Released Year: 2020-2021
No of Episodes: 20
Main Leads: Shin Hye-Sun, Kim jung-hyun, Na In-woo
Genre: Historical, Fantasy, Body Swap, Romantic Comedy
Main characters:
Kim So-yong / Queen Cheorin, a queen possessed by modern chef Jang Bong-hwan’s soul.
King Cheoljong, the seemingly weak monarch hiding his true intentions.
Jo Hwa-jin, the King’s beloved concubine and So-yong’s rival.
Kim Byeong-in, So-yong’s cousin who secretly loves her.
Court Lady Choi, So-yong’s loyal and often comedic attendant.
Prince Yeongpyeong, the King’s cousin and trusted ally.
MAIN PLOT:
Mr Queen Summary – Notorious chef jang bong-hwan, who works for blue House, falls into a water and his soul gets into the body of a destined highness, Kim So-yong, the to-be queen of king cheoljong, the 25th King of Joseon! The story explains the funny doings of bong-hwan in So-yong body! Moreover,His life being Kim So-yong is always in threats, so he must manage to live with all those extremely powerful, ambitious and cunning people to save his soul in order to retain his body.
Main Cast:
Shin Hye-sun as Kim So-yong, Queen Cheorin
Kim Jung-hyun as Lee Won-beom, King Cheoljong
Bae Jong-ok as Queen Sunwon / Grand Queen Dowager Myeonggung
Kim Tae-woo as Kim Jwa-geun, Queen Sunwon younger brother
Na In-woo as Kim Byeong-in, adopted son of Kim Jwa-geun
EPISODES SUMMARY:
Episode 1: Chef Jang in Kim So-yong’s!
Chef jang is the most popular chef who works for blue House! He aims to become chef to feed the most important person of Korea! Once he is ordered to prepare food for a Chinese ambassador! He was warned that the ambassador is quite sensitive towards food, especially fish bone! He is overconfident and prepared a delicious fish dish for the Chinese ambassador! He was overwhelmed as he tastes the best fish dish, but not later, a something is caught between his mouth and it’s not a fish bone, instead a steel hook pin. By seeing an official villainous smile, it seems that this is pre-planned to trap jang! When everyone was searching for him, he disappears!
Chef jang is not an honest man though, he flirts with women, even he gives interview to a random television about the secrets of blue house as they agreed to pay him what he asks.
Two officers try to capture him and during the fight he fell off from his apartment balcony in a water pool, there a woman from Joseon era comes nearby and kissed him!
Once he got up, he becomes a woman! His soul is inside a woman body! Not an ordinary woman, a to-be queen of Joseon! Though jang thought that this all is a set up and someone performed surgery and made him woman, he threatened all the maids! The river is completely made drain as their royal highness fell to take her own life. They thought him as the royal lady Kim So-yong, but they never knew that it was someone soul from republic of Korea inside their to-be queen! On the other hand, jang is clueless and could not believe anything he sees! At some point, he run towards the river only to see that without water! When questioned about this sudden no water issue, the maids informed him/her that water is removed purposely to avoid further accidents and The order has been issued by Queen dowager. Also, she shocked to hear that she will be marrying the king and to become Queen. It’s too complicated as only the body belong to So-yong and its jang who now in it.
So-yong meets King cheoljong and orders him to fill the lake so that she can go to where she belongs to. The King is amused by seeing the actions of So-yong, he never thought that her character is this arrogant. Though he is going to marry her, his reaction says that this is a force d marriage due to political pressure. Everyone surrounded by the king are people of Kim Jwa-geun, an extremely dangerous, powerful brother of grand queen dowager and the one who made the king as “puppet King”! He wants So-yong to marry the king that eventually results in Kim’s ruling the country. But out of all, the king loves Jo Hwa jin, of Jo clan and no matter what, he will marry her secondly, make her royal consort. But whether he likes or dislikes, So-yong is the queen and he must marry her to retain his position as king.
Royal marriage takes place and now cheoljong and So-yong are officially married and becomes 25th King-Queen of Joseon. Very few of her original So-yong memories came back and now So-yong (chef jang soul) don’t know what are those memories.
