Queen for Seven Days

Queen for Seven Days
Promotional poster

Hangul	7일의 왕비
Hanja	7日의 王妃

Genre	Historical Romance Political Melodrama
Created by	KBS Drama Production
Written by	Choi Jin-young
Directed by	Lee Jung-sub Song Ji-won
Creative directors	Yoo Ho-joon Kim Min-joon Im Seung-hyun
Starring	Park Min-young Yeon Woo-jin Lee Dong-gun
Composer	Lee Pil-ho
Country of origin	South Korea
Original language	Korean
No. of episodes	20
Production
Executive producers	Sung Joon-hye Park Sung-hye Moon Bo-hyun Kim Joo-suk
Producers	Kim Hye-jung Jung Yeon-soo
Cinematography	Jung Hae-geun Yoon Tae-gi
Editor	Kim Yoo-mi
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	60 minutes
Production companies	Monster Union OH!BROTHERS Production
Original release
Network	KBS2
Release	May 31 (2017-05-31) – August 3, 2017 (2017-08-03)

Queen for Seven Days (Korean: 7일의 왕비; Hanja: 7日의 王妃; RR: 7 Ileui Wangbi; lit. 7 Day Queen) is a South Korean television series starring Park Min-young as the titular Queen Dangyeong, with Yeon Woo-jin and Lee Dong-gun. It aired on KBS2 every Wednesday and Thursday at 22:00 (KST) from May 31, 2017, to August 3, 2017.

Cast

Main

Park Min-young as Shin Chae-kyung, later known as Queen Dangyeong
- Park Si-eun as young Shin Chae-kyung
Yeon Woo-jin as Lee Yeok, Grand Prince Jinseong/Nak-chun, later King Jungjong
- Baek Su-ho as young Lee Yeok
- Choi Jung-hoo as child Lee Yeok
Lee Dong-gun as Crown Prince Lee Yung, King Yeonsangun
- Ahn Do-gyu as young Crown Prince Lee Yung
- Lee Seung-woo as child Crown Prince Lee Yung

Supporting

Royal family

Do Ji-won as Queen Dowager Jasun, Lee Yeok's mother
Song Ji-in as Queen Shin, Lee Yung's primary wife and Chae-kyung's paternal aunt
Son Eun-seo as Jang Nok-su, Royal Consort Suk-yong of the Heungdeok Jang clan. Lee Yung's most favored concubine as well as confidante.

Ministers

Jang Hyun-sung as Shin Soo-geun, Queen Shin's older brother and Chae-kyung's father
Kang Shin-il as Im Sa-hong, Lee Yung's close confidant
Park Won-sang as Park Won-jong, Myung-hye's maternal uncle
Yoo Hyung-kwan as Yoo Soon-jung
Yoo Seung-bong as Yoo Ja-kwang
Lee Hwa-ryong as Sung Hee-an

Extended

Kang Ki-young as Jo Kwang-oh, Lee Yeok's friend
- Jung Yoo-ahn as young Jo Kwang-oh
Kim Min-ho as Baek Suk-hee, Lee Yeok's friend
- Jo Byeong-kyu as young Baek Suk-hee
Hwang Chan-sung as Seo Noh, Lee Yeok's personal bodyguard and friend
- Choi Min-young as young Seo Noh
Go Bo-gyeol as Yoon Myung-hye, Park Won-jong's maternal niece and later known as Queen Jangkyung
- Park Seo-yeon as young Yoon Myung-hye
Kim Jung-young as Madam Kwon, Shin Soo-geun's wife and Chae-kyung's mother
Yeom Hye-ran as Chae-kyung's nursemaid
Yoo Min-kyu as Ki Ryong, Lee Yung's personal bodyguard
Choi Seung-kyung as Eunuch Kim
Park Yong-jin as Eunuch Song
Kim Ki-chun as Mak Gae, Seo Noh's father; a former clerk-on-duty during King Seongjong's dying moments
Yoon In-jo as Court Lady Choi, the Dowager Queen's lady-in-waiting

Cameo

Kim Jung-hak as King Seongjong, the previous King (flashbacks)
Woo Hee-jin as Deposed Queen Yoon, Yeonsangun's biological mother (flashback)
Lee Jae-woo as a Royal Commander
Jin Hyun-kwang as a Gatekeeper
Park Jae-keun as an escort warrior
Yoon Jong-won as Dae Myung
Heo Sung-tae as a Shaman
Kim Young-sun
Song Kyung-hwa
Im Jung-ok
Jeon Sung-il
Choi Hee-do

Production

In March 2017, it was announced that Park Min-young will be re-teaming with director Lee Jung-sub on Queen for Seven Days. They previously worked together on Glory Jane (2011) and Healer (2014-15).^[1]^[2]^[3] It is the first production of Monster Union, the independent content company set up by KBS in July 2016.^[4]

The drama's first script reading took place on April 7, 2017, in Yeouido, Seoul.^[5]

