Title: 검사 프린세스 / Geomsa Princess / Prosecutor Princess
Chinese Title : 检察官公主
Previously known as: 검사 마타하리 / Prosecutor Mata Hari
Genre: Romance
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period: 2010-Mar-31 to 2010-May-20
Air time: Wednesdays & Thursdays 21:55
Synopsis
Ma Hye Ri is a woman with an excellent memory and ability to focus, which allowed her to pass the bar exam with ease. Despite her talents, she is more interested in being fashionable and dislikes hard work, so she is far from being an ideal prosecutor and has doubts about her suitability for her job. Through her conflicts with senior colleages and struggles with difficult cases, however, Hye Ri gradually matures into a brilliant prosecutor with a sense of duty and justice.
Cast
Kim So Yeon as Ma Hye Ri
Park Shi Hoo as Seo In Woo
Han Jung Soo as Yoon Se Joon
Choi Song Hyun as Jin Jung Sun
Yoo Gun as Lee Min Suk
Park Jung Ah as Jeni Ahn
Choi Sung Ho as Chae Ji Woon
Lee Eun Hee (이은희) as Lee Jung Im
Lee Seung Hyung as Cha Myung Soo
Kim Sang Ho as Na Joong Suk
Choi Jung Woo as Ma Sang Tae
Yang Hee Kyung as Park Ae Ja
Min Young Won as Lee Yoo Na
Lee Jong Suk as Lee Woo Hyun
Sung Byung Sook as Han Mi Ok
Kim Ji Won as Yoon Bin
Sun Woo Jae Duk as Go Man Chul
Lee Soo Jin as Hye Ri’s law school friend
Kim Sung Hoon as fitness trainer
Jun Jin Gi as detective
Baek Seung Hyun
Shin Dong Ki
Samuel Kang as reporter
Hwang Kwang Hee
Production Credits
Chief Producer: Kim Young Sup
Director: Jin Hyuk
Assistant Director: Park Sun Ho (박선호)
Screenwriter: So Hyun Kyung
Episode Ratings
| Date | Episode | Nationwide | Seoul |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-Mar-31 | 1 | 7.3 | (<8.9) |
| 2010-Apr-01 | 2 | 8.8 | 9.4 (20th) |
| 2010-Apr-07 | 3 | 9.6 (15th) | 9.7 (15th) |
| 2010-Apr-08 | 4 | 9.7 (14th) | 9.4 (15th) |
| 2010-Apr-14 | 5 | 10.8 (12th) | 10.9 (14th) |
| 2010-Apr-15 | 6 | 10.7 (13th) | 11.0 (13th) |
| 2010-Apr-21 | 7 | 10.4 (12th) | 10.8 (10th) |
| 2010-Apr-22 | 8 | 11.0 (13th) | 11.1 (11th) |
| 2010-Apr-28 | 9 | 9.9 (12th) | 10.2 (13th) |
| 2010-Apr-29 | 10 | 9.6 (14th) | 9.6 (14th) |
| 2010-May-05 | 11 | 9.9 (11th) | 9.8 (12th) |
| 2010-May-06 | 12 | 11.5 (12th) | 11.5 (11th) |
| 2010-May-12 | 13 | 9.6 (12th) | 9.2 (14th) |
| 2010-May-13 | 14 | 12.0 (8th) | 11.5 (10th) |
| 2010-May-19 | 15 | 12.1 (8th) | 12.6 (8th) |
| 2010-May-20 | 16 | 12.4 (8th) | 11.7 (10th) |
Source: TNS Media Korea
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September 6th, 2012 at 12:47 am
I hate the character of Hye Ri here, inconsiderate. but since I just started to watch this, I’ll look forward on how she will change her personality, and hope that I’ll like her in future. 🙂
October 26th, 2012 at 1:42 pm
Confirm Prosecutor Princess is my 2nd Favorited k-drama after Feast of the Gods….I started to watch Park Shi Hoo drama after reading some comment about Lee Sang Woo pull Park Shi Hoo at Feast of the Gods. Previously I just watch kdrama just usual not to addict but after watched Feast of The Gods and saw the performance of Lee Sang Woo…wow such a good actor Lee Sang Woo is with great acting. And because of Lee Sang Woo I noticed Park Shi Hoo and really he also good in acting…..
So Fighting my two favorite actor Lee Sang Woo and Park Shi Hoo….hope you guys keep making good drama and keep improving your acting skill!!
December 8th, 2012 at 11:55 pm
I only began to watch this drama because she has my name!!!
Hye Ri is just like me, but I am a cooperative lawyer.
