Kang Tae-oh has stood at the center of the royal family's precarious fate.
From the first broadcast, the MBC Friday-Saturday drama Moon River (writer Jo Seung-hee/ director Lee Dong-hyun/ planner Kwon Seong-chang/ produced by High Jeum Studio), which captivated viewers with an exciting development, will deepen the confrontation between Crown Prince Lee Gang (played by Kang Tae-oh), who is sharpening the blade of revenge, and Left State Councilor Kim Han-cheol (played by Jin Goo), who seeks to bring the royal family into his grasp. Ahead of that, we took an in-depth look at the palace family tree stained by power struggles.
First, Lee Gang is the crown prince serving as regent for his father, King Lee Hee (played by Kim Nam-hee). In the past, his mother died in a mysterious poisoning incident, and the crown princess was suspected of being the perpetrator in that case, was deposed, and then insisted on her innocence and took her own life, leaving him to lose both in one year. To avenge this, Lee Gang is pretending to lavish attention on luxury to blind the ministers while secretly uncovering the truth.
It was none other than Kim Han-cheol who orchestrated all these events, and even King Lee Hee is under his pressure. Lee Hee was the half-brother of the previous king and unexpectedly ascended the throne after the previous king's suspicious death in the année of Gyesa, but now, because of Kim Han-cheol, he has been driven into a state where he cannot attend to state affairs and has stepped back from national governance.
Here, Grand Queen Dowager Han (played by Nam Gi-ae) is also wary of Kim Han-cheol seizing power within the royal family. After her son died in the année of Gyesa and both the crown prince and the queen consort also died under mysterious circumstances, there was no one left to inherit power. Therefore she is doing everything she can to prevent Kim Han-cheol's daughter from becoming crown princess and is scheming by any means to have someone of her own give birth to the royal heir.
Grand Queen Dowager Han's only remaining bloodline still exists. It is Prince Jeun Daegun Lee Woon (played by Lee Shin-young), the legitimate son of the previous king, whose mother was executed for the crime of adultery in the past and who himself was deposed; he now lives as a royal relative at leisure. However, Grand Queen Dowager Han has previously implied that this was her doing, drawing attention to what other circumstances might be involved.
With such complicated incidents intertwined and the royal family's turmoil continuing, it raises the question of whether Lee Gang will be able to uncover the truth behind the Gyesa-year incident and all these events. In particular, because he is also joining forces with the deposed prince Lee Woon, attention is focused on the actions of the two princes standing before this whirlpool of fate.
Meanwhile, Moon River will expand its broadcast from episode 3 on Friday the 14th and will air 10 minutes earlier at 9:40 p.m.
[photo] Moon River
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