goong manhwa

Goong (Hangul: 궁, literally "Palace") is a currently ongoing manhwa series by author Park So-hee. It has been adapted into a popular TV drama series of the same name, known in English as Princess Hours. As of January 2009, there are currently 18 volumes published in Korea.

Goong is licensed and published in North America in English by Yen Press (absorbed from ICEkunion).


Shin Chae-Gyeong

A seventeen year-old Korean girl who marries the Crown Prince of Korea because of a promise between her grandfather and the late King. Innocent and naive, she is deeply affected by the loneliness of her new life and longs for home. Because of this loneliness, she starts falling for Shin, even though he acts like a jerk with her.

Yi Shin

Crown prince or "Seja-Jeoha" of Korea. He is portrayed in the beginning as arrogant and insensitive. Pressured to marry early, he accepts the choice his father and the elders give him (Chae-Gyeong) after being rejected by his girlfriend Hyorin. Shin later shows that Chae-Gyeong is the only one that is really close to him. He also doesn't want to let her go.