Inspired by Curio’s amazing list and this topic on MyDramaList.com’s forum, this is for my own reference as well as a way to keep track of the historical dramas, which are getting more recognition and gaining popularity on big and small screens alike. Maybe I can challenge myself to watch as many sageuk dramas and movies too?
I’ve also added those featuring the period after Korean Empire, including creative works of Korea under colonial period, Korean War, and military rule, because my interest is growing on the history of that era. This page will be updated from time to time ๐
(Last Update: 15/11/2022)
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Prehistoric
Fictional Prehistoric : ์์ค๋ฌ ์ฐ๋๊ธฐ – Arthdal Chronicles (tvn, 2019);
Gojoseon
Proto-Three Kingdoms
Three Kingdoms (Goguryeo, Silla, Baekje, Gaya)
| Year | Ruler | Drama/Movie |
| 37 BC~ | Jumong (Goguryeo) | ์ฃผ๋ชฝ – Jumong (MBC, 2006) |
| 4-18 AD | Yuri, Daemusin (Goguryeo) | ๋ฐ๋์ ๋๋ผ – Kingdom of the Wind (KBS2, 2008) |
| 18-44 | Daemusin (Goguryeo) | ์๋ช ๊ณ – Princess Ja Myung Go (SBS, 2009) โค |
| Early 1st c. | Kim Suro (Gaya) | ๊น์๋ก – Kim Su Ro (MBC, 2010) |
| 341-375 | Gogugwon (Goguryeo), Geunchogo (Baekje) | ๊ทผ์ด๊ณ ์ – King Geunchogo (KBS1, 2010) |
| Late 4th c. | Gogugyang (Goguryeo) | ํ์์ฌ์ ๊ธฐ – The Legend (MBC, 2007) |
| Late 4th c. | Gogugyang (Goguryeo) | ๊ด๊ฐํ ๋์ – King Gwanggaeto the Great (KBS1, 2011) |
| 501-523 | Dongseong, Muryeong, Seong (Baekje) | ์ ์์ ๋ธ, ์๋ฐฑํฅ – King Daughter, Soo Baek Hyang (MBC, 2013) โค |
| 551~ | Jinheung (Silla) | ํ๋ – Hwarang: the Poet Warrior Youth (KBS2, 2016) |
| Late 6th c. | Wideok, Hye, Beop (Baekje) | ์๋์ – Ballad of Suh Dong/ Seodongyo (SBS, 2005) |
| Late 6th c. | Jinpyeong (Silla) | ์ ๋์ฌ์ – Queen Seondeok (MBC, 2009) |
| 561~ | Pyeongwon, Yeongyang (Goguryeo), Jinpyeong (Silla) | ๋ฌ์ด ๋จ๋ ๊ฐ – River Where the Moon Rises (KBS2, 2021) โค |
| Late 6th c. | Pyeongwon (Goguryeo) | ๋ง์ด ์จ๋ฆฌ ๋ฌ๋ธ์ก – My Only Love Song (Netflix, 2017) โค |
| 7th c. | Uija (Baekje),Yeongnyu (Goguryeo), Taejong Muyeol (Silla) | ์ผ๊ตญ๊ธฐ – Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms (1992, KBS1) |
| 598-666 | Yeongyang, Yeongnyu, Bojang (Goguryeo) | ์ฐ๊ฐ์๋ฌธ – Yeongaesomun (SBS, 2006) |
| Early 7th c. | Yeongnyu, Bojang (Goguryeo) | ์นผ๊ณผ ๊ฝ – Sword and Flower (KBS2, 2013) |
| 7th c. | Mu, Uija (Baekje) | ๊ณ๋ฐฑ – Gyebaek (MBC, 2011) |
| 7th c. | Jinji – Taejong Muyeol (Silla) | ๋์์ ๊ฟ – The Great King’s Dream (KBS, 2012) |
