Interactive vocabulary exercise from “Saimdang, Light’s Diary” Part 1

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Episode 1: The portrait and the green mountains

The drama begins ago in an Italian castle where there’s music and dancing a stormy night. Despite the , Lee Gyeom locks himself up in his room, painting a portrait.

The present time …

Seo Ji-yoon is a businessman’s wife and the mother of a young boy. She works as an in Hankuk University’s Art Department while pursuing her PhD. She’s given a big career by Professor Min Jung Hak in presenting her of “Keumkangsando”, a centuries-old painting of the Mount Geumgang by An Gyeon (Ahn Kyun), a famous Joseon artist. But the is by Han Sang-hyun, a young instructor who has previously been in with Professor Min.

In an art in Bologna, Italy, Professor Min tells Ji-yoon to change her major because he will not allow her to get her PhD. She gets of her hotel room, and her problems when she hears from her friend Hye-jung that Prof. Min told the University that she must be fired from her job.

In , she around Bologna. In an alley, she nearly gets run over by a bicyclist, and she over a book stand. The owner to her by giving her a of books.

Later, she among the books an ancient diary that mentions the Mount Geumgang painting (“Keumkangsando”).

Prof. Kim and the owner of the Sun Gallery to present the “Mount Geumgang” painting (“Keumkangsando”) as , thus earning for both of them money, , and power.

Ji-yoon’s investigation leads her to the known as “Siesta Di Luna” in Tuscany, Italy where the agent shows her the halls filled with all kinds of art works. She and Lee Gyeom’s spirit cross each other, and as if she’s , she rushes to a room where she at a painting. The glass cover then breaks into a thousand pieces, and Ji-yoon is to find behind the painting a portrait of a Joseon-era lady.