DramaYear2019Duration1h 50mIMDb6.3

The King's Letters

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A historical film about King Sejong who risked everything of his to invent the Hunminjungeum (Korean Script) for his people and the people who weren't recorded in history.

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Jo Chul-Hyun

Director

Song Kang-ho

King Sejong

Park Hae-il

Mong Sin-mi

Jeon Mi-seon

Queen Soheon

Choi Deok-moon

Jung In-ji

Hae-Kyun Jung

Go Yak-hae

Tang Joon-sang

Hak-Jo

Moon-cheol Nam

Choi Man-Ri

Jeon Mi-seon

Queen Soheon

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مدو القنينMay 19, 2023

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LayconOct 18, 2022

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IsleymbtrOct 17, 2022

Well filmed. Great acting. Excellent narration of the creation of Korean Script or Hangeul. The drama revolves around the need to help common people become literate when the sounds of their language don't fit the imported Chinese characters. Learned aristocrats & scholars reject granting others the ability to become literate after they spent years & effort learning Chinese Hanza. Literacy threatened their high status. The drama also portrays the difficulty of developing a phonetic alphabet. Instead of characters representing concepts, characters represent phonetic syllables of how spoken Korean sounds. It was a paradigm shift that allowed the people to become literate easily. Instead of memorizing thousands of characters, there are 10 vowels & 14 consonants. Hangeul is considered a linguistic wonder and among Asian alphabets, the easiest to learn. The movie presents the process of creating this innovative alphabet without having a documentary feel. An interesting subject well filmed.

mo_abdelrahmanOct 17, 2022

Well told story about the above and conflict resolution. On the importance of the written word to preserve and progress. High quality production. Script, acting and directing well done. Entertaining and educational.

gertjohancoetzeeOct 17, 2022

This feels like a beautifully made docudrama with top actors. No great battles or zombies for excitement. Some conflicts about Buddhism and Confucianism - for those who don't know like me there was a conflict. Song Kang Ho acts gentle and enlightened as he co-operates with a monk and others to create an alphabet for the Korean people so everyone could read and write. Unlike the words in Chinese and Japanese which have to be memorized. How forward thinking.

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