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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 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.
In Seoul in 1950, Lee Jin-tae shines shoes to pay for his younger brother Jin-seok's schooling and dreams of a better future for the family. When North Korea invades, both brothers are forced into the South Korean army, and Jin-tae throws himself into dangerous missions, hoping a medal will win Jin-seok a ticket home.
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.
Deokman is born one of twin daughters of King Jinpyeong of Silla, but a prophecy forces the king to send her away from the palace to protect the queen from the ambitious Mishil. Raised far from court by the king's loyal servant Seohwa, Deokman grows up with no idea of who she really is.
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.
During the reign of King Yeonsan in the late 15th century, street clowns and tightrope walkers Jangsaeng and Gong-gil flee to Seoul and start a new troupe. When their bold skit poking fun at the king gets them arrested, they are given one chance to escape execution: they must make the tyrant himself laugh.
Set in the Unified Silla era, the story follows Jang Bogo, a lowly slave determined to make his name on the seas. Along the way he battles pirates, gains a loyal comrade in the charismatic Yeom Jang, and clashes with Madam Jami, a Silla noble competing with him for control of trade in the South Sea.
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.
Set during the founding of the Joseon dynasty on the Korean Peninsula, this story follows the dreams, rivalries, and struggles of a mix of real and fictional figures. At its center is the young Yi Bang-won as a new kingdom takes shape around him.
Crown Prince Sado, heir to King Yeongjo, sets out on a plot to kill his own father. The film moves back and forth between the crisis that follows and the long story of how father and son reached this point, from a king fixated on his young son's lessons to a boy who would rather paint and socialize.
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.
In 1597, Joseon's navy has been cut down to about a dozen ships after a crushing defeat, and Admiral Yi Sun-sin is restored to command. As a huge Japanese fleet prepares to push toward the capital, he must face an overwhelming enemy at the Myeongnyang Strait.
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.
In 1633 Joseon, young Lee Gyeom, son of a nobleman, hides and survives while his father is murdered on the king's orders, and the shock wipes out his memory. Raised by a retired thief who renames him Yong-i, he grows up unaware of his past until it starts to return years later, leading him to take on the identity of the masked thief Iljimae.
This drama follows the life of King Jeongjo of Joseon, starting with his childhood as Prince Yi San. As a boy, he befriends two young palace workers, Seong Song-yeon and Park Dae-su, and turns to them for help when his grandfather, King Yeongjo, turns against his father, Crown Prince Sado, fearing a coup.
In the Joseon era, Shin Yun-bok is a gifted young painter who hides that she is a girl so she can enter the all-male royal painting academy and find out who killed her father. There she meets master painter Kim Hong-do, who sees her talent, shields her from palace plots, and becomes her teacher and close friend.
Seo Ji-yoon, an art history lecturer close to finishing her PhD, starts to doubt whether a newly found painting, about to be named a national treasure, is genuine. When her doubts embarrass her powerful professor, he moves to ruin her career, and she soon comes across a long-lost diary tied to Shin Saimdang, the celebrated Joseon artist.
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 Goryeo dynasty, the King and his queen, a princess from the Yuan court, have no children, and pressure mounts from the Yuan emperor and his own advisers to produce an heir. The King turns to Hong-rim, commander of his royal guard and his lover, and gives him an unusual, uncomfortable order: to father a child with the Queen.
In the mythical land of Arth, the people of the old city of Arthdal are caught up in fierce struggles for power, and some find love amid the conflict. Far from the city, a young man named Eun-seom faces great hardship as he fights to bring his tribe back to life.
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.
In an alternate Joseon, Jo Yang-sun's noble family loses everything after her father is framed for treason, so she disguises herself as a man and sells books to get by. She meets Kim Sung-yeol, a mysterious scholar who is secretly a vampire, and he offers her a big reward to find a lost memoir holding the secret to destroying the powerful vampire Gwi.
In 1876, Joseon is torn between conservatives and reformers, and supporters of the king's modernizing policies are being shot one by one by a mysterious gunman. Park Yoon-kang, son of the country's last great swordsman, loses his father and sees his sister sold into slavery, so he trades his blade for a Western rifle and sets out for revenge.
During Japan's occupation of Korea in World War II, more than 400 Koreans are forced into brutal labor on Hashima Island. Pushed to their limits by the harsh conditions, they gamble everything on a bold plan to break out.
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.
After President Park Chung-hee is assassinated in October 1979, martial law is declared and Major General Chun Doo-gwang is put in charge of the investigation. As he quietly gathers power, the principled Major General Lee Tae-shin is reluctantly appointed to command the capital's defense, setting the two men on a collision course.
Set in the kingdom of Baekje in the middle of the 7th century, this period drama traces the life of Gyebaek, the famed warrior and general who is remembered for leading Baekje in its final stand against the rival kingdom of Silla at the Battle of Hwangsanbeol.
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.
In 1598, seven years into Japan's invasion of Joseon, Toyotomi Hideyoshi dies after ordering his troops home. Admiral Yi Sun-sin, fighting alongside allies from Ming China, has Konishi Yukinaga's army trapped at Suncheon, and the desperate Konishi tries to bribe a Ming admiral into letting his forces slip away by sea.
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.
In 1970s South Korea, director Kim Yeol, whose debut was a hit but whose later films critics dismiss, has just finished his new film, Cobweb. After a vivid dream, he becomes convinced that reshooting the ending will make it a masterpiece, so he gathers his cast and crew for a chaotic reshoot despite censors, busy actors and fierce opposition.
Hong-rang, the son of a rich Joseon merchant family, disappeared when he was eight, and his half-sister Jae-yi has never stopped searching. Twelve years on, a young man turns up saying he is Hong-rang but remembers nothing of his past. His mother longs to believe him, while Jae-yi has her doubts.
Set in the Joseon era, this drama follows Ok-nyeo, whose whole childhood, from birth onward, was spent inside a prison, and the adventures she shares with a mysterious man named Yun Tae-won. Along the way, she takes up the cause of the poor within Joseon's private legal system.
In the Dan dynasty, where ghosts and gods shape human life, Hong Cheon-gi stands alone as a woman painter in her era, while Ha Ram is a blind astrologer at the royal office that tracks the stars. Bound by a curse since the day they were born and linked by childhood memories, the two meet again as adults.
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.
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.
In Joseon, a secret society called the Pyunsoo Group holds the real power, and King Yi Yoon must bargain with it to keep his newborn son alive. He hides the boy's face behind a mask. Sixteen years later, Crown Prince Yi Sun sneaks out of the palace to learn why, befriending Lady Han Ga-eun and a young man who shares his name.
Gwanghae, born to a royal concubine, is named Crown Prince of Joseon and must survive constant threats to his life and his place as heir. Locked in a bitter rivalry with his father, King Seonjo, he turns to the art of reading faces, enlisting a fortuneteller skilled in physiognomy to help him claim the throne.
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.
Loosely inspired by the classic Dumas novel, this series moves the musketeer story to Korea's Joseon era. It follows three bold adventurers who act as the sword-wielding guards of Crown Prince Sohyeon, standing by him through the dangers that come with his royal position.
In Joseon, the King, a Qing envoy, a Japanese swordsman and an assassins' guild all scheme for power. Against this backdrop, the series follows young Baek Dong-soo as he grows into a skilled swordsman, testing the bonds of brotherhood, loyalty and honor along the way.
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.
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 the Joseon dynasty, four people who come from very different backgrounds band together around Yi Geum, a prince known as Prince Yeoning. They set out to help him claim the throne and to reform the Saheonbu, putting their varied skills toward a shared cause.
