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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.
Lee Gon is the emperor of the Kingdom of Corea, a modern monarchy in a parallel world. When he crosses into another reality where the Republic of Korea exists instead, he meets detective Jeong Tae-eul, a woman he recognizes from an identity card that came into his hands.
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.
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 19th-century Joseon, the young Crown Prince Lee Yeong is still growing from a boy into the ruler he is meant to become. Along the way, he forms an unlikely bond with Hong Ra-on, a palace eunuch, in this coming-of-age tale of youthful romance at court.
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.
During King Sukjong's reign in Joseon, young Choe Dong-yi loses her father and brother after their group is wrongly accused of murdering noblemen. Hiding who she is, she enters the palace as a servant in the Bureau of Music, determined to prove her family's innocence. The story is based on the real-life Consort Suk.
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.
In a modern-day Korea where the monarchy still exists, Crown Prince Lee Shin must marry quickly when the Emperor falls seriously ill. His bride is Chae-kyeong, an ordinary girl chosen through a promise their grandfathers made long ago, even though Shin has feelings for a ballerina named Hyo-rin. The two start out indifferent, and Chae-kyeong struggles with strict palace life.
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.
Lee Yul, the king's nephew, would rather play than study, until Yoon Yi-seo, a kind and clever girl from a noble family, scolds him for treating peasant children cruelly. Smitten, he starts working harder to impress her. But Yul's ambitious father is plotting with Kim Cha-eon to seize the throne, and a violent coup soon tears their worlds apart.
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.
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.
In Joseon, the power-hungry Lord Sangheon believes a prince who shared the womb with a sister cannot rule, so when his daughter bears twins, he orders the baby girl killed. Instead, a loyal servant leaves little Dam-yi outside a monastery. Years later, unaware of who she is, Dam-yi works as a palace servant while her twin brother is now crown prince.
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.
Yoo Jung is a naturally gifted girl with a fiery artistic spirit who dreams of becoming the greatest potter in Joseon. She learns her craft at Bunwon, the government-backed kilns in Gwangju where pottery blends art and science, at a time when Joseon's white porcelain is prized as the finest in Asia.
High school senior Danbi dreads the college entrance exam because she struggles with math, so on exam day she runs off to a playground. Hearing a drum beating from a puddle, she jumps in and lands in the Joseon era, where she is mistaken for a eunuch and becomes a trusted companion of King Lee Do.
Yeon Ji-yeong is a modern French-cuisine chef who has just won a top prize in Paris. On her flight home to Seoul, a solar eclipse sends her back to the Joseon era. She lands in the court of King Lee Heon, a feared ruler with a refined palate, and must win him over with her cooking.
In an alternate present where South Korea is still a constitutional monarchy, carefree crown prince Lee Jae-ha wants nothing to do with politics or the throne. The king tricks him into joining a joint military training with North Korea, where he meets Kim Hang-ah, a tough North Korean special forces officer, and the two clash from the start.
In an alternate 2018 where Korea is still an empire, cheerful musical actress Oh Sunny marries the emperor. She is soon pulled into palace power struggles and a mysterious murder, and she joins forces with Na Wang-shik, an imperial bodyguard who took the job to avenge his mother.
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.
In a 21st-century country still ruled as a constitutional monarchy, wealthy heiress Seong Hui-ju wants to escape the stigma of being born outside marriage to a commoner. She proposes a marriage contract to Grand Prince I-an, who is under pressure from the Queen Dowager to wed and quiet rumors that he wants the throne. Their union quickly meets fierce resistance.
In the Joseon era, Sung Yi-gyum is a top exam scorer working in a government office until he is caught gambling. As punishment he is made a secret royal inspector and sent undercover to root out corrupt officials, aided by fellow inspector Hong Da-in and his chatty, loyal servant Park Chun-sam.
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.
Two royal princes become bitter rivals after falling for the same woman. Loosely inspired by the real lives of Grand Prince Anpyeong and King Sejo, the drama follows how their shared love turns them against each other in the Joseon court.
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 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 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.
In the Joseon era, Gyeon Woo is a cool-headed scholar hailed as a national treasure, while Princess Hye-myung is a spirited royal with a poor reputation among the people. She often slips out of the palace to search for her mother, the deposed queen, and on one of these outings she runs into Gyeon Woo, who starts out as her enemy.
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 a modern Korea that still has a monarchy, the unmarried Empress has no heir, so the court searches for a suitable Crown Prince. They bring her cousin's son, Lee Hoo, into the palace to learn royal life, but another cousin's son, Lee Joon, arrives as a rival, and the two must compete in a series of tasks for the title.
In the Joseon era, a young food lover accidentally ends up as a secret royal inspector, while a divorced woman sets off in search of happiness. The two join forces to investigate and expose corrupt officials who abuse their power.
