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However, a mysterious and powerful organization called Club M is not as approving. Their mad leader Kim Bong Goo holds a grudge against the South Korean royal family and is willing to do whatever it takes to destroy the fragile relations between the two Koreas.

 

* [[Action Girl]]: Want to get your ass kicked? Just try threatening or harming anyone Hang Ah cares about!

* [[Actor Allusion]]:

* [[Calling the Old Man Out|Calling Big Brother Out]]: [[Subverted]]. After Jae Kang expresses his disappointment in Jae Ha's behavior during WOC training, Jae Ha lashes out.

{{quote| '''Jae Ha''': [North Koreans] are the enemy! For sixty years, "they’re the enemy, they’re the Reds, we don’t trust them"—who’s the one who taught me that?<br />

* [[The Cast Showoff]]:

** Every time Shi Kyung sings, a girl swoons. Not surprising considering his actor Jo Jung Suk used to sing in musicals.

* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: Jae Ha "promotes" Shi Kyung to royal guard so that he can make Shi Kyung's life hellish. His reasoning? "Do you like Kim Hang Ah that much? Did you have to play in the snow? In front of me? Laughing?"

* [[Culture Equals Costume]]: Although the cast usually dress in present-day clothing, on several occasions the royal family have dressed traditionally and Hang Ah has worn a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanbok hanbok]/choson-ot.

* [[Divided We Fall]]: The combined Korean WOC team can't get it together during training.

* [[Dragon With an Agenda]]: Bong Goo's right-hand man

* [[The Eighties]]: In his first appearance, set in 1989, young Jae Ha is complaining about his [[Game Boy]].

* [[Engagement Challenge]]: Jae Ha promises that the WOC team would pass the first round of the games before he and Hang Ah get engaged.

{{quote| '''Hang Ah''': Your majesty. (''bows head'')<br />

'''Jae Ha''': Don't you call me that too.<br />

* [[Fictional Sport]]: World Officer Championship is basically [[War Gaming]]--but with real people.

* [[Fish Out of Water]]: Hang Ah's disconnection with South Korea serves as an allegory for how many discrepancies there are between the two once-united countries.

** [[The Hero]]: Lee Jae Ha

** [[The Lancer]]: Eun Shi Kyung

** [[Sixth Ranger]]: When Shi Kyung has to be replaced

* [[Friendly Sniper]]: Yong Bae

* [[Gratuitous Foreign Language]]

* [[Hitler Ate Sugar]]: But, according to Bong Goo, similarities with Hitler are actually a good thing.

'''Jae Kang:''' A man your age, calling himself cute?<br />

'''Jae Ha:''' [[Insult Backfire|I ''am'' cute]]. }}

** [[My Girlfriend Is a Nine Tailed Fox|Dae Woong]]'s aunt is one of the celebrities congratulating the prince on his engagement ([[As Himself|As Herself]]). [[Actor Allusion|Lee Seung Gi]], who plays Jae Ha, also played Dae Woong.

* [[Hilarity Ensues]]: The WOC team

* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]: Jae Ha comes off as this from time to time.

* [[Killed Off for Real]]

* [[Love Confession]]:

{{quote| '''Jae Shin''': The world’s most frustrating and boring leader of the royal guard …I like him.}}

* [[Make a Wish]]: Jae Shin urges Shi Kyung to make a wish on a star, but he insists that stars have nothing to do with wishes. She makes him wish anyway.

* [[Make It Look Like an Accident]]: {{spoiler|Jae Kang's assassination.}}

* [[Meaningful Funeral]]: {{spoiler|Jae Kang and his wife Hyun-joo}}

* [[Multitasked Conversation]]: When Hang Ah is video-chatting with Jae Ha while she has guns pointed as her head (off-screen)

* [[Named After Somebody Famous]]: This universe's Daniel Craig is a rich business man who favors bribing information out of secretaries.

* [[Never Be Hurt Again]]: Once young Jae Ha discovered the most people only got close to him because he was prince, he never got close to anyone.

* [[No One Could Survive That]]: The assassins decide to stage a car accident for Jae Shin's death after they kidnap her. She instead jumps off a cliff and they decide that she's dead enough.

* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: Jae Ha tries to explain to Kim Nam Il, Hang Ah's father, when he and Hang Ah gets caught kissing. Kim Nam Il replies exactly what it looked like, "South Korean prince got drunk, succumbed to his animal instincts, and messed around with peace."

{{quote| '''Queen Mother''': (''when Hang Ah is not around'') Just because she made a mistake doesn’t mean we should laugh. Think about how lonely she must feel, all by herself. We have to be much better to her.}}

* [[Personal Effects Reveal]]

* [[Phoney Call]]: Hang Ah calls her father to wail because she's fed up with life in South Korea, ranting that all the South Koreans care about is "money, money, money." When she's done ranting, we hear a standard operator recording on the other end. Just then, [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Jae Kang calls to check up on her]].

* [[Product Placement]]: Jae Ha's snack food of choice comes from Dunkin' Donuts.

* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: As a teenager, Kim Bong Goo wasn't above stabbing princes with pen. As an adult, he moved on to [[It Got Worse|much worse]].

** During WOC training, Hang Ah calls Jae Ha out--that he's also afraid he won't ever find someone to love him, that he's always trying to find a way out, and that he has no pride.

** Jae Ha delivers one to Bong Goo via a puzzle: What is one thing that Jae Ha has that Bong Goo doesn't? Answer: People (that he can trust).

{{quote| '''Jae Ha''': Are you crazy? Why should I apologize? I ask if he likes a singer and get strangled. North and South have guns drawn over SNSD. What should I say?}}

* [[Shipper On Deck]]: Jae Ha towards Shi Kyung and Jae Shin

{{quote| '''Kim Bong Goo:''' When you hear fireworks, you'll jump in fear. When you hear sirens, your heart will race. Korea is like that. A country that has experienced war. You will become more anxious. You'll always be scared of what you encountered, and only amass more weapons.<br />

'''Jae Ha:''' We stopped it. I did. We did. We have the confidence that we can stop it again. They say that the scariest thing in the world is war. But we stopped it. So what ''can’t'' we do? Thank you ... for making us more powerful. }}

* [[Significant Reference Date]]: Jae Ha asks Hang Ah what she's doing on May 24. For the audience, the answer would be "watching this episode."

* [[Spoiler Title]]: Naturally, the lead character of a show called ''The King 2 Hearts'' (previously titled ''The King'') wouldn't stay a ''prince'' forever.

* [[Storming the Castle]]: When Jae Ha is kidnapped in North Korea, the North Korean half of the WOC team springs into action.

* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: When Jae Kang first proposes that Jae Ha marries Hang Ah, Jae Ha launches into a sarcastic diatribe, ending with, "No matter how much I love her ..."

{{quote| '''Jae Shin''': I killed him! I killed him! So that I could live.}}

* [[What's Up King Dude]]: The amount of access Bong Goo has to the king is just baffling.

* [[You Say Tomato]]: Naturally, all the North Koreans have North Korean accents, but Hang Ah especially suffers for this when she moves to South Korea.

 

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