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In late 1987, as South Korea is gripped by the struggle for democracy, university student Eun Yeong-ro finds graduate student Lim Soo-ho covered in blood. She hides him from the government in her dorm room, drawing herself into a story that unfolds amid the political upheaval of the time.
In the Silla Kingdom, Queen Jiso rules as regent while hiding her son, the young king Sammaekjong, from assassins. To weaken the scheming nobles, she creates the Hwarang, a new band of elite young men. Among the recruits are the king himself, keeping his identity hidden, and Kim Sun-woo, a commoner.
Ki Seung-nyang is a woman born in Goryeo who climbs to power despite the rigid class system of her time. Her story weaves together her political ambitions and her bonds with two men: Wang Yoo, her first love, and Toghon Temür, emperor of the Yuan dynasty.
In a made-up Joseon era, Crown Prince Lee Hwon falls in love with Heo Yeon-woo, a bright girl whose father is a palace scholar, while his older half-brother, Prince Yangmyung, loves her too. But the scheming Queen Dowager wants her own relative to become Crown Princess, and dangerous palace plots soon threaten Yeon-woo and the young prince.
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 Joseon, where women are barred from schooling and work, Kim Yoon-hee disguises herself as her brother Yoon-shik to support her family. While secretly sitting an entrance exam for Sungkyunkwan, the top Confucian academy, on someone else's behalf, she is caught by the principled Lee Sun-joon, who sees her talent and urges her to enroll.
When the queen of Goryeo is badly wounded, King Gongmin sends Choi Young, captain of the Royal Guard, through a mystical portal to find a legendary healer. He arrives in modern-day Seoul and brings back plastic surgeon Yoo Eun-soo, promising to send her home once she saves the queen.
This fantasy action drama follows a young man who is half human and half monster, searching for an ancient book said to hold the secret to becoming fully human. His story begins with Gu Wol-ryung, a gumiho who guards the forest, and Yoon Seo-hwa, a noblewoman on the run after her father is falsely branded a traitor and killed.
Long ago, Hwan-woong steps in to end a deadly war between the fire-wielding Tiger Tribe and the Bear Tribe, taking the power of fire from the Tiger Tribe's leader, Kajin, and sealing it in an artifact called the Heart of Jujak. Loosely inspired by the legends of Dangun and Goguryeo's King Gwanggaeto, the story weaves in four mythical guardians who serve a destined king.
In the Joseon era, Chae-ok, the daughter of a disgraced nobleman, is separated from her brother as a child and raised as a servant in Hwangbo Yoon's household, learning martial arts and swordsmanship alongside him. She quietly loves Yoon despite their class difference, and joins his police bureau as a damo, a lowly female detective, to stay at his side.
When his father, King Haejong, kills the queen while under a spell, young Prince Rin is orphaned and sent away from the palace as his half-brother Gi-san takes the throne. Twelve years later, Rin lives a carefree life that hides his loneliness and his secret ability to see ghosts. Then he meets Do-ha, a young shaman searching for her older sister.
Hwang Jini is the illegitimate daughter of a nobleman and a blind gisaeng, a performer who entertains the elite of Joseon. Her mother sends her to a mountain temple to spare her that life, but young Jini slips away, is captivated by a gisaeng performance, and begins training to become an entertainer herself.
In the Joseon court, Grand Prince Suyang hopes to win over the loyal official Kim Jong-seo by marrying his daughter Se-ryung to Kim's son, Seung-yoo. Curious about her intended, Se-ryung trades places with her cousin, Princess Gyeonghye, to get a look at him, and a romance begins in the shadow of their fathers' bitter rivalry.
Guk In-yeob is the admired only daughter of a Joseon nobleman, adored by many, including the young scholar Kim Eun-gi. When her father is accused of treason, her family is ruined and she becomes a slave overnight, forced to serve her old rival while learning to survive alongside the other servants, including the mysterious Moo-myung.
This historical drama follows Kim Cheo-sun, remembered as Joseon's finest eunuch attendant. Cheo-sun secretly loves his childhood friend So-hwa but cannot confess because of the gap in their social standing. When So-hwa is promised to King Seongjong, he makes a drastic choice and enters the palace as a eunuch, determined to watch over and protect her.
