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==Details==
*'''Title:''' 궁 (宮) / Goong (Gung)
*'''Also known as:''' Palace / Princess Hours (MBC Global Media) / Imperial Household
*'''Genre:''' Romance, Comedy
*'''Episodes:''' 24
*'''Broadcast network:''' MBC
*'''Broadcast period:''' 2006-Jan-11 to 2006-Mar-30
*'''Air time:''' Wednesday & Thursday 21:55
*'''Songs:''' "Perhaps Love" by HowL & J. , "You & I Are Fools" by Stay, "Parrot" by HowL
*'''Inserts''' "Ice Pond", "Give Me A little Try" by Leigh Nash
*'''Related TV shows:''' [[Goong 2]] , [[Goong S]]

==Synopsis==
'''Goong (궁)''' is based on the same titled [[Wikipedia:Manhwa|manhwa]] by Park So Hee.

Goong is a story about young love in face of tradition, politics, and intrigue. In the imaginary world, modern-day Korea is a constitutional monarchy and the Royal Family lives in a grand Palace, the Goong. Story opens with the sudden death of the reigning the King. Faced with the decreasing popularity among the public for the Royalty, a grand wedding for the Crown Prince, Lee Shin ([[Joo Ji Hoon]]), is decided to be the best publicity move to improve the image of the Royalty and at the same time prepare Shin for immediate succession. The intended bride? The headstrong, awkward, and sweet spirited Shin Chae-kyung ([[Yoon Eun Hye]]) that just happens to go to the same exclusive art school. Chae-kyung was betrothed to become the next Crown Princess by her grandfather and Shin's grandfather.

After 14 years of living in England with his mom, Lee Yul ([[Kim Jeong Hoon]]) appears all of a sudden. He is Shin's cousin as well as the ''former'' Crown Prince. Everything seemed to be going normally until Chae-kyung's optimistic spirit wins the heart of internally lonely, Yul. As the Crown Prince Shin and simple-minded Chae-kyung's relationship appear to developing deeper feelings, a series of scandals are exposed to the public right after the pair were officially announced married. Will love prevail all in a world of political pressures and martial hardships? Or will being in the spotlight of the public be too much for the young newlyweds to endure?

[[Goong_S|Goong S]] is a drama produced by a separate production company, [http://www.group8tv.com Group Eight], and is not an official sequel of '''Goong (궁)'''. Both cast and storyline for [[Goong_S|Goong S]] are totally different from '''Goong (궁)'''.

===Episode Summaries===
See [http://gung.blogsome.com/category/episode/] or [http://myfwendlyblog.blogspot.com/] (Please do not plagiarize).

==Cast==
[[File:GoongCast.jpg|thumb|250px|Goong Cast]]
<div style="float:left; width:48%;">
===Main cast===
*[[Yoon Eun Hye]] as Shin Chae-kyung
*[[Joo Ji Hoon]] as Lee Shin
*[[Kim Jeong Hoon]] as Lee Yul
*[[Song Ji Hyo]] as Min Hyo-rin

===Chae-Kyung's family===
*[[Im Ye Jin]] as Chae-kyung's mother
*[[Kang Nam Gil]] as Chae-kyung's father
*[[Kim Suk]] as Shin Chae-joon (younger brother)

===Shin's friends===
*[[Choi Sung Joon]] as Kang In
*[[Lee Yong Joo]] as Jang Kyung
*[[Uhm Sung Mo]] as Ryu Wan

===Chae-kyung's friends===
*[[Jun Ji Ae]] as Lee Kang-hyun
*[[Lee Eun]] as Kim Soon-young
*[[Dan Ji]] as Yoon Hee-soong
</div>
<div style="float:right; width:48%;">

===Palace===
*[[Kim Hye Ja]] as the Queen Mother
*[[Yoon Yoo Sun]] as the Queen
*[[Park Chan Hwan]] as the King
*[[Lee Yoon Ji]] as Princess Hye-myung (Shin's sister)
*[[Shim Hye Jin]] as Lady Hwa-Yong (Yul's mother)
*[http://www.imbc.com/broad/tv/drama/gung/cast/index.html more]
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==Production Credits==
*'''Original work:''' [[Wikipedia:Manhwa|Manhwa]] by [[Wikipedia:ko:박소희|Park So-hee]]
*'''Production Company:''' [http://www.eightpeaks.com Eight Peaks]
*'''Director:''' [[Hwang In Roe]]
*'''Writer:''' [[In Eun Ah]]

