#mine: tkem

[startwithdramas]

something I aways wanted to know...

#tvn goblin #true beauty #tvn vincenzo #business proposal #bad and crazy #the devil judge #descendants of the sun #tkem #my country the new age #polls #mine

[kitkatsudon]

wrote something ig

#and thus begins silly little fic #i shall call its tag… #kk tussss #fanfiction #tkem #gonjo #you may see in the tags that gon is autistic #that is my own personal opinion and i am also right #as for the mc… i wanted to make him as horribly relatable for myself as possible #so he’s *cough* essentially a self-insert except not really? i just based a lot of his opinions on mine #anyway #enjoy it if you want idk #kitkatsudon out

[luna-lina]

Jo Eun-Seob & Jo Yeong in ♔THE KING: Eternal Monarch♔

#the king: eternal monarch #the king eternal monarch #tkem #tkemedit #kdramaedit #the king #woo do hwan #jo eun seob #jo yeong #deo king: yeongwonui gunju #더 킹: 영원의 군주 #kdrama #k drama #mine: tkem #this was in my drafts for 2 weeks #I had 2 more jo yeong gifs #but they didn't look nice #so I didn't put them here #I didn't see the last eps yet #and I saw spoilers aaaaah

[xoxomyseriesxoxo]

DRAMAWEEN 2020 🎃 Fall Aesthetics ➔ “If you catch a falling maple leaf, you’ll fall in love with the person you’re walking with.”

#dramaween2020 #kdramadaily #kdramaedit #autumn #tvn goblin #crash landing on you #the king: eternal monarch #extraordinary you #goblin #kdrama #mine: kdrama #mine: goblin #mine: cloy #mine: tkem #mine: gifs

[kaahaani]

The Duality of Lee Min Ho

#lee min ho #kdrama #the king eternal monarch #tkem #kdramaedit #mine: edits #mine: gifs #mine: tkem

[nettlestonenell]

Subjects of the Kingdom, Citizens of the Republic, and (as always) Gentle Readers, here it is (mostly for my own housekeeping needs)...

The King: Eternal Monarch Master Post

Proof of the Series’ Success:

Pinkvilla: The King: Eternal Monarch beats Crash Landing On You to become MOST watched K drama on Netflix in 2020 yet

Koreaboo: TKEM is #3-streamed Kdrama on Netflix in Korean market

Collider: Places TKEM on its list of Best Korean Dramas on (US) Netflix  “the series is a unique, ambitious story with fantastic acting from the main cast”

Lee Minho Eating Fried Chicken In The King: Eternal Monarch Helps Chain Sell 550,000 Sets Of Chicken In A Month

"The King: Eternal Monarch" Entered Netflix Top 10 Most Popular TV Shows In 28 Countries

THE KING: ETERNAL MONARCH BREAKS PREMIERE RECORDS DESPITE LOCAL CONTROVERSY

Lee Min Ho Connection to BBQ Chicken Sales - How The King: Eternal Monarch Incorporated Brands “products also saw increase in their sales. The show also popularized products including Cellreturn LED mask. Another product that was one of the major sponsors for the series was Taiwanese bubble tea franchise The Alley. This chain was used as a workplace of one of the important characters of the drama. The Alley also is said to have seen increase in its sales after the chain was shown in the drama .”

Shinhan Gold Investment "Studio Dragon expects earnings to rise due to the popularity of 'The King'" “Shinhan Financial Investment expected an increase in earnings this year for Studio Dragon … due to the popularity of 'The King: Eternal Monarch' and rising domestic content demand. Hong Se-jong, a researcher at Shinhan Investment Corp., said, "Thanks to 'The King: Eternal Monarch', overseas copyright sales are maximized and good results are expected in line with market expectations."

Pinkvilla: The King: Eternal Monarch finale rating: Lee Min Ho and Kim Go Eun’s series ends on a good note

Korea Times:  'Viewership is not everything': K-dramas find norm-breaking recipe for success "The King: Eternal Monarch" ended up garnering average ratings of 6 percent to 8 percent in Korea and "It's Okay to Not Be Okay" has shown a similar trend.” Pointing out the huge role streaming now plays in kdrama success

+Lee Min Ho gained over three million Instagram followers during the time The King was airing, making him the most followed South Korean drama actor on the platform with 17 million followers. (as of 2/2022 he now has 28.3million, despite TKEM having been his sole project to debut in the interim) Reviews & Deeper Dives

The FanGirl Verdict Review

BitchesOverDramas Ultimate Guide to The King: Eternal Monarch (links to all of their generated content)

In Defense of Kim Eun Sook’s “The King: Eternal Monarch” (written after the first 10 episodes)

The Talking Cupboard: The King: Eternal Monarch – Notes

Dramabeans.com: Recap & Review

Forbes: Lee Min-Ho Reigns In The Drama ‘The King: The Eternal Monarch’

6 Best Episode Endings Of K-Drama "The King: Eternal Monarch"

The Unconventional Plot of The King: Eternal Monarch

1,089 minutes of screen fest and it’s definitely worth it. “TKEM may not be everyone’s cup of tea. It requires patience. But I consider it a classic. Lee Min Ho’s best work and Kim Go-Eun’s best role.”