I think she is a perfect example of how people cannot notice whether they are being unique and just full or rude and pathetic
NOT TRYING TO BE RUDE IN ANY WAY
December 10th, 2012 at 12:20 pm
the plot is good. the flow of the story is nice. and the lead characters are awesome! park si hoo! <3
January 24th, 2013 at 11:44 pm
i watch this drama because it has park shi hoo , but i fall in love with another guy…han jung soo (yoon se joon)…will search han jung soo others drama
January 26th, 2013 at 2:12 pm
ill watch this because of park shi hoo :)))))
January 30th, 2013 at 11:46 am
Another good drama from Park Shi Hoo!!! I’m so addicted to him!!!
January 31st, 2013 at 12:07 am
i am on episode 2 and it is really stupid to have a prosecutor like that girl. she should have been fired the first day! is there a prosecutor like that in south korea? i want to watch the series because of park shi hoo, after i watched CDDA, if he is really good at comedy, at this point i have second thoughts of continuing.
February 8th, 2013 at 10:58 am
the Lead actress is so annoying, the way she act, talk.. im on ep 6 and no change at all. i just watch this coz of Park Shi Hoo,
March 23rd, 2013 at 3:01 am
i ve never seen or heard about him before till geting himself in troubles so i m going to watch it cuz i wanna know about park si ho s acting
July 1st, 2013 at 4:16 pm
i loved the whole plot having such a prosecuter was really entertaining and i loved the main actress’ acting most after park shi hoo’s of course. I really enjoyed it thanx to the production team.
July 22nd, 2013 at 8:59 am
Love this drama..
Make me watch again and again.
No matter the rating is low, in my mind, PP is one of the best korean drama,
kim so yeon, fighting, i’ll watch you in two weeks
September 18th, 2013 at 11:57 am
Great! I love park shi hoo <3
December 22nd, 2013 at 12:31 pm
http://www.jinsightreviews.com/2012/01/prosecutor-princess-overall-review.html
Cr: Jinsight Reviews
Extracts of PP’s review in link above
“Drama ratings and reviews are often led more by the heart than the mind, a fact that I’m well-aware of, considering my many rants and raves here. While rants tend to be more satisfying, sometimes it’s just magical to find a drama that makes you go do exactly the opposite – to post because it’s SO GOOD rather than because it pissed you off. Prosecutor Princess is that drama for me.
I understand intellectually that it’s not the best production I’ve ever seen – the beginning was slow, the music at times overbearing, and the awful hair Hye-Ri sported in the first 4 episodes (before production got sensible and pulled it into a ponytail for the rest of the run). But it was a drama that captured my heart, in a way that no drama before or since has so completely.
I got a hold of the DVD set last week, and figured it was time for a rewatch. With my newly raised drama standards and existent knowledge of the plot, I wanted to test if I’d still love it as much now as I did almost two years ago, or if new and intolerable flaws come to light.
Having recently completed the marathon, I’m happy to say it still stands as my all-time favorite drama 🙂 The acting just wows me in every scene, and the storyline so tightly written and beautifully presented that it never once skewed irredeemably towards the unbelievable or inconsistent. Certainly, some elements such as make-up and clothing could have been toned down (i.e. fat Hye Ri and early Hye Ri), but the plot, dialogue, and characters remained continually solid.
I can understand why some people were turned off to our heroine, Ma Hye Ri, at the start. The first two episodes do a terrible job of introducing her, making her seem selfish, naive, and ridiculous in both mannerisms and appearance. It’s only due to Kim So Yeon’s sensible and grounded performance that I actually didn’t mind Hye Ri then, who came across as more spoiled but good-natured than bratty. Hye Ri of course, ended up being one of the most endearing, realistic, intelligent heroines I’ve ever watched.
I’m sad that the first couple of episodes don’t do her justice, but I’ll accept that in a way it was necessary to paint her poorly, because much of the joy of her character came from watching her transform and really grow as a person from the first to the last scene. What I loved here is that unlike other drama “character development,” Hye Ri always remained Hye Ri. She continues her quirkiness and open-heartedness, believably maturing without losing her charm or personality. Probably one of the best-drawn lead girls in all of dramaland – if you haven’t watched PP yet, just bear through the first few episodes and I guarantee that she’ll grow on you.
December 22nd, 2013 at 12:39 pm
Jinsight Review of PP (cont’d)
Filling out our central couple is the deeply conflicted and complex Seo In Woo. I never understood the shipping wars. I mean, clearly In Woo was our man from the very beginning – that “chance” hotel meeting? I still recall it as my first exposure to Park Shi-hoo, and what an absolute swoon moment it was.
How could anyone not be charmed immediately by that smile, that brilliant charisma and the understated-yet-essential presence of his character? While second lead Se Joon was out running with a mountain coat and some who-cares guys, In Woo was standing there in white-decked magnificence, looking puzzled yet mysterious as he is introduced to to the audience and our heroine.