Prior to broadcast, lead actress Park stated that the audience could think of the drama "as Love in the Moonlight five years later," pertaining to KBS2's popular historical series starring Park Bo-gum and Kim Yoo-jung.^[6]

Original soundtrack

Queen for Seven Days OST Album
Soundtrack album by Various artists
Released	2017
Genre	Soundtrack
Language	Korean, English
Label	Music&NEW, Hello EMC

Part 1

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Artist	Length
1.	"You're Brilliant" (눈부신 그대)	Lee Na-young	Lovelyee The President	Yeonjung (Cosmic Girls)	03:10
2.	"You're Brilliant" (Inst.)		Lovelyee The President		03:10
Total length:					06:20

Part 2

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Artist	Length
1.	"No Matter How Hard I Try"	Yael Meyer	Yael Meyer	Yael Meyer	03:57
2.	"No Matter How Hard I Try" (Inst.)		Yael Meyer		03:57
Total length:					07:54

Part 3

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Artist	Length
1.	"Love Again" (또한번 사랑해)	Lee Na-young	Dear Cloud Kim Moon-chul Park Soo-seok	Dear Cloud	03:57
2.	"Love Again" (Inst.)		Dear Cloud Kim Moon-chul Park Soo-seok		03:57
Total length:					07:54

Part 4

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Artist	Length
1.	"Miss You In My Heart" (그리고 그려도)	Lee Na-young	Realmeee Kim Jin-hoon	Junggigo	03:37
2.	"Miss You In My Heart" (Inst.)		Realmeee Kim Jin-hoon		03:37
Total length:					07:14

Part 5

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Artist	Length
1.	"When the Moonlight Shines on You" (달빛이 내릴 때)	Super Sound Park So-ha	Super Sound	Fromm	03:25
2.	"When the Moonlight Shines on You" (Inst.)		Super Sound		03:25
Total length:					06:50

Disc 2:
No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Queen for seven days" (Opening Title)	Various Artists	3:36
2.	"The King wrath"	Various Artists	2:35
3.	"Dreaming"	Various Artists	3:04
4.	"Brother's fight"	Various Artists	2:25
5.	"The truth"	Various Artists	3:16
6.	"Tragedy of blood"	Various Artists	2:57
7.	"Two hands"	Various Artists	3:33
8.	"Path of destiny"	Various Artists	2:43
9.	"Overture"	Various Artists	1:10
10.	"Burned up"	Various Artists	2:02
11.	"Collapse"	Various Artists	2:09
12.	"Dark sword"	Various Artists	1:46
13.	"The Kingdom"	Various Artists	3:56
14.	"Yoong's Anger"	Various Artists	2:53
15.	"Sadness of King"	Various Artists	3:32
16.	"Pretty"	Various Artists	2:22
17.	"Who has started?"	Various Artists	2:45
18.	"In truth"	Various Artists	2:20
19.	"Waiting for you"	Various Artists	1:45
20.	"Bright way"	Various Artists	1:45
21.	"Hopeless love"	Various Artists	2:20
22.	"Denote"	Various Artists	1:06
23.	"Beyond the clouds"	Various Artists	2:03
24.	"You and me"	Various Artists	2:40
25.	"Your whistling"	Various Artists	2:06
26.	"Spiteful"	Various Artists	2:12
27.	"Yoong's Jealousy"	Various Artists	1:01
28.	"Addiction"	Various Artists	3:23
29.	"Secret order"	Various Artists	4:30
30.	"Claw"	Various Artists	2:00
31.	"Silence effection"	Various Artists	2:20
32.	"Hidden pain"	Various Artists	1:37
33.	"Vague fear"	Various Artists	2:11
34.	"Busy child"	Various Artists	3:p0
35.	"Time of plan"	Various Artists	3:06
36.	"Pirates"	Various Artists	3:07
37.	"Night performance"	Various Artists	3:46
38.	"Childhood"	Various Artists	2:58
39.	"Hold one's breath"	Various Artists	2:46
40.	"Obey"	Various Artists	3:28
41.	"Chomabawi Rock"	Various Artists	1:22
42.	"Honey Love"	Various Artists	2:05
43.	"Far from motherland"	Various Artists	2:22
44.	"Trickery"	Various Artists	3:37
45.	"In the forest"	Various Artists	3:31
46.	"The Queen"	Various Artists	3:14
47.	"What I want?"	Various Artists	3:20
48.	"Run Shin Chae kyung"	Various Artists	2:30
49.	"Irreparable"	Various Artists	2:20
50.	"Blade toward each other"	Various Artists	1:30
51.	"Conflict"	Various Artists	1:40
52.	"I had a deep dream"	Various Artists	2:30

Ratings

In the table below, the blue numbers represent the lowest ratings and the red numbers represent the highest ratings.
NR denotes that the drama did not rank in the top 20 daily programs on that date.

