[Drama 2020] The King: Eternal Monarch, 더 킹: 영원의 군주

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Vote For Your Favorites For The Metro Best KDrama Awards 2020

 

Here's all the ways you can make sure your favorite dramas, actors, and actresses win big in this year's awards!

 

You've been with us from the beginning of our K-fever this year and now we reach the highest peak honoring the best dramas via Metro Best KDrama Awards 2020!

 

So, how to vote? Find out below.

 

METRO BEST KDRAMA AWARDS - PEOPLE'S CHOICE VOTING MECHANICS

Voting period will be from December 5 (12 NN) until December 13 (11:59 AM)

The People's Choice category winners will be a combination of Social Media votes from Metro.Style Facebook, Metro KDrama Club Facebook Group, and Metro.Style Twitter and Metro.Style website.

The votes will be counted every day by 10 AM and announced via Metro.Style website with the corresponding tallies.

You can only vote once per social media platform (Metro.Style Facebook Page, Metro KDrama Club Facebook Group, and Metro.Style Twitter) starting December 5.

Website voting will start on December 9. You can vote multiple times.

Winners will be presented on December 16, 8 PM during the Metro Best KDrama Awards 2020 Event on Facebook.

 

TO VOTE ON METRO.STYLE'S FACEBOOK PAGE

Go to Metro.Style Facebook Page and look for the KDrama Awards 2020 Photo Album. (You will find one album per category.)

To vote, click LIKE or react HEART on the photo of the nominee.

Only likes and hearts reactions will be counted.

 

TO VOTE ON THE METRO KDRAMA CLUB FACEBOOK GROUP

Join the Metro KDrama Club Facebook to become a member.

Look for the pinned post. (Pinned post with links to poll threads.)

Each member can vote once per category.

One entry is equivalent to 2 votes.

 

TO VOTE ON METRO.STYLE'S TWITTER PAGE

Go to @metrodotstyle on Twitter.

Click the link on the pinned tweet on how to vote.

Only likes from the official tweet will be counted.

 

And that's how you'll be voting for your favorite dramas, actors, actresses, songs, and even kisses! Are you as excited as we are?

 

https://metro.style/culture/spotlight/metro-best-drama-awards-2020-voting-mechanics/28381

 

 

 

 

 

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Who's your favourite K drama actress of 2020?

 

While we loved a number of performances from this year, we want to know from you; Who was your favourite K-drama actress of 2020?

 

 

This year we witnessed some stellar performances by South Korean actresses. ...

 

The summer came with Kim Go Eun detaching from her cute act in Goblin and taking on the daring detective in The King: Eternal Monarch with Lee Min Ho in tow.

 

While we loved all these performances from this year, who was your favourite K-drama actress of 2020? Vote and let us know!

 

 

https://www.pinkvilla.com/entertainment/son-ye-jin-seo-ye-ji-suzy-or-kim-go-eun-whos-your-favourite-k-drama-actress-2020-580120

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Who was the Best K drama actor of the year? VOTE

 

This year has presented a potpourri of shows on the K-drama front. With numerous performances that left everyone talking, which includes stars like Lee Min Ho, etc, we want to know from you, who do you think is the best actor of the year?

 

 

It was an interesting year for K-drama lovers. An array of dramas made its way on the small screen. As the COVID-19 induced lockdown forced people to go under house arrest, more and more people turned towards K-dramas for solace and as a result, a number of Korean dramas and Korean stars became popular. From ... to The King: Eternal Monarch, dramas were discussed and dissected online. 

 

With every drama, the conversations around each actor's performance also became the talk of the town. Lee Min Ho and etc. made a highly anticipated comeback from military training with heart-fluttering performances in The King: Eternal Monarch. 

 

Now, with the year ending, we are struggling to pick one best performance. So we leave it up to you, who do you think was the best actor this year? Vote and let us know in the comments below. 

 

 

https://www.pinkvilla.com/entertainment/lee-min-ho-park-seo-joon-or-hyun-bin-who-was-best-k-drama-actor-year-vote-579512

 

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SHINING THE SPOTLIGHT ON ACTOR AND FILMMAKER LEE MIN-HO

 

 

Lee Min-ho is a renown Korean actor and filmmaker who has made his mark on both Korean and worldwide audiences. Lee Min-ho’s star has been on the rise, growing in popularity for many years, and that rise has made him in 2020…a king — a figurative, fictional king and symbolic real-world king as a titan in the entertainment realm. With Lee Min-ho’s commanding on-screen presence, stunning good looks, and impressive acting abilities, he is a vision to be seen in his current series The King: Eternal Monarch, and is sure to be in his films and television series that are forthcoming. 

