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Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Youth or known as just Hwarang is a South Korean TV series written by Park Eun-Yeong and directed by Yoon Sung-Sik and Kim Yeong-Jo.
The series aired every Monday and Tuesday at 10 pm (KST) on KBS2, airing from 19th December 2016 up until 21st February 2017 and ran for a total of 20 episodes.
The series stars:
Main Cast:
Park Seo Joon as Moo-Myung/Kim Sun-Woo/Dog Bird
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Go Ara as Kim Ah-Ro
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Park Hyung Sik as Sammaek-Jong/Kim Ji-Dwi/King Jinheung
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Supporting Cast:
Sung Dong-Il as Lord Kim Wi-hwa
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Despite being fully produced before it's premiere with an ensemble cast, the series was a commercial failure and averaged single-digit audience rating of 8.4% in it's run. It was criticised for it's distracted storytelling, inappropriate use of background music and unnatural acting of lead actors.
The soundtrack had some amazing tracks with some of the actors participating on, check out my favourites below.
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Even If I Die, It's You - V & Jin (BTS)
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Dream - Bolbbalgan4
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I Can Only See You - Wendy & Seulgi (Red Velvet)
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Our Tears - Hyolyn
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A Move of God - Yuseob (Highlight)
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A Move of God (Acoustic) - Kim Juna
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I'll Be Here - Park Hyung Sik
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Our Tears - Park Seo Joon
Jiso has ruled the kingdom of Silla as regent since King Beopheung died, keeping her young son Sammaek Jong hidden outside of the capital Seorabeol and safe from enemies and assassins. As Sammaek Jong comes of age, nobles, citizens, officials and Sammaek Jong himself have all grown impatient for her to cede power. However the powerful nobles that tried to usurp power in the kingdom continue to eye the throne and Jiso fears the consequences of her ceding it. In order to break the power of the nobles, who have grown accustomed to their privileges under the bone rank system, Jiso plans to create a new elite, the Hwarang, that will cut across the existing power factions, and to bind them to Sammaek Jong and the throne.
As this new elite of male youths bond and grow, they are unaware that within their numbers i their future king, Sammaek Jong, and Kim Sun-Woo, a commoner with a secret even he is not aware of.
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Hwarang was my first proper Korean drama that I watched after watching Goblin and I was hooked from the first episode, the colours and costumes were really colourful and stunning. Throughout the series I got a little teary at times but from a certain characters death to the end of the series I couldn't help but cry as I kept thinking how sad it was that this character couldn't stand by the other characters and see everything that was happening. I already knew this character died but it still hit me like a tonne of bricks when it happened. I loved all the characters and the actors portraying those characters, I loved that there was comedy mixed in with the action and sadness, even though the series seemed to fail commercially I love it and have even sent a request for it to appear on the UK's Netflix. I think V (Taehyung) did amazing in his first acting and drama role, he fit the role perfect and at times I felt I was just watching V being himself instead of acting and speaking from a script.
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I really recommend that you check out Hwarang, it really is a breathtaking series and figure out if you want the romance or the bromance, it may not have topped Goblin in my all time favourite drama but it is part of my top 2, so why not check it out and see what you think.
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See you soon!
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