| 645 | Bojang (Goguryeo) | ์์์ฑ – Ansi Fortress/The Great Battle (2018) |
| 660 | Bojang (Goguryeo), Uija (Baekje), Taejong Muyeol (Silla) | ํฉ์ฐ๋ฒ – Hwangsanbeol/ Once Upon a Time in a Battlefield (2003) |
| 668 | Bojang (Goguryeo), Uija (Baekje), Munmu (Silla) | ํ์์ฑ – Pyeongyang Fortress/ Battlefield Heroes (2011) |
Fictional Goguryeo: ๋๋ผ๋ง ํํ๊ณต์ฃผ ์ฒด์ค๊ฐ๋์ฌ* – Princess Hwapyung’s Weight Loss (KBS2, 2010);
North and South States (Balhae & Unified Silla)
| Year | Ruler | Drama/Movie |
| 645-719 | Dae Jo Young (Balhae) | ๋์กฐ์ – Dae Jo Young (KBS1, 2006) |
| Late 8th c. | Heungdeok (Unified Silla) | ํด์ – God of the Sea (KBS2, 2004) |
Later Three Kingdoms & Goryeo
| Year | Ruler | Drama/Movie |
| 870-936 | Gyeon Hwon (Later Baekje),Gung-ye (Taebong), Taejo (Goryeo) | ํ์กฐ ์๊ฑด – Emperor Wang Geon (KBS1, 2000) |
| 941-969 | Taejo, Hyejong, Jeongjong, Gwangjong (Goryeo) | ๋ฌ์ ์ฐ์ธ – ๋ณด๋ณด๊ฒฝ์ฌ: ๋ ค – Moon Lovers/ Scarlet Heart: Ryeo (SBS, 2016) โค |
| 943-949 | Taejo – Gwangjong (Goryeo) | ๋น๋๊ฑฐ๋ ๋ฏธ์น๊ฑฐ๋ – Shine or Go Crazy (MBC, 2015) |
| 943-975 | Hyejong, Jeongjong, Gwangjong (Goryeo) | ์ ๊ตญ์ ์์นจ – Dawn of the Empire (KBS1, 2002) |
| 955-1031 | Gwangjong – Hyeonjong (Goryeo) | ์ถ์ถํํ – Empress Chunchu (KBS2, 2009) |
| 1170-1219 | Uijong – Huijong (Goryeo) | ๋ฌด์ธ์๋ – Age of Warriors (KBS1, 2003) |
| 1215-1268 | Gojong (Goryeo) | ๋ฌด์ – God of War (MBC, 2012) |
| 1290s | Chungryeol – Chungseon (Goryeo) | ์์ ์ฌ๋ํ๋ค – The King Loves (MBC, 2017) |
| 1320-1370 | Chungsuk – Gongmin (Goryeo) | ๊ธฐํฉํ – Empress Ki (MBC, 2013) โค |
| 1348-1374 | Gongmin (Goryeo) | ์ ๋ – Shin Don (MBC, 2005) |
| 1375 | Gongmin (Goryeo) | ๋ฌด์ฌ – Musa/ The Warrior (2001) |
| 1351-1379 | Gongmin (Goryeo) | ์ ์ – Faith (SBS, 2012) โค |
| 1351~ | Gongmin (Goryeo) | ์ํ์ – A Frozen Flower (2008) |
| 1351-1392 | Gongmin (Goryeo) – Taejo (Joseon) | ๊ฐ๊ตญ – Foundation of Joseon Dynasty (KBS, 1983) |
| 1351-1392 | Gongmin (Goryeo) – Taejo (Joseon) | ๋ํ์ – The Great Seer (SBS, 2012) |
| 1374-1398 | Gongmin (Goryeo) – Taejong (Joseon) | ์ ๋์ – Jeong Do Jeon (KBS1, 2014) |
| 1375-1410 | U (Goryeo) – Taejong (Joseon) | ์ก๋ฃก์ด ๋๋ฅด์ค – Six Flying Dragons (SBS, 2015-2016) โค |
| 1388~ | U (Goryeo) – Taejong (Joseon) | ํ์ข ์ด๋ฐฉ์ – Taejong Yi Bang Won/ The King of Tears, Lee Bang Won (KBS1, 2021-2022) |
| 1388-1400 | Chang (Goryeo) – Jeongjong (Joseon) | ๋์ ๋๋ผ – My Country (JTBC, 2019) |
Fictional Goryeo:
- ํ๋ , ์นผ์ ๊ธฐ์ต – Memories of the Sword (2015)
