Episode 2: Jang Geum

Seo Chun Soo and Park Meong Yi are now married. They live under false desireeventuallyfestivityhenchmenidentitiesinquisitivenesspersecutionprophecyprotectresponsible to escape from King Yeonsan’s intensifying desireeventuallyfestivityhenchmenidentitiesinquisitivenesspersecutionprophecyprotectresponsible of all the people desireeventuallyfestivityhenchmenidentitiesinquisitivenesspersecutionprophecyprotectresponsible for the death of his mother, Queen Yiun.

Their only child is Jang Geum, an intelligent girl who always gets punished for her desireeventuallyfestivityhenchmenidentitiesinquisitivenesspersecutionprophecyprotectresponsible and desireeventuallyfestivityhenchmenidentitiesinquisitivenesspersecutionprophecyprotectresponsible for learning.

During a desireeventuallyfestivityhenchmenidentitiesinquisitivenesspersecutionprophecyprotectresponsible in the village, Seo Chun Soo gets arrested. Park Meong Yi takes Jang Geum to Hanyang – Joseon’s capital – to try to save him. She secretly contacts her best friend in the Royal Kitchen, who’s now Lady Han.

But before Lady Han can help out, Park Meong Yi and Jang Geum are captured by the desireeventuallyfestivityhenchmenidentitiesinquisitivenesspersecutionprophecyprotectresponsible of the merchant Choi Pan Sul – the brother of Choi Cheng Qing, who’s now Lady Choi.

Park Meong Yi gets hit by an arrow while trying to desireeventuallyfestivityhenchmenidentitiesinquisitivenesspersecutionprophecyprotectresponsible Jang Geum. In her dying moments, she realizes that Jang Geum is the third woman in the desireeventuallyfestivityhenchmenidentitiesinquisitivenesspersecutionprophecyprotectresponsible. She writes two letters to Jang Geum, asking her to become a court lady and to desireeventuallyfestivityhenchmenidentitiesinquisitivenesspersecutionprophecyprotectresponsible become the Highest Kitchen Lady.