Ep.	Broadcast date	Average audience share
		TNmS^[7]		AGB Nielsen^[8]
		Nationwide	Seoul	Nationwide	Seoul
1	May 31, 2017	5.4% (NR)	5.6% (NR)	6.9% (18th)	6.7% (20th)
2	June 1, 2017	5.1% (NR)	5.2% (NR)	5.7% (NR)	5.6% (NR)
3	June 7, 2017	5.3% (NR)	5.5% (NR)	6.5% (NR)	6.3% (NR)
4	June 8, 2017	5.3% (NR)	5.6% (NR)	6.5% (NR)	6.8% (15th)
5	June 14, 2017	6.6% (NR)	7.0% (NR)	6.9% (17th)	6.5% (NR)
6	June 15, 2017	5.4% (NR)	5.5% (NR)	6.1% (NR)	6.2% (NR)
7	June 21, 2017	5.5% (NR)	5.6% (NR)	5.2% (NR)	5.3% (NR)
8	June 22, 2017	5.4% (NR)	5.7% (NR)	5.4% (NR)	5.8% (NR)
9	June 28, 2017	5.3% (NR)	5.5% (NR)	4.7% (NR)	5.1% (NR)
10	June 29, 2017	4.3% (NR)	4.9% (NR)	4.4% (NR)	5.0% (NR)
11	July 5, 2017	4.5% (NR)	5.3% (NR)	4.4% (NR)	5.4% (NR)
12	July 6, 2017	4.6% (NR)	4.8% (NR)	4.6% (NR)	4.9% (NR)
13	July 12, 2017	4.3% (NR)	4.4% (NR)	4.3% (NR)	4.5% (NR)
14	July 13, 2017	4.5% (NR)	5.2% (NR)	4.7% (NR)	5.4% (NR)
15	July 19, 2017	6.7% (NR)	7.0% (NR)	6.7% (20th)	6.4% (NR)
16	July 20, 2017	6.3% (NR)	6.5% (NR)	6.3% (19th)	6.1% (NR)
17	July 26, 2017	5.9% (NR)	6.1% (NR)	6.5% (19th)	6.2% (20th)
18	July 27, 2017	7.6% (18th)	7.3% (19th)	7.7% (15th)	7.2% (16th)
19	August 2, 2017	6.6% (16th)	6.0% (19th)	7.1% (16th)	6.2% (20th)
20	August 3, 2017	7.6% (14th)	6.8% (20th)	7.6% (16th)	7.0% (19th)
Average		5.6%	5.8%	5.9%	5.9%

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominee	Result
2017	31st KBS Drama Awards	Excellence Award, Actor in a Mid-length Drama^[9]	Lee Dong-gun	Won
		Excellence Award, Actress in a Mid-length Drama	Park Min-young	Nominated
		Best Young Actor	Baek Su-ho	Nominated
		Best Young Actress	Park Si-eun	Nominated

International Broadcast

In aired starting November 23, 2017 on Now Drama Channel and FTA Live, and on ViuTV on March 27, 2018.
In Sri Lanka, the drama is available to stream on-demand via Iflix with Sinhalese and English subtitles.^[10] It is also available to stream on-demand via the My Galaxy app on Samsung smartphones.^[11]
In Turkey, it was aired on Kanal 7 and dubbed in Turkish known as Ömre Bedel."Ömre Bedel".

References

^ "[공식입장] 연우진·박민영 양측 "'7일의 왕비' 출연 결정"". OSEN. 25 March 2017.
^ "연우진·박민영 양측 "'7일의 왕비' 출연 예정"". My Daily. 25 March 2017.
^ "'7일의 왕비' 박민영·연우진·이동건, 주연 라인업 완성". My Daily. 6 April 2017.
^ KBS 콘텐츠 제작사 '몬스터 유니온', 6월 웰메이드 화제작 드라마 두 편 동시 출격 (KBS content producer 'Monster Union', two well-made drama series in June). 11 April 2017. Seoul Economic Daily.
^ "'7일의왕비' 박민영X연우진X이동건 대본리딩 '최강호흡'" [Queen for Seven Days team puts in their first four hours at script read]. Sports Chosun. 20 April 2017.
^ "'연예가중계' 박민영 "7일의 왕비', '구르미그린달빛' 5년 뒤 버전"". Hei. Archived from the original on 2019-06-22. Retrieved 2017-05-23.
^ "TNMS Daily Ratings: this links to current day-select the date from drop down menu". TNMS Ratings (in Korean). Retrieved March 24, 2017.
^ "AGB Daily Ratings: this links to current day-select the date from drop down menu". AGB Nielsen Media Research (in Korean). Archived from the original on March 17, 2017. Retrieved March 24, 2017.
^ Lee, Kyung-ho (January 1, 2018). "김영철·천호진,KBS 연기대상 공동 수상..아버지의 힘!(종합)". Star News (in Korean). Archived from the original on January 3, 2018. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
^ "Queen for 7 Days".
^ "Samsung customers can binge on free K-POP & other content via My Galaxy App". 2019-05-16.

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