Romantic Love In Ming Yi

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Set during the reign of King Sukjong of the Joseon dynasty, the Korean drama ‘’Dong yi’’ is a historical drama based on the life of Royal Noble Consort Suk of the Haeju Choe clan. Love has existed in many forms throughout time. Often considered as a great love story, it is in fact accurate to say that love is naturally the drama’s dominant and most important theme. In ‘’Dong yi’’, love is a violent, ecstatic, overpowering force that supersedes all other values, loyalties, and emotions. In the course of the play, King Sukjong is driven to defy and ruin his entire royal life: reputation, wealth and power for the sake of the woman he loves. Love is the overriding theme of the drama, but a reader should always remember that in ‘’Dong Yi’’, love is an overwhelming and powerful emotion that captures individuals and propels them against their own world. This Korean drama focuses on romantic love, specifically the intense feeling that springs up at first sight in the King Sukjong, even if though he was not aware of it at that time, towards Dong yi from the first time he met her.
When a man is in love, he often exhibits signs of emotional dependency and wishes to always be close to the woman he loves and King Sukjong was no different. After the first time he met her, he kept inviting her to eat food and drink alcohol together. He also longed for emotional union with his beloved, seeking out ways to get closer and day-dreaming about her. They start to have happy times together with her and the two guys from the Royal Music Department. The King started to generally feel a powerful sense of empathy toward Dong Yi, feeling the other person's pain as their own and being willing to sacrifice anything for her. His sentiments towards her are final...

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...!” The king screams, “Listen here. I’m…” Dong-yi interrupts him, “At this rate, we are going to lose all the evidences. With the criminals right in front of us, how can a police officer try to avoid getting little dirty.” The king looks back at her with a tinge of calmed annoyance at all the ballyhoo, “Alright. I will do it already.” When he finally bends and kneels, of course he moans and groans when she steps on his back in her attempt to climb the wall.
This Korean drama ‘’Dong Yi’’ does not make any direct exemplary and ethical statement about the relationships between love and society or the influence it can have on its victims; rather, it portrays the consequences of being in love, while in the same time, heartens humans in a impressionistic motive and goal leading to the conclusion that love is eternal and that its flame is not by all means, extinguishable.

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