like an interesting backdrop), but in any case the cast and the costuming (particularly for lead actress Han Hye-jin) look gorgeous. Rounding out the main cast is Park Yong-woo, who plays a butcher’s son who becomes a physician. Han Hye-jin enters Jejoongwon as an interpreter but takes on medical training to become a doctor.
Via Newsen
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Ii just find Yeon Jung Hoon adorable so I’ll be watching no matter what.
damn, that hanbok is the prettiest one i’ve ever seen. Sounds interesting, I might try it. Han hye-jin is gorgeous.
@jo: Really? My reaction was, dear god, it may be one of the tackiest I’ve seen on k-dramas, even taking into account the early 20c. backdrop. HHJ’s a lovely lady whom I loved in JuMong, but oh my lord, Jejoongwon may turn out to be an eyesore…
I like this kind of theme. Besides, there’s Park Yong Woo.
hmm… I think her hanbok is quite pretty.
i can’t wait to watch this. Han Hye-jin is absolutely l♥vely in sageuk !!!
I do like Yeon Jung-hoon (notwithstanding East of Eden) but the initial story doesn’t seem incredibly appealing to me yet.
Han Hye Jin is underrated! I think this girl is beautiful and I’ve seen her sister’s picture, she’s just as pretty as she is. I can’t believe that she’s with Naul for almost 4 years now. I also heard that Han Hye Jin’s sister is Kim Kangwo’s girlfriend, talk about it, it’s all in the family!
I have higher expectations for this one than Painter in the Wind.
Not only do you have the writer of White Tower, but the director of Scales of Providence. The fact that it’s been moved until next year means it doesn’t have to get killed by Queen Seon Duk. (Though I think it’s gonna have to face Don Xi.)
another daeha sageuk (ui-sageuk, to be exact) revolutionizing hanbok (just like Hwang Jin-i (PRETTY!!!), Wang-gwa Na (weird wigs, I tell you), & Yi San did…)
Han Hye-jin’s hanbok is just lovely. I don’t know if 20th-cen. hanbok is like that…
By the way, what are the Korean earrings called; the ones wherein the earrings are just placed in the earlobes? I know for a fact that only 2 characters have worn those kind of earrings in daeha sageuk history: Ok Mae-hyang (in Yeoin Cheonha) and Queen Inhyeon (in Jang Hee-bin)…
The male leads don’t interest me, but I love Han Hye Jin. It’ll be interesting to watch this series unfold since her last sageuk role in Jumong.
HHJ hanbok is so beautiful, which I can have one
Thats a really peculiar hanbok! I like it.
And just a comment about the “20th cent.” hanboks, they werent pretty because they were just white tops and black skirts. People were too poor to wear extravagant ones. (Korean War, hello?)
Ah, Sosuhno is such a lovely woman. I haven’t seen White Tower, but I loved Kim Myung-min in Beethoven Virus. So, I like the cast members. That’s a promising start.
Han Hye Jin looks gorgeous!
I’m not sure whether the background interests me yet (I’m interested in ancient Korea, not so much the modern period…) and I have little interest in the male leads, but I may check it out anyway just because it looks like it might be a visual feast.
@14…
no, I was just asking if 20th-cen hanbok was like those that HHJ is wearing…but anyways, you did answer my question…so it resembles Ha Ji-won’s hanbok on her (weird) cameo appearance at “Fashion 70’s”?
reminds me of the hanboks of Hwang Jin-i; the story is 15th-cen, but hanbok is like 18/19th-cen, from what I remember on the drama special…