A violent thunderstorm is raging when fraternal twins are born to a crown prince and his wife. Rather than serving as a cause for celebration, his father, the king, is horrified at what he perceives to be a bad omen. Court members fear for the fate of the nation and their own grasp on power. Who will accept a royal prince who shared a womb with a girl, the king declares. Disgusted, he decrees a death sentence for the new princess and everyone who assisted in her birth.And so begins the Korean drama The King’s Affection. During the Joseon era, some believed that fraternal twins were bad luck. One of the twins had to be eliminated and it was usually the girl, since a woman was considered less worthy and certainly could not inherit the throne.The King’s Affection Season 1 Download
Sometimes the female infant was given away, sometimes she was left to die. Despite her daughter’s death sentence, the crown princess secretly smuggles the baby out of the palace and instructs that she be left at a Buddhist temple.That’s where the princess grows up, yet, somehow fate returns her to the palace to work as a maid. While fraternal twins don’t always look alike, the teenage maid, Dam-i, and the prince Lee Hwi are almost identical. The prince notices their resemblance and hatches a plot to have the maid take his place while he goes to visit his teacher. Switching roles will prove fatal to the prince and the young Dam-i, played by Choi Myung-bin, must pretend to be the prince for far longer than intended.While she was a maid, Dam-i met and developed feelings for Jung Ji-woon, a court visitor, played as a child by Ko Woo-rim. He cannot forget her, even when she seems to disappear, or even years later when he returns to the palace. The prince/princess-in-disguise, played by Park Eun-bin, must guard her identity so carefully that she can’t let anyone get close, even Ji-woon, played as an adult by SF9’s Rowoon.The Kings Affection.