Product Description

The Legend Continues... Never before has a TV drama series captured the richness and excitement of Korean history quite like Jumong. Follow the paths of Jumong (Song Il-Kook, Emperor of the Sea), Sosuhno (Han Hye-Jin, Be Strong Geum Soon!), and Daeso (Kim Seung-Soo, One Million Roses) as they face the inevitable conspiracies and hardships in bringing freedom to the ancient people of Korea. Sword-fighting competitions, marriage proposals, military attacks, and revelations of significant secrets all await you in Jumong Volume 2 (episodes 21-40). YA Entertainment is honored to present Jumong on DVD with English subtitles, a true cultural phenomenon and a defining event in Korean television history!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #36772 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-06-19
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
• Original language: Korean
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 7
• Running time: 1200 minutes

Review
It's quite hard to overstate the popularity of Korean martial arts period drama Jumong. This is a show that regularly drew better than 40% of the Korean viewing audience with the final episode drawing more than 50% of viewers - a shocking number - and proved so enormously successful that producers actually altered the story arc mid stream to further expand the story and extend its run. Posts that we made about the show nearly a year ago are still among the most commented on here at Twitch. And not only is it incredibly popular it is also, by all accounts, shockingly good - arguably one of the best Korean television productions ever.... --http://www.twitchfilm.net/archives/009521.html

Review
The story begins in 108 B.C during a time when the Han Empire (China) had recently defeated the Gojosun Empire. With the ancient Korean empire under Chinese occupation, the neighboring Puyo Kingdom was not sure how to proceed. Puyo's King Haeburu (Park Geun Hyung) and his advisors knew that their kingdom could be next. They considered whether or not to make peace with the Han or prepare an offensive. One such man that led the battle against Han occupation was Haemosu (Hur Jun Ho). He was the leader of the Damul Army, a resistance group formed in the downfall of Gojosun. At first, Haeburu had no intention of helping Haemosu, but the Han instead. However, when Haeburu learned that his son Kumwa (Jeon Gwang Ryeol), the Royal Crown Price, was best friends and comrades with Haemosu, he decided to invite Haemosu into his ranks. But when it came to the king's attention that Haemosu's popularity was outgrowing his own, Haemosu became a target by the state and was killed. --http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=28331

About the Actor
Song Il-gook ( As Jumong), Han Hye-jin (As So Seo-no)

Customer Reviews

The Best Show Ever!
Jumong is an amazing adventure series. Its as addicting as day time soap operas only better quality and amazing mysticism and story telling qualities that make you sit on the edge of your seat to see what happenes next.

Great
Started watching the Korean dramas on TV and was looking for a good one to buy. Checked the reviews on Jumong and purchased Volume 1. I enjoyed it so much that when I started the last cd I got back on line to Amazon and ordered the remaining 3 Volumes (2-4). Expensive? Yes! But for me, it was well worth it. Fact is, it was very hard to stop once I got started, but getting up way before dawn, I had to force myself to stop each night. Needless to say, a few weekends not much got done around the house. Well, I did take a putt over to my HD dealer for morning coffee on Saturday mornings b'fore starting up the day watching more episodes.

A few days later I started back at Volumn 1 and since I knew the characters, things made more sense (to me). I'll be watching this series completely through again in the future. Oh yeah, one nice thing is that there are a couple of booklets provided. I read part of them at first, but read them through once I completed the last volumn. One other item I really appreciated is that the captions in English were on long enough for me to read. I've never like captions in the past, but I've enjoyed the Korean dramas so much that I've gotten used to and appreciate them being there (wouldn't understand a thing otherwise).

If you like these types of dramas, you will not be disappointed with this one.