#goong

[dreamingsnowflake2013]

My 2006 and 2025 selves right now:

[babyvoxi]

rare goong stuff?

[jolliboo17]

My favorite genre is Shin kissing Chaekyung with yearning

[mincandyshake]

outfits in princess hours>>>

[love-and-ecstasyii]

Eunhye doodle🍓🍦

[rocknghorss]

In search of sanity while I am back on the writing for my degree grind I put on Goong. I had forgotten so much of it!! It’s so freaking cute! I also didn’t realize quite how much Perfect Crown was lifting from it…

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 ✅😅

You know what Goong has that Perfect Crown doesn’t? 24 1 hour episodes. It ain’t right lol.

[hatsukoigirl]

Goong

[repinipi]