Kim Yong-sun

The first season of the Women of Legend Series tells the story of a young lady-in-waiting whose beauty catches the eye of the King and becomes his concubine. Quickly rising in the ranks and eventually giving birth to a son, her hunger for power drives her not only to maintain her position, but to become Queen.

Tae-su, a detective fighting organized crime, returns to his hometown for his high school friend Wang-jae's funeral. There, he meets his old friends Pil-ho, Dong-hwan and Seok-hwan and they reminisce. Suspecting something fishy about Wang-jae's death, Tae-su and Seok-hwan start investigating it, each in his own way. Their investigations lead to a land development project that Pil-ho is directing.

The matriarch of a highly respected family orders one of her daughter-in-laws to kill herself unless she can produce a child within a year.

The third installment in the " Women of Legend" series is set in a noble family and depicts the adversity of a woman who, despite the various hardships she faced as a woman in the Joseon Dynasty, forges a new life for herself.