So far so good, with so many Korean Drama Series going on I bet you do not have time to create your own drama. I believe we all managed to sail through the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis. It was among the toughest of times to live through for some people. With the financial turmoil brewing great real-life then, it now becomes the setting for Empire of Gold, a new Korean drama series that traces the rise of the Sungjin chaebol group from these tumultuous years and the power struggle to control the business empire over two decades.
Despite being one of four ‘Asian Economic Miracle’
economies up to the early 90s, South Korea went bankrupt during the crisis and
was left needing an International Monetary Fund bailout as well
as It was a time of rise and fall for even South Korea’s mighty ‘chaebols’
– powerful family controlled multinational business conglomerates, often
with the government’s backing.
The new 24 episodes Empire of Gold stars Go Soo (Will
It Snow for Christmas?) as Jang Tae Joo, who survives the toughest of
struggles to bring up his younger sister Jang Hee Joo, played by Yoon
Seung Ah (Playful Kiss) after losing their father.
Beginning with
virtually nothing, Jang Tae Joo depends on his wits and hard work to ascend the
hierarchy of the chaebol. He will face off Choi Min-jae, the ambitious, cunning
and unscrupulous nephew of the chaebol group’s patriarch, played by Son Hyun
Joo (The Chaser), winner of the 2012 SBS Drama Awards grand prize.
Complicating things, Jang will fall for his adversary’s cousin Choi Seo Yoon,
starring Lee Yo Won (49 Days), and she struggles between her love
for Jang Tae Joo and loyalty to her family.
In addition to Son Hyun Joo, Empire of Gold reunites a number of
cast members of the 2012 hit drama series The Chaser. Actress Jang Shin
Young (Bride of the Sun) will play an ally of Jang Tae Joo, as Ryu
Seung Soo (Lie to Me) takes the role of a mob boss and antagonist,
while veteran Park Geun Hyung (The King of Dramas) heads the Sungjin
chaebol.
Behind the cameras, Empire of Gold is in great hands with The
Chaser’s highly successful writer producer team Park Kyung Soo and Jo
Nam Kook helming the production. The series is lead actor Go’s first
television role since Will It Snow for Christmas in 2009. His four year
TV hiatus saw the 35 year old actor act in three movies including Haunters
(2010), The Front Line (2011) and Love 911 (2012) as well as get
married in 2012, and father his first child in January this year.
With an award winning cast and crew bringing to life a compelling
story that draws upon recent history’s most dramatic economic meltdown, Empire
of Gold has all the makings of the next glittering hit Korean drama series, and
the saga unravels across Asia this July 2013.
Empire of Gold
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