 

 

The King: Eternal Monarch is the series that introduced me to Lee Min-ho. As this was the fourth Korean drama (k-drama) that I watched, while I had previously seen amazing acting, storytelling, cinematography, directing, editing, visual effects, stunts, fight scenes and everything magical that is put into a k-drama series, what I had not seen was the powerful performance Lee Min-ho could put into the character of Lee Gon in The King: Eternal Monarch. His portrayal of King Lee Gon, whose priorities are his country and the health, prosperity, and protection of the citizens within his country, was both powerful and believable. Because he only became King of Corea after the assignation of his father during an attempted coup by his uncle (portrayed by the talented Lee Jung-jin), Lee Gon was forced to become a king at the tender age of eight years old. Since his mother had already died, his great-uncle’s family was living in exile, and his uncle was a traitor, there were not many family members available to raise an eight-year-old boy to become a worthy king. It was only with the assistance of his great-uncle, Prince Buyeong (Jeon Moo-song) who is second-in-line to the throne and Ok-nam Noh (Kim Young-ok), the Head Court-lady of the Imperial Household, who is a mother/grandmother figure to King Lee Gon, that he became an intelligent, authoritative, and shrewd king to the Kingdom of Corea. I must take a moment to give praise to the phenomenal writing of Kim Eun-sook, who is one of the finest writing talents within Korea and throughout the world, this storyline left me reeling by all the Alice in Wonderland-inspired “rabbit holes” that I traveled down. The series itself is a masterpiece worthy of all the praise and accolades it has received.

 

With the Alice in Wonderland-inspired vortex that King Lee Gon’s life went through, portraying the King of Corea would be a huge role for any actor to portray — especially as the character went through many twists and turns as his life became divided between two parallel words. Watching Lee Min-ho, as this character who adapted between these vastly diverse fictional environments, was mesmerizing. Lee Min-ho portrayed the King of Corea who, literally, chased the “rabbit” with the clock — the “lost Alice” who unknowingly goes into an unrecognizable parallel world of the Republic of Korea — and introduces us to the “land with no name” that is referred to as, “It’s something between one and zero in my world and yours. A place that cannot be explained scientifically. There is no light, wind, or air here.”

 

The parallel worlds of Corea and the Republic of Korea are complex as they have many similarities when first encountered, but are vastly different once you start to delve more deeply into them. And if these worlds were not complicated enough, the parallel words have parallel people so you can run into someone with the same face as yourself. Lee Min-ho’s portrayal of a King who leaves his world and goes into a parallel world where he is not a king, has no identification, does not have any money, is unable to eat as he no longer has a food taster, and the people he recognizes by face, are completely different in this parallel world was a pitch-perfect performance in nuance and layers. These factors provided a challenging dynamic for the King that Lee Min-ho was able to portray convincingly and managed to bring to life on screen with an ease and finesse of a seasoned actor. Every word spoken, mannerism, and both facial and body expressions revealed a king who did not let any situation affect his unbreakable self-control as he maneuvered unknown circumstances to his benefit.

 

Along with Lee Min-ho expressing the faculties and steadfastness fit for a king, he was able to deliver powerfully emotional scenes as well. The awe-inspiring scene of when King Lee Gon meets Lieutenant Jeong Tae-eul, whose police badge he had in his possession while he was searching for her for 25 years, that he encounters in the parallel world of the Republic of Korea, was a scene that gave me spine-tingling chills. The intensity of his eyes when he first saw her, the physical force of his presence that had her body leaning away from him as he approached her, and his words of, “I’ve finally met you, Lieutenant Jeong Tae-eul”, followed by his grasping and hugging her, this woman he had been searching for, was powerfully emotional and made me want to weep with joy for this lost king. Lieutenant Jeong Tae-eul’s reaction was completely different, but I appreciated the intensity that Lee Min-ho put into this scene so that we could witness and almost physically feel the surprise, joy, and relief King Lee Gon felt during this first meeting. It was a scene worthy of being re-watched several times to take in all the complexities of this beautiful encounter.

 

https://seat42f.com/shining-the-spotlight-on-actor-and-filmmaker-lee-min-ho.html

 

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Vote for Lee Jung Jin as Worst Family in the Swoonie's Choice Awards 2020,

via IG stories of @theswoonnetflix  https://instagram.com/theswoonnetflix?igshid=17kgsfbvcnmlg

 

 

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Vote for Pyeha and his Unbreakable Sword in the Swoonie's Choice Awards 2020,

via IG stories of @theswoonnetflix  https://instagram.com/theswoonnetflix?igshid=17kgsfbvcnmlg

 

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15 Best Korean Dramas 2020 Based on Fan Polls, There's The King: Eternal Monarch

 

 

The King Choice page made a poll for fans to vote for their favorite Korean drama in 2020.

This poll was opened from 16 November. Here is a list of the 15 best Korean dramas in 2020 from the results of a fan poll on the King Choice page. Drama information from the Kpopmap page.

 

1. The King: Eternal Monarch

Starring Lee Min Ho, tells the story of a fantasy romance where Lee Gon, Emperor Corea and Jung Tae Eul, a detective from the Republic of Korea try to protect life and love through cooperation between two parallel worlds.

 

https://sumedang.pikiran-rakyat.com/entertainment/pr-561036247/15-drama-korea-terbaik-2020-berdasarkan-polling-penggemar-ada-the-king-eternal-monarch

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Which of these 2020 K Drama series' OST won you over?

 

There were some amazing songs from K-drama series that won us over. But which of these K-Drama series' OST stood out this year?