IMDb: User Reviews

TV Tropes page (see also “Meta” below)

Review: Final episode of 'The King: Eternal Monarch'

An Honest Review Of 'The King: Eternal Monarch

Meta:

@ambitious-witch’s Takedown of TV Tropes’ page: Lee Gon’s Actual Establishing Character Moment or What the Hell is TV Tropes Doing

List of Tumblrs w/ TKEM meta content

Negative Articles:

               Controversies

Korea JoongAng Daily: Controversies spoil 'The King: Eternal Monarch'

The King: Eternal Monarch director APOLOGISES for controversial Japanese warship scenes in Lee Min Ho starrer

“The King: Eternal Monarch” Producer Issues Apology About Depiction Of Japanese Warships

              Anti-fan

Lee Min Ho isn't enough to save the mess of The King: Eternal Monarch

Who is to blame – stars Lee Min-ho and Kim Go-eun, or writer Kim Eun-sook?

“The King: Eternal Monarch” Ratings Decline To New All-Time Low

#tkem #the king: eternal monarch #the king eternal monarch #lee min ho #kim eun-sook #kim go eun #masterpost #netflix #netflix kdrama #the king: eternal monarch netflix #lee minho #kim goeun #minho #mostly did this even though i know the interest it is likely mine alone #but these tabs of mine have been open for months and they just needed closed so my laptop can rest #but i didn't want to lose the links #kdrama #more like okay: drama #kim eunsook

[alihi]

Jo Yeong || Jo Eun Seop

#the king eternal monarch #the king:eternal monarch #tkem #kdramaedit #mine #idk what this gifset is lol #am I the only one who thinks they're becoming more like each other #It's the cutest #like this is the most relaxed I've seen Jo Yoeng??? #I love it

[trendingdrama]

Yeong , I had no idea you would follow me.

#the king: eternal monarch #lee min ho #woo do hwan #kdrama #kdramaedit #kdramagifs #gifs #mine #*ep2 #the king eternal monarch #*tkem

[goldenmaknaes]

Keyword: First Impression

Bonus:

#kdramaedit #kactoredit #lee min ho #kim go eun #the king eternal monarch #tkem #cast: tkem #mineun #mine* #mygif* #lmhedit #kgeedit #mineunedit #q #tkemedit

[di-elle]

“What kind of King is Kim Gae Dong?”

#the king eternal monarch #tkem #lee gon #lee min ho #tkem netflix #the king: eternal monarch #i did a thing #mine

[maculate-mango]

Lee Gon, The Name That Must Not Be Called

This show is all about the details. That’s why every scene, and every line matters. From the beginning, it was always mentioned that our Pyeha cannot be called by his real name, Lee Gon. So he wouldn’t even tell people his name. He would only ever introduce himself as the King of the Kingdom of Corea and that’s it. And this made him so deeply rooted into his role as the King, as if his sole purpose in life was to be the King and forget that ‘Lee Gon’ existed. So he dedicated his whole life to it.

But as he spent time with Jeong Tae Eul, he came to realize that with her, he’s not the King of the Kingdom of Corea, he’s Lee Gon. To the bare, he is a man in love. And that man has to be called Lee Gon, not the King. It was Lee Gon that held on to Lieutenant Jeong Tae Eul’s ID in hopes of finding her one day. It was Lee Gon that sneaked out of the Kingdom of Corea to meet Jeong Tae Eul. It was Lee Gon that made it back to 2020 after being stuck in the past, as he used his love to get him through. Which is why the first time him saying his name in the Republic of Korea is emphasized is right after he lands back in the right time, after holding so strongly onto the memory of Tae Eul for so long. He found his Lee Gon self as he trekked through time. Jeong Tae Eul showed him that he is more than just the King, knowingly or unknowingly.

So when the show basically ends with Lee Gon doing his duty as the king but also proudly telling the child his name is Lee Gon, with the dramatic royal music in the back as the camera pans to the portrait of him as the king, it hits you right in the feels. He no longer is only introducing himself as the king. He’s acknowledging that he’s now in a better place than he has ever been before. He’s finally acknowledging that he is both the King and Lee Gon, thanks to Jeong Tae Eul. And it’s much less of a burden on him this way. So it’s not only Lee Gon that impacted Jeong Tae Eul by making her world rounder, but also the other way around.

