{"id":3562,"date":"2009-11-24T20:52:45","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T04:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/?p=3562"},"modified":"2014-01-23T21:22:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T05:22:22","slug":"goong-the-royal-palace-volumes-5-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/2009\/11\/24\/goong-the-royal-palace-volumes-5-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Goong: The Royal Palace Volumes 5-7"},"content":{"rendered":"

It should be like a dream come true.\u00a0 Chae-Kyung grew up living a normal life, but now she finds herself as the betrothed to the Crown Prince of Korea.\u00a0 The only problem?\u00a0 The Crown Prince, Shin Lee is a royal jerk.\u00a0 Chae-Kyung is taken away from her family and her life as she knew it and thrown into the strange world of the Royal Palace, where she struggles against loneliness and her growing feelings for the Crown Prince amidst the political and romantic background of the Royal Palace.<\/i><\/p>\n

\"Goong<\/a>By Park SoHee
\nPublisher:<\/strong> Yen Press
\nAge Rating:<\/strong> Teen
\nGenre:<\/b> Romance\/Drama
\nPrice: <\/b>$10.99<\/p>\n

Goong<\/i> takes place in an alternate reality, where Korea still has a royal family, and the government is a constitutional monarchy, like the United Kingdom.\u00a0 Chae-Kyung is from the ordinary world, where she lived an ordinary life, and is suddenly thrown into the turmoil of learning the traditional and customs of the Korean royal family as well as deal with political and romantic intrigue.\u00a0 This is a title wrought with melodrama and a crisis of some sort at every corner.\u00a0 It’s a title that you know you shouldn’t want to read, but just can’t help getting drawn into.<\/p>\n

Starting a series that’s already established can be confusing.\u00a0 You have all these characters that are already established in the story and plot lines going that can be difficult to untangle.\u00a0 Fortunately, Goong<\/i> isn’t like that.\u00a0 With only a minimal description of the title’s basic premise I still had no problem getting into the story and characters.\u00a0 Chae-Kyung is a conflicted character.\u00a0 She longs for her normal life and doesn’t want to be drawn into the palace intrigue, but she still finds herself falling in love with Shin.\u00a0 Shin himself sends out confusing signals, making it harder for her.\u00a0 He can be so cold and unkind to her, but then suddenly seem to care very much about her.\u00a0 He too finds himself falling for Chae-Kyung, and it’s their stubbornness to ignore their feelings and keep to the deal they apparently made at the beginning of the series to stay together until they are of age and then divorce that fuels their conflict.<\/p>\n

\"Goong<\/a>Of course that isn’t all that’s making things hard for them.\u00a0 The situations going on around them only makes things more complicated.\u00a0 The deceased king’s widow and son are both making plays to get back into power, but for different reasons.\u00a0 Yul, the former Crown Prince, loves Chae-Kyung and wants to take her away from Shin.\u00a0 His mother, the Daebi, wants her son to be Crown Prince for the power it will bring her, but hates Chae-Kyung and doesn’t want Yul marrying her.\u00a0 She makes life miserable for Chae-Kyung and her plans cause havoc for Shin and Chae-Kyung, as well as the current queen, Shin’s mother.\u00a0 The current king was, and possibly still is, in love with the Daebi, and the favor he shows her has not gone unnoticed by either wife or son, and both begin to show their claws.\u00a0 So, even though the plots can get complicated, they aren’t difficult to understand, or get involved in.<\/p>\n

Goong<\/i> is an engrossing title, even if it’s only for the soap opera style of writing.\u00a0 It’s strength is in how well done both the plots and characters are.\u00a0 They all act like real people, not the stereotypes typically seen on daytime TV.\u00a0 Chae-Kyung is under so much stress that she doesn’t eat much and consequently looses and lot of weight.\u00a0 This is treated realistically and without a lot of melodrama.\u00a0 The people around her, and even Shin himself show concern for her, even if he denies the one things she really wants; to go home.\u00a0 The situations aren’t so outrageous that you couldn’t believe they could happen, but just melodramatic enough to keep you reading.<\/p>\n

\"Goong<\/a>The art is very nicely done, though I have to admit some problems with the eyes.\u00a0 Sometimes on a profile, it’s hard to tell if the eyes are open or closed.\u00a0 And SoHee’s chibis aren’t the same kind of cute as in manga, but after a while, you get used to them.\u00a0 But what I love most is all the detail that goes into the costumes.\u00a0 The women of the Korean Royal Family wears the traditional garb whenever they are in the palace or conducting palace business.\u00a0 The costumes are intricate, and beautifully rendered.<\/p>\n

I didn’t think I would like Goong<\/i> from its initial description.\u00a0 But that turned out to be completely wrong, and I gladly join the growing fan base for this title.\u00a0 Goong<\/i> is a great sunjeong, or shojo\/romance title that lover of these genres or just plain drama will enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It should be like a dream come true.\u00a0 Chae-Kyung grew up living a normal life, but now she finds herself as the betrothed to the Crown Prince of Korea.\u00a0 The only problem?\u00a0 The Crown Prince, Shin Lee is a royal jerk.\u00a0 Chae-Kyung is taken away from her family and her life as she knew it and thrown into the strange world of the Royal Palace, where she struggles against loneliness and her growing feelings for the Crown Prince amidst the political and romantic background of the Royal Palace. By Park SoHee Publisher: Yen Press Age Rating: Teen Genre: Romance\/Drama Price: $10.99 Goong takes place in an alternate reality, where Korea still has a royal family, and the government is a constitutional monarchy, like the United Kingdom.\u00a0 Chae-Kyung is from the ordinary world, where she lived an ordinary life, and is suddenly thrown into the turmoil of learning the traditional and customs of the Korean royal family as well as deal with political and romantic intrigue.\u00a0 This is a title wrought with melodrama and a crisis of some sort at every corner.\u00a0 It’s a title that you know you shouldn’t want to read, but just can’t help getting drawn into. Starting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,20],"tags":[83,85,99,110,209],"class_list":["post-3562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews-reviews","category-yen-press","tag-manga","tag-manhwa","tag-older-teen","tag-review","tag-yen-press"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2umma-Vs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3562"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4074,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions\/4074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}