The SBS drama previously called Prosecutor Mata Hari has confirmed a title change. Now dubbedProsecutor Princess, it will begin filming shortly, with first shoots on February 25.

Chief producer Kim Young-sub of SBS’s drama department explained, “The producers thought a lot about the name of Mata Hari, which brings to mind double agents and spies. The opinion was that if this drama is to be enjoyed by all families, we would have to start by getting rid of the burden of the title, and decided on ‘Princess,’ which conveys a bright feeling.”

“Princess” also seems more appropriate thematically, since Kim So-yeon’s character is a bright, lively woman who is newly appointed as a prosecutor. Though she initially feels that her profession is not suited to her personality, she grows into her skills and her job as the drama progresses. Family Honor’s Park Shi-hoo and Chuno’s Han Jung-soo co-star as a skilled lawyer and a chief prosecutor, respectively.Choi Song-hyun (Smile) and Yoo Gun (Mazzang) take supporting roles.

I think the name change is a good move (although it may have gone a little too far in the other direction by making it sound light and silly); this marks the final choice out of a slew of previous working titles. Aside from “Prosecutor Mata Hari,” the show had previously borne the titles “Female Prosecutor Mata Hari” and “Prosecutor Ma Hye-ri.” I know I wasn’t the only one wondering at the relevance of Mata Hari to the plot, since there were a lot of questions asking the same thing in the previous post. What could a drama about a fashion-conscious prosecutor have to do with an infamous dancer and Dutch war spy? I had figured that the significance would be explained in the drama itself — perhaps it was just a general way of referring to a femme fatale — but now it seems more likely that it was a convenient almost-pun on the main character’s name, Ma Hye-ri.

The 16-episode Prosecutor Princess is scheduled for Wednesdays and Thursdays following OB-GYN, and will go up against Personal Taste and Cinderella’s Sister.

Kim So-yeon is taking the lead in a new SBS drama called Prosecutor Mata Hari, which comes to us from the writer-director pair behind Brilliant Legacy. (PD Jin Hyuk also directed the gorgeous historical series Painter of the Wind and the slick celebrity-packed On Air, while writer So Hyun-kyung also wroteHow Much Love.)

Kim plays Ma Hye-ri, a woman with excellent focus and memorization skills which allow her to pass the law exam, but because she dislikes hard work, she’s far from displaying the sense of justice and duty that befits a prosecutor. She’d rather be off wearing pretty clothes or finding the latest designer bags. Hye-ri thinks she’s unsuited for her profession, but as she experiences conflicts with her senior prosecutors and encounters all sorts of cases, she gradually taps in to her talent as a prosecutor.

She’ll be showing off an entirely different side to her previous role as the badass North Korean spy in last year’s IRIS; Hye-ri is described as cute and lovable. Kim said of her role, “Ma Hye-ri isn’t just someone who wants to look pretty on the outside, but she also has pain on the inside. As the drama progresses, I’ll show her gradually maturing into a prosecutor, which I’m personally really looking forward to.”

Prosecutor Mata Hari will be a Wednesday-Thursday drama that airs in April.