- ๋ถ๊ฐ์ด – Bulgasal: Immortal Souls (tvN, 2021-2022)
Joseon & Korean Empire
| Year | Ruler | Drama/Movie |
| 1388-1422 | Chang (Goryeo) – Sejong | ์ฉ์ ๋๋ฌผ – Tears of the Dragon (KBS1, 1996) |
| ย 1392-1393 | Taejo | ย ํด์ : ๋ฐ๋ค๋ก ๊ฐ ์ฐ์ – The Pirates (2014) |
| 1392-1910 | Taejo – Sunjong | ์กฐ์ ์์กฐ ์ค๋ฐฑ๋ – 500 Years of Joseon Dynasty (MBC, 1983) |
| 1395 | Taejo | ํด์ : ๋๊นจ๋น์ ๊น๋ฐ – The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure (2022) |
| 1398 | Taejo | ์์์ ์๋ – Age of Innocence/ Empire of Lust (2015) |
| 1400 | Taejong | ํ๋ ๋ค – Maids (JTBC, 2015) |
| 1400~ | Taejong, Sejong | ์ฅ์์ค – Jang Yeong Sil (KBS1, 2016) |
| 1409-1446 | Taejong, Sejong | ๋์์ธ์ข – The Great King Sejong (KBS1, 2008) |
| 1409-1446 | Taejong, Sejong | ๋ฟ๋ฆฌ๊น์ ๋๋ฌด – Tree With Deep Roots (SBS, 2011) โค |
| 1418 | Taejong, Sejong | ๋๋ ์์ด๋ก์์ด๋ค – I am the King (2012) |
| 1418-1446 | Sejong | ์ ๊ธฐ์ – The Divine Weapon (2008) |
| 1436 | Sejong | ๊ทธ๋ ๋ค* – The Palace (KBS2, 2021) โค |
| 1443-1446 | Sejong | ๋๋๋ง์ธ๋ฏธ – The King’s Letters (2019) |
| 1450-1506 | Munjong – Yeonsangun | ํ๋ช ํ – Han Myung Hoe (KBS2, 1994) |
| 1452-1457 | Danjong, Sejo | ํ์ฒ๋ฌด – Pacheonmu (KBS2, 1990) |
| 1452-1468 | Munjong, Danjong, Sejo | ๊ณต์ฃผ์ ๋จ์ – The Princess’ Man (KBS2, 2011) โค |
| 1452-1468 | Munjong, Danjong, Sejo | ๊ด์ – The Face Reader (2013) โค |
| 1452-1506 | Danjong – Yeonsangun | ์๊ณผ ๋น – King and Queen (KBS1, 1998) |
| 1452-1506 | Danjong – Yeonsangun | ์ธ์๋๋น – Queen Insu (jtbc, 2011) |
| 1452-1506 | Danjong – Yeonsangun | ์๊ณผ ๋ – The King and I (SBS, 2007) |
| 1462 | Sejo | ๊ด๋๋ค: ํ๋ฌธ์กฐ์๋จ – Jesters: The Game Changers (2019) |
| 1469 | Yejong | ์๊ธ๋์ ์ฌ๊ฑด์์ฒฉ – The King’s Case Notes (2017) โค |
| 1469~ | Seongjong | ๋ถ์จ* – Unrest/Rebellious (MBC, 2013) |
| 1476-1506 | Seongjong, Yeonsangun | ์ฅ๋ น์ – Jang Nok Su (KBS2, 1995) |
| 1482-1545 | Seongjong, Yeonsangun, Jungjong | ๋์ฅ๊ธ – Dae Jang Geum/ Jewel in the Palace (MBC, 2003) |
| 1482- 1506 | Seongjong, Yeonsangun | ์ญ์ : ๋ฐฑ์ฑ์ ํ์น ๋์ – /Rebel: Thief Who Stole the People /Rebel Hong Gil Dong (MBC, 2017) |
| 1499-1506 | Yeonsangun, Jungjong | 7์ผ์ ์๋น – Seven Day Queen/ Queen of Seven Days (KBS2, 2017) |
| 1504-1506 | Yeonsangun | ์์๋จ์ – The King and the Clown (2005) โค |
| 1504-1506 | Yeonsangun | ๊ฐ์ – The Treacherous (2015) |
| 1506 | Jungjong | ์ ์ฐ์น – Jeon Woo-chi: The Taoist Wizard (2009) โค |
| 1506-1544 | Jungjong | ํฉ์ง์ด – Hwang Jin Yi (KBS2, 2006) โค |
