I Am a King (2012) on Netflix
Prince Choong-nyung would rather read than rule. Made heir by his father King Taejong, he slips out of the palace and meets Deok-chil, a drunken slave who looks just like him.
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When his two older brothers, Yangnyeong and Hyoryeong, disappoint King Taejong, the king declares that his third son, Grand Prince Choong-nyung, will rule next. Choong-nyung wants a quiet life with his books and refuses, then climbs over the palace wall to get away before the coronation. Outside he runs into Deok-chil, a bad-tempered drunken slave who has come to the palace to free the woman he loves, jailed because her father is suspected of being a spy. Deok-chil could pass for the prince, and the two trade clothes. A knock on the head leaves Choong-nyung taken for a slave, while Deok-chil sits on the throne.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about I Am a King (2012)
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- A special screening of I Am the King was held at Deoksugung palace in Seoul on August 13, 2012, the first Korean film ever screened outdoors on palace grounds. Some 500 citizens, along with independence fighters and their families, attended the event marking National Liberation Day.
- The film is set in the three months before Prince Choong-nyung became King Sejong the Great, a stretch the Annals of the Joseon Dynasty leave unrecorded. The Annals cover Joseon history from 1413 to 1865 but omit this crucial period.
