Dramatic Life of Korea's Evil Queen | Consort Jang Hee-Bin
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- čas přidán 31. 03. 2022
- In 1688, Korea King Sukjong Sukjong deposed his queen and banished her from the palace. The king then made his favorite consort the new queen. She was Heebin, who was often portrayed as the evil queen of Korea..
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We would never know the original story. Women throughout history were deemed incapable of ruling. The Chinese painted wu zetian as a cruel woman, yet during her reign, China flourished. There were no wars, instead there was development in agriculture, education and less famine.
Anne Boleyn was murdered due to heresy, incest and adultery, none of it was proven. The investigation was done from the Palace itself. So it's clear how bias the case conclusion would've been. She was ambitious and smart. Her ideologies were considered modern and unacceptable because she was a Protestant and she wanted to enhance the minds of people without blindly following a reigion.
Heebin would've been an ambitious woman, and she would've done some bad things to get there which are wrong. But then men throughout history have done worse.
Thank you. I was waiting for a comment like this!
When historians talk about “evil women” I’m always suspicious
Not saying Heebin was right for her actions, its just that we’ll never know if the story as we know it is as truthfull as we think
Women have been painted as evil, witches, etc through history. Especially in societies as misogynists as these, in different parts of the world and through years and years
Also, it irks me how many people in the comments are quick to take the king’s side.
We need to consider that we only know a very little portion of the story, a very manipulated version of it, told by the people in power too
Anne Boleyn's problem wasn't Protestantism, it was having a daughter and miscarrying a son.
Henry VIII was desperate for a male heir.
exactly. Having a common birth, it's even more likely that Heebin was subjected to defamation by historical recorders at the time, not to mention she died when her rival political faction became dominance. The accuracy of her records are all debatable.
@@fatdaddy1996 how funny that daughter will later became queen 💀 its not like in the east where only sons can be a ruler, so whats the point of wanting a son desperately?
But there is a reason why Anne Boleyn was seen as evil. I agree it was mostly Henry’s fault. But i think many find her evil due to the first wife. They see Anna Boleyn as a reason for the first wife’s suffering. This went to the point that it was said that Jane Seymour also did similar thing as her to get Henry’s attention. But everyone liked her because they disliked Anne for what happened to Catherine and changing the religion. A lot of people really liked Catherine and were sympathetic towards to her and disliked Anne. I agree Anne does not seem evil. But I can see why people disliked her. I actually feel bad for her
The worst of them all is always the king who just profits off of the misery of the women around him trying to survive. But we rarely mention how wrong this is because, "that's how it was back then"
Waaaaaahhhhhh! Evil patriarchy! Shut up already.
I have watch Jang Ok Jung played by Kim Tae Hee.. I felt inlove with the character of Jang Hee Bin because of that so I was wondering why she had this title Evil Queen when in fact I can see her as a victim of her unfortunate circumstances. Despite of this, Kim Tae Hee gave justice to her role.. and contrary to the evil title given to her I still like her and so interested to see her tomb if ever I visit Korea.
Are you really sure she is the victim.
I had watched Dong Yi first but I still liked her(Jang Hee bin) way more than Suk Bin(dong yi) who was equally sceming and had her greeds as much as Jang Hee Bin yet pretended to be all innocent. And the King was all too willing to look past Suk Bin's sht when he have been punishing Jang Hee Bin for the same stuff.
Have you watched Jang Ok Jung?
I have watched the story in the point of view of Jang Hee-Bin from the kdrama 'Jang Ok-Jang, living in love'. A great drama it was. I have heard that in the drama 'Dong Yi', Hee-bin was potrayed as an evil woman. And I do see she had turned evil later on in the story. From the drama that I watched, she was a nice woman like all. And she loved the King very dearly. But it was her love for him that turned her this way. -In one of scenes, Hee-bin, when she was the Queen, heard that the King slept with a court maid. She beat that girl, who was Dong Yi, with a stick on her calves. The King entered the scene right on that time, and I could see how angry he was. - There was another scene where she poisioned herself and framed his mother. The King was quite aware of her actions.
