33 titles, most popular first
After Han China conquers Gojoseon, resistance leader Haemosu secretly works with Prince Geumwa of Buyeo to protect refugees across the land. Twenty years later, Lady Yuhwa's son Jumong is a weak, timid prince in Buyeo, looked down on by his older half-brothers Daeso and Youngpo as they compete for the throne of King Geumwa.
During the Korean War, student volunteer Oh Jang-beom barely survives a brutal battle and is shaken by what he has seen. He is then put in charge of a newly formed unit of untrained student soldiers, joined by a defiant young criminal named Ku Kap-jo, and ordered to hold a key position.
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.
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 1933, with Korea under Japanese rule, resistance captain Yem Sek-jin is tasked with recruiting three unruly independence fighters, Ahn Okyun, Big Gun and Duk-sam. Their mission is to sneak into Seoul and kill a Japanese general, Kawaguchi Mamoru, along with the pro-Japanese businessman Kang In-guk.
In 1953, ceasefire talks drag on while soldiers keep battling over hills along the 38th Parallel that change hands again and again. When a South Korean company commander at the Aerok Hills is found shot by a southern bullet, counterintelligence officer Kang Eun-pyo is sent to investigate and find a suspected mole.
As a boy, Nam-yi flees with his younger sister Ja-in when the king's guards hunt down their father, a skilled archer and officer. Thirteen years later, Nam-yi is a gifted archer and hunter, and when Manchu forces raid the village on Ja-in's wedding day and carry her off, he sets out to rescue her.
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.
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.
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 1950, with North Korean forces holding most of the South, General Douglas MacArthur plans a risky landing behind enemy lines at Incheon. To make it possible, Captain Jang Hak-soo and seven men of a South Korean intelligence unit called X-ray pose as a North Korean inspection team and slip into occupied Incheon to gather vital information.
In 1990, civil war tears through Somalia as rebels rise against the Barre government. The North and South Korean embassies are each courting Somali support in their bids to join the United Nations. While South Korean ambassador Han Sin-seong confronts his northern rival Rim Yong-su over a sabotaged meeting, rebel forces storm the capital. The film is based on real events.
This retelling of a classic Goguryeo folktale follows Princess Pyeonggang, born royal but raised as an assassin, and On Dal, a gentle, peace-loving man who is her complete opposite. Once she learns where she truly came from, she sets out to fight for her country and her rightful throne.
In 645 CE, armies of the Tang dynasty invade the kingdom of Goguryeo. At Ansi Fortress, commander Yang Manchun and his badly outnumbered troops must hold the walls against a massive force and its siege weapons in a long and grueling battle.
In 1592, as Japanese forces push to conquer Joseon, commander Wakisaka Yasuharu takes charge of the Japanese fleet at Busan, determined to defeat Admiral Yi Sun-sin and his fearsome new turtle ship. Facing doubters among his own admirals, Yi must devise a bold new battle plan to stop the invasion at sea.
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.
In January 1972, during the Vietnam War, a South Korean army base receives a radio message from a platoon that vanished at R-Point, an island near Saigon. Lieutenant Choi leads a small squad there with one week to bring the soldiers back, in exchange for an early discharge, but the place soon feels deeply wrong.
Four young people who grow up together are swept up in Korea's upheaval, from the last days of Japanese rule to the split between North and South. Choi Woon-hyuk is a gifted son of poor miners, Kim Hae-kyung comes from a family of tenant farmers, Lee Dong-woo is heir to a powerful family, and Moon Suk-kyung is the only child of an influential pro-Japanese politician.
During the Korean War, a guerrilla battalion of young student volunteers led by army officers is sent to Jangsari Beach. Their job is to stage a decoy landing that fools North Korean forces and clears the way for the Incheon Landing. Meanwhile, an American war reporter covers the conflict and pleads with the world to send help.
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.
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.
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.
Based on a real figure from the Goryeo dynasty, the series follows Cheonchu, granddaughter of the kingdom's founder, who dreams of reclaiming lands her grandfather lost. When her brother, King Seongjong, names her son as his heir and has his own wife raise the boy, she fights to win her son back amid foreign invasions and court intrigue.
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.
In 1375, a small envoy from the Korean kingdom of Goryeo is arrested in Ming China and marched across the desert in chains. When Mongol raiders attack and leave the survivors stranded, the group, led by young General Choi-Jung, rescues a kidnapped Chinese princess and vows to bring her home with the Mongols close behind.
Lee Jang-woo joins the army to pay for the schooling of his childhood sweetheart, Soo-yeon, after her family falls on hard times. When word comes that he has died in combat, a grieving Soo-yeon agrees to marry kind officer Shin Tae-ho, but Jang-woo returns alive on the eve of the wedding, just as the Korean War breaks out.
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.
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 historical epic follows Yi Sun-sin, the Joseon naval commander who fought the Japanese invasions of the Imjin War. Told largely through flashbacks, it begins with his boyhood as a quiet, often bullied child who is troubled by the cruelty corrupt officials show to ordinary people.
During the Korean War, Sergeant First Class Lee Hyun-joong leads his squad as South Korean forces push north and take Pyongyang. On the other side, North Korean lieutenant Lee Soo-kyung, a woman he once loved before their beliefs divided them, retreats with her army as a huge Chinese force moves in.
The series traces the life of Yeon Gaesomun, a general who rises to become a powerful military ruler in the final days of the Goguryeo kingdom. Set in a chaotic era, it follows his path to power and the struggles that shape the kingdom around him.
