In no particular order. This are some historical dramas that I recommend. Picture not mine the right goes to the rightful owner.

Historical Dramas

The royal court can be a treacherous place. Those who have power must fight to keep it. Those who want power will do anything to get it. Queen Insoo (Chae Shi Ra) dreams of becoming the most powerful ruler in the Chosun Dynasty. But Queen Junghee (Kim Mi Sook) and deposed Lady Yoon (Jeon Hye Bin) have the same ambitions. When the three power-hungry women use the people around them to get ahead, can they all get what they want? “Queen Insoo” is a 2011 South Korean historical drama series directed by Lee Tae Gon.

Queen Insoo

The Ambitious Team

After being found in 918, the kingdom of Goryeo faced a critical existential crisis when the powerful Yuan dynasty tried to subjugate them. In the fictional setting of this drama, a warrior living in the timeline of Goryeo meets a plastic surgeon living in the present day. The plastic surgeon gets kidnapped by the warrior who got an order from the king to find a doctor who can cure the fatally injured queen. The two individuals who were not meant to coexist are brought together to fight their way through the ordeals on the land of Goryeo. The warrior makes a promise that he will return her to her world, but a scheming royal advisor persuades the king to force the surgeon to stay as she can be useful to him. There, the surgeon falls in love with the warrior who is the leader of the royal guard. In this era of change and chaos, love that transcends time and space blooms.

The Great Doctor

The Faith Team

This is an alternate history drama that is based on Park So Hui's "Gung" with the reinstatement of the Korean monarchy in August 15, 1945, along with its liberation and establishes Year 1 of Gwanghwa. In 2006, "Year 14 of Inhwa," an overly normal high school girl that attends an arts high school ends up marrying the Crown Prince, who is dating Min Hyo Rin, because of a promise that the elders made decades earlier, and becomes the Crown Princess. But due to the failing health of the King, many problems occur in the aftermath. That's when Hwa Yeong, the former Crown Princess and her son, second in line to the throne, Prince Yul, return from 14 years away in England. Their ultimate aim being to take the throne. But Prince Yul ends up falling in love with the average high school girl turned Crown Princess, Shin Chae Gyeong, and one calamity after another continues to plague the Royal Family.

Princess Hours

 🐻 Royal Teddy Bears 🐻

The time is set in the Joseon Dynasty. This is the story of three powers: one who denies ghosts, another who tries to use the power of ghosts, and the other who wants to defeat ghosts! All human work comes from desire. A ghost would express the intense and twisted natural human desire. Sometimes the excessive passion for true love changes destiny. Through the story of youths who chase ghosts, we also feel all sorts of human emotions. Through the romance of youths, we will see that passionate and pure love can change not only personal life but also history.

Diary of a Night Watchman

The Night Guards

Princess Jeongmyeong is the only grandchild and princess of King Seonjo, the fourteenth king of Joseon. Having grown up with receiving plenty of love from the royal family, Jeongmyeong is driven into a tragic life once Gwanghae, her half-brother, takes over the throne. Having to become a low-class person in one fell swoop, she fights to survive while in Japan. Then with the help of Hong Ju Won, she returns to Joseon while hiding her identity and joins the armory, which is the central part of Gwanghae\u2019s reign. Being in charge of the armory, Ju Won and Princess Jeongmyeong are in love with each other, but he stands with Gwanghae. Born as the child of a concubine, Gwanghae engages in ruthless and cruel politics to protect Joseon and his power. What will be the end result to the political confrontation between Gwanghae, Injo and Jeongmyeong over the throne?

Hwa Jung, the Princess of Light

Splendid Team

A Crown Prince Jung Hyeon is close to the noble scholar Sung Yeol. Unfortunately, their relationship had been cursed by the evil of Gwi, a vampire that quenches his thirst for lust through the consumption of royal ladies' blood. Centuries later, Sung Yeol bumps into a traitor that dresses up as a man and turns her into his very own bookseller. This time, he's out to find the unfinished business of his closest ally against the wrath of Gwi. He is joined by Ho Jin, Soo Hyang, and Yang Sun in his fight. They face heartbreaks, betrayals, and a lot of bloodsheds.

The Scholar Who Walks the Night

The Hot BloodSuckers Team

Jang Ok Jung, born into the lowest of the low castes in Joseon, begins life in the palace as a palace maid in the seamstress's chamber, making clothes and bedding for the royal family. Jang Ok Jung, blessed with remarkable fashion sense and talent, works hard as a palace maid in the royal seamstress's chamber to cast off the restrictions of her low status. While leading a hard life in the palace, Jang Ok Jung falls for Sukjong, who, while exuding charisma, loves her unconditionally. Her love crosses the lines of her social status. To protect Ok Jung, the woman he loves, Sukjong grows his power, forging formidable royal authority. Will Jang Ok Jung and Sukjong's ill-fated and sorrowful love defeat the palace feuds?

Jang Ok Jung, Living in Love

Dan Bi, a senior in high school who gave up on mathematics, runs away to the Joseon era on the day of SAT. And the very day that determines her whole life, when her life is at stake, someone enters her life with love. In Joseon, she witnesses and experiences that the agony she feels has been continued throughout history, and it isn\u2019t just hers but that of everyone. In that process, she feels comforted and consoled. This story is here to cheer up and comfort those who are striving hard to survive in the hectic and competitive modern day.

Splash Splash Love

The Splashers

The reigning queen orders the killing of her stepson in order to continue her family's ability to take control over the kingdom. Yeon Woo, who happens to hold the position of the crown princess, suffers an illness that leads to her alleged death. Now, it's up to the King Hwon to decipher the truth, and put an end to the wars that wrath over the kingdom.

The Moon Embracing the Sun

team 'Eclipse'

JTBC

Can a young royal physician change the fate of a cursed princess? 

When Queen Sim (Jang Hee Jin) is unable to conceive, she visits the shaman Hong Joo (Yum Jung Ah). Hong Joo’s powerful black magic helps the Queen give birth to a twin boy and girl, Soon Hwae (Yeo Hoe Hyun) and Seo Ri (Kim Sae Ron). 

But the dark sorcery comes with a price when Seo Ri is cursed, causing her to be abandoned and left for dead by the Queen. Seo Ri is rescued by the father of Poong Yeon (Kwak Si Yang), who becomes her only friend as she grows up in hiding. 

With Poong Yeon and her helper, Choi Hyun Seo (Lee Sung Jae), by her side, Seo Ri grows up as a witch, all the while trying to figure out how to lift the evil curse on her life. When Seo Ri meets the royal physician Heo Jun (Yoon Shi Yoon), will he help her change her fate and reclaim her rightful place? 

“Mirror of the Witch” is a 2016 South Korean drama series directed by Jo Hyun Tak. The series is inspired by the Mirror of Eastern Medicine (Dongui Bogam), a book compiled by the royal physician Heo Jun and published during the Joseon Dynasty and considered a classic in the study of Korean traditional medicine.

Mirror of the Witch

Team Bewitched

KBS02

We all once have read about Hwarang and heard about a few famous historical Hwarangs. However, not one of us exactly knows what or who they were, as all myths do. How could beautiful-looking young men have been able to be the leaders of Silla, the millenary kingdom that united the ancient Korean Three Kingdoms? What kind of a rite of passage did they go through in order to become the spirit of Silla? Now, we give full scope to our imagination to answer these questions, which were never written in history. This is a story of the friendship and love of Hwarang and a story of the youth struggling to make the world a better place. Above all, this is a whole new myth.

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