The King and Hee-bin did love each other. But sometimes, some people lose interest, while some become toxic.
This is the reality, people.
As a king's wife.. there is no room for jealousy. It is for a king's obligation and privilege to have more concubine to bear an heir to avoid failure. But heebin was so jealous and started to become toxic when she was influenced by the support of her faction. Once you taste the sweetness of having such a huge power you will ask for more.. and thats true for heebin.. its her fault why king lost interest on her and find sukbin choi as her new love.. the king was in love with heebin when she was just simple, kind lady.. maybe thats what king sukjongs like for a woman..
@@saoirse3673 You are very correct. It seems like Hee-bin wanted the power all to herself. As you said, being a King's wife, there is no room for jealousy..Hee-bin should have thought about what she's dealing with before taking any actions. Since, the man she loved was a no ordinary man, he was a king.
There are two Chinese dramas that kind of mirror Jang Ok-jang and Dongyi and that Ruyi’s royal love and Yanxi Palace. Dongyi and Yanxi telling the stories of the maid/slave loyal to queen/empress (wife 1) and who eventually Succeeds in avenging there mistress against the evil queen #2 and becomes the most powerful woman in court despite never becoming queen/empress herself. While Okjang and Ruyi are about wife #2 who really the love of the king/emperor‘s life, who is ultimately discarded so that her husband can be with scheming wife #3.
@@margarets2560 but kdramas lacks feistyness compared to chiense or thai series. In yanxi, the protagonist can go neck to neck with other scheming emperor's wife but in dongyi, bruhhh she can't hurt anybody because its oppose to being "the protagonists". And the newer jang heebin is so gloss up to the point its not convincing enough
True.. same viewpoint.. I love that drama too. Yoo Ah In and Kim Tae Hee
There was no need for the king to poison the mother of their crowned son. He could’ve just disposed her to the temple or exile
Sounds like this woman did not have loyal patrons by her side. The King was bored and the royal family needed a scapegoat.
“Do you know something, Your Majesty? If I could have your love back, I could also admit the crimes I didn't commit” this phrase killed me😭
She wasn’t evil, it was the king who isn’t thoughtful and loyal. Her environment made her act like this. About the witchcraft thing, someone frame her for this because there is no way she would have witchcraft stuff laying around in her house if she actually do it.
Its true lol it has continuation, after jang heebin died, her former residence/palace became palace of one of sukjong grand grandson, crown prince sado who later gone batshit craxi and end up killed by his own father. It was rumored the place was hunted by heebin where she previously conduct witchcrafts.
Well considering that the kings of the Joseon Dynasty were allowed to have concubines as it was part of the norm, she cannot really expect him to be loyal just to her as the adultery law wasn't adopted in Korea until 1953.
But can you add a source that Hui Bin was framed?
And I'm talking about a source from the time period, not something that came long after Hui Bin's time nor something online that doesn't source stuff.
Agree!
The real issue was that the king in question would deal with political infighting by backing one side then the other, so that neither side would grow too strong and prevent him from running the country. That’s the real reason for his terrible marital relationship.
The moral lesson from this video:
Smallpox was very dangerous disease that everyone, even the queen, can die because of it.
Smallpox today: Damn! This disease makes my face become ugly 😭😭😭
Thanks to the advance medical science today 👍
well what comes around goes around, now we have to deal with over population, and the reduced capacity of the earth to sustain such population.
Smallpox has been eradicated thanks to vaccinations :)
Smallpox doesn't exist today.
Maybe your thinking of Chicken pox
@@jiraiya86 oh, yeah ????
