Go Soo and Lee Yo-won’s mystery wedding in Empire of Gold
We’ve got two new Monday-Tuesday dramas rolling in tomorrow — Moon Geun-young’s Goddess of Fire at MBC, and Empire of Gold over at SBS. Both are pretty lengthy (Goddess is 32 episodes and Empire is 24) so they’re gonna have to bring their A-games to get me to tune in for the long haul. Here’s one attempt to draw viewers: Empire has released stills of its leads Go Soo and Lee Yo-won getting married, with the promise that there will be reversal upon reversal in order to find out what drove these two mortal enemies down the aisle.
It’s described as a secret wedding between Go Soo, the “commoner’s son” who had everything but money, and suffered great humiliation and scorn because of it; and Lee Yo-won, the “empire princess,” second daughter of the country’s biggest chaebol group who was born with a silver spoon in her mouth.
Go Soo’s character becomes a “drifting warrior” to claw his way to the top of a real estate empire, while the princess has to protect that very empire from outsiders because she’s going to inherit it. The drama promises a story with twists on twists to answer the question why one person who’s trying to steal what the other person is trying to protect… end up choosing to marry one another. I’m just gonna go out on a limb here and say it’s not love? Or am I not reversing the reversal enough times?
I’m curious about Empire pretty solely based on the creative team that was behind The Chaser, but I worry that the Chaebol Wars will be just that — chaebol wars and nothing else. Without the awesome daddy-daughter love/tragedy/revenge that drove The Chaser, it’s going to have to do something else to make me care.
Empire of Gold premieres this Monday July 1 on SBS.
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