20100910 (Newsletter) Best Program in 2010 and More!

Hi, KBSWORLDi Fans Thanks to the Labor Day weekend, we've got a shorter work week and that means you have more time to watch your favorite Korean TV program.   :)  Just a reminder: our Labor Day sale ends on Friday. Well, you don't want to miss this chance to save big on your favorite Korean TV dramas and shows.   Have a wonderful weekend with KBSWORLDi.com!

'The Slave Hunters', Best Program in 2010    --  KBS drama 'The Slave Hunters' gained the highest honor at the 37th Korea Broadcasting Awards, the nation’s most prestigious broadcasting award celebrated annually as part of the Broadcasting Day of Korea.  KBS has thus become the winner of the prestigious award over the last three consecutive years, following 'Asian Corridor in Heaven' in 2008 and 'Noodle Road' in 2009. At a ceremony held on September 3 at KBS Hall which was hosted by the Korean Broadcasters Association, 'The Slave Hunters' also won awards for the Best Drama (short TV drama category), Best Director and Best Screenplay.  Set during the Joseon Dynasty of Korea, the drama revolves around the world of slave hunters and slaves.  The magnificent scale, tight-knit plot and breathtaking action scenes of the drama have drawn significant attention. Its high-profile cast, which includes Jang Hyuk, Lee Da-hae and Oh Ji-ho, is another reason this drama has received the spotlight. * Buy Now on EOR: Vol 1, Vol 2 * Watch Now Online at KBSWORLDi.com: 'Click'

Two Sons Face Off Over Family Business in ‘Bread, Love and Dreams’ The family of the business group Geoseong have been shocked to learn that their father Gu Il-jung (Jun Guang-lyul) entrusted managerial rights to his out-of-wedlock son, Kim Tak-gu (Yoon Si-yoon) in the episode 25 of ‘Bread, Love and Dreams.’ The family’s eldest daughter Ja-gyeong (Choi Ja-hye) and son Ma-jun (Ju Won) feel hostile toward Tak-gu, and Ma-jun even plots to oust Tak-gu. He has always felt inferior to his half-brother due to their father’s trust in him. In preparing for a board meeting, Tak-gu studies many reports and documents to find out how the company has been operated and tastes all the bread it has produced to analyze why they succeeded or failed.  But Ma-jun tries to win over board directors by providing illicit hospitalities and buys prominent consultants and advisors to have them testify to his ability. Meanwhile, Kim Mi-sun (Jun Mi-sun), Tak-gu’s birth mother who was believed to have been dead, learns that the son of the Geoseong group who has come to head the company instead of Il-jung is her son.  She goes to take a glimpse of him at the board meeting, where Tak-gu has a hard time amid the disagreeable, arrogant members on the board. Il-jung, who is sick in bed seemingly without consciousness, surprisingly opens his eyes when his lawyer tells him that everything worked out fine, as he planned.     KBSWORLDi E-Store Sale Ends on Sep. 10th   KBSWORLDi’s E-Store has Labor Day Sale from Sep 1st to Sep 10th! Save big and get a free gift! Visit 'Event Page' for more detail. * Event 1: Buy One Get the Second One 50% Off   - 'Asian Corridor in Heaven', KBSWORLDi $20 Giftcard * Event 2: FREE Gift of 2D1N (EOR)   - 'Happiness in the Wind Vol. 2', 'Secret Agent Miss Oh' * Event 3: Historical Dramas on Sale   - 'Immortal Yi Soon Shin', 'Scandal in Old Seoul'    It

20100902 (Newsletter) Kim Tak-gu, Sungkyunkwan, E-store Sale

Hi, KBSWORLDi Fans Wow, it's already September and two thirds of 2010 is gone. Are you getting close to the goals you have set at the beginning of the year? Right now, KBSWORLDi has a great Labor Day Sale going on and you can save big or get a free gift. Don't miss it 'cause it lasts only ten days!  Have a great weekend with KBSWORLDi.com!

Teacher Passes Away in ‘Bread, Love and Dreams’    --  A legendary baker and teacher spent the last moments of his life with his favorite student in “Bread, Love and Dreams.”  In the episode #23, teacher Pal Bong (Jang Hang-seon), who has been sick in bed, wakes up Kim Tak-gu (Yoon Si-yoon) late at night and takes him to a baking room.  Making bread together with Tak-gu, Pal Bong says, “Life is about going through. You go through good things and bad things and happy moments and sad moments.  Ma-jun is your brother. You have to accept him as part of your life,” revealing that he has known the relationship between Tak-gu and Gu Ma-jun (Ju Won) from the beginning.  Pal Bong continues, “The only regret I have is to lose my only and best friend. That was why I stopped making my specialty,” referring to bread made without using yeast. “There’s nothing more important than cherishing people around you,” he adds. Pal Bong later smiles and breathes his last breath, saying in a monologue, “Life is like flowers in a field. It leaves no traces when it comes to end, like flowers are gone in an instant. But I was very happy to meet you towards the end of my life.”  Noticing that Pal Bong has passed away when he brings the baked bread to him later, Tak-gu only holds his teacher's hands and weeps.

Intense youth, coming of age drama series of young people, Sungkyunkwan (成均館)!! Nation’s highest educational institute and the oldest university in East Asia that has distinguished history of 500 years; it is Sung-kyun-kwan University.  But if you are thinking of Sungkyunkwan as a boring study place, you underestimated it.  It is the place full of vitality, where youthfulness is flowering, and the school where you learn to be harmonized!  And there is a young Confucian scholar Kim Yoon-hui, who gets into this forbidden place for women, hiding her gender. Yoon-hui’s father, Kim Seung-hyun was a scholar at Sungkyunkwan and also a good friend of the Crown prince.  King Yeongjo calls him before the day of his death and asks him to hand down his secret book Kum-deung-ji-sa across the generations.  However, Kim Seung-hyun gets killed by the opposing faction and the book has disappeared.  Yoon-hui was only 7-year-old when her father got murdered.  Yoon-hui has a talent for writing, which had inherited from her father.  She starts to stay at Sungkyunkwan and meets three good friends: Seon-joon, Jae-sin, Yong-ha.  Yoon-hui slowly gets fascinated by King Jeongjo’s vision and becomes to understand what her father truly dreamt of.  Coming soon to KBSWORLDi.com and KBS WORLD TV!       KBSWORLDi E-Store Labor Day Sale (Up to 59% Off)   KBSWORLDi’s E-Store has Labor Day Sale from Sep 1st to Sep 10th! Save big and get a free gift! Visit 'Event Page' for more detail. * Event 1: Buy One Get the Second One 50% Off   - 'Asian Corridor in Heaven', KBSWORLDi $20 Giftcard * Event 2: FREE Gift of 2D1N (EOR)   - 'Happiness in the Wind Vol. 2', 'Secret Agent Miss Oh' * Event 3: Historical Dramas on Sale   - 'Immortal Yi Soon Shin', 'Scandal in Old Seoul'    It

20100830 (Promotion) KBSWORLDi E-Store Labor Day Sale

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