In Joseon, Lee Tae becomes king after King Seonjong, who seized the throne through a rebellion. Lee Tae is a ruler who must give up the woman he loves just to survive, Yoo Jeong is a woman who has to become queen to stay alive, and the real power lies with first vice-premier Park Gye-won.
Wang So, a Goryeo prince, is banished from the palace and rejected by his family because of a prophecy that he will drown the country in blood. Shin Yool, a princess of Later Balhae, barely survived her own people as a child because she is said to be destined to bring light to a different kingdom. When the two are swept into a hasty marriage, they begin to grow close.
Yi In is a lonely, unhappy king with no one he can trust, caught between dangerous fights over the throne and political power. Kang Hee-soo, driven by a wish for revenge, sets out to deceive him, beginning a painful love story between two people bound together by schemes.
Half sisters Ja-myung and Ra-hee are born at the same hour, and an oracle warns that one will save the kingdom of Nakrang while the other will destroy it. After surviving a murder attempt by Ra-hee's ambitious mother, Ja-myung escapes abroad and grows up as a commoner, unaware of her royal identity.
The owners of Ihwawon, a guesthouse that defies expectations, and the boarders staying there, each hiding secrets of their own, come together to search for someone named Lee Seol, who vanished 13 years ago. Their search sets off an unexpected incident that draws them all in.
Crown Prince Lee Hwan, already suspected of poisoning his older brother, is shaken by a strange prophecy about his own death. He meets Min Jae-yi, a noblewoman on the run after she is falsely blamed for killing her own family, and the two make a pact to work together.
In Joseon, a young widower named Shim Jung-woo and a young widow named Jung Soon-deok join forces on an unusual mission. Together they set out to find husbands for three unmarried women whom society has written off as old maids, turning matchmaking into a lively partnership.
Seodong is a commoner, a technician raised at Taehaksa, Baekje's leading institute of science and technology. He falls for Princess Seonhwa, who belongs to the enemy kingdom of Silla, a love that ignores rank and class. He also hides something that could change Baekje's future, while his rival Sataek Giru schemes with Buyeo Seon to ruin his plans.
In Joseon under King Gwanghaegun, Ba-woo lives off bossam, an old custom in which a bachelor wraps a widow in a blanket at night and takes her as his wife. His life takes a sharp turn when he grabs the wrong woman: Su-kyeong, the king's widowed daughter.
As a child, Joon-hee befriends a little girl named Kang-hee, along with two boys: Kim Dong-young, a general's son, and Jang Bin, whose parent is a fashion designer. When North Korean troops invade their town during the Korean War, the two girls are torn from their families, sending all four children down very different paths toward adulthood.
This historical drama, adapted from a novel, reimagines the life of Jang Ok-jung, the woman remembered as Jang Hui-bin. It pictures her in the Joseon era as a talented woman working in clothing design and the making of cosmetics.
Soo-jung, a vain actress who thinks money and status can buy anything, accidentally falls through a time portal into 6th-century Goguryeo. There she meets On-dal, a man who loves money and will do whatever it takes to get it, yet quietly looks out for the poor and helpless.
In the Joseon era, Goo Deok, a runaway slave, builds a new life as a legal expert under the name Ok Tae-young and is always ready to help people in trouble. But her name, her status and even her husband are fake. Then a wandering storyteller, Cheon Seung-hwi, falls for her at first sight.
In the 1980s, Go Young-rye works as a bus hostess on route 100 while hoping to get into university, and she befriends Seo Jong-hee, a charismatic newcomer. Both girls are drawn to Han Jae-pil, son of a wealthy department store owner, in a story about youth, friendship and first love.
In this time-slip romantic comedy adapted from a web novel, Heo Gyun, who lives in the Joseon era, is suddenly thrown four centuries forward into the future, where he sets about opening a restaurant of his own.
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 in South Korea during the turbulent 1980s and 1990s, this series follows three young people as they fight hard to hold on to their dreams, to their friendship, and to the single first love that ties them together.
In 1932 Gyeongseong, Lee Ga-kyung is the city's most skilled pickpocket and con artist, saving up to leave Joseon and start over abroad. For the independence movement, she agrees to spend 100 days undercover as an interpreter at the Japanese Government-General, where she meets Kim Tae-woong, an elite interpreter also known as Sato Hideo.
