![]() ![]() So-yul comes to harbor a dream of becoming a pop diva after her boyfriend, hotshot composer Yun-woo (Yoo Yeon-seok), asks her to sing a song that he is going to make to soothe the mind of the Korean grassroots suffering under Japan's brutal colonial rule.īut Yun-woo soon changes his mind, captivated by the beautiful voice of Yeon-hi that he comes to hear by chance. So-yul is acknowledged to be a master in "jeongga," a vocal genre in traditional Korean music, despite her young age, and has striking good looks, too, while Yeon-hi is born with a beautiful voice that tugs at people's heartstrings. In the period drama set in early 1940s Seoul under Japan's colonial rule, So-yul develops a close friendship with classmate Yeon-hi (Chun Woo-hee) as both are talented students at the past's equivalent of a K-pop entertainment agency. SEOUL, April 5 (Yonhap) - The word "gisaeng" beams mostly negative images as a hostess and prostitute in modern-day Korea.īut it originally referred to female artists who worked to entertain dignitaries and kings with dance and singing, poems, calligraphic works and paintings during the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910), the last kingdom of Korea.Īnd that was the occupational pride retained by So-yul, a girl raised and educated at one of Korea's last-remaining, top schools for training gisaengs in Seoul in director Park Heung-sik's new film "Love, Lies." ![]()
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