And that, folks, is why this last scene was so epic to me. The King: Eternal Monarch is evidently a love story, but the hidden story is that of Lee Gon’s journey within himself. And he will forever be the King because he grew up as the King, so that identity is never leaving him - just like his identity of Lee Gon, his birth name. And hence, his two identities combine to show that Lee Gon is an eternal monarch. Frankly I couldn’t piece together why and how he went from never saying his name to finally saying it. Or why I was so moved by this scene. But I’m glad to have found it. I’m going to miss Lee Gon so damn much.

#also i like to rant about absolute bs so this could also just be pure bs and me just talking endlessly about tkem #but if this is what the makers were going for #i am IMPRESSED #because that’s so deep #lee gon #tkem #the king: eternal monarch #kdrama #lee min ho #im crying again #jeong tae eul #kim go eun #the king eternal monarch #i think this might be my favorite analysis post of mine

[kitkatsudon]

So. Today has been a weird day.

Rambles below, because I’m in my feelings but that doesn’t necessarily have to be your problem.

The first thing I saw when I woke up today was that Ice Adolescence had been cancelled. The second thing piece of news I received, within a few minutes of this, was that my Grandma had passed away.

The second thing is more personal, and I haven’t come here to talk about that - I suppose more than anything it’s to give context on today’s slightly weird vibe, and why I’m feeling perhaps more nostalgic than I would be normally.

Perhaps as a distraction, I want to ramble about YOI.

Though now I’ve sat down to actually do this… where do I start?

Though my internet presence is very TKEM-focused nowadays, since its release, YOI has always been incredibly dear to me. It came out just as I had found out that my family were going to be moving across the country (and ok, in the UK that’s maybe less of a big deal than if I lived in a larger country, but I was 14, and 14 is a horrible age, so it was still a big deal to me). YOI came out in late 2016, we moved at the beginning of 2017, and I joined a much smaller school with… let’s say less choice for the people I could make friends with.

I was, technically, adopted by a friendship group, but it took a long time, some falling outs within the group, and me learning everything there ever was to know about BTS despite having no real passion for music-based fandoms for me to really feel included. The friendship group I’d left behind was much more diverse in terms of interests, and we thrived on mutual sharing and acceptance of each other’s interests. This new one was more kind of “conform or fuck you,” and I never quite managed to conform properly.

All that is to say… while I didn’t really have friends, in 2017, I had YOI and its fandom. While I was dealing with the huge changes in my life, I was comforted through it by, more than anything else, lurking around the YOI fandom. I had my first forays into posting things online using Google+, of all things (my parents didn’t let me have social media, but I could access this using my gmail), and they were drawings I had done of YOI characters, even a hand-drawn anecdote comic thing, and just… it was rudimentary, but you gotta start somewhere, right?

It became what I was known for, in my new school. It became part of me. That summer, my family went on holiday to Orlando FL to do the theme parks, and despite that having been something that I’d been begging to do for years, what I ended up being most excited about was the opportunity to go to Hot Topic and buy the YOI merch that they’d recently announced. I bought a T-shirt, a blanket, and a backpack, and although the backpack’s strap broke after a year of using it for school, I still have the T-shirt and the blanket, and they’re still special to me to this day. Back then, listening to the soundtrack on repeat, I’d decided that one day I was going to perform a dance routine to ‘In regards to love: Eros,’ and at the end of my first year of uni, that was something I was actually able to do. Was it good? Not really, I’m by no means a professional dancer, but I felt like I was paying homage to my inner… not quite child, more like my inner angsty teenager?

My whatsapp background is still YOI-themed. I still proudly display my Funko Pops and my posters in my bedroom at home. YOI is still my comfort show, and though I’m not usually one for rewatching shows, it’s still the show that I’ve rewatched the most. Even my username is a relic of my ties to the YOI fandom - though I wasn’t really using it much then, it’s something I thought up during the days when I was deepest in it, and I thought to myself “if I ever am brave enough to really start posting things online, this is the username I’ll use.” So even though the first thing I ever posted under the name KitKatsudon was the beginning of a BTS fanfiction on Quotev on all places that I was writing with a friend of mine at the time, it has its roots in YOI.

It’s sort of funny - once upon a time, I used to semi-joke that I couldn’t die before the YOI movie came out. Don’t get me wrong, my mental health was never bad enough that I had actually realistically considered not making it to Ice Ado’s release, but every time I said it, I did mean it. No matter how shitty I felt, I had to keep going, because I was going to have my bum in a seat when it eventually released in cinemas. I guess what this means now is that, unless Ice Ado is picked up by another studio, I’m just never going to die 🤷‍♀️ you’d better buckle the fuck up, mortals, because MAPPA has just granted me ultimate power.

