{"id":6282,"date":"2026-04-19T00:08:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T15:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bongonakpop.com\/?p=6282"},"modified":"2026-04-19T00:10:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T15:10:41","slug":"byeon-woo-seok-defends-iu-she-could-be-my-future-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bongonakpop.com\/?p=6282","title":{"rendered":"Byeon Woo-seok Defends IU: &#8216;She Could Be My Future Wife&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MBC Friday-Saturday Drama '21st Century Queen' Broadcast Screen Capture\" height=\"674\" src=\"https:\/\/image.xportsnews.com\/contents\/images\/upload\/article\/2026\/0418\/1776518450477004.jpg\" width=\"1200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In &#8217;21st Century Queen,&#8217; Byeon Woo-seok stood up for IU.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth episode of MBC&#8217;s Friday-Saturday drama &#8217;21st Century Queen,&#8217; which aired on the 18th, showed Crown Prince Lee An (Byeon Woo-seok) kissing Seong Hee-joo (IU), a scene that subsequently made headlines.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"2022\" src=\"https:\/\/image.xportsnews.com\/contents\/images\/upload\/article\/2026\/0418\/1776518314737725.jpg\" width=\"1200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a previous episode, Seong Hee-joo thoughtfully prepared tea and supplements for Crown Prince Lee An, who was burdened with late-night duties. This led to a kiss from the Crown Prince.<\/p>\n<p>However, Crown Prince Lee An kissed her because he discovered a hidden camera secretly filming them. The resulting photo quickly made headlines the following day.<\/p>\n<p>Yoon Seong-won (Jo Jae-yoon) commented, &#8220;She is of commoner origin. It would be best to send her away from the residence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In response, Crown Prince Lee An stated, &#8220;She has been hit by eggs at a house swarming with private security and subjected to all sorts of online insults. Photos were also taken behind the heavily guarded palace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He defended her further, saying, &#8220;If she is left alone in this situation, who will take responsibility if something happens? It&#8217;s easy to part ways, but she could be my future wife.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Image source: MBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8217;21st Century Queen,&#8217; Byeon Woo-seok stood up for IU. The fourth episode of MBC&#8217;s Friday-Saturday drama &#8217;21st Century Queen,&#8217; which aired on the 18th, showed Crown Prince Lee An (Byeon Woo-seok) kissing Seong Hee-joo (IU), a scene that subsequently made headlines. In a previous episode, Seong Hee-joo thoughtfully prepared tea and supplements for Crown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[1266,1128,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-6282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv-show-drama-movie","8":"tag-21st-century-queen","9":"tag-byeon-woo-seok","10":"tag-iu"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bongonakpop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-110.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bongonakpop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bongonakpop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bongonakpop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bongonakpop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bongonakpop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bongonakpop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6284,"href":"https:\/\/bongonakpop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6282\/revisions\/6284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bongonakpop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bongonakpop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bongonakpop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bongonakpop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}