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Original from ONDEMANDKOREA

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This movie is based on one of many
creation theories on the Korean alphabet

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MegaboxJoongAng PLUS M presents

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A Doodoong Pictures production

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THE KING'S LETTERS

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This day in the year of 1442,

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I, LEE Do, King of Joseon,

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SONG KANG-HO

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beseech the Yongshinho of Baegaksan...

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PARK HAE-IL

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If you use Chinese, will the
gods of this land understand?

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CHUN MI-SUN

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Say it in Korean.

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O, God of Rain!

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We're on the verge of
dying from drought.

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The masses have thirsted
for rain for 6 months.

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Is this your punishment...

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because of an unworthy king?

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O, God of Rain!

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Wearing black robes in this
heat, I'll take the punishment.

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Please put all the fault on me

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and bless the land with sweet rain!

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Take my robes.

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You're better than me.

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What is the matter, sire?

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You've worked tirelessly
to make those books.

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You even included pictures
for those who can't read.

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They're useless pieces of paper.

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I lived in vain and wasted time
making such rubbish!

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How is that rubbish, sire?

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No matter how many books I make,

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the common people can't read them!
They're rotting in storage.

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That makes them rubbish!

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That's why

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you're working hard on creating
letters that are easy to learn.

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I think making new letters
is beyond my abilities.

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Why struggle alone when you
have clever court ministers?

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They are the ones who'd be
most against the letters.

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Knowing how to read Chinese have
given them power for generations.

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They won't lose their privileges.

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Your Majesty.

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Along with our visit,

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we've been blessed with rain.

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Heaven must be pleased with

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Joseon and Japan's ties, sire.

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Why have you come this time?

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Your Majesty! Please spare our lives!

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What do you mean?

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If we can't bring Buddha's Tripitaka,

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we swore we wouldn't return alive

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and came across the sea, sire.

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But I gave you printed
copies whenever you came.

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It is not the books we want,

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but the original wooden blocks.

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Your Majesty.

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What?

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You want our national treasure?

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Joseon has rejected Buddhism

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and worships Confucius, sire.

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It is not needed here.

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The late King Jeongjong
promised to give it to us,

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so we've built a temple
to preserve it, sire.

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If a late king's promise isn't kept,

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how could Joseon be
a civilized country, sire?

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How refreshing.

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Father, what will you do
about the Tripitaka?

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Buddhism this, Buddhism that.

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Su-yang? An-pyung? Let's drink.

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Just one drink!

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Liquor is poison to diabetes.

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Just one.

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How long must we wait?

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If you can't give us the Tripitaka,

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just kill us, please!

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Kill us, please!

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Why hesitate to give it to them, sire?

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Since we can't burn all the
temples and kill the monks,

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getting rid of the Tripitaka

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is what we, as Confucians, must do.

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The people still believe in Buddha.
It will cause uproars.

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If we weed out the roots of Buddhism
that commoners believe and rely on,

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there will be no cause for uproars.

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Though the Tripitaka is but
80,000 wood tablets to us,

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it could be a powerful symbol for
the Japanese who believe in Buddha.

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If the country unites
around that symbol,

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who knows what they'll do next?

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It's a complicated problem.

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Discuss more. Let's talk tomorrow.

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Tomorrow, sire?

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Why not just tell them to scram, sire?

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You're one to be firm in
seeing to what you want.

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But you seem to have lost
interest in the court, sire.

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Sit down and speak.

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For instance, the rain ritual.

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You delayed it till you had no choice.
Now, it won't stop raining!

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DAEJA-AM TEMPLE, GYEONGGI-DO

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The Tripitaka isn't merely a
collection of Buddhist Scriptures.

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It means much more.

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The small group of Confucians in
power debating over the Tripitaka

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is treating the people's sweat
and tears like an old shoe!

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What can we do?

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There is a man who can resolve
this, but he's a stubborn fool.

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I'll see to the rest, sir.

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HAEINSA TEMPLE,
STORAGE HALL OF TRIPITAKA KOREANA

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Master!

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Master!

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Master!

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Master!

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It's a letter from the head
monk of Daeja-am Temple.

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Hak-jo.

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Let's go to Hanyang.

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JAPANESE ENVOY RESIDENCE

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Are you Shin-mi?

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Thanks for coming all this way.

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Save us, merciful Buddha!

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Joseon must keep its promise.

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Save us, merciful Buddha!

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Joseon must keep its promise.

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Are you beggars?

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Who might you be?

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Me?

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I'm the protector of the
Tripitaka at Haeinsa Temple.

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I'm Buddha's disciple.

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Have mercy, sir!

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If we can't take the
Tripitaka back with us again,

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our families will be killed, too!

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I can't give it to you,
and you can't return.

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So, let's just die here.

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The owners of the
Tripitaka are not the king,

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the court ministers, or the monks,

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but the people of Joseon.

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If you must take it,
get their permission first.

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Have mercy on us!

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China, Tibet, Khitan, and Corea.

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The native peoples made their own.

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You should make your own, too.

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Even a great country like Corea,

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took 16 years to make it.

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We don't have to ability to make it.

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Even if it takes 100 years,
if it's not made on your own,

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it's nothing but pieces of wood.

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You may beg for food, but not truth.

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Please come in.

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Why aren't you bowing to me?

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Have you seen a dog bow?

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The court treats monks as dogs.
We're just following the law.

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How about some tea, sire?

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What kind of tea is this?

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It's really sweet and bitter.
It's great!

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It's Omija tea, the pride of my palace.

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Would you like more?

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Yes, please.

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You're the lad who chants
the strange Buddhist prayers?

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It's the Sutra of the Heroic One
in Buddha's native Sanskrit.

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Sanskrit?

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Did you persuade the Japanese
monks in Sanskrit, too?

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A good monk can speak it regardless
of what country he's from.

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Monk Hak-jo?

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May we hear the Sutra, too?

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Can you write what you said?

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Monk Hak-yeol is the best at writing.

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Are they phonetic letters?

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NO SPEAKING IN TRAINING

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Do you know other phonetic letters?

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Master Shin-mi reads Buddhist scriptures
in Tibetan and Phagspa letters, too.

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They're all phonetic letters,
made by monks, based on Sanskrit.

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If the root of all phonetic
letters is Sanskrit,

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there must be a principle behind it.

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1500 years ago,

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some monks of India
categorized sounds and letters.

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The principle is written
in the Tripitaka.

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What?

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Do you know that principle, too?

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I read through all Chinese books
on phonetics, but couldn't find a clue.

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You must help me.

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I'm the son of a traitor.

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I became a monk to survive.

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You've destroyed my temple, my home.
Why seek my help?

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Master Shin-mi?

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I'm the daughter of a traitor.

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It saddened me each time
I went to the temple.

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How great it'd be for anyone
to read Buddha's teachings?

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Then his sermons from 2000 years ago

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could be seen before our eyes

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and ring loudly in our ears...

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I wear the mask of a king,

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and you claim to be a dog.

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But we both owe our bread
to what the people offer.

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Will you help me?

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Under one condition, sire.

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Say it.

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Please build a temple
inside the capital.

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What?

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Build Buddha's house in the
heart of a Confucian country?

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Can't a king even do that?

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Fine. I'll build it.

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I'll leave Confucius behind and go.

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You come with Buddha aside, too.

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No.

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I'll come on Buddha's back.

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Please come on Confucius' back.

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You must be punished.

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Must you always do things
so clamorously?

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Pretentiousness!

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That's your illness.

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I'll take 2 of the 3 hits, sir.

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'Seokyeong'...

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'Yukseoryak'...

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All these books on Chinese phonetics...

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You've wasted your time.

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How dare you!

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Why wrestle with Chinese characters
to make a phonetic alphabet?

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Hak-jo!

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What did you hear?

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Well,

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I heard sounds that
came out from his throat

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and rung in his mouth
then came in my ears.

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Not hopeless. Good.

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Before these men memorize
all those letters,

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don't let them out of this temple.

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Yes, master!

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Here.

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Give this to the king.

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How can the relationship between
sound and letters be so organized?

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And it was all within the Tripitaka?

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He said the principles and
framework of the letters are there

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and explained why we weren't
able to gain progress.

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Why is that?

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Chinese characters

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indicate a sound by
the front and end only.

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Thus, for 'Gang',

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they use the 'g' of 'gap'
and the 'ang' of 'jang'.

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But Sanskrit notes 'ang' differently.

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They divide it as 'a' and 'ng'.

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Not 'gang' but 'g-a-ng'?

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They call the middle sound a vowel.

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They call the 'g' and
the 'ng' as consonants.

