The king gets his sight back.The lady queen praises jang-geum for healing the king and figuring out the real cause of his illness.The king asks jang-geum for her name and nods his head to show his gratitude.The medical scholar states jang-geum has saved the house of medicine but Elder oh instructs the staff to keep jang-geum at her original ranking.
Jang-geum runs to see min jung-ho to show him she succeeded and thanked him for putting his life on the line for her.Min jung-ho with tears in his eyes states it was a dangerous task for her and he worried about her safety.Had he known this before he would have asked her to runaway in jeju. Jang-geum goes up to him and embraces him.Min jung-ho returns her embrace and the two share a warm hug!
Jang-geum instructs the furious choi sang goon and geum-young to use red ginseng in the king’s food from now on.The king asks elder oh about jang-geum saying he wants to award her but elder oh states what jang-geum did was her job and that master shin was about to find out the cause anyway. Yeon-sheng dines with the king and tells the king she has a wish.Yeon-sheng states she wishes the king to meet jang-geum who is like her sister. The king states he has wanted to meet jang-geum.Yeon-sheng steps out and calls jang-geum in to meet with the king privately.
Alone with the king, jang-geum asks the king to return han sang goon’s innocence,that han sang goon was a righteous woman whose life was spent serving the king and the palace. The king remembers his conversations from han sang goon and the taste of her cooking, but states if he is to find han sang goon’s innocence it would mean going against his mother. choi sang goon tells yuh-ri she thinks high of her.Then tells yuh-ri to go to lady park it is better if she remains quietly in her place.A stunned yuhri leaves to go see the retired jae-jo.sang goon choi sang goon tells geum-young at this time she doesn’t have the will to deal with park since she already has to deal with elder oh.
Master choi sends an assasin to kill the head master of nae-ee-ohn. Before the assasin can attack the master, min jung-ho and jang-geum arrive at the master’s doorsteps.Min jung-ho sees the assasin and goes after him. In the forest min jung-ho and the masked assasin exchange fights.Min jung-ho unveils the assasin’s mask to see who he is but before he can ask him questions the assasin gets away. Jang-geum asks the head master to do the right thing by telling the truth about what really happened with the han sang goon instead since he was involved.The head master says he will think about it and tells jang-geum to go back.
Master choi’s is angry that the assasin was seen by min jung-ho and sends the assasin back to finish the job. When the assasin arrives at the head master’s he discovers the body of the head master who apparently committed suicide. Next day, the choi’s are happy that they don’t have to be the one to kill the head master and now no one will ever say anything against them. The gam’s wonder if jang-geum can do anything about han sang goon’s case now that the witness killed himself and the king declined her request. Jang-geum whispers her plan in their ears.
At soo-rak-gan a messenger comes to tell choi sang goon and geum-young a nurse wants to see them.Geum-young thinks it’s yuh-ri and they go out to meet her. But it turn out to be jang-geum instead.She is pouring han sang goon’s aged vinegar into a jar.Jang-geum asks if choi will use this vinegar that is made by han sang goon. The choi’s are offended by jang-geum and about to leave but jang-geum says she must tell them something.Jang-geum states before the master committed suicide he left jang-geum a letter which will reveal everything and she plans to give it to the lady queen. choi sang goon and geum-young are shocked.Jang-geum asks them to confess their wrong doing and plead in front of han sang goon.
Choi sang goon goes to see elder oh for help.Elder oh suspects there is no such letter but sends a man to investigate. Choi sang goon pays daily visit to the lady queen and catches jang-geum giving the lady queen massage and the lady queen praising her.When alone,jang-geum asks choi sang goon if she thinks she doesn’t have the letter. gam’s are tricked by the choi messenger to deliver wine somewhere.While they’re gone the choi workers rummage through the gam’s house to look for the letter jang-geum mentioned but the only letters they find are old love letters from Mr.gam to his wife. Jang-geum asks geum-young if they can just for a little while return to the way things were when they were both kitchen maids.Jang-geum states she doesn’t want to hate geum-young. Geum-young replies she cannot do so because jang-geum took away min jung-ho and her last pride.Jang-geum states that is an excuse and leaves.
Choi sang goon and master Choi call young-ro to meet with them.They offer her a large sum of money in exchange for her disappearance from the palace.The choi’s want to get rid of her so that jang-geum can’t use her as a witness against them. young-ro agrees for fear of her life but asks permission to go see her relative,Choi’s messenger and a member of the royal guard.But Young-ro gets called into another private meeting by the master who is a co-conspirator with elder oh against the choi’s. The master also offers young-ro money in exchange for her to confess everything to the investigation dept.And a possibility for her to receive the title of jae-jo-sang goon after choi sang goon is rid of. Young-ro who is confused and scared takes both bribes to show them to jang-geum.
Jewel In The Palace 