The series dramatizes her life with breathtaking scope. We meet Jang Geum as a young girl, the daughter of a disgraced court official and a former palace cook who was forced to live in exile. Following the death of her mother, young Jang Geum enters the royal palace, determined to fulfill her mother’s dying wish: to clear her name and reach the highest rank in the culinary arts.
Jang Geum enters the palace as a lowly Naein (court lady) in the Suragan . Here, changes genre from tragedy to the most intense cooking competition ever filmed. Jewel in the Palace - Dae Jang Geum
To understand the scale of , one must view it as a five-act play. The series dramatizes her life with breathtaking scope