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Sanskrit notes the first,
middle, and end sounds.

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They use vowels and
consonants to make words?

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Thus, they can capture all
sounds with a few letters?

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How many vowels and consonants?

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Sanskrit has 50 letters.

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Phagspa has 41 letters.

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Tibetan has 34 letters.

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They're far too many,
and they look complicated.

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As you said, we've categorized

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all consonants according to
the phonological hierarchy.

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What is next?

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I'm not sure.

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From here on, it's new to me too.

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Who knows but you?

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Let's collect and classify
the sounds of our language,

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and fill the empty sheets.

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Should we record them
in Sanskrit? That's easiest?

255
00:26:45,810 --> 00:26:47,853
And sounds we can't note in Sanskrit?

256
00:26:47,853 --> 00:26:50,856
Let's try with Phagspa
or Tibetan script.

257
00:26:51,398 --> 00:26:53,275
If that doesn't work,

258
00:26:54,735 --> 00:26:57,155
we'll just have to store
in someone's head.

259
00:27:01,868 --> 00:27:04,745
Let's start with molar sounds.

260
00:27:05,871 --> 00:27:06,873
Galoot.

261
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,128
Gap. Game.

262
00:27:13,421 --> 00:27:14,630
Garbage.

263
00:27:14,630 --> 00:27:17,008
Galley. Gag.

264
00:27:17,925 --> 00:27:18,926
Keeper.

265
00:27:19,218 --> 00:27:22,596
Kick! Kite!

266
00:27:23,473 --> 00:27:26,183
Caw! Caw! Crow?

267
00:27:26,726 --> 00:27:29,020
Ca! Ca! Qu?

268
00:27:31,690 --> 00:27:32,773
Quiet.

269
00:27:35,943 --> 00:27:37,570
Tongue sound!

270
00:27:37,570 --> 00:27:38,821
Navy.

271
00:27:38,821 --> 00:27:39,738
Nirvana.

272
00:27:39,738 --> 00:27:40,490
Nice.

273
00:27:40,490 --> 00:27:41,573
Nasty.

274
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:43,368
'Namu Amida Butsu...'

275
00:27:43,368 --> 00:27:44,868
God rest his soul!

276
00:27:46,078 --> 00:27:49,165
That starts with 'g, ' a molar sound!

277
00:27:50,208 --> 00:27:51,000
Again!

278
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,378
Dame. Dog.

279
00:27:53,378 --> 00:27:54,378
Dharma.

280
00:27:54,378 --> 00:27:55,463
Dairy.

281
00:27:55,463 --> 00:27:56,546
Delicious.

282
00:27:56,546 --> 00:27:57,256
Deli meat.

283
00:27:57,256 --> 00:27:59,425
Down the drain.

284
00:28:07,725 --> 00:28:11,771
There are more vowels than that.

285
00:28:12,230 --> 00:28:14,856
What about 'ya' or 'yo'?

286
00:28:15,108 --> 00:28:16,108
You know?

287
00:28:24,991 --> 00:28:27,161
Old. Oil.

288
00:28:27,995 --> 00:28:30,706
Omija. Oak.

289
00:28:31,498 --> 00:28:33,418
This will take forever.

290
00:28:34,710 --> 00:28:37,963
Oar. Oath. Obey.

291
00:28:39,465 --> 00:28:45,930
O... o... okay!

292
00:28:46,513 --> 00:28:47,765
Ogre!

293
00:29:13,375 --> 00:29:16,335
The Jiphyeonjeon seems different.

294
00:29:17,253 --> 00:29:21,173
It's the same here.
Your Majesty has changed.

295
00:29:27,430 --> 00:29:33,895
I published many books
and drank much with you here.

296
00:29:39,150 --> 00:29:44,196
Since that day, people are
doubting your actions, sire.

297
00:29:46,615 --> 00:29:47,658
What day?

298
00:29:47,825 --> 00:29:52,121
When a mere monk made a
fool out of the court, sire.

299
00:29:55,583 --> 00:29:59,795
What I see, won't the
other ministers see too?

300
00:30:01,715 --> 00:30:03,383
What do you see?

301
00:30:04,883 --> 00:30:06,761
Please be careful, sire.

302
00:30:08,095 --> 00:30:14,976
I'll always take your side
except on Buddhism, sire.

303
00:30:20,858 --> 00:30:21,985
Is that so?

304
00:30:22,568 --> 00:30:26,488
You asked to meet in
secret to threaten me?

305
00:30:30,660 --> 00:30:33,788
Though I may be weak,
don't test my royal anger.

306
00:30:36,665 --> 00:30:41,503
The scholar-gentry class has a line
that even the king can't cross.

307
00:30:50,221 --> 00:30:54,766
I fret my eyesight is weakening
quickly and can't sleep.

308
00:30:56,686 --> 00:31:00,231
From now on, work face to face with me.

309
00:31:00,731 --> 00:31:04,193
Why do you wish to make letters so?

310
00:31:09,573 --> 00:31:10,908
For the dynasty to last.

311
00:31:10,908 --> 00:31:13,786
No dharma talk, please.

312
00:31:19,750 --> 00:31:23,086
Corea was ruined under
the pretext of Buddha,

313
00:31:23,086 --> 00:31:27,716
because monks monopolized on
knowledge, wealth, and power.

314
00:31:29,176 --> 00:31:31,470
The Confucians won't be any different.

315
00:31:35,308 --> 00:31:38,226
I plan to crush the exclusivity
with the new letters

316
00:31:38,811 --> 00:31:42,231
and let the people have access
to all the world's knowledge.

317
00:31:45,693 --> 00:31:46,736
Great.

318
00:31:51,323 --> 00:31:55,286
I read the Sutra of the Heroic One.

319
00:31:55,620 --> 00:31:58,456
It's far from the Seven
Confucius Classics.

320
00:31:59,331 --> 00:32:00,666
It was difficult.

321
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:08,716
Who is an owner and who is a traveler?

322
00:32:09,216 --> 00:32:10,801
A hundred years ago,

323
00:32:10,801 --> 00:32:12,761
kings bowed to monks.

324
00:32:13,638 --> 00:32:17,183
Who would bow to whom
a hundred years later?

325
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:21,353
There is no owner nor traveler.

326
00:32:23,230 --> 00:32:26,943
Just people traveling
on their own wheels of life.

327
00:32:29,570 --> 00:32:30,780
Su-yang.

328
00:32:31,698 --> 00:32:32,865
An-pyung.

329
00:32:34,575 --> 00:32:37,286
Regard Master Shin-mi as your teacher.

330
00:32:39,871 --> 00:32:42,291
They're guests invited by His Majesty.

331
00:32:43,125 --> 00:32:48,756
Before they leave my palace,
they must not be known.

332
00:32:50,258 --> 00:32:55,013
What they do must not
escape these walls.

333
00:32:55,971 --> 00:32:58,766
I trust you all.

334
00:33:22,206 --> 00:33:23,375
Where are you going?

335
00:33:24,541 --> 00:33:25,876
To sweep the yard, ma'am.

336
00:33:26,043 --> 00:33:27,545
Why would you do that?

337
00:33:28,588 --> 00:33:29,963
Change into this.

338
00:33:36,095 --> 00:33:37,471
A eunuch's robes?

339
00:33:37,471 --> 00:33:38,556
Eunuch?

340
00:33:39,515 --> 00:33:42,768
- This is wrong.
- Let's wear it.

341
00:33:43,936 --> 00:33:45,938
Let's just wear it then.

342
00:33:52,695 --> 00:33:55,115
We've divided all the
sounds of our words

343
00:33:55,448 --> 00:33:58,535
into 26 consonants and 13 vowels

344
00:33:58,535 --> 00:34:03,205
using Sanskrit for now, Your Majesty.

345
00:34:04,165 --> 00:34:06,166
I want fewer letters.

346
00:34:07,793 --> 00:34:08,795
Su-yang.

347
00:34:19,055 --> 00:34:20,306
Hak-jo.

348
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:23,643
Do you know how many
stars are in the sky?

349
00:34:24,476 --> 00:34:28,230
A gazillion, sire?

350
00:34:29,231 --> 00:34:31,985
There are more stars than
grains of sand in the beach.

351
00:34:31,985 --> 00:34:36,571
But they were compressed into
just 28 constellations

352
00:34:36,571 --> 00:34:38,908
in an astronomical chart.

353
00:34:39,408 --> 00:34:41,870
I think the same for letters.

354
00:34:42,786 --> 00:34:47,500
People's verbal sounds are many,
but they can't be more than stars.

355
00:34:47,875 --> 00:34:53,423
Still, we should put sounds to letters,
not the other way around, sire.

