I was so excited when I first saw this drama released!
The story began 20 years ago in Joseon era. At that time, despite her tender age, Shin Saimdang quickly gained her reputation as a talented artist and a notoriously daring girl, going as far as climbing walls to sneak into other people's house. She was the second daughter of Shin Myung Hwa, a Confucian scholar who was loyal to King Jung Jong. Jung Jong was portrayed as a paranoid King, fearing of losing his throne, and losing control of government to factions.
Saimdang met and fell in love with Lee Gyeom, a member of the royal family, but enjoying the life of a commoner and an artist as well. Their love quickly blossomed, and Lee Gyeom asked Shin Myung Hwa for his daughter's marriage. However, a series of mishap events, both from the king and the main antagonists Min Chi Hyung (a corrupt merchant) and Choi Wheiumdang (originally a tavern girl, being jealous with Saimdang for being loved by Lee Gyeom, drove Saimdang to her misery), resulted in Shin Myung Hwa being killed by the king and Saimdang marrying a scholar named Lee Won Su. In despair, Lee Gyeom broke away and lived the wandering life for 20 years, rejecting numerous requests for marriage from the royal family.

Song Seung Heon as Lee Gyeom, Saimdang's lover, an aristocrat and painter with a carefree spirit. Lee Gyeom's love towards Saimdang was my favourite part in the whole drama. His caring, loving and protecting for Saimdang are just eternal. He doesn't care if Saimdang is married. His love for her is just endless. My last impression towards Song Seung Heon was in the drama back in year 2000, "Endless Love: Autumn in My Heart". After 17 years long, here comes another drama of his that I watched!
Lee Young Ae as Shin Saimdang, a Joseon artist, calligrapher and philosopher. Saimdang's love for Lee Gyeom was also eternal. She married another man just for saving Lee Gyeom's life even though she has strong feelings towards him. It was really sad when Saimdang's husband have an affair but she bears all these emotions alone, not knowing by Lee Gyeom. Lee Young Ae is finally back after a long 14 years, after her hit drama, "Jewel in The Palace - Dae Jang Geum". She doesn't even look old in a bit after so long! Still, her acting is superb!
A beautiful but broken hearted love story, Saimdang finally confessed her love for Lee Gyeom, but chose not to run with him for the sake of her family. After a tearful farewell to Saimdang, Lee Gyeom then head to a ship, and a long voyage led him to settle at Tuscany, Italy. Lee Gyeom maintained his artistic talent in Italy, maintaining a building named Siesta De Luna where he stored his artistic works regarding his miss towards Saimdang.
Really love all the artworks, the calligraphies, and the poems in the drama. So artistic, real beauties. A recommended drama!
"Back in The Day" by Hyemi (Fiestar) is my favourite OST among all. "Close To You" by The One and "Everlasting Love" by Lee Soo (MC The Max) are so good as well!
ไฝ ๅฐฑๆ็
งไฝ ็ๆนๅผๅป็ๆดป,ๅฐฑๅ็ฐๅจไธๆ ท。ๅฆๆ้ฃๆฏไฝ ้ๆฉ็่ทฏ,้ฃๅฐฑ็ปง็ปญ่ตฐๅง,ไฝๆไผไธ็ด็ซๅจ่ฝ็ๅพ่งไฝ ็ๅฐๆน。ไฝ ไธๅๅบๆไนๆฒกๆๅ
ณ็ณป,ๅฐฑ็ฎๆไปฌ่ตฐ็้่ทฏๆฐธ่ฟ้ฝๆฏไธ่ฝ็ธ้็ๅนณ่ก็บฟ, ๆไนๆฟๆ้ชไฝ ๆ
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ข่ตฐๅฎไฝ็。ๅญ็่ฟไปฝ่ฎฐๅฟ, ๅฐฑ่ถณไปฅ่ฎฉๆๆฏๆไธ่พๅญไบ。
- ๆๅฒ 《ๅธไปปๅ :ๅ
็ๆฅ่ฎฐ》
์์์ ์์์ ์ด๊ฒ ์ฌ๋์ด๋ ๊ฑธ
๊ทธํ ๋ก ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ค์๋ ๊ทธ๋๊ฑฐ์ฃ
ํ๊ฑธ์ ํ๊ฑธ์ ์กฐ๊ธ์ฉ ๋ค๊ฐ๊ฐ๊ฒ์
๋ ์ด์ ๋ฉ์ด์ง์ง ๋ง์
๋ด ๋ง์ ๋ค์ด์ค์
I know, I know, this is love
I’ve waited for you for so long
Step by step, I’ll slowly go to you
Don’t get any farther
Listen to my heart
#SaimdangLightsDiary
#PLSY