20 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.
Born into slavery in Joseon, Eugene Choi escapes to the United States as a boy, grows up in New York and becomes a Marine officer. Returning to Korea as a captain with the US legation, he meets Go Ae-shin, a nobleman's granddaughter who is secretly a sniper fighting for her country, and falls for her despite the gulf between their worlds.
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.
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.
When the Qing army invades Joseon, ordinary people are swept up in war and hardship. The series follows them as they search for hope and hold on to a positive outlook, even as the darkest of times turns their lives upside down.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