356
00:34:53,715 --> 00:34:56,801
The new letters must be
simple and easy!

357
00:34:57,551 --> 00:35:02,098
If they weren't, the busy people
will never have time to learn them.

358
00:35:05,518 --> 00:35:09,730
Now, it's time to design the shapes
to capture these sounds.

359
00:35:10,565 --> 00:35:12,025
I'm listening, sire.

360
00:35:12,608 --> 00:35:19,073
The book you gave me says that letters
can be made with dots and lines.

361
00:35:20,075 --> 00:35:23,870
With that good principle,
Sanskrit was made like this?

362
00:35:27,206 --> 00:35:30,626
I studied mathematics and geometry.

363
00:35:30,626 --> 00:35:34,005
Mathematics pursues simple
and concise principles.

364
00:35:34,005 --> 00:35:38,385
Geometry expresses the principles
in dots, lines, and also facets.

365
00:35:38,676 --> 00:35:42,721
Please go straight to the point, sire.

366
00:35:45,766 --> 00:35:50,355
Are all monks feisty or is it just you?

367
00:35:53,023 --> 00:35:56,110
Make the new letters with
just dots and straight lines.

368
00:36:04,951 --> 00:36:06,495
Draw in one stroke.

369
00:36:44,741 --> 00:36:46,326
He said no curves.

370
00:36:46,745 --> 00:36:47,786
I don't care.

371
00:36:55,670 --> 00:36:57,296
Draw in two strokes!

372
00:37:10,476 --> 00:37:12,186
Draw in three strokes!

373
00:37:25,366 --> 00:37:28,160
- Stop copying.
- They're different directions.

374
00:37:30,205 --> 00:37:31,790
Draw in four strokes!

375
00:37:57,398 --> 00:37:59,233
What kind of meat is that?

376
00:38:00,526 --> 00:38:02,153
Is it tough to chew?

377
00:38:03,111 --> 00:38:06,406
Why? Will you chew it for me?

378
00:38:07,825 --> 00:38:09,535
Monks don't eat meat.

379
00:38:13,205 --> 00:38:16,416
There's no benefit
to living in the palace...

380
00:38:44,278 --> 00:38:49,741
In doing difficult work,
we can't just eat vegetables.

381
00:38:59,543 --> 00:39:05,258
What is the matter with His Majesty
that he doesn't come to court meetings?

382
00:39:05,508 --> 00:39:07,843
I said he isn't feeling well.

383
00:39:08,010 --> 00:39:13,350
The rice plants in the field
grow upon the farmer's footsteps.

384
00:39:14,350 --> 00:39:16,811
What about us?

385
00:39:17,103 --> 00:39:22,066
We must see the king to gain strength
and work on the court's affairs.

386
00:39:22,650 --> 00:39:23,860
Oh my.

387
00:39:23,860 --> 00:39:28,071
I shall deliver that word
for word to His Majesty.

388
00:39:30,033 --> 00:39:32,201
Ga. Ka.

389
00:39:33,495 --> 00:39:34,495
Kka.

390
00:39:36,163 --> 00:39:37,248
'Ung-ah'.

391
00:39:40,751 --> 00:39:45,006
They're similar sounds and
seem to have similar shapes.

392
00:39:45,465 --> 00:39:48,258
What's the relation to
this sound and this shape?

393
00:39:49,051 --> 00:39:52,471
Though they appear to
have some regularity,

394
00:39:52,888 --> 00:39:55,766
we don't know what they're based on.

395
00:39:56,433 --> 00:39:59,811
Molar sound is said
to be a velar sound.

396
00:39:59,811 --> 00:40:02,481
How can a sound come from a molar?

397
00:40:03,148 --> 00:40:06,695
It must mean the sound comes
from the molar area, sire.

398
00:40:10,823 --> 00:40:14,035
Maybe I am straining the molar area...

399
00:40:20,750 --> 00:40:22,418
It's refreshing.

400
00:40:23,001 --> 00:40:25,546
Good. Put it down.

401
00:40:27,298 --> 00:40:28,466
Jin-a.

402
00:40:29,341 --> 00:40:31,970
Put your finger into my mouth.

403
00:40:32,761 --> 00:40:33,471
Go on.

404
00:40:34,013 --> 00:40:35,473
How dare I...

405
00:40:36,223 --> 00:40:37,516
I order you!

406
00:40:43,105 --> 00:40:44,898
Heavens!

407
00:40:44,898 --> 00:40:47,068
Spare my life, Your Majesty!

408
00:40:51,446 --> 00:40:52,573
Hak-jo?

409
00:41:06,963 --> 00:41:09,298
Any movements in the molar?

410
00:41:16,096 --> 00:41:17,390
Feel anything?

411
00:41:29,026 --> 00:41:30,653
Whenever I make the sound,

412
00:41:31,611 --> 00:41:35,283
my tongue feels like

413
00:41:37,326 --> 00:41:40,163
it is bent back to the cleft
palate of my mouth, sir.

414
00:41:41,790 --> 00:41:44,083
Like a scythe or pickaxe.

415
00:42:03,645 --> 00:42:05,563
A scythe or pickaxe!

416
00:42:15,990 --> 00:42:17,741
Why waste your time?

417
00:42:24,998 --> 00:42:28,293
Why sweep every morning
when it's clean?

418
00:42:35,843 --> 00:42:37,553
What is this?

419
00:42:38,011 --> 00:42:39,096
Open it.

420
00:42:45,936 --> 00:42:49,940
I'd love to learn the letters from you.

421
00:42:58,491 --> 00:43:00,493
Molar sound 'g'.

422
00:43:02,828 --> 00:43:04,830
Tongue sound 'n'.

423
00:43:06,540 --> 00:43:08,543
Lip sound 'm'.

424
00:43:10,461 --> 00:43:13,213
Incisor sound 's'.

425
00:43:15,341 --> 00:43:18,218
Throat sound 'e'.

426
00:43:24,516 --> 00:43:26,143
What's next?

427
00:43:31,523 --> 00:43:35,320
We made basic shapes
based on the vocal organs.

428
00:43:35,986 --> 00:43:38,113
The rest is only a matter of
time, sire.

429
00:43:39,531 --> 00:43:44,620
Time is what I don't have.

430
00:43:53,796 --> 00:43:55,548
How about a break, sire?

431
00:44:32,501 --> 00:44:34,295
Let's start over.

432
00:44:47,183 --> 00:44:49,393
Enough!

433
00:44:51,730 --> 00:44:54,106
You'll break the kid's jaw.

434
00:44:55,108 --> 00:44:56,441
You can't talk.

435
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:01,238
Listen to me, master.

436
00:45:01,990 --> 00:45:03,198
Your Highness?

437
00:45:03,741 --> 00:45:07,036
Could you pluck the string again?

438
00:45:14,460 --> 00:45:15,753
Not the drum.

439
00:45:19,756 --> 00:45:21,885
Press it hard, then pluck, sir.

440
00:45:29,516 --> 00:45:31,895
See? That's it!

441
00:45:35,981 --> 00:45:37,775
Don't you get it?

442
00:45:38,610 --> 00:45:40,528
Listen.

443
00:45:40,528 --> 00:45:43,656
The 'ding' is the basic letter.

444
00:45:44,031 --> 00:45:45,200
Do it again.

445
00:45:47,618 --> 00:45:48,620
Again!

446
00:45:50,371 --> 00:45:51,496
That's it!

447
00:45:52,915 --> 00:45:54,000
'Ding'!

448
00:45:54,375 --> 00:45:55,501
'Dding'!

449
00:45:55,501 --> 00:45:59,588
As it goes up, add another line.

450
00:46:01,090 --> 00:46:05,803
When the sound gets stronger
and higher, draw a line.

451
00:46:07,471 --> 00:46:08,723
How frustrating!

452
00:46:12,726 --> 00:46:14,853
'S', 'C', 'Ch' works, too.

453
00:46:15,396 --> 00:46:16,940
'Ding'.

454
00:46:17,481 --> 00:46:21,401
'D-ing'.

455
00:46:21,986 --> 00:46:28,075
'D-i-ing'!

456
00:46:44,008 --> 00:46:45,926
'Hak-jo'.

457
00:46:49,638 --> 00:46:50,890
'Fool'?

458
00:46:56,603 --> 00:46:57,605
'KKK'

459
00:47:02,235 --> 00:47:03,193
What?

460
00:47:09,241 --> 00:47:13,913
'Na... Nu... Nuroungji! (crispy rice)'

461
00:47:17,791 --> 00:47:20,503
T? Ta... Th... Thanks?