Admittedly, he was stalkerish for much of the drama, but it didn’t come across as creepy so much as intriguing and oddly sweet (here’s a guy with great timing for everything). It also added a new dimension to the plot – the writers never had to rely on “random” encounters in order to get our leads in close proximity
Instead, every meeting was pre-orchestrated by our guy, all for a believable and understandable secret cause that justifies and ties it all together at the end. Sounds weird, but was fascinating to watch, especially this second time around, when I already knew and understood In Woo’s inner motivations. And a wonderfully unique premise in a land where “fate” and cliches abound onscreen. In Woo’s actions, while a bit extreme, perfectly exemplify the idea of creating one’s own destiny. If he hadn’t gone through with his plan for justice, or if the source situation had never emerged, these two people would likely have remained strangers for the rest of their lives. Instead, they are forced to know and comprehend one another, and unwittingly fall in love along the way.
For In Woo, the gradual lingering gazes, the layered uncertainty in eyes at wondering if she’ll go to Japan, even the eating from her ramen bowl (so fitting for the scene!) just killed me. PSH nailed In Woo’s pain and inner conflict, tied with his reluctant affection for Hye Ri. This, after all, was the drama that started my (and many other girls I’m sure) fancraze for PSH. No one else could have brought such depth and likeability to a controversial character like In Woo.
And yes, this was the drama that sparked my love for Korean ramyun. Who wouldn’t want to eat a nice warm bowl after watching the episode 8 cooking scene? It made me sad that we didn’t get so many cute OTP moments post-episode 9, because this was a pair that had some of the best dialogue and actions ever. Give me the direct, upfront store-trips and piggybacks, not the multitude of almost-touching-but-not scenes that crop up later. I can understand why the drama had to go serious, but I sure missed the good old happy Hye Ri – In Woo days.
Production-wise, this drama just nailed it. It was a bit shaky at the start, with unnecessary dressiness and loud, obnoxious music. But this was a crew that definitely improved – after the first few episodes, the music transformed from refrains of Fly High to soft ballads and moody instrumental pieces. To this day Goodbye My Princess is my favorite kdrama song. It plays quite a bit, but not to the point where I ever got tired of it. It was so perfectly fitting for the drama’s story and presence- in fact, I suspect it’s one of the reasons why PP underwent a title change to include “Princess.”
Also, the scenes were shot with such focus and clarity. People and items are positioned purposefully on the screen, never haphazardly. Even better, there’s almost none of that “present one scene shot from three different angles” crap. Instead, the director sticks to one angle and only presents that to show any moment in time. He may move the camera around during the scene, such as when Hye-Ri and In Woo kiss the first time – they only show one angle of the actual moving-in-for-the-kiss, even though it’s followed by different shots of the kiss itself. Similarly, the walking past one another scene in late episodes, the camera slows and the angle shifts from them to their hands, but the actual passing moment isn’t repeated. I like that- it shows careful thought and decision-making by the PD on how to present the shot rather than just mangling a bunch of views together (as Taiwan dramas tend to do).
I wish the ending had been longer – in fact, this is one show that I honestly feel could have benefitted rather than suffered from one. Not so much for the trial portion, since we all know where that was going, but for more OTP fluff. There was so much jammed into the eventful 16th episode that I felt our reunion wasn’t fully fleshed out. And wow, that departure in the pale-blue morning scene just ripped my heart out. So beautiful, so tragic, it was like saying goodbye to the drama itself.
I highly recommend that you watch this gem of a show if you haven’t, and if you have, consider a rewatch on a rainy day, as there’s so much to analyze and appreciate each time.
May 23rd, 2014 at 1:25 pm
Never getting bored to watch this drama
May 23rd, 2014 at 1:30 pm
Like it so much…
February 12th, 2015 at 12:08 pm
I love this drama soooo much… Good actor and actrees great story… Amazing drama!^^
February 23rd, 2015 at 6:35 pm
i saw my comment above more than two years ago, and actually i did not plan on watching this series, but read somewhere about how good the series is and finding it in ‘you tube’ made the watch easier and faster. the female lead actor’s role is really annoying, but understanding how she was brought up and what parents she has changed my mind and endured the earlier episodes. i think she acted well in this series. i saw her in ‘iris’, ‘iris2’ and ‘two weeks’, and she barely spoke then, or she spoke normally. in this series she spoke too fast, seemed she was nervous all the time. this is a typical korean drama where parents issues in the past affect the child’s present life. i think psh’s role here did not challenge his talent.
June 21st, 2016 at 5:37 am
Love this drama..
Make me watch again and again.
No matter the rating is low, in my mind, PP is one of the best korean drama,
kim so yeon, fighting, i’ll watch you in two weeks
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March 7th, 2017 at 3:19 pm
This drama is the reason why I like Park Shi Hoo so much (that smile *melted*). And the character of Kim So Yeon is different from her character in Iris, to see how she is as Ma Hyeri make me curious about this drama. Prosecutor Princess is good of you not a strict audience in crime drama.