Empress Ki (TV series)

Empress Ki

Promotional poster for Empress Ki. Left to right: Ta Hwan, Ki Seung-nyang, Wang Yoo
Genre
Written by
Directed by
  • Han Hee
  • Lee Sung-joon
Starring
Country of origin South Korea
Original language(s) Korean
No. of episodes 51
Production
Executive producer(s) Joo Sung-woo
Location(s) Korea
Running time 60 minutes
Production company(s) Lee Kim Productions
Release
Original network Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation
Picture format HDTV 1080i 16:9
Original release October 28, 2013 (2013-10-28) – April 29, 2014 (2014-04-29)
External links
Website

Empress Ki (Hangul: 기황후; hanja: 奇皇后; RR: Gi Hwanghu) is a South Korean pseudo-historical television series starring Ha Ji-won as the titular Empress Gi.[1] It aired on MBC from October 28, 2013 to April 29, 2014 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 51 episodes.

The early working title was Hwatu (Hangul: 화투; lit. "Battle of Flowers") but the title was changed to prevent confusion with the similarly named playing cards.[2]

Plot

The series revolves around Gi Seungnyang, a Goryeo-born woman who ascends to power despite the restrictions of the era's class system, and later marries Toghon Temür (Emperor Huizong of China) to become an empress of the Yuan dynasty, instead of her first love, Wang Yu. The series depicts her loves and political ambitions as she is torn between the two nations.[3][4]

Cast

Main characters

Supporting characters

Guest and cameo appearances

Ratings

In the table below, the blue numbers represent the lowest ratings and the red numbers represent the highest ratings.