462
00:47:21,336 --> 00:47:23,631
That little monk!

463
00:48:12,346 --> 00:48:17,351
A Buddhist funeral, 20 years after
being framed as a traitor and killed...

464
00:48:17,685 --> 00:48:24,108
My father's soul has finally
found a place to rest.

465
00:48:25,235 --> 00:48:26,778
What a pity.

466
00:48:28,530 --> 00:48:32,991
The queen has to hide Buddha
deep inside the palace,

467
00:48:34,076 --> 00:48:36,705
and pray for her late father's soul?

468
00:48:37,496 --> 00:48:39,040
What about you?

469
00:48:40,416 --> 00:48:41,500
What about me?

470
00:48:41,500 --> 00:48:44,211
You, a proud disciple of Buddha,

471
00:48:44,628 --> 00:48:46,756
are hiding where women live

472
00:48:46,756 --> 00:48:50,093
and making strange sounds
with an ailing king.

473
00:48:51,135 --> 00:48:52,261
'Gang'.

474
00:48:53,638 --> 00:48:54,763
'G-ang'.

475
00:48:56,015 --> 00:48:59,685
Not 'g-ang', but 'g-a-ng', right?

476
00:49:04,690 --> 00:49:08,235
Don't you resent the king?

477
00:49:08,736 --> 00:49:11,698
I could never do that.

478
00:49:13,240 --> 00:49:14,825
It's all my fault.

479
00:49:16,285 --> 00:49:18,705
Why is it your fault, Your Majesty?

480
00:49:18,955 --> 00:49:24,251
Claiming to stop your family from
politics, his father killed them.

481
00:49:24,626 --> 00:49:29,090
My husband never wanted to be king.

482
00:49:31,175 --> 00:49:32,676
As he is clever

483
00:49:33,176 --> 00:49:37,473
and upright in heart,
I said he should be king.

484
00:49:40,060 --> 00:49:41,560
I urged him.

485
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:54,823
I'll do it. Wait outside.

486
00:50:03,541 --> 00:50:06,460
What's gotten into you?

487
00:50:07,170 --> 00:50:09,505
Allow me to scrub your body.

488
00:50:15,053 --> 00:50:17,263
Sit back, please.

489
00:50:24,145 --> 00:50:27,190
It hurts. I really hurts!

490
00:50:28,441 --> 00:50:30,360
Stop exaggerating.

491
00:50:32,695 --> 00:50:38,451
When you were 12 and I was 14,
you hated being washed so.

492
00:50:42,413 --> 00:50:44,248
I miss those days.

493
00:50:46,375 --> 00:50:52,173
When you were with me,
everything was a delight.

494
00:50:54,091 --> 00:50:56,093
I was so happy.

495
00:51:08,690 --> 00:51:10,775
Master Shin-mi told me

496
00:51:12,693 --> 00:51:17,865
the Sanskrit words for firewood
and worry are the same.

497
00:51:20,785 --> 00:51:24,746
Firewood burns the dead's body,

498
00:51:25,540 --> 00:51:29,835
while worry burns the
heart of the living.

499
00:51:46,351 --> 00:51:50,190
- Why don't you come in?
- Oh please.

500
00:52:06,413 --> 00:52:09,333
You've missed me so?

501
00:52:09,666 --> 00:52:12,545
How could the king deceive
his subjects, sire?

502
00:52:12,836 --> 00:52:16,841
We heard you were sick from
diabetes, but you look radiant

503
00:52:16,841 --> 00:52:18,676
and walk so briskly!

504
00:52:18,676 --> 00:52:20,928
Who'd believe you're sick?

505
00:52:22,888 --> 00:52:24,890
That's good to hear.

506
00:52:25,308 --> 00:52:26,558
Your Majesty.

507
00:52:27,310 --> 00:52:30,646
A strange rumor is circulating
the capital at present.

508
00:52:31,396 --> 00:52:32,315
What is it?

509
00:52:32,315 --> 00:52:37,320
Inside the queen's palace,
where it is the most private,

510
00:52:37,778 --> 00:52:41,031
there are disgraceful rumors
of Buddhist prayers being heard.

511
00:52:41,031 --> 00:52:43,618
How dare you show
contempt of the queen!

512
00:52:43,618 --> 00:52:45,161
There is a witness, sire.

513
00:52:46,955 --> 00:52:48,373
Bring the witness.

514
00:52:48,581 --> 00:52:53,043
It is more important whether
it's true or not, sire.

515
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:57,423
Let us search the queen's palace
and prove the rumor wrong.

516
00:52:57,423 --> 00:53:01,301
Everyone knows that the queen
is infatuated with Buddhism.

517
00:53:01,301 --> 00:53:02,553
By chance,

518
00:53:03,303 --> 00:53:07,141
if she did let the filthy
monks into the palace,

519
00:53:09,851 --> 00:53:13,523
we must discuss again on
impeaching the queen, sire.

520
00:53:20,071 --> 00:53:21,238
Instead,

521
00:53:27,495 --> 00:53:29,080
impeach me.

522
00:53:30,998 --> 00:53:32,708
You eat meat.

523
00:53:34,001 --> 00:53:35,836
Why not liquor?

524
00:53:45,346 --> 00:53:47,848
Do you know the difference
between monks and eunuchs?

525
00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:52,978
Eunuchs don't do things
because they can't.

526
00:53:54,396 --> 00:53:56,691
Monks don't do things even if they can.

527
00:54:00,028 --> 00:54:02,863
What is your true
intention in doing this?

528
00:54:04,323 --> 00:54:05,825
True intention?

529
00:54:06,785 --> 00:54:11,998
Having the king's favor,
there is something I've come to want.

530
00:54:13,248 --> 00:54:14,875
Any good monk

531
00:54:15,918 --> 00:54:18,630
would dream of a land
that reads and practices

532
00:54:19,963 --> 00:54:22,466
Buddha's teachings, don't you think?

533
00:54:25,303 --> 00:54:26,303
You!

534
00:54:27,138 --> 00:54:32,310
Stop what you're doing and
return to where you belong.

535
00:54:33,478 --> 00:54:38,023
Only then will you and
our royal family live.

536
00:54:40,110 --> 00:54:44,363
Even if the king says to
stop, I can't now.

537
00:54:45,323 --> 00:54:46,406
What?

538
00:54:52,121 --> 00:54:54,206
You do what you must do.

539
00:54:56,083 --> 00:54:58,001
I'll do what I must.

540
00:55:02,590 --> 00:55:05,468
Please quit drinking, sire.

541
00:55:06,593 --> 00:55:13,601
Instead, please eat much of
boiled, fatless meat.

542
00:55:14,476 --> 00:55:16,395
He has quit drinking.

543
00:55:17,188 --> 00:55:21,608
He won't eat without meat,
so that's not to worry either.

544
00:55:22,110 --> 00:55:27,531
Please refrain from doing anything
that gives you stress, sire.

545
00:55:28,240 --> 00:55:38,000
If you overuse your eyesight,
you'll go blind in your left eye, too.

546
00:55:40,003 --> 00:55:41,461
You may go.

547
00:55:50,763 --> 00:55:53,433
When it's almost done...

548
00:55:58,688 --> 00:56:03,610
They're so suspicious.
We can't keep working here.

549
00:56:05,945 --> 00:56:10,366
If you stop, you'll worry
and harm your health more.

550
00:56:11,910 --> 00:56:15,330
Why not do it outside the palace?

551
00:56:20,335 --> 00:56:25,006
There's good mineral water
for the eyes in Chosu.

552
00:56:26,298 --> 00:56:32,388
What if we send Shin-mi first to
nearby Bokcheonsa Temple...

553
00:56:33,931 --> 00:56:35,100
Dear!

554
00:56:36,433 --> 00:56:39,478
I've been busy

555
00:56:40,188 --> 00:56:46,401
with my sons in making letters
for anyone to learn and use easily.

556
00:56:51,115 --> 00:56:53,826
No more misunderstandings.

557
00:56:53,910 --> 00:56:55,286
That's preposterous, sire.

558
00:56:56,078 --> 00:57:00,541
Why do something so important
without consulting us first?

559
00:57:00,916 --> 00:57:02,918
Do you have the skills to do it?

560
00:57:04,295 --> 00:57:06,588
What do you know about phonetics?

561
00:57:07,590 --> 00:57:10,760
Do you know how many consonants
and vowels there are?

562
00:57:16,181 --> 00:57:20,228
I'll go to Chosu to treat my eyes.

563
00:57:21,395 --> 00:57:25,316
Don't disturb the people there
and prepare my trip modestly.