 

With every new drama, we found ourselves adding a new track to our playlist. However, if you could pick one K-drama OST album that stood out for you, which would it be? Before you could answer that, let's take a quick look at our options.

 

The summer was ruled by The King: Eternal Monarch. Lee Min Ho and Kim Go Eun starrer featured songs like Dream by Paul Kim and Gummy's My Love to amp up the summer playlist.

 

https://www.pinkvilla.com/entertainment/itaewon-class-hospital-playlist-or-start-which-these-2020-k-drama-series-ost-won-you-over-580529

 

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Vote The King/LMH for the Prettiest Crier!

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Our King looks so dignified here

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Vote for the Best Reunion!

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Netflix Korea Contents, Singapore, Taiwan, and Philippines

 

 

Korean content introduced through Netflix has gained huge popularity in Asian countries beyond Korea in 2020.

 

The Philippines, Singapore, and Taiwan also announced eight popular contents this year on Netflix.

In the Philippines, "The King: Eternal Monarch" starring Lee Min-ho was included on the list. In Singapore, "The King: Eternal Monarch," etc, were chosen. In Taiwan, "The King: Eternal Monarch," etc. were included, proving the strength of Korean Wave content.

 

The announced works were released in 2020 on Netflix and are currently streaming, and are based on the status of content viewing for the first 28 days since the first release of the work.

 

https://n.news.naver.com/entertain/article/108/0002916624

 

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10 minutes ago, syntyche said:

 

The Philippines, Singapore, and Taiwan also announced eight popular contents this year on Netflix.

In the Philippines, "The King: Eternal Monarch" starring Lee Min-ho was included on the list. In Singapore, "The King: Eternal Monarch," etc, were chosen. In Taiwan, "The King: Eternal Monarch," etc. were included, proving the strength of Korean Wave content.

 

 

Makes one wonder why there are people who bashed and still doubting the success of this drama.   TKEM ended on June 12th and to-date, still going strong, despite the unfair treatments in the K-Entertainment communities.  It proves that Lee Min Ho's talent and presence exudes huge significance and power in the industry.    Thank you @syntyche for all the articles. 

 

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Lee Min Ho’s The King: Eternal Monarch, Kingdom, It’s Okay to Not Be Okay & Start Up were popular Korean dramas on Netflix India in 2020

 

ByBollywood Hungama News NetworkUpdated: Dec 10, 2020

 

The year 2020 witnessed huge interest in Korean dramas in India. While Hallyu aka Korean wave arrived in the country a few years ago, due to the coronavirus pandemic leading to lockdown, the year 2020 witnessed a huge boost as netizens took a keen interest in the Korean dramas. As the year is coming to an end, Netflix India revealed which K-dramas were the most popular ones on the streaming giant in 2020.

 

 

"The viewing for K-dramas on Netflix in India increased more than 370% in 2020 over 2019. Some of the most popular K-titles in India included The King: Eternal Monarch, Kingdom (S2), It’s Okay to Not Be Okay and Start-up," the official statement on the Netflix blog read.

 

THE KING: ETERNAL MONARCH

The drama marked the comeback of Popular Korean actor Lee Min Ho who returned to the TV screen after completing his mandatory military service. It followed the story of a Korean emperor Lee Gon who tries to close the doors to a parallel world that was opened by demons; a detective tries to protect the people and the one she loves. The series also starred Kim Go-eun, Woo Do-hwan, Kim Kyung-nam, Jung Eun-chae and Lee Jung-jin...

 

https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/features/lee-min-ho-the-king-eternal-monarch-kingdom-its-okay-to-not-be-okay-start-up-were-popular-korean-dramas-on-netflix-india-in-2020/

 

 

Pokemon and Lee Min-ho: What Singapore and Asia watched on Netflix in 2020

 

BY MAY SEAH  10 DEC 2020 

 

Netflix has revealed their top titles for the year, and anime has come out tops in every country in Asia. Now, what else have Singapore viewers been binge watching?

 

We've spent nearly the whole of this year being told to stay indoors, avoid crowds and keep ourselves occupied at home. It's almost like the powers that be have given us a cosmic excuse – nay, mandate – to stay in bed and binge watch our favourite streamed shows.

So, if you found yourself Netflix-ing more than ever this year, you're not alone. I, for one, actually renewed my Netflix subscription during the "circuit breaker", after cancelling it a couple of years ago.

 

The folks at Netflix just released some interesting information about what we in Singapore, as well as the rest of Asia, have been watching this year. And clearly, we've been watching a lot more of, well, everything...

 

K-drama viewing in particular also soared, rising by 200 per cent from last year as Netflix intensifies its presence in South Korea. It may or may not surprise you to learn that the top Korean drama among Singapore viewers was The King: Eternal Monarch, the fantasy romance that saw Lee Min-ho making his acting comeback as a displaced emperor in modern-day Seoul.

 

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-EWD0fBymP/?igshid=c73ket75ksyi

 

https://cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com/trending/top-netflix-shows-2020-singapore-malaysia-india-asia-13735712