Profile

• TV Show: The Great Queen Seondeok
• Revised romanization: Seondeok Yeowang
• Hangul: 선덕여왕
• Director: Hong-kyun Park, Keun-hong Kim
• Writer: Yeong-hyeon Kim, Sang-yeon Park
• Network: MBC
• Episodes: 62
• Release Date: May 25, 2009 --
• Runtime: Mon. & Tues. 21:55
• Language: Korean
• Country: South Korea
• Available Online:

Plot

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.

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.

Notes

1. Based on the life of Queen Seondeok of Silla (ruled 632-647).
2. Due to extremely high television ratings "The Great Queen Seondeok" has been expanded from 50 episodes to 62 episodes.