Historical Korean Dramas & Movies

The Last Empress (1966)

The Last Empress

Rank #50330

Queen Yun, invested with a title of the second crown princess of the crown prince at the age of 13, becomes the Empress the next year. When Japanese followers force...

Battlefield Heroes

Battlefield Heroes

Rank #50448

A.D. 667C, a rising kingdom in the Korean peninsula, Shilla, attacks the biggest kingdom Goguryeo in alliance with Tang. Goguryeo has been the most powerful kingdom so far even threatening...

Boys Don't Cry (2008)

Boys Don’t Cry

Rank #50724

1953, the Korean war has ended, but the fight for survival has just begun. Two 18-year-old boys, Tae Ho and Jong Du, live in a camp for orphaned boys, which...

Jang Gil San (2004)

Jang Gil San

Rank #51516

Jang Gil San was a legendary hero, born to a runaway servitude and raised by entertainers, who dreamt of a nation for the common people. This is a historic drama...

Medical Gibang Cinema

Medical Gibang Cinema

Rank #51757

The chain of events is twisted when Yeon unfortunately witnesses her sister being gang assaultd. She is then filled by anger and takes her life on a vengeance road by...

Piagol (1955)

Piagol

Rank #51817

A group of communist guerillas encounter jealousy and rivalry among themselves because of the presence of the female compatriot while one of their members plots to desert their band....

TV Novel: In Still Green Days

TV Novel: In Still Green Days

Rank #52033

A drama depicting coming-of-age story of a woman during the turbulent time in the seventies....

Seong Chun Hyang (1961)

Seong Chun Hyang

Rank #52074

Chun Hyang, an old gisaeng’s daughter, is considered the most beautiful woman in the town of Namwon during the Chosun Dynasty. She falls in love with Mong Ryong, the son...

The Reputable Family

The Reputable Family

Rank #52416

“The Reputable Family” revolves around the Choi family as they perform nobleness oblige. Main character played by Cha In Pyo has a spiritual supporter played by Han Go Eun, who...

Hong Gil Dong (1998)

Hong Gil Dong

Rank #52592

Based on a fictional book about a Robin Hood in Korea, Hong Gildong, this drama is very loosely based off of that book and the time it was set in....

Obscene Scholar (2016)

Obscene Scholar

Rank #52596

Park Yong-joo is the Joseon time’s greatest playboy and he messes with the wrong woman. His life is in danger so he runs, begging the heavens for a life of...

Drama Special Season 6: Crimson Moon

Drama Special Season 6: Crimson Moon

Rank #52683

Crown Prince Sado spirals down due to his own insanity and his father King Yeongjo’s complex. (Source: AsianWiki)...

Drama Special Season 4: The Devil Rider (2013)

Drama Special Season 4: The Devil Rider

Rank #52875

A short drama about two characters who are good at riding the horse during the Manchu War....

Empress Myeongseong (2001)

Empress Myeongseong

Rank #52981

The drama is about the life of the last Korean empress, Empress Myung Sung....

Amnok River Flows (2008)

Amnok River Flows

Rank #53036

This drama portrays the turbulent life of Lee Mi Reuk, a Korean expatriate who fought for the freedom of his country while studying medicine in Tokyo, during the period when...

The 12th Suspect (2019)

The 12th Suspect

Rank #53229

Just after the end of the Korean War in 1953, an investigation into the tragic end of a poet in Namsan is launched and focuses on ten suspects. (Source: HanCinema)...

Chihwaseon (2002)

Chihwaseon

Rank #53352

During the 1850s, Kim Byung Moon saves young Seung Up from being beaten by a group of drifters. Seung Up draws him a picture to explain the reason for being...

The Fifth Republic

The Fifth Republic

Rank #53887

This drama is about the takeover of the Korean government in 1979 by Chun Doo Hwan....

Mulberry (1986)

Mulberry

Rank #54147

During the Japanese occupation, there lived a woman named An Hyub in Yong-dam Village. Her husband was a gambler who comes by every few months to change his clothes and...

Spinning the Tales of Cruelty Towards Women (1984)

Spinning the Tales of Cruelty Towards Women

Rank #54190

Gil Rye is a maiden from a respectable but poor family. She marries the deceased son of the powerful Official Kim’s household. She acts as young widow but she is...

Romantic Warriors (2003)

Romantic Warriors

Rank #54450

Desperate for a better life with his younger sister, Yo Yi gangs up with “Romantic Warriors”, an criminal squad, to make money. The squad, however, consists of dummy criminals who...

Eunuch (1986)

Eunuch

Rank #54907

Mid-level government official Seo’s son, Jung Ho and Minister-level official Kim’s daughter Ja Ok are meeting each other in secret. When Ja Ok’s father finds out, he grabs Jung Ho...

Forbidden Quest (2006)

Forbidden Quest

Rank #54929

Yun Seo, a world weary Korean aristocrat, and Gwang Heon, an old enemy of Yun Seo’s family, come together in the story of the Heukgokbisa, one of Korea’s most famous...

Lost Flower: Eo Woo Dong

Lost Flower: Eo Woo Dong

Rank #55106

A triangular relationship between Eo Woo-dong, her husband Lee Dong, and fantasy character Moo-gong, highlights on the first half of the Joseon Dynasty and portrays the contradicted life of the...