Sageuks worth watching even when you're not into sageuks.

Oldies but Goodies

Yul (Do Kyung Soo) is the King’s nephew who prefers to spend his days playing instead of being studious and ambitious. In one of his play days, he crosses paths with the kind and compassionate Yi Seo (Nam Ji Hyun) and falls in love with her.
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In this background, Yul’s father (Jo Han Chul) is a jealous man who vies for the throne, and schemes together with Kim Cha Eon (Jo Sung Ha). On one night, Cha Eon runs a coup that kills the King and his trusted allies, including Yi Seo’s father. Yi Seo escapes with her brother, unbeknownst to Yul, who was trying to protect her. Yul’s father becomes King, and Yul is now the Crown Prince.
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Sixteen years later - Yul loses his memory after an assassination attempt. How will this lead him back to Yi Seo, and what fate awaits them?

100 Days My Prince

The 100 Days Team

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'

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

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The weapon that protected Joseon since its founding was the sword. It was always up to the sword to end the battle. However, a new rifle that flowed into Joseon during the time of enlightenment reversed such a notion. Ironically, the muzzle of the new rifle aims at the king and scholars who insist on enlightenment. To fight against it, Yoon Kang, the son of Joseon's best swordsman Park Jin Han, abandons his sword and confronts his enemy with a rifle. While the king was humiliated by the Chinese emperor and the people groaned in pain because of paying tributes, Park Yoon Kang appears as a gunman to revenge on the aristocrats who were preoccupied with protecting their power and wealth.

Gunman In Joseon

The Avenger

The family of a young noble heir named Jeon Nok Du (Jang Dong Yoon) is attacked by a band of female assassins. During his pursuit of one of the members of this violent gang, Jeon Nok Du finds himself in a village that is populated entirely by widows!
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Jeon Nok Du is forced to go undercover, disguising himself as a woman in order to evade detection while he searches for clues.
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In the village, he encounters a woman named Dong Dong Ju (Kim So Hyun), who discovers his true identity. However, Dong Dong Ju is also hiding a secret – she has also run away from home.
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Dong Dong Ju is fleeing from an ill-fated gisaeng (courtesan) apprenticeship. Although she is very adept at practical tasks, she is hopeless at singing, dancing, and the other artistic skills required of the gisaeng.
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Will the unlikely duo succeed in keeping each others’ identities a secret? And what will happen when they begin developing romantic feelings for one another?
This drama was based on a web-based comic series named Nok Du Jeon, by author Hye Jin Yang. The series ran from 2014 to 2018.

“The Tale of Nokdu”, also known as Joseon Rom-com: Mung Bean Chronicles, is a 2019 kdrama series directed by Kim Dong Hwi.

The Tale of Nokdu

💞Lovers Secrets Joseon's Team

Lee Do is the third son of King Taejong of the Joseon dynasty. He becomes Sejong the Great, a well-known king with brilliance, but he is deeply traumatized as he has seen massacres committed by his father since he was young. Being a workaholic and an insomniac, he strives day and night to understand ordinary people and become a righteous king. Chae Yoon comes from a family of slaves, but he has become an officer working in the Royal Guards. He thinks his father died because of Lee Do and plans to take revenge on him. So Yi is the court maid that Lee Do's son loves. Although aphasic, she is smart, insightful, and passionate about creating the Korean alphabet. Ki Joon earns Lee Do's trust and gets involved in his project to create the Korean alphabet, but he secretly plans to stab Lee Do in the back. With all these people entangled with each other, serial murders happen at the palace, and the project to create the Korean alphabet doesn't go smoothly.

Tree With Deep Roots

Deep Rooted Friends Team

Eun O, a son born out of wedlock of the former Chancellor Kim, travels around the nation as he is interested in nothing, even women, money, or fame. Since his childhood, Eun O has been able to see and talk to ghosts, and this ability has bothered him so much. Eun O meets A Rang, a clumsy, brazen, yet lovely ghost. A Rang strives hard to find out who she was when she was alive, only to face despair. But she teams up with Eun O, a district magistrate, clears up cases one by one, and gets close to a big shocking truth.

Tale of Arang

Marang

Sung Nyang was born a girl but now pretends to be a boy to avoid becoming a palace maidservant. To get revenge on her enemies, she hides her true identity but gets caught up in a Yuan Dynasty conspiracy while watching over the Yuan crown prince To Gon, who was exiled to Koryo. Through a series of twists and turns, she saves To Gon, but her secret about being a woman is discovered, and she is forced to become a royal maidservant. To Gon was the rightful heir to the throne, which was stolen from him by his half-brother, who then exiled him to Koryo. To avoid being murdered, he plays dumb, but he has a fierce rage and sadness within him. He eventually returns to Yuan and becomes Emperor, and with the help of Sung Nyang, a royal maidservant, he becomes a dignified king and fights against those who are a threat to him.

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