564
00:57:43,041 --> 00:57:45,503
BOKCHEONSA TEMPLE NEARBY CHOSU

565
00:58:02,603 --> 00:58:04,105
'I long for?'

566
00:58:05,565 --> 00:58:07,400
You long for that court maid?

567
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:11,028
No! It means I loathe!

568
00:58:13,030 --> 00:58:16,116
I raised you since you were a baby!

569
00:58:16,366 --> 00:58:18,786
You may fool Buddha, but not me!

570
00:58:21,496 --> 00:58:22,790
Why you!

571
00:58:33,885 --> 00:58:35,261
It stings!

572
00:58:36,178 --> 00:58:37,555
And I can't breathe.

573
00:58:38,515 --> 00:58:44,645
The bubbles in the mineral water
must stimulate the retinas

574
00:58:44,853 --> 00:58:47,398
to treat the eyes, sire.

575
00:58:47,940 --> 00:58:51,235
One more time, sire.

576
00:58:51,610 --> 00:58:52,778
Father!

577
00:58:54,530 --> 00:58:55,990
Welcome.

578
00:58:57,325 --> 00:59:01,661
Any news of the creation
of the vowels at the temple?

579
00:59:02,288 --> 00:59:03,623
It's not easy, sire.

580
00:59:04,665 --> 00:59:07,210
Shin-mi said he won't
come down until he's done.

581
00:59:07,376 --> 00:59:10,796
Tell him I'm not going back
either until he comes down.

582
00:59:36,280 --> 00:59:38,825
Design all vowels with a dot...

583
00:59:41,368 --> 00:59:44,288
CHOSU TEMPORARY PALACE

584
00:59:42,370 --> 00:59:44,121
Congratulations, Your Majesty!

585
00:59:44,705 --> 00:59:48,208
Whenever you bowed towards Beijing
during the Manggwollye Rituals,

586
00:59:48,208 --> 00:59:50,711
your faded robes saddened us.

587
00:59:50,961 --> 00:59:55,050
Now, the Emperor has sent
new robes for you, sire.

588
00:59:55,758 --> 00:59:58,301
I told you not to come here.

589
00:59:58,928 --> 01:00:04,391
We fret some things are greatly
wrong and came to do right, sire.

590
01:00:04,808 --> 01:00:05,976
About what?

591
01:00:06,226 --> 01:00:08,480
First, you are becoming ill

592
01:00:08,480 --> 01:00:13,233
because of making
useless letters, sire.

593
01:00:15,361 --> 01:00:16,696
Second?

594
01:00:16,696 --> 01:00:19,365
If everyone can use
such simple letters,

595
01:00:20,033 --> 01:00:24,120
who'd learn the difficult Chinese
to study Confucian ways?

596
01:00:27,331 --> 01:00:28,541
Continue.

597
01:00:28,958 --> 01:00:34,046
When the barbarians took over China,

598
01:00:34,421 --> 01:00:37,800
new letters were made to oppress
the Chinese civilization.

599
01:00:37,966 --> 01:00:41,511
Should the Emperor of China suspect us,

600
01:00:42,055 --> 01:00:46,225
it could be a diaster that
jeopardizes the fate of Joseon.

601
01:00:47,435 --> 01:00:54,941
You're set on destroying me
with the Emperor on your back?

602
01:00:57,320 --> 01:01:01,031
To the Emperor, Your Majesty and we

603
01:01:01,240 --> 01:01:03,910
are the same subjects, sire.

604
01:01:06,830 --> 01:01:08,205
Go back.

605
01:01:10,333 --> 01:01:12,251
I shall wear this

606
01:01:14,378 --> 01:01:17,548
and do the ritual-dance
towards Beijing.

607
01:01:21,093 --> 01:01:23,095
Your Majesty!

608
01:01:28,266 --> 01:01:29,143
No!

609
01:01:32,938 --> 01:01:33,898
Sire!

610
01:01:34,398 --> 01:01:35,608
Your Majesty!

611
01:01:36,985 --> 01:01:38,903
Your Majesty!

612
01:01:39,361 --> 01:01:41,405
Physician!

613
01:01:41,698 --> 01:01:43,031
Your Majesty!

614
01:01:47,703 --> 01:01:53,291
He's developed urinary stones
from diabetes, Your Majesty.

615
01:01:54,376 --> 01:01:57,380
The pain has subdued,

616
01:01:57,796 --> 01:02:02,260
but it could return
with stress at any time.

617
01:02:06,096 --> 01:02:08,558
If it hurts, say so.

618
01:02:10,143 --> 01:02:12,145
Don't just bear the pain.

619
01:02:15,148 --> 01:02:16,231
Master?

620
01:02:17,025 --> 01:02:19,026
Why are you obsessed with the dot?

621
01:02:21,486 --> 01:02:22,780
Are you doubting me?

622
01:02:22,780 --> 01:02:26,743
There's no time to lose,
but you insist on the dot.

623
01:02:30,038 --> 01:02:32,040
Sometimes you may compromise.

624
01:02:33,248 --> 01:02:37,128
Sometimes you must stick to
principles no matter what.

625
01:02:39,130 --> 01:02:44,426
We're making letters that
must last a thousand years.

626
01:02:45,345 --> 01:02:49,223
Still, how long must we make dots?

627
01:02:50,391 --> 01:02:53,353
Like the letters from
Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Phagspa,

628
01:02:53,603 --> 01:02:56,690
can't we make vowel symbols
similar to the consonants?

629
01:02:57,106 --> 01:03:01,861
If it was to make such lousy letters,
I wouldn't have started this at all.

630
01:03:02,528 --> 01:03:04,405
And the king as well.

631
01:03:07,741 --> 01:03:12,330
Take charge and lead me or follow me.

632
01:03:13,748 --> 01:03:15,666
Or leave here at once!

633
01:03:30,348 --> 01:03:36,730
The easiest and most beautiful
letters in the world...

634
01:03:40,025 --> 01:03:42,193
Why can't we make them?

635
01:04:12,890 --> 01:04:14,933
Let's use one more line.

636
01:04:40,418 --> 01:04:43,838
17 consonants and 11 vowels.

637
01:04:44,921 --> 01:04:47,591
We made 28 basic letters, sire.

638
01:04:48,385 --> 01:04:50,178
It's unprecedented!

639
01:04:51,888 --> 01:04:54,931
Using the principle of letters
in the Tripitaka,

640
01:04:54,931 --> 01:04:59,270
you've created new letters
with just lines and dots!

641
01:05:01,313 --> 01:05:02,940
Let me hear the sounds.

642
01:05:16,036 --> 01:05:18,205
Is something wrong, sire?

643
01:05:20,500 --> 01:05:24,753
Although the first sound expressed
in the dot is used often in Korean,

644
01:05:25,296 --> 01:05:31,051
It sometimes sounds like
'ah' and sometimes 'eu'.

645
01:05:35,723 --> 01:05:37,975
Perhaps it's in all of them.

646
01:05:38,518 --> 01:05:42,813
It is the root of all vowels, sire.

647
01:05:43,523 --> 01:05:48,235
It arises deep in the throat and
reverberates through the mouth.

648
01:05:48,403 --> 01:05:49,611
Leave it out.

649
01:05:50,405 --> 01:05:53,323
The sound is profound but too complex.

650
01:05:53,866 --> 01:05:58,161
It's like a flaw in the simple
yet perfect set of vowels.

651
01:05:58,455 --> 01:06:01,916
Letters can be containers of sound,

652
01:06:02,458 --> 01:06:04,793
but they can also kill sounds.

653
01:06:04,960 --> 01:06:09,548
If a sound is killed, the
sentiments in it also dies.

654
01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:14,511
Letters should not be made
to satisfy just the maker.

655
01:06:15,513 --> 01:06:19,350
What is your reason
for making the letters?

656
01:06:20,226 --> 01:06:21,601
You know why!

657
01:06:21,601 --> 01:06:26,065
Claiming it's for the people,
you're insisting a general standard

658
01:06:26,273 --> 01:06:28,693
to solidify royal
authority, are you not?

659
01:06:28,818 --> 01:06:30,736
The king must set the standard.

660
01:06:31,028 --> 01:06:33,238
No matter how beautiful
that standard is,

661
01:06:33,238 --> 01:06:35,950
if you oppress and kill
the people's norms,

662
01:06:37,243 --> 01:06:39,870
it's violence under
the guise of goodwill.

663
01:06:41,580 --> 01:06:42,665
What?

664
01:06:44,791 --> 01:06:46,001
Your Majesty.

