# My Princess (마이 프린세스) (TV series)
**My Princess** (마이 프린세스) is a 2011 South Korean television romantic comedy broadcast by MBC as a 16-episode Wednesday and Thursday miniseries, in which an ordinary college student discovers she is a descendant of Korea's royal family and is trained for a restored monarchy by a chaebol heir (heir to a giant Korean family-owned conglomerate) who falls in love with her.[1](https://asianwiki.com/My_Princess_-_Korean_Drama) It aired from January 5 to February 24, 2011 in the 21:55 slot, directed by Kwon Seok-jang and Kang Dae-sun and written by Jang Young-sil.[1](https://asianwiki.com/My_Princess_-_Korean_Drama) • [2](https://content.mbc.co.kr/program/drama/2600008_64284.html)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Network and run | MBC, 16 episodes, January 5 to February 24, 2011, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55[1](https://asianwiki.com/My_Princess_-_Korean_Drama) |
| Main cast | Song Seung-heon (Park Hae-young), Kim Tae-hee (Lee Seol), Park Ye-jin (Oh Yoon-joo), Ryu Soo-young (Nam Jung-woo)[2](https://content.mbc.co.kr/program/drama/2600008_64284.html) |
| Genre | Romantic comedy built on a royal-restoration premise[3](https://www.kocowa.com/en_us/season/9310626/my-princess) |
| Premise | College student Lee Seol learns she is a royal descendant; diplomat Park Hae-young, sole heir of the Daehan Jonghap Group, becomes her royal-etiquette tutor[4](https://www.viki.com/tv/1254c-my-princess?locale=en) |
| Final ratings | 17.2% in the Seoul metropolitan area and 15% nationwide for the February 24 finale[5](https://www.soompi.com/article/362308wpp/mbc-drama-my-princess-comes-to-an-end) |
| Award | Lee Gi-kwang, Best New Actor (miniseries) at the 2011 MBC Drama Awards[1](https://asianwiki.com/My_Princess_-_Korean_Drama) |
## Premise and characters
The story follows Lee Seol (김태희 as 이설), a 25-year-old art history student who works several part-time jobs, who learns overnight that she is a princess of the Korean imperial house; the Viki synopsis identifies her as the great-granddaughter of Emperor Sunjong, the last emperor of the Joseon Dynasty.[4](https://www.viki.com/tv/1254c-my-princess?locale=en) Once the restoration is set in motion, she is installed in a palace and made to study royal duties from dawn to late at night, with her tutor being Park Hae-young (박해영), a 31-year-old diplomat and [Ivy League](https://www.edgepedia.org/ivy-league) graduate who is the sole successor of the Daehan Jonghap Group.[1](https://asianwiki.com/My_Princess_-_Korean_Drama) The chairman of the group, Hae-young's grandfather, intends to donate the family's assets to the country to support the restoration, which puts the inheritance and the princess on a collision course.[3](https://www.kocowa.com/en_us/season/9310626/my-princess)
Two supporting characters complicate the romance. Oh Yoon-joo (오윤주), daughter of the group chairman's secretary and director of the Hae-young Museum, had hoped to marry Hae-young to gain control of the company, and responds to the princess's appearance with schemes that could cost Korea its imperial family.[1](https://asianwiki.com/My_Princess_-_Korean_Drama) • [4](https://www.viki.com/tv/1254c-my-princess?locale=en) Nam Jung-woo (남정우), an archaeology professor whom Lee Seol has a crush on and Yoon-joo's former college love, finds the decisive clue to restoring the imperial household and becomes an advisor to the committee for recovering imperial cultural assets.[2](https://content.mbc.co.kr/program/drama/2600008_64284.html) • [1](https://asianwiki.com/My_Princess_-_Korean_Drama)
## Production and broadcast
MBC scheduled the series in its Wednesday-Thursday 21:55 slot, previously occupied by *Home Sweet Home* and followed by *Royal Family* on March 2, 2011.[1](https://asianwiki.com/My_Princess_-_Korean_Drama) The production is credited to MBC planning by Han Hee, with producers Lee Seon-sang and Lee Joo-yeol; the read-only wiki entry lists the production companies as the Curtain Call production team and Storm S Company, the predecessor of [Song Seung-heon](https://www.edgepedia.org/song-seung-heon)'s agency The Contents (then Good Entertainment).[6](https://www.imbc.com/broad/tv/drama/myprincess/) • [7](https://readonly.wiki/w/%EB%A7%88%EC%9D%B4%20%ED%94%84%EB%A6%B0%EC%84%B8%EC%8A%A4) Supporting cast included Lee Soon-jae as Park Dong-jae, Hae-young's grandfather and the group chairman, Im Ye-jin as Lee Seol's stepmother Kim Da-bok, and [Lee Gi-kwang](https://www.edgepedia.org/lee-gi-kwang) as the assistant cook Gun-i.[1](https://asianwiki.com/My_Princess_-_Korean_Drama)
