Empress Ki (2013-2014), Korean with English subtitles, 720p torrent

This is a 2013-2014 Korean TV historical/political/romance/comedy drama series. Its Korean name is "기황후" (Hangul RR "Gi Hwang-hu"), also known as "Hwatu," "Qi Empress," and "Battle of Flowers."

From MyDramaList: https://mydramalist.com/7114-empress-ki
"Genghis Khan built an empire that spanned vast regions in East Asia and East Europe. And there was one woman who held immense power in the Yuan Dynasty, which Genghis Khan founded, for 37 years. She was neither of Mongol descent nor from the Han Chinese. She came from Goryeo, a small kingdom in the Far East. She was taken to Mongol against her will as a Gungnyeo (palace women) but somehow overcame her lowly status to become an empress in another land. Her name was Empress Ki."

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3322566
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Ki_(TV_series)
AsianWiki: https://asianwiki.com/Empress_Ki

This is the full set of 51 one-hour episodes. They all have edited "soft" English captions; that is, English subtitles are part of the MKV file and the subtitles can be enabled or disabled as you wish. The episode pairs range in length from 59 to 62 minutes each.

I downloaded the source "기황후 720p x264 AAC-CrazyJ" files and determined the best English subtitles available on subscene.com (MBC's own XviD.HDTV.H264.720p-LIMO-HANrel-SODiHD, translated by D. Bannon). Then I...
- Use a linear video editor to mask off the occasional distracting scrolling messages at the bottom of the screen in most episodes
- Used Subtitle Edit (by Nikolaj Lynge Olsson) to find and fix all flagged issues
- "Softened" subtitled profanity (bastard --> jerk, damn --> darn, bitch --> wench etc.)
- Corrected other commonly-found typos and converted many word-pairs into their common English contractions
- Watched the series and made additional corrections - particularly italicizing thoughts, media, and some off-screen comments.
- Re-processed the videos to 720p using Handbrake to add the subtitles as soft subtitles

Format: MKV
Format info: Audio Video Interleave
Total file sizes: 56.2 GB
Total duration: 50 hours, 21 minutes, 9 seconds
Overall bitrate: 2660 Kbps

Video format: MPEG-4
Video Codec: H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1)
Video bitrate: 2500 Kbps (2-pass)
Video width: 1280 pixels
Video height: 720 pixels
Video frame rate: 29.970 fps
Video decoded format: Planar 4:2:0 YUV
Video scan type: Progressive

Audio format: MPEG AAC Audio (mp4a)
Audio language: Korean
Audio bitrate mode: Constant
Audio bitrate: 160 Kbps
Audio channel(s): 2
Audio sampling rate: 48 KHz

Subtitles: English as soft captions - feel free to rip & use or distribute as you wish