I watched the series on Hulu too Donna and can't say enough. The writing
and acting were excellent and the story compelling. Highly recommended.

Erica

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Donna Thomas <drtwmt@...> wrote:

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> Hello, All! Happy Lunar New Year...
> I posted a little while ago because I was having trouble accessing " The
> Tree with Deep Roots", a short historical drama that I began watching on
> MVIBO ( which is a pay site), and some of you kindly replied. MVIBO
> apparently lost the right to stream "Roots" because of some copyright
> dispute. ( they said later on) I have been able to pick it up now, though,
> on Hulu, which is free - it just has a few commercials, which aren't too
> obnoxious.
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> I really want to recommend this series to anyone who is deeply interested
> in the history of Korea, because it tells a story - with some latitude,
> I'm sure ; ) - about one of the most important occurrences in Korean
> history - the creation of the phonetic Hangul (?) alphabet ( replacing
> Chinese characters), which is what is used today, by King Sejong, and the
> political and social turmoil that it caused.( giving peasants and lowborns
> the ability to read and write was the beginning of the end for the
> repressive Confucianism of Joseon, and the Korean bureuacrats - those who
> could take the civil service examination to be in the ruling class - were
> very aware of this.) The bare bones of the story are woven into a great
> tale of historic fictional characters, and the acting is second to none,
> especially the characters of 1) Sejong, 2) Mu Hyul, his right-hand
> military man, and 3) Kang Chae-Yun, a slave who becomes a palace guard and
> is pivotal to the
> story. I can't recommend it enough... DO watch it! If there are
> "oscars" for Korean drama, this has to win a lot - Best - Donna Thomas
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