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In Joseon, at a time when women had little influence, the orphaned Jang-geum enters the royal kitchen as a young apprentice cook. Determined and hardworking, she sets out to master the secrets of Korean cooking and medicine, in a story inspired by a real woman of the era.
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 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.
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.
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.
Set in an imagined chapter of the Joseon era, this drama looks inside the royal household, where a group of troublemaking princes keeps causing headaches for the family. The story centers on how these unruly young royals are taught and shaped.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This period drama looks at the strained relationship between King Yeongjo and his son, Crown Prince Yi Sun, also known as Sado. The shrewd king is determined to strengthen royal authority, while his passionate, idealistic son dreams of a society free of rank and inequality.
In Joseon under the tyrant King Yeonsangun, Hong Gil-dong is the son of a slave, which leaves him with no legal standing despite his brilliance. Shut out of honest work, he becomes the leader of a band of smugglers who take from the rich and give to the poor, while the king's favored concubine, Jang Nok-su, secretly still loves him.
This historical epic follows King Hyeonjong of Goryeo as he tries to unite his kingdom with a tolerant style of rule while leading the fight against invading Khitan armies. At his side is Gang Gam-chan, his political mentor and the commander of Goryeo's army.
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.
Overthrown by his uncle, Grand Prince Suyang, the teenage king of Joseon is stripped of his title, renamed Prince Nosan and sent into exile. Eom Heung-do, chief of a poor mountain village in Yeongwol, hopes that hosting an exiled nobleman will bring his people good fortune, and his village is chosen to receive Nosan, who arrives with his loyal maid Mae-hwa.
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.
The drama opens in 645, during a war between Tang China and Goguryeo, before Dae Jo-yeong is even born. His father, Dae Jung-sang, is a Goguryeo general, and his mother, Dalgi, helps defend Ansi Fortress. When the baby arrives, a prophecy declares that he is destined to rule, making him a target of the powerful Supreme Commander Yeon Gaesomun.
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.
General Yung, cousin of Baekje's King Dongseong, loves Chae-hwa, daughter of court official Baek-ga, who hopes to put Yung on the throne. When Yung is accused of killing the king, the lovers are torn apart, and Chae-hwa flees to Gaya, where she gives birth to his daughter, Seol-nan. Years later, Seol-nan's ambitious younger half-sister Seol-hee sets her sights on becoming a princess.
Cheon Yeong is a slave with extraordinary fighting skill who longs to escape his unjust bondage, and Jong-ryeo is the master he once served. In a time of chaos under King Seonjo, the two meet again on opposite sides, one as the king's trusted military officer and the other as a volunteer soldier.
In 15th-century Joseon, Jang Yeong-sil is born a slave but has a rare gift and a deep love of astronomy. His talent catches the attention of King Sejong, who brings him to court, where he sets out to build clocks, gauges and instruments that could change the kingdom.
It is 1374, the last year of King Gongmin's reign, and Goryeo is sinking under corruption, abuse of power and political chaos. The scholar and politician Jeong Do-jeon dreams of a new era and works alongside the general Yi Seong-gye to plan a new dynasty, Joseon, facing many obstacles along the way.
This historical drama follows Baekje's warrior king Geunchogo. The story reaches back seventeen centuries to Hansan, where Yeogu, a second son pushed aside from the royal line, is sent off to make a living selling salt so that no one will fear he might try to claim the throne.
In 1795, King Jeongjo leads a grand eight-day procession from the palace to Hwaseong Fortress to honor the 60th birthdays of his mother, Lady Hyegyong, and his late father, Crown Prince Sado. Along the way, a millenarian sect and the scheming Noron Faction plot against the king's life.
When the future King Gwanggaeto is born, Goguryeo is far weaker than it once was: his grandfather has been killed by Baekje forces, and the armies of Later Yan are on the attack. The drama follows his path toward the throne and his vow to bring back the kingdom's lost strength.
This drama follows Kim Su-ro, remembered in legend as the founding king of Geumgwan Gaya, a city-state known for sea trade and ironwork. Relying on his fiery temper, charisma and sharp mind, he battles through a long political struggle against rivals including his half-brother Ijinashi, his former friend Seok Tal-hae and the ambitious Shingwi Ghan.
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.
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.
