20 titles, most popular first
In 1601, three years after the Imjin War, Crown Prince Lee Chang tries to look into the strange illness that has struck the King. His search drags him into a deadly outbreak that is turning people across Joseon into zombies, while rivals at court plot to seize the throne.
Born under a dark curse, Princess Yeon-hee is abandoned as a baby and raised in hiding by the shaman Choi Hyun-seo, shut away in a house surrounded by talismans. When Heo Jun, a young scholar born to a slave mother and a wealthy master, crosses paths with her, the two set out together to break the curse that brings death to anyone she loves.
In spring 1945, under Japanese occupation, Jang Tae-sang runs the richest pawnshop in Gyeongseong, while Yoon Chae-ok is a tracker searching for her missing mother. Their paths lead them to face a strange creature created through hidden biological experiments carried out inside Ongseong Hospital.
Prince Gwanghae, born to a concubine, seizes the Joseon throne from his father King Seonjo's direct line. After her younger brother, Grand Prince Yeongchang, is executed, Princess Jeongmyeong escapes the palace and lives among commoners disguised as a man, plotting her revenge.
Dae-gil is a prince forced to live as a commoner who has become the finest gambler in Joseon. Calm on the outside but burning with resentment, he uses his skill at the table to seek revenge on King Yeongjo. Meanwhile, a woman named Dam-seo lives only to make the king pay.
Early in King Sejong's reign, his weak hold on power leads to the deaths of his in-laws and their slaves. Two young slaves, Ddol-bok and his friend Dam, survive without knowing the other lived. Ddol-bok blames the king and trains for years to kill him, returning to the palace as Kang Chae-yoon just as scholars of the Hall of Worthies are being murdered.
In 1970s Korea, a corrupt KCIA official, Jo Pil-yeon, has the Lee siblings' father killed during a gold robbery and then hunts down the rest of the family. Kang-mo, Sung-mo and Mi-joo are scattered as they flee to Seoul, and the separated siblings grow up determined to avenge their parents.
Set against major events of 1970s Korea, the story follows Baek Ki-tae, a shrewd and ambitious KCIA agent who secretly runs illegal business networks to gain power and wealth. When principled prosecutor Jang Geon-young begins investigating Ki-tae's smuggling and its ties to high-ranking officials, the two men are pulled into a dangerous rivalry.
The moment the death of Goguryeo's King Gogukcheon is announced, a fierce battle among the tribes breaks out. Queen Woo, targeted by five power-hungry tribes, has just 24 hours to place a new king on the throne, and the race to secure her future begins.
In the 1920s, under Japanese occupation, many people of Joseon cross the Tumen River into Gando, a lawless region of China, some to earn a living and others to fight for Korean independence. There, a band of people who have left their homeland behind come together to protect the Koreans living in Gando.
For 600 years, a woman has been dying and being reborn, carrying the memories of each past life with her. A man has lived through those same centuries as a Bulgasal, a mythical creature that feeds on human blood, cursed to live forever and unable to kill or be killed.
Kim Jun is the son of a runaway palace slave and grows up among monks. Torn from his home in wartime, he is forced to set aside his peaceful nature and enter a deadly contest that might win him freedom from his masters, the powerful Choe clan, as Goryeo faces Mongol invasion.
A man killed long ago by the woman he loved is left frozen in time, unable to move on. A woman with no memory of her former life lives through time like anyone else. This drama, adapted from a webtoon, follows a love story between them that stretches across a thousand years.
In 1592, during a corrupt era of the Joseon Dynasty when the once-clear Gyeonggang River has turned muddy, three lives become tangled together. Si-yool conceals where he came from and joins the gangster world, Choi Eun is sharp and principled, and Jeong-cheon dreams of serving as an upright official.
In the Joseon era, a gumiho named Gu San-daek loses her power to change form after her husband breaks a promise, and she wanders with her young half-human daughter, Yeon-yi. They are taken in by Yoon Doo-soo, a gentle-seeming former official whose own daughter suffers from a mysterious illness.
Yeon Wol conceals who she really is and becomes an assassin to avenge her family. Sent to kill the king, she falls into a trap laid by an unknown hand and wakes the next day with no memory of her past, only to be named the crown prince's concubine.
Set during South Korea's Fifth Republic, this drama follows Chun Doo-hwan as he seizes power through a military coup and rules as a dictator. It portrays the era and the pro-democracy movements that rose up against his government, including the Gwangju uprising.
In late Joseon-era Hanseong, detective Park Sang-kyu is investigating a string of murders when he seizes colorless, odorless wild berries from a smuggler and suspects they are the key. As another body turns up in the marketplace, the case unfolds in a time of reform under King Jeongjo and rising power for merchant Yang Man-oh.
Around 1648, during the troubled reign of King Injo of Joseon, a group of mysterious assassins takes vengeance on behalf of the suffering poor, with a Zorro-like hero at the center of the story. As old political plots from earlier bloody purges resurface, a string of murders shakes the kingdom.
Stretching from Joseon's birth through King Sejong's time, this saga follows Yi Bang-won, fifth son of the dynasty's founder, who later rules as King Taejong. Devoted to keeping the young kingdom stable, he shows deep loyalty to his father and heir, but the killings carried out in his name stir bitter anger in return.
