Me neither. It's just ridiculous. *hates cheaters and indecisive guys*

He's not just any man tho, he's a KING. That's pretty typical during those days. This day and age tho, he's a total douche if he leads 3 women on at the same, shaking my head and judging if those 3 women know about it and still willing to share him.

I have known several muslim men who did just that....loves ALL his four wives all at the same time, equally or otherwise.

And kings and emperors of olden days have at least 300 'active' concubines and 2000 stand-bys. So 3 women at the same time is absolutely no sweat :)

Marriage in that era were rarely for love but for power/ politics. That is why we have so many dramas of that era. Sukjong himself didnt pick his own wife/queen until Ok-jung came along. Inspite of oppositions from his mother and faction none could argue the need for an heir to the throne. Queen 1 (died at 19), Queen 2 (Inhyun) and Queen 3 Inwon couldn't produce an heir so yea I get why Ok-jung became too powerful later for her own good.
Well, this is Ok-jung's drama and I hope the writers will do something different with her character because I'm pretty much tired of her as a bloody villain. Give In-hyun a backbone for once.

And yet, parents manage to love three (or more!) children at the same time. The heart has an amazing capacity for love.

i think definition of love is kinda different. back then love means you loyal, respet and nice to your partner but now monogamous is love. plus back then its important to maintain royal bloodline.

Every historical drama ever produced messed with history to some degree. One obvious eg is Bidam's character in QSD. Historically he was Queen Seon Deok's rival but he became her love interest in the drama and no one gave a shit because the viewers loved him lol.

Same here. It's going to be hard to turn my mind towards hating Queen Inhyun and Dong Yi and accepting Lady Jang as the "victim".

It's crazy how I didn't hate Sukjong in Dong Yi even though he had a wife, a mistress, and another mistress. He never loved In Hyun, she was an arranged match. He did love Jang Heebin, but she was so evil that she killed his love. And he adored Dong Yi (Sookbin), she was the love of his life. Well, at least in that version of the story.

See, I'm going to struggle changing my thinking with this one.

Don't know...I read their history and Dong Yi seems more historical accurately yes dong hi was never in the investigation team and that team did not existed in the palace but hang ok Jung drama had even more made up staff
e.j. Jang ok Jung was never designer or the daughter of slave(actually her mother was from a family that gave queens to the country, so she was quite respetable) she was never treat the way she was treated in the drama actually she enter as concubine in 1686 and king's mother died in 1683. Her son was 13 when she died not 3 and she even attacked him before being executed, I think thats why she won the reputation of evil. And it was the king himself who ordered her dead, to the point of killing 1700 person that opposed to her execution she was never buried with sukjong, her resting place was in a myo tomb but was moved in 1969 to her actual tomb in the same cemetery where sukjong was with inhyeon and Inwon.

I doubt the drama portrayed choi suk bin fairly while they justified and victimized jang ok Jung (with made up script) they dehumanized choi suk bin, made her evil with no evidence or whatsoever there is historical evidence jang ok Jung did terrible things but not such with choi suk bin... She actually did lots of good things for the poor (like subsiding one of the most beautiful buddist temples of Korea that also served as shelter to the poorest in a society ruled by division of classes system.