==Episode Ratings==
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"
! width=100 bgcolor="#FFCCCC" | date
! width=100 bgcolor="#FFCCCC" | episode
! width=100 bgcolor="#FFCCCC" | nationwide
! width=100 bgcolor="#FFCCCC" | seoul area
|- align=center
| 2006-01-11 || 1 || 16.2 (5th) || 16.6 (5th)
|- align=center
| 2006-01-12 || 2 || 16.0 (6th) || 16.5 (7th)
|- align=center
| 2006-01-18 || 3 || 14.3 (9th) || 14.3 (8th)
|- align=center
| 2006-01-19 || 4 || 15.1 (9th) || 15.3 (8th)
|- align=center
| 2006-01-25 || 5 || 19.7 (5th) || 20.5 (4th)
|- align=center
| 2006-01-26 || 6 || 16.5 (8th) || 16.5 (7th)
|- align=center
| 2006-02-01 || 7 || 13.7 (11th) || 14.0 (10th)
|- align=center
| 2006-02-02 || 8 || 18.6 (6th) || 19.1 (6th)
|- align=center
| 2006-02-08 || 9 || 24.0 (2nd) || 25.2 (2nd)
|- align=center
| 2006-02-09 || 10 || 25.2 (2nd) || 26.3 (2nd)
|- align=center
| 2006-02-15 || 11 || 24.5 (2nd) || 25.7 (2nd)
|- align=center
| 2006-02-16 || 12 || 25.6 (2nd) || 27.2 (2nd)
|- align=center
| 2006-02-22 || 13 || 25.0 (2nd) || 25.8 (2nd)
|- align=center
| 2006-02-23 || 14 || 26.7 (2nd) || 28.4 (2nd)
|- align=center
| 2006-03-02 || 15 || 27.9 (2nd) || 28.8 (2nd)
|- align=center
| 2006-03-02 || 16 || 24.3 (3rd) || 25.0 (3rd)
|- align=center
| 2006-03-08 || 17 || 25.8 (2nd) || 26.1 (2nd)
|- align=center
| 2006-03-09 || 18 || 26.6 (2nd) || 27.1 (2nd)
|- align=center
| 2006-03-15 || 19 || 27.0 (2nd) || 27.3 (2nd)
|- align=center
| 2006-03-16 || 20 || 27.1 (2nd) || 26.9 (2nd)
|- align=center
| 2006-03-22 || 21 || 24.6 (2nd) || 25.2 (2nd)
|- align=center
| 2006-03-23 || 22 || 24.4 (2nd) || 25.5 (2nd)
|- align=center
| 2006-03-29 || 23 || 25.4 (2nd) || 26.9 (2nd)
|- align=center
| 2006-03-30 || 24 || 28.3 (2nd) || 28.8 (2nd)
|- align="center" style="background:#ffdead;"
! colspan=2 | average || 22.6% || 23.2%
|}
Source: [http://www.tnsmk.co.kr/ TNS Media Korea]

==Recognitions==
*'''1st Seoul Drama Awards''': Best Art Director

*'''42nd Baeksang Awards''' nominated for
:-'''Best New Actor''', [[Joo Ji Hoon]]
:-'''Best New Actress''', [[Yoon Eun Hye]]

*'''2006 MBC Drama Awards''' for:
:- '''New Actor Award''', [[Joo Ji Hoon]]
:- '''New Actress Award ''', [[Yoon Eun Hye]]

==Trivia==
*[http://www.twitchfilm.net/archives/006414.html twitchfilm.net] (Please do not plagiarize).

==DVD Review==
*[http://www.d-addicts.com/forum/viewtopic_44571.htm]

==External Links==
*[http://www.imbc.com/broad/tv/drama/gung_teaser/ Official Website]
*[http://content.mbc.co.kr/e_mbc/drama.asp?idx=201 MBC Global Media]
*[http://koreanmovies.free.fr/ Korean-Manhwa]
*[http://www.koreanwiz.org/at/drama-palace.html KoreanWiz]
*[http://www.d-addicts.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20760 Discussion at D-Addicts forum]
*[http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/culture/200603/kt2006030822063811690.htm Article: ''Thinking Out of the Box Proves a Success for Hit Drama'' (The Korea Times, 2006-03-08)]
*[http://www.koreacontent.org/weben/inmarket/Ns_knews_view.jsp?news_seq=25328 Article: ''MBC drama 'Palace' may set a new record among drama exports'' (KOCCA, 2006-03-03)]

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