‘Wangsanam’ poster, Song Eun-yi. Photo=Showbox.

As the film ‘The Man Who Lives With the King (Wangsanam)’ continues its box-office run, TV personality Song Eun-yi is being mentioned as an unexpected ‘beneficiary’.

As of the 3rd, the film ‘The Man Who Lives With the King’ has surpassed 9.4 million cumulative admissions, with the ‘ten-million film’ title in sight. Amid this, renewed attention is on the fact that both actor Jeon Mi-do, who appears in the film, and director Jang Hang-jun, who helmed it, belong to the management company Media Lab Seeso, which is headed by Song Eun-yi.

Netizens who came across this news are responding with witty comments toward Song Eun-yi, such as “A best friend of 35 years, the roster director’s hit and the roster actor’s hit, plus even the success of a film she invested inthree birds with one stone”, “What a discerning eye”, and “So Eun-yi had everything planned out”.

Song Eun-yi, Jang Hang-jun. ‘Wangsanam’ GV event. Photo=Showbox.

Earlier, Song Eun-yi also personally took part in promoting the film. At the ‘Gichungjeon GV Part 2’ held on February 11 at CGV Yongsan I’Park Mall in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, she attended alongside director Jang Hang-jun to lend support.

Meanwhile, the film ‘The Man Who Lives With the King’ is set in Cheongnyeongpo in 1457 and portrays a friendship that transcends class between village head Eom Heung-do (Yoo Hae-jin), who volunteered for exile to revive his village, and the young former king Danjong (Park Ji-hoon).

Danjong, the sixth king of Joseon, was born the legitimate first son of Munjong and ascended the throne at age 12, but he was dethroned and exiled to Yeongwol by the Gyeyu Coup led by his uncle Grand Prince Suyang (later King Sejo). Demoted thereafter to Prince Nosan, he died at the age of 17 and is remembered as a tragic monarch.