Episode # Original broadcast date Average audience share
TNmS Ratings[5] AGB Nielsen[6]
Nationwide Seoul National Capital Area Nationwide Seoul National Capital Area
1 October 28, 2013 10.1% (13th) 12.3% (8th) 11.1% (9th) 13.3% (4th)
2 October 29, 2013 12.0% (6th) 14.6% (4th) 13.6% (4th) 15.8% (4th)
3 November 4, 2013 11.7% (11th) 14.9% (4th) 12.8% (6th) 14.5% (5th)
4 November 5, 2013 12.7% (6th) 15.4% (4th) 14.5% (4th) 16.6% (3rd)
5 November 11, 2013 14.0% (5th) 17.3% (4th) 14.5% (5th) 16.1% (4th)
6 November 12, 2013 14.6% (4th) 18.6% (4th) 16.3% (4th) 18.7% (3rd)
7 November 18, 2013 15.2% (4th) 18.4% (4th) 15.5% (5th) 17.6% (3rd)
8 November 19, 2013 16.5% (4th) 20.1% (3rd) 16.9% (4th) 18.6% (3rd)
9 November 25, 2013 15.4% (4th) 19.1% (4th) 17.2% (4th) 19.5% (3rd)
10 November 26, 2013 16.2% (4th) 19.5% (3rd) 18.1% (3rd) 19.6% (3rd)
11 December 2, 2013 17.7% (4th) 20.8% (3rd) 17.8% (5th) 20.5% (2nd)
12 December 3, 2013 18.4% (4th) 21.7% (3rd) 19.0% (4th) 21.0% (3rd)
13 December 9, 2013 19.1% (4th) 23.6% (2nd) 20.2% (3rd) 23.5% (2nd)
14 December 10, 2013 18.4% (4th) 23.3% (1st) 19.5% (3rd) 21.9% (2nd)
15 December 16, 2013 17.7% (4th) 21.7% (4th) 18.8% (4th) 21.5% (3rd)
16 December 17, 2013 18.1% (4th) 21.9% (2nd) 18.8% (3rd) 21.4% (3rd)
17 December 23, 2013 17.3% (4th) 20.5% (2nd) 17.3% (4th) 20.1% (2nd)
18 December 24, 2013 17.3% (3rd) 20.5% (2nd) 17.5% (3rd) 19.9% (2nd)
19 January 6, 2014 17.0% (3rd) 21.8% (2nd) 17.9% (3rd) 20.4% (3rd)
20 January 7, 2014 18.5% (3rd) 23.8% (2nd) 19.1% (3rd) 21.3% (2nd)
21 January 13, 2014 18.2% (3rd) 23.7% (2nd) 19.6% (3rd) 22.9% (2nd)
22 January 14, 2014 19.0% (3rd) 23.9% (2nd) 20.3% (3rd) 22.1% (2nd)
23 January 20, 2014 19.5% (3rd) 23.6% (2nd) 20.8% (3rd) 23.6% (2nd)
24 January 21, 2014 20.7% (3rd) 24.7% (2nd) 22.6% (2nd) 26.2% (2nd)
25 January 27, 2014 21.4% (3rd) 27.0% (2nd) 22.8% (2nd) 26.8% (1st)
26 January 28, 2014 22.0% (2nd) 26.3% (2nd) 24.9% (2nd) 28.6% (1st)
27 February 3, 2014 24.2% (2nd) 29.8% (1st) 23.9% (2nd) 27.7% (1st)
28 February 4, 2014 24.0% (2nd) 29.3% (1st) 25.3% (2nd) 29.1% (1st)
29 February 10, 2014 20.8% (2nd) 25.3% (1st) 22.7% (2nd) 25.3% (1st)
30 February 17, 2014 25.3% (2nd) 30.9% (1st) 26.5% (2nd) 29.9% (1st)
31 February 18, 2014 25.6% (2nd) 30.9% (1st) 26.6% (1st) 29.4% (1st)
32 February 24, 2014 24.4% (2nd) 31.0% (1st) 25.3% (2nd) 28.8% (1st)
33 February 25, 2014 27.9% (2nd) 33.6% (1st) 28.6% (1st) 31.3% (1st)
34 March 3, 2014 26.1% (2nd) 32.4% (1st) 26.2% (2nd) 29.7% (1st)
35 March 4, 2014 26.5% (2nd) 32.3% (1st) 28.3% (1st) 31.4% (1st)
36 March 10, 2014 26.0% (2nd) 31.4% (1st) 29.2% (2nd) 30.8% (1st)
37 March 11, 2014 27.1% (2nd) 32.4% (1st) 29.2% (1st) 32.4% (1st)
38 March 17, 2014 25.6% (2nd) 30.7% (1st) 27.7% (2nd) 31.3% (1st)
39 March 18, 2014 25.0% (2nd) 29.3% (1st) 26.5% (2nd) 29.7% (1st)
40 March 24, 2014 22.4% (2nd) 27.5% (2nd) 24.4% (2nd) 27.9% (2nd)
41 March 25, 2014 24.0% (2nd) 29.8% ( 26.0% (2nd) 28.8% (1st)
42 March 31, 2014 23.5% (2nd) 27.2% (2nd) 25.0% (2nd) 28.8% (1st)
43 April 1, 2014 24.1% (2nd) 27.4% (2nd) 25.0% (2nd) 27.9% (1st)
44 April 7, 2014 23.9% (3rd) 27.8% (2nd) 24.3% (2nd) 27.2% (1st)
45 April 8, 2014 23.5% (2nd) 28.7% (2nd) 25.5% (2nd) 28.7% (1st)
46 April 14, 2014 23.9% (2nd) 28.0% (2nd) 25.3% (2nd) 28.3% (1st)
47 April 15, 2014 23.8% (2nd) 28.9% (1st) 26.1% (2nd) 28.8% (1st)
48 April 21, 2014 22.7% (2nd) 25.6% (2nd) 22.9% (2nd) 24.9% (1st)
49 April 22, 2014 23.9% (2nd) 27.2% (2nd) 26.6% (2nd) 29.4% (1st)
50 April 28, 2014 25.7% (2nd) 30.6% (1st) 26.2% (2nd) 28.7% (1st)
51 April 29, 2014 28.3% (2nd) 33.9% (1st) 28.7% (2nd) 31.7% (1st)
Average 20.72% 25.12% 21.90% 24.70%

