Choi Pan-sul is a minor character in Dae Jang Geum

Dae Jang Geum

Dae Jang Geum is a 2003 epic South Korean television series directed by Lee Byung Hoon and produced by MBC. Starring Lee Young Ae, it tells the tale of an orphaned kitchen cook who went on to become the king's first female physician...

. He is the brother of Choi Seong-geum

Choi Seong-geum

Choi Seong-geum is a major character in Dae Jang Geum. She is considered the most notorious woman in the series, and is known as Lady Choi throughout much of the series...

. Choi is a very wealthy and powerful but corrupt and evil merchant of the upper class yangban

Yangban

The yangban were part of the traditional ruling class or nobles of dynastic Korea during the Joseon Dynasty. The yangban were either landed or unlanded aristocracy who comprised the Korean Confucian idea of a "scholarly official." In reality, they were basically administrators and bureaucrats who...

. Together with his sister, he monopolizes on the goods used in the Royal Kitchen for a huge profit. Choi has an alliance with Right Prime Minister Oh Gyeom-ho to gain political and economic power, which Choi already has a lot of. When the Choi family's crimes are discovered, Choi dies in episode 48 while he is being taken to a government mine as a government slave. Choi is played in the series by Lee Hee-do (이희도 (李熙道)).