Man, this drama could be the sanitized version of A Frozen Flower except totally het instead of BL, and that would be fine with me but probably couldn’t air on network television as yet. The way The King’s Affection is set up, the titular king is really girl Park Eun Bin (his twin sister) pulling the world’s most dangerous cross-dressing con, but the eyes and heart don’t lie and she’s totally goner for her court official/tutor/bae played by Ro Woon. The latest poster is basically eye lovemaking between these two, with the lovely touch of Ro Woon holding the king’s robe behind Park Eun Bin who is dressed in her princess regalia. Surrounding them is a quartet of youngsters also attempting to do their best sageuk performance with Nam Yoon Soo, Choi Byung Chan, Jung Chae Yeon, and Bae Yoon Kyung, with the production released first stills of these supporting leads this week. The young guys look like they are cosplaying but the ladies are just radiantly pretty solely on visuals alone, so colorful!
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