Tree with Deep Roots

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Product Description It s a hero story, a love story, a creation story, and an underdog story all wrapped into one beautifully shot, edited, and well-directed package. (A) truly unforgettable viewing experience. - Dramabeans TREE WITH DEEP ROOTS is a thrilling historical Korean TV Drama series about the power of the pen and the sword. Movie star Han Suk-Gyu plays Korea's greatest king, while superstar Jang Hyuk provides the action and romance as the swordsman seeking revenge and redemption amid a massive conspiracy in the court. For years, King Lee Do (Han Suk-Gyu) has been working covertly on the creation of a Korean alphabet that would make literacy possible for commoners. As the alphabet nears completion, the scholars involved in the project begin to die one by one. Assigned to investigate the mystery, palace guard Chae-yoon (Jang Hyuk) links the serial killings to a secret society plotting to overthrow the throne. However, unbeknownst to all, Chae-yoon also has a secret motive of his own... English subtitles by YA Entertainment.Special Features include: Behind-the-scenes and more (61 min, with English Subtitles)Tree with Deep Roots won several industry awards in 2012: 48th Baeksang Arts Awards: Grand Prize + Best Screenplay 7th Seoul International Drama Awards: Grand Prize SBS Drama Awards: Grand Prize + Actor of the Year (Han Suk Kyu) Review Cinematically stunning and darkly thrilling a full on assault of the senses... ... literally put me on the edge of my seat... This drama is gorgeous... it has the look and feel of a big-budget film. It s a hero story, a love story, a creation story, and an underdog story all wrapped into one beautifully shot, edited, and well-directed package. (A) truly unforgettable viewing experience. --Dramabeans.com Review: One of the best! - This is probably the best K-drama I've ever seen (I have not seen much... but for now..)! The story is very engaging--murder mystery behind the creation of the Korean alphabet, clever! I'm always at the edge of my seat when watching this. The acting is phenomenal. Every actor is great here! I love it. The costumes are lavish, colorful, beautiful! Also, it's only 24 or 26 episodes long, not too long compared to other historical dramas but it's AMAZING! Review: Tree with Deep Roots - At the beginning of the Chosen Dynasty the written language used by the Korean people was Chinese characters,thousands of them that only the nobles had time to learn and use. The characters were symbolic and without relationship to the words used by the Korean people. King Lee Do,frustrated with the inability of his people to petition him and his inability to communicate to them imformation vital to them all,decided to establish an alphabet that reflected both the phonics of the Korean language and was easy to learn and use by everyone. This would upset the balance of power in the realm by allowing the "great unwashed" masses to have access to the government and to read and write whatever they chose,allowing even the commoners to enjoy reading whatever gave them pleasure. Thus began a long struggle by the king and a very small handful of supporters to build,from scratch,just such an alphabet,all in secret. This historical Korean Drama (kdrama as they are known) is beautifully filmed and acted by first-rate quality actors, easily on par with US movie theater quality although it was shown on Korean TV and,just so you understand,the target audience is the Korean people;they have oft-times a difference of philosophy about how things should or do go and every story having an happy ending isn't one of them. In several instances near the beginning,Chae-yoon would make drawing in a notebook and as he did,in the lower left of the screen,what he was drawing was being drawn on the screen. Another time,there was a scene someone was trying to make sense or rhyme out of hundreds of characters on stacks of paper when suddenly mental connection was made and the correct letters/symbols began to float up and began to form a thought. There are more than a few examples of the 3D graphics and special effects. This series is not an ordinary series. It is in-depth,well-played and beautifully filmed,a first-rate effort in all respects. Most highly recommended.