Friday, September 30, 2011

The Great Queen Seondeok Vol. 1

  • Region Code 1, 4
  • Picture Format NTSC, 16:9
  • Language Korean , Subtitles English
  • Number of Episodes 20 (Esp. 1-20)
  • Approx. Running Time 1,400 minutes
The story of a beautiful queen, who has to give up her love to save the people. With historical battle scenes and a star-studded cast, Queen Seondeok of Silla is the follow-up historical drama to MBC's "Lee San: Wind of the Palace" and "Prince of Legend" for 2009! Writer Kim Young-hyun of the famous "Jewel in the Palace" will be the main writer of this new TV mini-series. A biopic of Queen Seondeok, who was born a princess and later became the ruler of Silla, leaving behind many brilliant achievements. During the Three Kingdoms period of Korea... Deokman (Queen Seondeok's childhood name) was born a twin but was abandoned as a baby. She was later brought back to the Silla palace, where she joined forces with her twin sister Princess Chonmyong to oppose Mi-shil, who wanted to seize power. Mi-shil devised sinister plans to have the two Silla princesses exiled from the kingdom, and in a secretive battle, Princess Chonmyong was assassinated by Mi-shil. But Princess Deokman shrewdly enlisted the help of General Kim Yusin and eliminated her archenemy Mi-shil. She became the first female ruler of the Silla kingdom.

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