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Episode 2: Queen, The Man,Bonghwan is Cheorin
Episode 2 picks up right after the royal wedding night. Bong-hwan, still trapped in Queen So-yong’s body, is terrified that the King might try to sleep with him. To be safe, he ties a granny knot on his clothes and drinks heavily with Cheoljong. Luckily for him, the King leaves early and goes to bed alone. Relieved, Bong-hwan convinces himself that nothing happened, though he worries when he wakes up and finds his knot untied.
The very next day, Bong-hwan is sent for an audience with the mighty Grand Queen Dowager. Choi the Court Lady, who is both anxious and inquisitive, he gets some information about her. In his journey, he sees Lady Hwa-jin, the King beloved consort. Bong-hwan, being immediately charmed by her, clumsily attempts to make her acquaintance, even assuming that she could have been the one to throw So-yong into the water. However, his audacity only fuels rumors to spread more, particularly because the King seems to have a liking for Hwa-jin.
At court, Bong-hwan and the King sit together as the ministers discuss politics. It becomes clear that the King is just a puppet controlled by the Kim clan, led by Jwa Geun. They push for more power, forcing Cheoljong to agree. Bong-hwan tries to stay neutral, only saying that the King’s safety matters to “her.” Later, Cheoljong nervously brings up their wedding night, making Bong-hwan panic again about what really happened.
King cheoljong is too quick to stop cheorin’s hit and went on to sleep refusing her drink. To avoid the king trying on her, she putdown the famous bullion knot that she(chef,he) learnt during her military days. she cursed the king cheol jong for not lending her one layer of bed when he already had three.The next day when she woke up, she found her knot untied leaving her confused. The curse come to pass as he indeed dreamt the same dream that has been disturbing him for several years. King cheoljong believed that Queen is something who gonna bring her down but never know that the queen is not even a woman.
The next day, Queen cheorin is too lazy and exhausted to attend the next day ceremonies following her wedding. her only solace is flirting with young court ladies. On the way, she learnt about Grand Queen dowager and her mother in law, Queen dowager are rivals. She come to know that by favoring the grand dowager who is already from Andong Kim family so that she would allow water to be filed in the lake in order to escape. Queen cheorin is basically a fun-filled man who completely taken over Kim So-yong body, all he want is to escape.
Queen cheorin saw a beautiful woman and now wanted to flirt with her forgetting about body soul swap.The woman is so confused to see queen acting like that. She is none other than Jo Hwa-jin, the to be concubine of King Cheoljong. But never mind Queen is mesmerized by her beauty and about to fall in love just like her husband. cheorin from Hong-yeon(her loyal maid who served her from her teen age) heard that hwa-jin is rumoured to be the one who pushed her into the lake. Might be it started because both are the eligible candiates from rival families Andong Kim vs Punyang Jo. But to cheorin, hwa-jin appears to be a beautiful and honest womanand wants to start over with her despite bitter past.
Hwa-jin disapproves and the Kin cheolgang came over. When Queen is jealous everyone thought its because of King but she only knows that her actual interest lies on Hwa-jin, not king cheolgang. When cheolgang requested to exercise Queen’s authority to make hwa-jin concubine.The Queen replies she is too busy and when he states about royal order the Queen spits normally which was considered as a huge insult on King those days. But how does a Man,a chef from Blue house know all these of Joseon era! Anyways,Kim cheolgang is finally very much anticipated to see the love his life, Hwa-jin to be his wife.He knows that definitely hwa-jin is not the one who pushed cheorin and to avoid royal actions, even he set up an alibi to save her from Andong Kim family. At the same time, King cheolgang never forget to think about the drastic change of cheorin.
Queen cheorin meets Queen dowager and royal dowager as sees how still the in-laws fight goes even in royal household. After meeting the Cabinet minister Jang Bong-hwan(Queen cheorin) understands how powerful Kim So-yong family is and about Pungyang Jo family as well. When the Main villian Kim Jwa-geun, younger brother of Grand Dowager wanted the King to appoint Kim Mun-geun, Queen Cheorin’s father to be the head of majesty’s protection upon Queen’s request. Despite knowing anything about this, she now understood the political war and always wanted to be on the winning side. The king had to agree for all they suggest. All of which is not Queen cheorin until the King says that “Red” blood was confirmed their last night.Jang Bong-hwan(Queen cheorin) felt intimidated now and tried to calm himself by dismissing the King’s word as untrue.