665
01:06:48,170 --> 01:06:49,588
When I hear

666
01:06:49,921 --> 01:06:53,426
a cow crying,

667
01:06:53,926 --> 01:06:55,928
it reminds me of

668
01:06:56,470 --> 01:06:59,390
a mother I don't even
know, and I like it.

669
01:07:00,766 --> 01:07:03,770
Whenever I say the same sound

670
01:07:03,770 --> 01:07:07,106
in reciting the Sutra,

671
01:07:07,898 --> 01:07:10,610
it feels great, too.

672
01:07:14,196 --> 01:07:19,660
All the stars were
categorized into 28, right?

673
01:07:20,453 --> 01:07:24,956
If we leave out this letter,
it'll be just 27, sire.

674
01:07:37,303 --> 01:07:38,596
Leave it in.

675
01:08:43,786 --> 01:08:45,621
Something is not right.

676
01:08:46,496 --> 01:08:51,001
Chinese characters may be difficult,
but it can be read easily.

677
01:08:52,336 --> 01:08:54,338
But this seems disorderly.

678
01:09:15,568 --> 01:09:16,695
Joint letters!

679
01:09:28,163 --> 01:09:30,166
Still, something seems lacking.

680
01:09:34,253 --> 01:09:35,296
Tibet!

681
01:09:35,671 --> 01:09:36,798
In Tibetan,

682
01:09:36,798 --> 01:09:41,468
if the first letter is a vowel,
a silent letter is added before it.

683
01:09:54,898 --> 01:09:55,983
Perfect!

684
01:09:58,318 --> 01:10:00,530
'Om Mani Padme Hum'.

685
01:10:00,821 --> 01:10:04,491
Of our 17 consonants, that'll be
the letter with no sound value.

686
01:10:04,491 --> 01:10:07,370
That will signify the
round throat sound.

687
01:10:07,828 --> 01:10:11,331
It's the geometry facet
I spoke of earlier.

688
01:10:28,558 --> 01:10:32,895
Now, our songs' lyrics can
be recorded as they sound.

689
01:10:33,061 --> 01:10:38,860
Your favorite, this 'Song of
Cheongsan', will never be forgotten.

690
01:10:43,238 --> 01:10:44,698
Just one drink, sire.

691
01:11:01,800 --> 01:11:03,510
That's Hak-jo's!

692
01:11:05,136 --> 01:11:08,263
I was afraid you didn't come.

693
01:11:10,183 --> 01:11:11,058
Why?

694
01:11:11,935 --> 01:11:13,853
I wanted to give you something.

695
01:11:21,820 --> 01:11:23,613
LEE JIN-A

696
01:11:23,613 --> 01:11:25,323
It's your name.

697
01:11:27,116 --> 01:11:28,410
It's pretty.

698
01:11:31,203 --> 01:11:33,205
There are two circles.

699
01:11:37,001 --> 01:11:40,338
When we return,
let's test the new letters.

700
01:11:47,845 --> 01:11:50,640
They say,
when a hen cries a house is ruined.

701
01:11:50,765 --> 01:11:51,598
'Gak-shi-mi'

702
01:11:51,598 --> 01:11:53,726
I don't think that's right.

703
01:11:54,685 --> 01:11:57,021
I think a hen must cry for the house

704
01:11:57,230 --> 01:11:57,938
'Saeng-gak-shi'

705
01:11:57,938 --> 01:12:00,191
and the country to thrive.

706
01:12:01,483 --> 01:12:05,821
How much longer must
we not know to write

707
01:12:06,823 --> 01:12:10,535
to send letters and ask
if our mothers are well?

708
01:12:11,576 --> 01:12:13,580
You must learn it well

709
01:12:14,746 --> 01:12:19,543
and teach it to the women
in your families and spread it.

710
01:12:20,045 --> 01:12:21,628
Yes, Your Majesty.

711
01:12:24,798 --> 01:12:29,511
You worked with the monks
on creating new letters?

712
01:12:30,138 --> 01:12:33,350
You lack the knowledge of language

713
01:12:34,683 --> 01:12:41,315
but the monks, who you think of as dogs,
have the skills to create the letters.

714
01:12:44,026 --> 01:12:48,071
You always talk about
being loyal to China.

715
01:12:49,448 --> 01:12:53,326
Has anyone offered more
to science than me?

716
01:12:53,326 --> 01:12:57,373
That's why Joseon exists today, sire.

717
01:12:57,623 --> 01:12:59,041
I'm tired of it.

718
01:13:01,501 --> 01:13:06,675
I want to make a country
that can surpass China.

719
01:13:06,675 --> 01:13:07,966
Impossible, sire.

720
01:13:08,133 --> 01:13:09,510
Why not!

721
01:13:11,930 --> 01:13:14,973
A country where everyone
can read and write...

722
01:13:16,893 --> 01:13:20,980
Where everyone learns and lives out
the teaching of the sages...

723
01:13:23,190 --> 01:13:25,651
China could never let this happen!

724
01:13:27,070 --> 01:13:29,155
What do you wish to say, sire?

725
01:13:29,571 --> 01:13:31,115
The new letters...

726
01:13:33,158 --> 01:13:35,161
You, Confucians, may take it.

727
01:13:35,786 --> 01:13:38,163
Only then, can such a country be made.

728
01:13:39,540 --> 01:13:41,960
You want the monks to do that too?

729
01:13:45,630 --> 01:13:49,550
How was testing and using
the new letters?

730
01:13:49,758 --> 01:13:54,555
Writing Buddha's words
in our easier letters

731
01:13:54,971 --> 01:13:56,975
made it seem more vivid.

732
01:13:58,266 --> 01:13:59,726
And you? An-pyung?

733
01:13:59,851 --> 01:14:02,730
If the Confucian scriptures are
also written in our new letters,

734
01:14:02,730 --> 01:14:06,483
the people will be able to
learn and apply them, too.

735
01:14:07,693 --> 01:14:13,533
Now, we'll compile a book on the
creation and usage of the letters.

736
01:14:20,540 --> 01:14:23,125
I think it is time to
bring in the Confucians.

737
01:14:25,920 --> 01:14:31,508
Pass everything on the new letters
to the young scholars of the court.

738
01:14:34,303 --> 01:14:37,973
Why would you collude with them now?

739
01:14:39,933 --> 01:14:43,771
They see you and I as colluding.

740
01:14:46,106 --> 01:14:50,111
They have the power to destroy
the new letters at will.

741
01:14:51,988 --> 01:14:57,826
We must give the credit to them
for the letters to last forever.

742
01:14:57,826 --> 01:14:59,495
When Your Majesty dies,

743
01:15:00,580 --> 01:15:04,666
do you think the court's seal
will keep the letters alive?

744
01:15:06,501 --> 01:15:08,211
Say what you wish.

745
01:15:08,380 --> 01:15:14,468
You always speak of the people,
but do you believe in their power?

746
01:15:15,220 --> 01:15:18,806
If we complete the letters
and plant them in their hearts,

747
01:15:19,223 --> 01:15:22,935
they'll become iron stakes
that no one can root out.

748
01:15:26,521 --> 01:15:27,940
I know.

749
01:15:28,566 --> 01:15:31,945
Your goal is to plant
Buddhism in people's hearts

750
01:15:32,320 --> 01:15:35,990
with the new letters and
turn Joseon to Buddha again.

751
01:15:38,451 --> 01:15:39,785
Is that wrong?

752
01:15:40,078 --> 01:15:42,788
Joseon was established on Confucius.

753
01:15:43,456 --> 01:15:47,501
How can the king set aside
Confucians and plan for the future?

754
01:15:49,545 --> 01:15:52,798
You're the one who told me
to come on Confucius' back.

755
01:16:00,515 --> 01:16:05,145
So, this is what happens to
a dog when the hunt is over?

756
01:16:06,896 --> 01:16:09,898
I never once thought of you as a dog.

757
01:16:12,776 --> 01:16:14,153
Is this how you were

758
01:16:15,155 --> 01:16:19,575
when your father-in-law was
framed after he made you the king?

759
01:16:23,203 --> 01:16:24,246
What?

760
01:16:24,246 --> 01:16:27,875
You've trapped his daughter,
the queen, to rot in court!

761
01:16:27,875 --> 01:16:29,960
Is this how you work?

762
01:16:31,628 --> 01:16:32,838
Enough!

763
01:16:33,213 --> 01:16:35,800
Pretending to be good and not greedy,

764
01:16:35,800 --> 01:16:39,470
you hurt people who help you
with that innocent face of yours!

765
01:16:40,388 --> 01:16:43,140
If you're on the throne,
do your job properly!

766
01:16:44,933 --> 01:16:45,935
You...