Why four years ago I still got it 😂
And two spots of its scar still exist on my face 😭
Sorry, but small pox has been eradicated. The last culture of small pox was destroyed after a journalist was accidentally exposed to it and died from small. It was deadly even in the 21st century. Luckily it doesn't exist anymore.
another great video, thanks!
the king had the habbit if deposing his queens for a concubine😂
Thats the history is written, but for me , life taught me that the truth is different for different people, the that there is more than the one sides to truth. But the one which favors the powerful and rich on is the one written down in History. For me, this is a story about one unfortunate women whose people left her side in times of need due to politics; of a women bullied by her own jealous MIL who could not see her own son loving another women more than herself; of a women removed from her own house like she was not wanted there even after she completed her duty as a wife (read produced a son); of a women even after all the trauma was not supposed to show emotions in the fear of it being aggressive to her bullying MIL; of a women whose husband left her after she aged a little and trauma weighed her down; of a women who was labelled as a witch and blamed for someones death (shouldnt those who actually believe in witchcraft be at fault???). Its sad that metal health of the characters written down in history is often single dimentional, even to this day in 2022. Heres my attemt, if not all, maybe some of it has a side of truth. Again, I dont know the real story, not claiming this to be the absolute truth, just, most people r not really evil.
I watched jang ok jung and dongyi drama. i even watched the Chinese version.. from that point of view, i saw jang ok jung as someone who truly love her significant other so much.. because of that love, she do her best to everything that will make her and her husband together in every possible way.. without power, she can do nothing, the queen and her mother in-law doesn't like her. So she chose power.. but at the end, she lost herself in that power.. the same power that make her husband far from her.. actually, I feel sorry because she fall in love with the king.. imagine if she fall in love with commoner / ordinary people..
what is the Chinese version?
Those who have watched the Dong Yi should also watch Jang Ok Jung (Living by Love).
Unfortunately, Gyeongjeong reign didn't last long. He died at young age
I watched this first as Jang ok Jung so I couldn't bring myself to watch Dongyi especially if she was going to be ridiculed.
I love her in that drama even when I could see that her insecurity was getting the best of her, I could understand.
She loved a man who was a king as well and was awfully naive about the fact that she would have to share him no matter how it may have pained her. And it didn't help that his mother didn't like her, to me that was a purely selfish decision on his mother's path, it likely wasn't because heebin was a wicked girl, no she was affiliated with the south and the queen dowager with the west. Plus the king loved hee bin, to the queen dowager ,heebin was a threat to her power because a man in love is susceptible to his lovers views especially if they don't necessarily cause any harm.
As for the history book, history tends to paint women who act outside the norms of society as evil.
Heebin was a middle class woman who dated to seek the king's affection and those who watch Korean historical know how deep the class divide runs. But she didn't just dare to seek his affections she caught it and then did what the queen could not bore a son, that must have infuriated the western faction and if reality politics is as brutal as what is portrayed in fiction they didn't take it lying down, the witch claim is evidence of that. Heebin tried to protect herself and her love in a society that was rigged against her, even the southern faction that the queen dowager hated her for would abandon her the moment she was not useful,she was a middle class nobody to everyone but the king, I would want to protect that too but in the end it didn't quite work out for her and that is sad.
Please make stories about Royal Noble Consort Sukbin Choe
Thank you!
Watched because of the thumbnail from one of my favorite Korean dramas, Dong Yi. 😭 very interesting to learn more about her though. Had to sub ❤
Actually Hui-bin or known as depose queen beok, was gentle/kind/warm in beginning but her lust for power/love for king sukjong make her to wat many historians believe out of be an mom to cover up her birth defects weak son
It’s that drive for power that brought on the bad propaganda. Notice that it’s the outspoken queens who get the bad reputations?
fake news they had burned everything about her they are the ones covering up their evil deeds
@@jinqi165 not surprised. Women in history often are subject to negative propaganda
U watched the Kdrama didn't you?
@@cake3ice256 I should but how does it generally portray her?
Don't t really get from the video why she was the Evil Queen. Her actions didn't really seem that evil compared to others in the similar positions of the same time period.
Pls make a superate video about Sukbin (dong yi)
Isn't it ironic that heebin who was lowly maid climbed her way to the top by sleeping with the king, in the end she looked down upon other concubine of king and abuses them for coveting her husband.
It's like raaaaaaiiiiin on your wedding day, it's like beating your maiiiids bc the king looked their way... Isn't it ironic? Don'tcha think? XD
not really, it makes sense that her story would turned out that way when it was MEN of RULING CLASS who wrote about her, a woman of common birth. The fact that she was accused of witchcraft, an arbitrary accusations way too often found to be used against successful and fault-less women in history, alone should speak volume of her accusers. Who she was and what really happened? For all we know she could have been a very helpless innocent woman who had too few friends and too many enemies.
