Episode 53
24 Jul 2008 Leave a Comment
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The king asks jang-geum if she likes Master Min jung-ho.Jang-geum replies yes. The king stares at her,tells her that he is the king of this nation and asks her if she knows what consequence her answer can lead to.Jang-geum replies she knows,and states that she is merely a woman who has found medicine to be her livelihood.The king angrily tells jang-geum to show up to their daily morning walk tomorrow as usual.
Jang-geum leaves and arrives at Master Min jung-ho’s office.She nervously tells him what happened and is worried what might happen to Master Min jung-ho.Min jung-ho replies she did well and feels proud that she recognized him in front of the king.Min jung-ho says he would rather jang-geum tell the king her true feelings about him and face the fatal consequence than have jang-geum lie about her love and protect him.
The king and his guard arrives outside min jung-ho’s office.The king overhears their conversation and becomes furious,he leaves. The head guard coughs,to signal that they’re there.Jang-geum and min jung-ho come outside and see the king leaving.The guard tells them the king wants them both to show up to the walk tomorrow.
Next morning, the king puts on a good spirit and asks jang-geum how she and min jung-ho recognized each other,later if they didn’t know each other the first time they met. Jang-geum replies she left her father’s gift to her accidentally when she saved min jung-ho, and later they were able to recognize each other through the knife/brush set.The king asks to see it.Jang-geum replies she doesn’t have it now as she had gave it to min jung-ho.The king is taken back(a little jealous)and changes the topic.The king tells the guard to prepare for arrow practice.
The king asks min jung-ho to accompany him in shooting arrows.The king tells min jung-ho they’ll each shoot 5 times.(If min jung-ho wins, the king will give him his royal bow, if the king wins, min jung-ho must give the king jang-geum’s knife/brush set). Min jung-ho obliges since he has no other choice. Jang-geum watches as the two men shoot arrows toward a red target.Min jung-ho shoots 4 good ones.The king also gets bulls eye 4 times.The king shoots his 5th arrow and misses the center.Just as min jung-ho is about to draw his 5th,the king tells min jung-ho he fancies jang-geum and asks if he feels the same about her. Min jung-ho shoots his arrow to the bull’s eye and replies yes.The king is furious again and grabs his bow and arrow,points toward min jung-ho.Everyone’s shocked.The king hesitates then points the arrow toward a flying bird instead and leaves.
All day jang-geum can’t concentrate as she worries about what might happen to min jung-ho. yeon-sheng calls jang-geum to her room.Yeon-sheng tells jang-geum she told the king about her and min jung-ho so everything’s going be ok.
Chan-ee and min sang goon ask jang-geum what’s it like to love a man as they giggle.Jang-geum says it’s a warm feeling but bursts into tears and says’What am i going do.What am i going do.’ The lady queen asks the king to give her instructions on what to do regarding the matter of making jang-geum a concubine.The queen asks the king whether or not she should carry it out. The king doesn’t reply and looks in deep thoughts.The queen senses the king likes jang-geum and states tomorrow she will announce to carry out the order of making jang-geum a concubine.
At night, min sang goon brings apples to the king.The king asks min sang goon if jang-geum told her to bring them to him.Min sang goon replies yes.The king grabs an apple,smells it and states something so fragrant and good for you should be kept nearby at all times. Min sang goon replies yes but senses the king is speaking about something else.The guard arrives to tell the king that min jung-ho has come to see the king. Min sang goon leaves and runs to tell jang-geum that min jung-ho is in the king’s room. Min jung-ho tells the king that he had once tried to run away with jang-geum because that was the only way he thought he could spend a day with jang-geum, but they returned the same day because jang-geum did not want to turn her back on the palace and her medicine practice. Min jung-ho tells the king he doesn’t want to block jang-geum’s path with anymore sadness and asks the king to grant him death and he will gladly take all the blame.To let jang-geum be all she can be and use her talents,that is the way min jung-ho expresses his love for jang-geum.
Min jung-ho returns to his office and jang-geum is waiting for him nervously.Jang-geum asks him what he said to the king.She asks if he told the king that no matter what he would be by her side.Min jung-ho says nothing and grabs jang-geum into his arms to embrace her. Yeon-sheng goes to see the king and begs the king to grant her death for she made a mistake. The king asks what is the meaning of death,and the meaning of love. The next day, the lady queen hands her assistant the document to carry out jang-geum’s inauguration as concubine.But the head guard arrives telling the lady queen the king has declined making jang-geum a concubine. The king meets with jang-geum and tells jang-geum he will not make her his concubine but asks her to stay by his side as his main physician,as an order from the king and a plead from a man.
In court the king asks his generals if they recognize jang-geum as the one who saved his life, the one who found a treatment for the contagious disease the prince suffered from, and if she is the one with highest skills in nae-ee-ohn.The generals are speechless.The king states jang-geum is to be ‘dae’ (“great”)jang-geum from this day forward and she will be awarded the title of the king’s physician. A general protests but the king states he will not hear one more complaint about it and orders min jung-ho to carry out his order at once.Jang-geum is robed in a special attire and before the nae-ee-ohn staff, min jung-ho reads the king’s order aloud. Jang-geum accepts the document with the king’s order and bows before her colleagues.
The generals ask the king to punish min jung-ho.The king hesitates and agrees.Min jung-ho is taken away by guards.Chan-ee informs jang-geum about the news min jung-ho is now an outcast and sent into exile.The nurses wonder what they should call jang-geum from now on since technically she should be addressed as ‘master’ but they settle on ‘dae jang geum’.Jang-geum runs around palace looking for min jung-ho.Jang-geum goes outside the palace to look for him.Jang-duk hands her the trinket jang-geum gave min jung-ho and states he has already left the town.
Jang-geum finally catches up to min jung-ho and the guards who are escorting him.Jang-geum cries and states this can’t be but min jung-ho tells her to return to the palace because she has travelled a difficult road to where she is,and from now on she must be more alert than ever for the road before her will be even more difficult than ever.Min jung-ho tells jang-geum to forget everything in the past cleanly.Jang-geum asks if he can forget everything. Min jung-ho replies he can and he already has.Jang-geum with tears replies she can’t forget him and begs him to take her trinket at the least,and she watches as the soldiers take him away.
Back at palace, jang-geum examines the king.Later, jang-geum asks if she can have a piece of land to cultivate more herbs and study more medicine.The king agrees and jang-geum begins her farm project.
Jang-geum updates the king on her herb progress but looks around where they are and the king realizes jang-geum misses min jung-ho.Jang-geum studies in the library and remembers her enounter with min jung-ho at the library where they first officially met.The king is getting old and jang-geum continues to look after him as she studies herbs and food science.
Jang-geum goes by a creek and remembers the way min jung-ho carried her on his back during their ‘run away’.Then jang-geum sees an injured rabbit and takes it back to the palace to perform surgery.The king’s lower organs are shutting down like jang-geum feared they would some day.The king is dying but he tells jang-geum she is not to blame for his own aging body. some of the generals want to hold jang-geum responsible for the king’s condition but the nae-ee-ohn staff state jang-geum has done more than she can to save the king. Jang-geum wants to try surgery on the king that she used to save the rabbit, but jang-duk stops her saying though it worked on animal once it is too risky to use on human.
Jang-geum goes to see the king and asks the king to trust her once more.The king asks what she means and jang-geum replies she knows one method of opening up his internal organs which is to use knife and do surgery on him.The king is shocked by the concept.