What am I trying to say? I don’t really know. Maybe thank you, to the YOI team, for being such a positive force in my life. You gave me something comforting to hold onto while everything around me was changing, while I was starting my sexuality journey, while I didn’t have the close support of peers to help boost my mood. I don’t watch the show so often nowadays, but that’s because I save it for instances where I really need comforting. Maybe like today.

The story of Ice Adolescence may be over, at least for now, but I’ll always be grateful for what we did get.

#tw: mentions of death #nothing really major but better to be careful #kitkat’s thoughts tag #yuri on ice #it’s just rambles about what that show meant and still means to me #spoiler alert: it’s a lot #rip yoi #you deserved so much better #little kitkat who ended her GCSE English presentation thing on queerbaiting with a hopeful message about yoi paving the way for better #would be so disappointed in mappa right now

[frankdelfino]

okay so where’s the au where jo yeong and jo eun-seob are twins, their parents stayed together, and then had another pair of twins years later? they’re absolute polar opposites and are always asked if their parents divorced and each one raised one twin (no, they just grew up like that). acquaintances of yeong will meet eun-seob and just think ???? meanwhile eun-seob’s friends will meet yeong and be like woah... your brother is so cool and hot (to which eun-seob will always go, we’re identical twins so thank you for the indirect compliment ha!). the two of them have a handful of identity-switch stories (yeong taking eun-seob’s driving test for him because he’s sick of eun-seob failing every time and asking him for rides everywhere, eun-seob dressing as yeong in order to sabotage a date yeong wanted to get out of). the younger twins think yeong is cooler but eun-seob is more fun. they always act annoyed by the other but in reality they would take a bullet for each other, NO ONE gets to talk to him that way only I DO!

basically the potential is all there and I am absolutely living for it

#the king: eternal monarch #tkem #jo yeong #jo eun seob #i just want these two to be lawful good/chaotic good siblings 🥺 #mine #im only on episode 12 but um ANYWAY #eun seob still gets with na-ri bc theyre cute!!! #idk abt yeong maybe he has a crush on tae eul’s closed off cute friend sin-jae #but NO he will not make a move #so stop mentioning it eun seob god!! #the king eternal monarch #lee gon and tae eul: (making out) #jo yeong: why am i here? just to suffer? #also #politics? who said that? #maybe it’s like. monarchy but theyre not as important lol #like the monarchy in the uk idgaf #is this lit rally just a modern au? yes yes it is

[luna-lina]

   ♔ The King: Eternal Monarch ♔ (2020) | do not repost!

#the king eternal monarch #the king: eternal monarch #tkem #kdramaedit #tkemedit #lee gon #lee min ho #jung tae eul #kim go eun #더 킹: 영원의 군주 #deo king: youngwonui gunjoo #kdrama #k drama #scenery #mine: tkem #the scenery in this kdrama is #so prettyyy

[xoxomyseriesxoxo]

“[In Emperor Lee Gon’s world,] Goo Seo Ryung has been elected as the youngest and first female Prime Minister. Goo Seo Ryung was born into a family with difficult circumstances but studied hard in order to become a news anchor. Through her marriage, she entered the world of politics and successfully became the spokesperson for her party. After her divorce, she became the Prime Minister.”

Jung Eun Chae as Goo Seo Ryung in The King: Eternal Monarch, EP.01 (2020)

#kdramaedit #kdrama #the king eternal monarch #the king: eternal monarch #jung eun chae #goo seo ryung #mine #mine: tkem #mine: gifs #she has bde!!!!!!!!! mainly watching it for her and kge atm... #lee gon & her 'are 2 people who have no choice but to coexist' given the official desc. so i expect mind games + political schemes PLS. #(coloring gif 2 & 4? HELL but she's worth it)

[kaahaani]

"Marked: Searching For Gold”: AO3 

Category: The King Eternal Monarch

Summary: Jeong Tae-Eul guessed she could consider herself lucky, she had a soulmate mark. Her mark had appeared at birth, a neat type font saying Lee Gon, meaning that he was older than her, he existed before she was born. But she wondered if he existed at all because her mark was different - it was a deep gold that almost glowed.

Pairings: Jeong Tae Eul/Lee Gon; Jo Eun Seob/Myeong Na Ri; Jo Yeong/Myeong Seung Ah

Tags: Soulmates; Alternate Universe - Soulmates; Soulmate-Identifying Marks; Angst; Pining; Parallel Universes

#the king eternal monarch #the king: eternal monarch #tkem #kdrama #kdrama fanfiction #mine: tkem #fanfic: marked