"Perfect Crown" Byeon Woo-seok signaled the start of a full-scale contract marriage and dominated the ending.
On the Nov. 11 episode of MBC's Friday-Saturday drama Perfect Crown (directed by Park Jun-hwa, written by Yoo Ji-won), Iaan Daegun (Byeon Woo-seok) dealt with Seong Hee-ju's (IU) unabashed flirting. Earlier, Seong Hee-ju had proposed marriage first, but Iaan Daegun had firmly rejected it. Afterwards Iaan Daegun consistently pushed away Seong Hee-ju, who approached him without restraint saying, "I wanted to see you," at a riding stable, a traditional Korean restaurant, on the road and at a movie theater.
But an unexpected scandal abruptly turned the plot around. Through Iaan Daegun's chief of staff, whom she met by chance, Seong Hee-ju learned of his health abnormality and entered Iaan Daegun's hotel room. A scene in which even his attending physician was called in was captured, triggering the scandal. Iaan Daegun apologized to Seong Hee-ju for the controversy that arose because of him and asked what she wanted, and in the end he led the story to an ending in which he decides on a full-scale contract marriage, saying, "Prepare to become the grand consort. The opponent will be the whole country."
Byeon Woo-seok led the development smoothly as Iaan Daegun, who possesses both decisiveness and the ability to carry things out. As the central axis that seizes and drives the flow of the drama, he convincingly portrayed the character's sense of responsibility and charisma. As Korea's sovereign and when his only young nephew became overwhelmed with burden at a corporations' day event, saying, "I'm scared, uncle," when he sought out Iaan Daegun he showed a more dependable and warm side than anyone, saying, "I have come to fulfill my duty as a subject, Your Majesty," revealing a royal pillar-like persona. When Seong Hee-ju became embroiled in a scandal because of him, he directly called her and made the bold decision to marry her, portraying a composed decisive choice that enhanced the character's dimensionality. In particular, Byeon Woo-seok's ending scene, which revealed Iaan Daegun's decisiveness and charisma with unwavering eyes at the drama's conclusion, sent shivers through viewers and drew a strong reaction.
Broadcast every Friday and Saturday at 9:50 p.m. on MBC.
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