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Recipient Result
2013
MBC Drama Awards[7]
Grand Prize (Daesang) Ha Ji-won Won
Drama of the Year Empress Ki Nominated
Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Special Project Drama Joo Jin-mo Won
Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Special Project Drama Ha Ji-won Nominated
Excellence Award, Actor in a Special Project Drama Ji Chang-wook Won
Popularity Award, Actress Ha Ji-won Won
PD Award (Actor/Actress of the year chosen by PDs of MBC, KBS, SBS) Ha Ji-won Won
Writer(s) of the Year Jang Young-chul, Jung Kyung-soon Won
Best New Actress Baek Jin-hee Won
2014
50th Baeksang Arts Awards
Best New Actress (TV) Baek Jin-hee Won
Most Popular Actor (TV) Ji Chang-wook Nominated
Most Popular Actress (TV) Ha Ji-won Nominated
9th Seoul International Drama Awards[8]
 Best Series Drama (Golden Bird Prize) Empress Ki Won
Outstanding Korean Drama Nominated
Outstanding Korean Actor Ji Chang-wook Nominated
Outstanding Korean Actress Ha Ji-won Nominated
Outstanding Korean Drama OST Thorn Love - 4Men Nominated
Just Once - Soyou Nominated
7th Korea Drama Awards[9]
 Grand Prize (Daesang) Ha Ji-won Nominated
Best Drama Empress Ki Nominated
Best Production Director Han Hee, Lee Sung-joon Nominated
Top Excellence Award, Actor Ji Chang-wook Nominated
Excellence Award, Actress Baek Jin-hee Nominated
3rd APAN Star Awards
 Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Serial Drama Joo Jin-mo Nominated
Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Serial Drama Ha Ji-won Nominated
Excellence Award, Actor in a Serial Drama Ji Chang-wook Nominated
Best Supporting Actress Baek Jin-hee Nominated
Yoon A-jung Nominated
MBC Drama Awards
Golden Acting Award, Actor Jeon Guk-hwan Nominated
2015
Korea Communications Commission Broadcasting Awards
 Excellence Hallyu Award Empress Ki Won
48th Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival
 Special Jury Prize Empress Ki Won

International broadcast

Country Network(s) Series premiere Series finale
 Philippines GMA Network October 20, 2014 April 14, 2015
 Indonesia Trans7 November 23, 2015 currently airing
 Poland TVP2 November 9, 2015 February 25, 2016
 Singapore Channel U October 31, 2015 February 21, 2016
 Sri Lanka Rupavahini February 16, 2016 currently airing
 Armenia Yerkir Media April 4, 2016 currently airing

References

  1. ↑ Oh, Jean (October 24, 2013). "Ha Ji-won back in The Empress Ki". The Korea Herald. Retrieved January 7, 2014.
  2. ↑ Kwak, Hyun-soo (August 14, 2013). "Ha Ji Won's new drama is renamed Ki Empress". Korea Star Daily via Yahoo!. Retrieved August 29, 2013.
  3. ↑ Do, Je-hae (November 3, 2013). "Fact vs. fiction in TV drama: MBC period piece stirs debate on 'fictionalized history'". The Korea Times. Retrieved January 7, 2014.
  4. ↑ Do, Je-hae (August 2, 2013). "Period pieces dominate Korean cinema, TV". The Korea Times. Retrieved August 29, 2013.
  5. ↑ "TNmS Daily Ratings: this links to current day-select the date from drop down menu". TNmS Ratings (in Korean). Retrieved October 28, 2013.
  6. ↑ "AGB Daily Ratings: this links to current day-select the date from drop down menu". AGB Nielsen Media Research (in Korean). Retrieved October 28, 2013.
  7. ↑ Lee, Cory (December 31, 2013). "Ha Ji-won Receives Top Honor at 2013 MBC Drama Awards". TenAsia. Retrieved January 23, 2014.
  8. ↑ Sohn, Ji-ae (September 5, 2014). "Alien love story steals the show at Seoul drama festival". Korea.net. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
  9. ↑ "Korea Drama Awards 2014 – Nominees List". Beatus Corner. September 7, 2014. Retrieved September 7, 2014.

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