| 1506-1544 | Jungjong | ํฉ์ง์ด – Hwang Jini (2007) |
| 1506-1565 | Jungjong, Injong, Myungjong | ์ฌ์ธ์ฒํ – Women of the Palace (SBS, 2001) |
| 1522-1562 | Jungjong, Injong, Myungjong | ์ ๊บฝ์ – Im Kkeok Jeong (SBS, 1996) |
| 1522-1551 | Jungjong, Injong, Myungjong | ์ฌ์๋น, ๋น์ ์ผ๊ธฐ – Saimdang, Light’s Diary (SBS, 2017) |
| 1527 | Jungjong | ๋ฌผ๊ดด – Monstrum (2018) |
| 1540-1565 | Jungjong | ์ฅ์คํ – Okjunghwa/The Flower in Prison (MBC, 2016) |
| 1544 | Jungjong, Injong | ์ฒ๋ช – Mandate of Heaven (KBS2, 2013) โค |
| 1550~ | Myungjong | ๋ง๋ ๋ณด๊ฐ – Mirror of the Witch/Witch Exemplar (jtbc, 2016) โค |
| 1554-1598 | Myungjong, Seonjo | ๋ถ๋ฉธ์ ์ด์์ – The Immortal Yi Sun-shin (KBS1, 2004) |
| 1559-1615 | Myungjong, Seonjo, Gwanghaegun | ํ์ค – Heo Joon (MBC, 1999) |
| 1559-1615 | Myungjong, Seonjo, Gwanghaegun | ๊ตฌ์ํ์ค – Gu Am Heo Joon (MBC, 2013) |
| 1562~ | Myungjong | ์กฐ์ ์์กด๊ธฐ – Joseon Survival (TV Chosun, 2019) |
| 1569-1618 | Seonjo, Gwanghaegun | ์ฒ๋ฅ์๋ฆฌ – Roll of Thunder (KBS2, 2000) |
| 1570-1598 | Seonjo | ๊ตฌ๊ฐ์ ์ – Gu Family Book (MBC, 2013) |
| 1572 | Seonjo | ์ฒ๊ตฐ – Heaven’s Soldiers (2005) |
| 1575-1608 | Seonjo | ๋ถ์ ์ฌ์ , ์ ์ด – Goddess of Fire, Jung-yi (MBC, 2013) |
| 1583-1623 | Seonjo, Gwanghaegun | ์๊ถ – Western Palace (KBS2, 1995) |
| 1589-1608 | Seonjo, Gwanghaegun | ์์ ์ผ๊ตด – King’s Face (KBS2, 2014) |
| 1590s | Seonjo | ๊ตฌ๋ฆ์ ๋ฒ์ด๋ ๋ฌ์ฒ๋ผ – Like the Moon Escaping from the Clouds/Blades of Blood (2010) |
| 1591-1623 | Seonjo, Gwanghaegun | ์์ ์ฌ์ – King’s Woman (SBS, 2003) |
| 1592 | Seonjo | ์์ง์๋ 1592 – Imjin War 1592 (KBS1, 2016) |
| 1592 | Seonjo | ๋๋ฆฝ๊ตฐ – Warriors of the Dawn (2017) โค |
| 1592 | Seonjo | ๋ช ๋ถํ์ – Live Up to Your Name, Dr Heo (tvN,2017) โค |
| 1592 | Seonjo | ํ์ฐ: ์ฉ๋ฆ ์ถํ – Hansan: Rising Dragon (2022) |
| 1592-1607 | Seonjo | ์ง๋น๋ก – Jingbirok/Book of Corrections/Memoir of Imjin War (KBS1, 2015) |
| 1597 | Seonjo | ๋ช ๋ – Myeongnang/ The Admiral: Roaring Currents (2014) |
| 1598 | Seonjo | ํธ๋ฅธ ๋ฐ๋ค์ ์ ์ค – The Legend of the Blue Sea (SBS, 2016) โค |
| 1600s | Seonjo | ์ฒญํ๋ช ์ – Sword in the Moon (2003) |
| 1608-1645 | Seonjo – Hyojong | ํ์ – Hwajung/ Splendid Politics (MBC, 2015) โค |
| 1600s | Gwanghaegun | ์กฐ์ X ํ์ผ ๊ธฐ์ฐฐ๋น๋ก – Joseon X-Files/ Secret Investigation Record (tvN, 2010) |
| 1613 | Gwanghaegun | ๊ฐ์์น ์ด์ * – The Tale of the Bookworm (KBS2, 2014) โค |
| 1615-1623 | Gwanghaegun | ์กฐ์ ๋ก์ฝ – ๋ น๋์ – The Tale of Nokdu (KBS2, 2019) โค |