@@kaleidoscope3234 She was accused of withcraft because of the QUEEN's untimely death, so it was an attempt to seek justice for an apparently pleasant woman (not having anything to do with men).
She’s my favorite after Great Queen Seon Deok btw 😅
She reminds me Ann Boleyn in Tudors.
I can see the similarities lmao
Please talk about jeongjo and uibin
Can you do one of Choi suk bin?
its funny that historians painted her to be evil one and ignored the queen dowager's own actions! We all know that everyone that lives in the palace is involved in politics somehow, from the servants to the maids to the eunuchs to the concubines to ministers! Everyone was playing the political games! And from what I have seen in Korean society from Korean dramas even back then the powerful rule over the weak, I can imagine what heebin must have gone through in that palace, being humiliated and targeted constantly by the queen dowager, nobody turns evil out of the blue! She may have been ambitious, yes, BUT Queen Dowager's constant harassment and bullying of Heebin must have contributed to her turning into an evil person! Everyone has a breaking point, and Heebin definitely had hers! You can't continue to bully someone and expect them to do nothing against you later! The queen dowager definitely had it out for Heebin! The mother of the king was constantly using her power to force her son to do her bidding and work to help her political party, Heebin being from the opposing Political party was another excuse used by the queen dowager to justify her continuing harassment of heebin! And to keep heebin from the king, constantly choosing women to marry him off to like he was a piece of toy that she could pass around! And always women from her own faction, the queen dowager was pimping the king out for political favors! Yet, Heebin was the evil one! It's no wonder Heebin killed her!!
heebin has her choices though 🙄 being a consort in the palace, life like that is inevitable. she have to be prepared what to come 😂 a life of luxury yet full of misery (she still has a son so she has her moment of happiness, but yeah, at the end of the day, it' s the path she has chosen) 😔
@@yukitsukishiro183 in that era women had no choice! Women were sold off through marriage to strengthen their family powers, every girl, be if they were a poor or rich girl was thought from a young age that their duty to their family was to marry a good match and help strengthen their family powers, even a princess from the royal families was used the same way, so no heebin had no choice in that Mather, even if she wasn't commanded by her family members to enter the palace to be a consort, her family would have married her off to some powerful family to create alliances with them, sadly for heebin her family wanted power so they used heebin to get that power! and since Heebin was as ambitious as her family members she didn't hesitate to do what she had to consolidate her own power, you must understand, in Asian palaces in the harem, as a woman if you didn't stand up for yourself then the other consorts and everyone in the palace would walk all over you! the only reason the queen dowager didn't' like Heebin was, because she didn't like how heebin refused to bow down to the queen's dowager harassment, and she also hated the fact that heebin was gaining power in the harem undermining her own power base in the palace, the dowager saw heebin as a threat to her own power in the palace and future.
@@arellysritchieauthor nobody has a choice in that era be it men or women…young boys were forced to become eunuch, in fact women themselves forced other women to be like that (as we can see from Queen Dowagers forcing their sons to marry powerful families)…you are just biased
@@arellysritchieauthor no one has a choice even if you are a man for example the king wanted you to go to war , you will have to go to war its either fight or get killed for not following the kings order
I think she made her mistake by being too openly ambitious and haughty. She ruined her relationship with the dowager and made the other queen look even more angelic. Not smart at all. She soiled her own nest when she's could have lived peaceful. I'd love to watch the movie of her story.
I learned the story through Dong yi
Jang ok jung in love was a great drama but I've seen a few depictions of the story.
I watch long time ago nice drama.. N now i'm watching thai drama curse saree.. Beautiful drama ...n have eng sub titles ...🤣🤣😆😆😆
Jang Hee Bin wasn’t evil. Her evil image was created by her opponent political clans.
History is written by the victors, who are usually men.
@@cindchan Yet the Western Europeans describe their own Germanic ancestors as "barbarians" who destroyed the prosperous Roman empire, lol.
