Help!!! I'm stuck on a 55-episode Korean drama!!!!

The Ballad of Suh Dong

Yikes!! Jo Hyun Jae in beard!!!! Can I bear to watch till that happens?????

'Suh' refers to 'sweet potato', while 'dong' is 'child'. This series is based on a legend of the love story between King Mu of Baekja and Princess Seonhwa. Tne title was derived from a song which a young Mu (who was nicknamed 'Sweet potato child' then because he was so poor that he had to plant sweet potatoes and sell them for a living) wrote for the princess. See here for the legend.

In case you were wondering, the song is real, and is considered one of the oldest folk songs in Korea today.

AND in case you were wondering, "How come the costumes don't look like Korean costumes, like in Dae Jang Geum one????" That's because this happened a long long time before the period of Dae Jang Geum. In fact, in the show you do see that the costumes are very similar to those that you see in Chinese period dramas, and the wordings used in the serial are actually Chinese words.

Really, this is an interesting drama with an engaging storyline and great acting. Of course, having eye candies in the form of Jo Hyun Jae, Lee Bo Young and Ryu Jin helps a lot too.

Directed and writen by the same team behind THAT Dae Jang Guem.