## Reception
**Finale and ratings.** The final episode, aired on February 24, 2011, ended with a kiss between the lead couple and drew 17.2% in the Seoul metropolitan area and 15% nationwide, according to Soompi.[5](https://www.soompi.com/article/362308wpp/mbc-drama-my-princess-comes-to-an-end) Soompi attributed the drama's popularity largely to [Kim Tae-hee](https://www.edgepedia.org/kim-tae-hee) and Song Seung-heon, noting that Kim Tae-hee, previously criticized for weak acting, received positive reviews for her first romantic-comedy role, while Song Seung-heon played comedy for the first time in his career.[5](https://www.soompi.com/article/362308wpp/mbc-drama-my-princess-comes-to-an-end)
**Later availability and ratings elsewhere.** The series remains available internationally on streaming services such as KOCOWA+ and Rakuten Viki, where it carries English and more than two dozen other subtitle languages.[3](https://www.kocowa.com/en_us/season/9310626/my-princess) • [4](https://www.viki.com/tv/1254c-my-princess?locale=en) On the Chinese review platform Douban, registered as 我的公主, users gave the series a score of 6.7 out of 10 from about 22,393 ratings.[8](https://movie.douban.com/subject/4826770//) The series also entered Japanese home-video distribution; a Korean Content Agency report lists *My Princess* among the Korean drama DVDs sold in Japan by the TBS-linked distributor, alongside titles such as *My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho* and *Pasta*.[9](https://m.kocca.kr/knowledge/abroad/deep/__icsFiles/afieldfile/2012/06/11/UtMxK8NhTXvJ.pdf)
At the year-end 2011 MBC Drama Awards, Lee Gi-kwang received the Best New Actor award in the miniseries category for his role as Gun-i.[1](https://asianwiki.com/My_Princess_-_Korean_Drama)
## Place in 2011 Korean drama
The series belongs to a cluster of early-2011 romantic dramas that used fantasy premises. A Korean academic listing of television dramas places *My Princess* in the "alternate history" (대체역사) type alongside *The King 2 Hearts* the following year, and notes that it began airing the same day, January 5, 2011, that SBS premiered *49 Days* and shortly after *Secret Garden* closed its run in late 2010.[10](https://dcollection.korea.ac.kr/public_resource/pdf/000000232500_20260606024031.pdf) Reviewers in English described the show as a light romantic comedy in the mold of *Roman Holiday*, with a plot summary running: a struggling college student discovers she is the last living member of Korea's royal family, and the diplomat in charge of her reinstatement falls for her.[11](https://theentertainmentgeek.blogspot.com/2011/04/review-my-princess-2011-tv-series.html)
## References
1. [My Princess, AsianWiki](https://asianwiki.com/My_Princess_-_Korean_Drama)
2. [마이 프린세스 (My Princess), MBC Global Media](https://content.mbc.co.kr/program/drama/2600008_64284.html)
3. [My Princess, KOCOWA+](https://www.kocowa.com/en_us/season/9310626/my-princess)
4. [My Princess, Rakuten Viki](https://www.viki.com/tv/1254c-my-princess?locale=en)
5. [MBC Drama "My Princess" Comes to an End, Soompi (February 25, 2011)](https://www.soompi.com/article/362308wpp/mbc-drama-my-princess-comes-to-an-end)
6. [MBC 수목 미니시리즈 마이 프린세스, iMBC](https://www.imbc.com/broad/tv/drama/myprincess/)
7. [마이 프린세스, 읽기전용위키](https://readonly.wiki/w/%EB%A7%88%EC%9D%B4%20%ED%94%84%EB%A6%B0%EC%84%B8%EC%8A%A4)
8. [我的公主, 豆瓣](https://movie.douban.com/subject/4826770//)
9. [한국콘텐츠진흥원 해외콘텐츠 동향 자료](https://m.kocca.kr/knowledge/abroad/deep/__icsFiles/afieldfile/2012/06/11/UtMxK8NhTXvJ.pdf)
10. [한국 텔레비전 드라마 환상성 관련 학위논문 부록, dcollection](https://dcollection.korea.ac.kr/public_resource/pdf/000000232500_20260606024031.pdf)
11. [Review: My Princess (2011 TV Series), World Reviews Now](https://theentertainmentgeek.blogspot.com/2011/04/review-my-princess-2011-tv-series.html)
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