#goong

My 2006 and 2025 selves right now:

Two princes and a shitty king/father figure ✅ (the king in Goong is kind of extra shitty what with the disparaging his own son in favor of his girlfriend’s and oh wait his girlfriend is his sister-in-law. Korea nobody was doing it like you in 2006. Anyway that leads me to…)

Sad marriage of convenience between the king and the queen✅

Dysfunctional and distant royal family ✅ (with the caveat that Goong has a Royal Grandma and a Royal Sister and they are both the cutest beans and also holding that family together with their bare hands)

A spunky!female lead who is insecure underneath it all and is falling far harder than she meant to for the prince she’s married ✅

Political shenanigans handwaved bc the setting is constitutional monarchy and we need to not think too hard about it lol ✅

Burdened but (mostly) willing to take up his responsibilities to the crown! male lead✅

Everybody wants to be king even though everybody knows it doesn’t mean anything in terms of real power! ✅

Ok this may be controversial but for all the wrist grabbings that were the hallmark of kdramas for the longest time and are rampant in Goong, I find the implicit sexism and paternalism in Perfect Crown far more jarring. Regardless, it’s there in both ✅😅