Kim Jwa-geun and Grand Dowager wanted to frame hwa-jin for the lake incident.The fact that hwa-jin could be potential suspect for so-young lake incident even more attracts Jang Bong-hwan(Queen cheorin). The King disguises himself as a thief and was searching for an imortant document with his allies.The King stand by his words annoying Jang Bong-hwan(Queen cheorin) about that red blood on first night.nevertheless, Queen cheorin back to the form to win Grand dowager’s favor.Still yearning to get back in his own body, Bong-hwan makes a deal with the Grand Queen Dowager to refill the lake, giving her an heir in return. To find out, he pretends to be a male scholar and secretly leaves the palace, but his disguise nearly reveals him.
Gradually, glimpses of memories of Kim so-yong started to appear and now Jang Bong-hwan(Queen cheorin) starts to remember something about so-young though he was not able to get the whole picture.Now he understood the relationship about so-yong and king cheolgang. The one who loves and the one who despises!!everytime the memory, it pains Queen cheorin(Jang Bong-hwan),now lies wihin her body, he started feeling pity for so-yong. he understood that King cheolgang is not even interested in marrying so-yong or get along with her.
It seems hwa-jin is involved on that lake incident and its unclear that how much she involved. Queen cheorin agreed to spend seven nights with the King cheolgang as demanded by Grand Dowager in order to fill the lake. but secretly both Queen and King cheolgang had a funny agreement of “No Touch” policy without anyone’s knowledge. They need to pretend every night that they did sleep together. Queen cheorin in the meantime goes outside palace walls in order to find who Kim so-yong really is.
Kim Byeong-in,The adopted son of Kim Jwa-geun and cousin to Queen Cheorin joins back after a trip.He was too worried when he heard about Lake incident.on the other side, now disguised Queen cheorin befriended with Kim-Hwan and finally visit Gisaeng house.The other two separate meeting one with King, his brother Prince Yeongpyeong and his allies take place the other with
Kim Byeong-in(The adopted son of Kim Jwa-geun) take place in the same place meanwhile Queen cheorin enjoys with a bunch of Gisaengs.
Outside the palace, the King secretly leads nighttime raids with allies, searching for something valuable, though his mission remains unclear. Bong-hwan, meanwhile, is struggling with etiquette lessons and realizes from faint memories that Cheoljong actually dislikes So-yong, which reassures him they probably didn’t sleep together. Excited, he celebrates his “victory.”
At the Kisaeng House, Bong-hwan spends money like water, overindulges with liquor, and dances without control. However, as a result of being drunk and confused, he happens to be in the men’s bathroom and proceeds to have a meltdown, realizing he does not have the “dragon” a symbol of the lost body.
Fully drunk, happen to meet both Kim Byeong-in and her husband King Cheoljong who is in disguise. They thought Queen overheard their plans and they wanted her killed!.The episode ends with Cheoljong confronting Bong-hwan in disguise and pointing his sword at “her,” leaving their tense standoff as the cliffhanger.
Episode 3:King Cheolgang starts visiting Queen cheorin
when King cheolgang reluctant to kill Queen cheorin who is too funny even at the time of death, she was saved by her cousin Kim Byeong-in. They all never revealed their identity to Queen cheorin who is severely drunk and don’t have any idea on what she is targeted for. On the other hand, Byeong-in is eager to know who tried to kill his cousin since King cheolgang guarded is face with a mask , all he could do was to retrieve the piece of mask used by him.
Kim Byeong-in reminisces about the past how truly he loved her and his unrequited love. he too remember her last night before her wedding and their first ever kiss. did she really loved him! No, all she loved is only King cheolgang , the heart she never able to win till her lake’s accident. Then why she kissed him back, because she was lonely, unable to do anything and all she had was Kim Byeong-in, her most trusted cousin who loved her with all his heart.
Cheorin visit the Royal Kitchen as she did not like the hangover soup. she astonishes everyone with her culinary skill. she spent her most of he times at royal kitchen. Kim Byeong-in meets Queen cheorin, not only her last night assassination attempt, she also don’t remember about their kiss. King cheolgang meets her often to see if she hide anything about that night! Thus eventually resulted in so many night stays. Grand dowager swayed by Queen cheorin dish allowed her to fill the water in the lake which she once ordered to be emptied upon the lake incident.