767
01:16:49,063 --> 01:16:51,565
Is that all you were made of?

768
01:16:55,361 --> 01:16:58,906
You beg Buddhists for help
and implore to Confucians!

769
01:16:59,823 --> 01:17:03,370
You're a beggar behind
the mask of a king!

770
01:17:06,246 --> 01:17:07,498
What?

771
01:17:08,750 --> 01:17:13,253
Would letters created so
abjectly be able to survive?

772
01:17:16,423 --> 01:17:17,508
Be gone!

773
01:17:32,523 --> 01:17:36,151
I hope you make a good country.

774
01:17:58,090 --> 01:18:03,846
I'll take my remaining one hit,
then return to Haeinsa Temple, sir

775
01:18:16,108 --> 01:18:20,905
One won't do. You deserve 3000 hits.

776
01:18:24,658 --> 01:18:26,410
Go and shave!

777
01:18:45,138 --> 01:18:47,431
How long will you live like that?

778
01:18:49,266 --> 01:18:50,268
What?

779
01:18:51,143 --> 01:18:57,108
The people can no longer wait for you.

780
01:18:58,150 --> 01:19:00,736
Why fret the court now?

781
01:19:01,653 --> 01:19:04,740
Call Master Shin-mi back.

782
01:19:20,548 --> 01:19:24,176
There's nothing more I
can do beside you here.

783
01:19:26,303 --> 01:19:29,806
I'll move to Su-yang's house.

784
01:19:37,065 --> 01:19:38,106
Mother?

785
01:19:39,525 --> 01:19:42,736
You haven't eaten in more than 2 weeks.

786
01:19:43,946 --> 01:19:47,908
Father hasn't been able
to do anything, either.

787
01:20:09,721 --> 01:20:12,225
I'll pass the throne to you.

788
01:20:13,141 --> 01:20:14,476
No, Your Majesty.

789
01:20:15,020 --> 01:20:17,771
Whatever time I have left to live,

790
01:20:20,941 --> 01:20:23,361
I'll exchange it for the new letters.

791
01:20:23,653 --> 01:20:25,780
But you've already made them.

792
01:20:26,740 --> 01:20:28,950
More than making the letters,

793
01:20:30,451 --> 01:20:35,040
it is more difficult to
protect and spread them.

794
01:20:36,248 --> 01:20:38,460
Please don't abdicate the throne.

795
01:20:55,101 --> 01:20:56,268
My eyes...

796
01:20:58,480 --> 01:21:00,398
I could go blind any day.

797
01:21:04,110 --> 01:21:05,278
Father...

798
01:21:10,616 --> 01:21:11,616
I...

799
01:21:13,495 --> 01:21:15,371
Even after I die...

800
01:21:18,375 --> 01:21:20,460
they must last...

801
01:21:33,096 --> 01:21:34,265
My son...

802
01:21:36,600 --> 01:21:38,395
Will you help your father?

803
01:22:08,298 --> 01:22:13,513
The sun is bright.

804
01:22:15,473 --> 01:22:17,558
Please return to the palace.

805
01:22:19,601 --> 01:22:20,686
No.

806
01:22:23,313 --> 01:22:27,901
I don't want to die at the palace.

807
01:23:02,186 --> 01:23:05,065
Mother left a message for you.

808
01:23:06,606 --> 01:23:12,280
She said if you must go,
finish to the end.

809
01:23:13,990 --> 01:23:16,491
She said you mustn't stay
where you've fallen,

810
01:23:17,076 --> 01:23:21,998
but arise and press forward.

811
01:23:23,541 --> 01:23:25,126
Is that all?

812
01:23:27,961 --> 01:23:31,131
She said to keep eating meat.

813
01:23:50,318 --> 01:23:52,153
Call Shin-mi.

814
01:24:06,793 --> 01:24:08,961
You've been called back here

815
01:24:09,836 --> 01:24:12,173
not by me, but by the queen.

816
01:24:12,590 --> 01:24:15,635
I guess she was the brave one.

817
01:24:17,595 --> 01:24:21,223
She brought two cowards
back together as she left.

818
01:24:24,351 --> 01:24:26,270
How about some tea?

819
01:24:40,326 --> 01:24:45,540
Let's make a book on the creation
and usage of the new letters.

820
01:24:49,585 --> 01:24:51,586
Will you take charge of it?

821
01:24:53,296 --> 01:24:55,216
I'll summarize everything.

822
01:24:56,383 --> 01:25:00,096
Let the Confucians publish
and distribute it, sire.

823
01:25:05,643 --> 01:25:09,021
I guess monks hold grudges too.

824
01:25:11,148 --> 01:25:13,693
You said only then
will the letters survive.

825
01:25:18,990 --> 01:25:22,951
As promised, I'll build a temple

826
01:25:24,203 --> 01:25:28,123
and hold a Buddhist funeral
to console the queen's soul.

827
01:25:28,416 --> 01:25:34,713
Is saying Buddhist prayers in a
funeral really what she wants?

828
01:25:36,340 --> 01:25:37,425
I recently learned

829
01:25:37,800 --> 01:25:44,890
she taught the letters to court maids
and had them teach their families.

830
01:25:47,018 --> 01:25:51,898
I think she would want us
to continue spreading it more.

831
01:25:56,151 --> 01:25:57,320
You're right.

832
01:25:58,696 --> 01:26:00,323
But I have a condition.

833
01:26:00,698 --> 01:26:02,033
What is it this time?

834
01:26:02,241 --> 01:26:04,660
Until the letters are officially issued,

835
01:26:06,078 --> 01:26:11,083
you and I must promise not to die.

836
01:26:23,388 --> 01:26:25,765
We have a long road ahead.

837
01:27:15,148 --> 01:27:19,026
This should be enough to make a book.

838
01:27:22,571 --> 01:27:28,453
It was difficult to be born.
We should give it a good name.

839
01:27:30,330 --> 01:27:36,878
It's our custom to give a dear child
a humble name to live longer, sire.

840
01:27:39,338 --> 01:27:41,298
How about 'Eon-mun'?

841
01:27:42,008 --> 01:27:48,931
It means common and crude,
but it can also mean strong and tough.

842
01:27:49,640 --> 01:27:50,683
'Eon-mun'.

843
01:27:53,018 --> 01:27:53,936
Great.

844
01:27:57,190 --> 01:27:59,150
The queen's funeral

845
01:27:59,150 --> 01:28:04,280
will establish a pact of workers to
preserve and spread the new letters.

846
01:28:07,450 --> 01:28:11,955
The late Queen So-heon
will receive tribute

847
01:28:12,996 --> 01:28:18,168
and a small temple will be built
beside her palace to console her soul.

848
01:28:21,798 --> 01:28:23,758
In broad daylight,

849
01:28:23,758 --> 01:28:28,136
filthy monks were allowed
to walk into the palace!

850
01:28:29,055 --> 01:28:31,431
Now, you'll weaken our nation's roots

851
01:28:31,431 --> 01:28:34,643
by building a Buddhist
temple in the palace?

852
01:28:36,228 --> 01:28:40,608
I regret being unable to
listen to your rightful cause.

853
01:28:44,236 --> 01:28:46,698
You do what you must do.

854
01:28:49,991 --> 01:28:51,995
I'll do what I must.

855
01:28:56,833 --> 01:29:00,878
When these letters spread
amongst the people,

856
01:29:02,546 --> 01:29:07,635
don't you see it could
threaten the dynasty, sire?

857
01:29:08,345 --> 01:29:12,890
If it's a dynasty that sucks
on the people like a leech,

858
01:29:14,433 --> 01:29:16,686
it is better to perish.

859
01:29:16,895 --> 01:29:20,648
This country isn't yours alone, sire!

860
01:29:29,156 --> 01:29:32,785
I want to erase the traces
of the Buddhist monks.

861
01:29:35,788 --> 01:29:39,416
You may change the text
into Confucius' context.

862
01:29:39,750 --> 01:29:44,755
- The book's title is...
- We'll decide that too, sire.

863
01:29:49,718 --> 01:29:54,098
I'll write the preface,
you write the postface.

864
01:29:57,226 --> 01:29:58,770
Winter of 1443,

865
01:30:00,271 --> 01:30:03,608
His Majesty created 28 new letters

866
01:30:05,610 --> 01:30:08,405
and called them, 'Hunminjeongeum'.

867
01:30:11,031 --> 01:30:16,203
The letter shapes were based on
Chinese letters and phonetics.

868
01:30:17,705 --> 01:30:26,505
They are also based on
Chinese cosmology and philosophy.