Amazing how history repeats itself. So King Sukjong's portraits were destroyed? I wonder why?
HeeBin was just hustling to earn a living 🤷🏻♂️
Kdrama is sometimes contradicting like tha Dong Yi and Jang ok jung. In Dong yi, jang ok jung was portrayed evil woman however, in jang ok jung, Dong yi was the evil woman.
Why did they move Heebin's tomb?
Please the story of Suk-Bin 🙏🏻
Just watch Dong-Yi
@@jomarcortez3585 Watched Dong Yi about 4 times, but I really want to hear the real story of her.
Mostly king Sukjong had many Concubines because of politics faction
ITT: "Women can't be evil, it's always the men who are the real baddies"
1:28 not great-grandmother just grandmother
Suk Bin should be the next one,there was a TV series about her.
What's the name?
@@asurmenhandofasuryan4610 Dong Yi
@@asurmenhandofasuryan4610 Dong Yi
@@doreensika837 Thanks!
colour me dumb .. so Hee-Bin was angered/annoyed because she didnt want the King's attention?
Why the portrait were destroyed like what happened.
Funny I’m watching dong yi just now. I guess the king’s mother was right about her. Listen to your parents folks.
Edit: I will like to add some points you missed.
- sukbin was a huge reason the queen came back cause she convince the king and even dared to have memorial (how sukbin meet the king) for the deposed queen when hee bin was queen, the king upon seeing this was impressed by sukbin openly admitting doing this as most was afraid of hee bin. She openly supported the queen.
- the king had a dream about the queen after she died that she was drenched in blood pointing to the direction of heebin‘s bedroom. When the king woke up he did an investigation, some of hee bins maids confess that she had a portrait of the late queen having the maids shoot a dagger at her portrait 3 times a day and always had a shaman pray for the queens death.
- when heebin was sentence to death she greatly injured her son the crown prince and because of this injury the crown prince was infertile paving way for sukbin’s son who became one of the greatest kings of josen history. Some say she was so evil it affected her son ability have kids.
- queen inhyeon was deposed cause she refused to adopt heebin’s son which the king suggested.
If she had a more leveled head and even temper she would have been an insanely powerful woman.
fr, I just finished watching dong Yi ( which I highly recommend) and then this lady makes a video about Heebin
@@flowermagnolia4551 where did you watch dong yi?
History was written by the winners and they burned everything about her so no she is just very passionate woman but not as evil as they painted her to be. I don't believe the BS
@@jinqi165 how do you know if they burned things on her. Did you happen time travel and see that?
😊
Despicable Yeongjo poisons his brother …
The great queen poised her when she was pregnant with the king so she miscarried her child and also ministers were very bad to her and also donghee took her place in the king eyes and yet she’s the devil?
The king was a weak man.
NTDtvlive has on everyday Dramas' captions in English >here if watched theirs are so NOT captions you can understand< NTD out of NY
Is she related to mr bean?
So the story of Dong Yi korean historical drama is accurate?
in some sense i guess in the beginning they show her as an innocent person who had morals and actually care for people but over time due to the men in the show showing her a different viewpoint about power she starts to change so tht show just didn’t start off with her just being evil and stuff it shows the stages of her life but most of the parts of the show are just for drama
i don’t think any historical drama is that accurate since most of the records back then were burned when the royal palace was set on fire
King suk Jung has another son...son of dong yi....he succeeded the throne because suk Jung first son is inpotent....
When modern males be telling women “sHe mY qUeEn” show them this
Is it already in Netflix?what is its title?
Dong Yi was the series
She wasn't evil....
What's the movie playing in the background
It’s in the description box
Dong yi
hi first
Harry Markle take note!!!!
European political faction naming: parliament faction, royalist, legitimism, Bonapartismes…
Korean political faction naming:
Easterners, Westerners, south faction, north faction, younger faction, elder faction😂😂🤣🤣
All the kings and kingdoms of the earth will pass away but the name of jesus christ the words of God shall never pass away
I don't believe she was an evil queen. she was smart.