869
01:30:27,923 --> 01:30:31,426
The speech of this country

870
01:30:33,805 --> 01:30:37,266
does not match the Chinese letters.

871
01:30:41,855 --> 01:30:49,861
Therefore, even if illiterate
people wish to communicate,

872
01:30:52,281 --> 01:30:58,286
they cannot state their concerns.

873
01:31:00,873 --> 01:31:06,713
Saddened by this,

874
01:31:09,673 --> 01:31:12,968
I've had 28 letters newly made.

875
01:31:15,346 --> 01:31:21,811
It is my wish that all the people
may easily learn them daily

876
01:31:25,231 --> 01:31:27,941
and live more comfortably.

877
01:31:32,155 --> 01:31:33,948
How many words are there?

878
01:31:36,868 --> 01:31:38,285
109 words, Father.

879
01:31:45,000 --> 01:31:46,711
Make it one less.

880
01:31:53,385 --> 01:31:55,178
'Daily'

881
01:32:30,713 --> 01:32:35,343
Please stop the Buddhist
funeral at once!

882
01:32:35,926 --> 01:32:40,348
Please stop the Buddhist
funeral at once!

883
01:32:40,348 --> 01:32:41,556
Your Majesty.

884
01:32:41,556 --> 01:32:46,145
Hear the cries of Confucian
scholars throughout the country!

885
01:32:46,688 --> 01:32:52,443
Can you not see
their joint petition, sire?

886
01:32:52,651 --> 01:32:57,156
Please stop the Buddhist
funeral at once!

887
01:32:57,698 --> 01:32:59,450
Carry on.

888
01:33:20,221 --> 01:33:24,975
Please destroy the temple
by the palace, sire!

889
01:33:25,101 --> 01:33:27,728
Please destroy the temple!

890
01:33:28,103 --> 01:33:32,275
Or hit our necks with this axe, sire

891
01:33:35,153 --> 01:33:37,655
To pray for Queen So-heon's soul,

892
01:33:38,823 --> 01:33:44,370
this is a song that His Majesty
had written with his new letters.

893
01:34:54,231 --> 01:34:57,860
How long must we listen
to that hideous noise, sire?

894
01:34:58,570 --> 01:35:04,450
That is a requiem to
console my wife's spirit.

895
01:35:13,876 --> 01:35:19,090
Will you truly turn Joseon back
to a land of Buddha, sire?

896
01:35:19,548 --> 01:35:25,721
Both Confucians and Buddhists
are all peoples of this country.

897
01:35:26,471 --> 01:35:28,891
You know why Corea was ruined, sire!

898
01:35:28,891 --> 01:35:33,270
Everyone was enticed by that filthy
heresy, so it was ruined!

899
01:35:34,605 --> 01:35:36,398
I've heard enough!

900
01:35:37,191 --> 01:35:39,443
Who here hasn't offered
a Buddhist rituals?

901
01:35:39,443 --> 01:35:40,320
What?

902
01:35:40,320 --> 01:35:42,363
Seeking for higher
positions and more riches,

903
01:35:42,363 --> 01:35:46,533
you've all sent your wives to
hold prayers and rituals, too!

904
01:35:46,533 --> 01:35:47,951
Why you!

905
01:35:48,703 --> 01:35:50,705
I hate such hypocrisy.

906
01:35:50,871 --> 01:35:53,123
I think Buddha's teaching
is the truth, too.

907
01:35:53,123 --> 01:35:55,418
The world is not ruined by the truth.

908
01:35:55,418 --> 01:35:59,296
It falls due people pointing
fingers at others for selfish gains.

909
01:36:03,385 --> 01:36:05,803
Even if the world crumbles,

910
01:36:06,553 --> 01:36:10,100
white is white and black is black, sire.

911
01:36:12,893 --> 01:36:15,438
Had Confucius met Buddha,

912
01:36:19,983 --> 01:36:22,028
he wouldn't have done this.

913
01:36:32,246 --> 01:36:35,666
We've formed a pact here

914
01:36:36,541 --> 01:36:38,753
to protect the new letters

915
01:36:39,170 --> 01:36:42,590
and vow to let them be
spread throughout Joseon.

916
01:36:46,051 --> 01:36:48,011
Let us pledge together.

917
01:36:48,303 --> 01:36:52,766
Let us never forget our oath
today till the day we die.

918
01:36:54,726 --> 01:36:56,771
Even after everyone dies,

919
01:36:57,313 --> 01:37:00,316
may the 'Eon-mun'
blossom and bear fruit.

920
01:37:01,525 --> 01:37:04,153
Even as those in power

921
01:37:06,113 --> 01:37:09,366
belittle and curse it as
vulgar language for women,

922
01:37:10,826 --> 01:37:15,165
let it be a blessing that overflows
in the most humble and lowest places.

923
01:37:17,083 --> 01:37:19,835
By writing our names
and burning our skins,

924
01:37:19,835 --> 01:37:25,300
let us keep our vows to
protect the letters to the end.

925
01:37:28,928 --> 01:37:32,098
May the small fire
planted on our forearms

926
01:37:33,641 --> 01:37:37,311
grow into an explosive wildfire.

927
01:37:37,686 --> 01:37:43,901
Will building a small temple
beside the palace ruin Joseon?

928
01:37:44,735 --> 01:37:47,780
This country belongs to you, Confucians.

929
01:37:47,946 --> 01:37:50,783
If you don't stop that atrocious ritual,

930
01:37:52,243 --> 01:37:55,455
we can no longer be
your subjects, sire.

931
01:38:10,011 --> 01:38:15,725
I've brought the Hunminjeongeum
which we've completed as commanded.

932
01:38:23,358 --> 01:38:24,608
Your Majesty.

933
01:38:25,276 --> 01:38:29,405
We've brought the
completed Hunminjeongeum.

934
01:38:34,285 --> 01:38:35,661
Distribute them.

935
01:39:07,776 --> 01:39:15,285
I am not a Confucian nor a Buddhist.

936
01:39:18,663 --> 01:39:26,170
I'm just an old and ailing king who
can't do a thing without your help.

937
01:39:30,550 --> 01:39:32,551
It is my final request.

938
01:39:35,471 --> 01:39:36,890
This book...

939
01:39:39,266 --> 01:39:44,271
Don't let it rot in storage,
but let it be spread.

940
01:39:47,316 --> 01:39:48,735
I implore you.

941
01:41:19,575 --> 01:41:20,743
Dear.

942
01:41:28,418 --> 01:41:29,710
I've come.

943
01:41:42,098 --> 01:41:45,810
HUNMINJEONGEUM

944
01:41:53,025 --> 01:41:54,235
Let us bow.

945
01:43:01,051 --> 01:43:07,850
I thought the people couldn't express
their thoughts for they can't write.

946
01:43:10,103 --> 01:43:15,400
But I was the one who
couldn't express my heart.

947
01:43:30,373 --> 01:43:32,791
I owe you so much.

948
01:43:37,463 --> 01:43:39,006
I'm so sorry.

949
01:43:42,010 --> 01:43:43,428
And I thank you.

950
01:43:46,180 --> 01:43:49,225
You've already given me a great gift.

951
01:43:50,893 --> 01:43:54,563
You wrote Hunminjeongeum's
preface in 108 words

952
01:43:55,731 --> 01:43:59,693
to be free of the 108 worldly
desires and attain Buddhahood.

953
01:44:05,241 --> 01:44:07,535
In my 30 years as king,

954
01:44:10,288 --> 01:44:12,706
I leave but one book.

955
01:44:16,001 --> 01:44:20,631
Everyone knows how many
seeds there are in a peach,

956
01:44:21,423 --> 01:44:26,888
but no one knows how many
peaches come from one seed.

957
01:44:29,348 --> 01:44:36,731
'Eon-mun' is the Tripitaka carved by
Your Majesty for the coming world.

958
01:44:38,231 --> 01:44:41,360
Though it captures words of
Confucius and Buddha now,

959
01:44:42,611 --> 01:44:46,198
should another great man
appear in the future,

960
01:44:47,575 --> 01:44:50,703
it will be able to deliver
his words and wishes, too.

961
01:45:23,778 --> 01:45:28,323
THE KING'S LETTTERS

962
01:45:30,785 --> 01:45:33,328
SONG KANG-HO

963
01:45:34,705 --> 01:45:37,250
PARK HAE-IL

964
01:45:38,710 --> 01:45:41,253
CHUN MI-SUN

965
01:45:42,630 --> 01:45:45,258
Directed by CHO CHUL-HYUN

966
01:45:46,633 --> 01:45:51,180
The late CHUN MI-SUN, the beautiful
actress, will always be remembered