| 1616 | Gwanghaegun | ๊ดํด, ์์ด ๋ ๋จ์ – Masquerade/ Gwanghae: the Man Who Became King (2012) โค |
| 1619 | Gwanghaegun | ํํฌ – The Showdown (2011) |
| 1622-1623 | Gwanghaegun | ๋ณด์-์ด๋ช ์ ํ์น๋ค – Bossam: Steal the Fate (MBN, 2021) โค |
| 1623 | Gwanghaegun, Injo | ๊ฒ๊ฐ – The Swordsman (2020) |
| 1623-1649 | Injo | ์ผ์ง๋งค – Iljimae (MBC, 1993) |
| 1623-1649 | Injo | ์ผ์ง๋งค – Iljimae (SBS, 2008) |
| 1623-1649 | Injo | ๋์์จ ์ผ์ง๋งค – Return of Iljimae (MBC, 2009) |
| 1623-1649 | Injo | ํ๋๋๋๋ค – Tamra the Island (MBC, 2009) |
| 1623-1649 | Injo | ๋ช ๊ฐ – The Reputable Family (KBS1, 2010) |
| 1636 | Injo | ์ผ์ด์ฌ – Three Musketeers (tvn, 2014) โค |
| 1636 | Injo | ๋จํ์ฐ์ฑ – The Fortress/ Namhan Fortress (2017) |
| 1636-1637 | Injo | ์ต์ข ๋ณ๊ธฐ ํ – War of the Arrows (2011) โค |
| 1637 | Injo | ๋ง๊ท* – The Devil Rider (KBS2, 2013) |
| 1637-1649 | Injo | ๊ถ์ค์ํน์ฌ โ ๊ฝ๋ค์ ์ – Cruel Palace: War of the Flowers (jtbc, 2013) โค |
| 1637~ | Injo | ์ต๊ฐ์น ์ฐ – Strongest Chil Woo (KBS2, 2008) |
| 1641 | Injo | ํํฅ-์ฅ๋ถ๋์ด* – Return Home (KBS2, 2012) |
| 1645~ | Injo | ์ถ๋ ธ – Chuno/ The Slave Hunter (KBS2, 2010) |
| 1649 | Hyojong | ๋ด์ด ๊น์ ๋ฌ – Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River (2016) |
| 1649~ | Hyojong | ๋๋ช – Great Vocation (KBS1, 1981) |
| 1659~ | Hyeonjong | ๋ง์ – Horse Doctor (MBC, 2012) |
| 1670-1701 | Hyeonjong, Sukjong | ์ฅํฌ๋น – Jang Hee Bin (SBS, 1995) |
| 1680~ | Sukjong | ๊ถ๋ – Shadows in the Palace (2007) |
| 1674-1701 | Sukjong | ์ฅ์ฅ์ , ์ฌ๋์ ์ด๋ค -Jang Ok Jung, Live In Love (SBS, 2013) โค |
| 1681-1701 | Sukjong | ์ฅํฌ๋น – Jang Hee Bin (KBS2, 2002) |
| 1681-1724 | Sukjong | ๋์ด – Dong Yi (MBC, 2010) |
| 1693-1728 | Sukjong, Gyeongjong, Yeongjo | ๋๋ฐ – Daebak/Jackpot (SBS, 2016) |
| 1674~ | Sukjong | ๋ค๋ชจ – Damo (MBC, 2003) |
| 1674~ | Sukjong | ์ฅ๊ธธ์ฐ – Jang Gil San (SBS, 2004) |
| 1719-1728 | Sukjong, Gyeongjong, Yeongjo | ํด์น – Haechi (SBS, 2019) โค |
| 1724 | Yeongjo | 1724 ๊ธฐ๋ฐฉ๋๋์ฌ๊ฑด – The Accidental Gangster and the Mistaken Courtesan (2008) |
| 1724~ | Yeongjo | ๋์์ ๊ธธ – Path to Great Dynasty (MBC, 1998) |
| 1724~ | Yeongjo | ์ด์ฌ ๋ฐ๋ฌธ์ – Inspector Park Moon Soo (MBC, 2002) |
| 1728 | Yeongjo | ์ญ๋ชจ-๋ฐ๋์ ์๋ – The Age of Blood (2017) |
| 1734 | Yeongjo | ์๋ฆฌ๊พผ – The Singer (2020) |
| 1735-1762 | Yeongjo | ์ฌ๋ – Sado/The Throne (2015) โค |
| 1742-1778 | Yeongjo, Jeongjo | ๋ฌด์ฌ ๋ฐฑ๋์ – Warrior Baek Dong Soo (SBS, 2011) |
| 1750~ | Yeongjo | ๋ถ์ ๋ฌ* – Red Moon/Crimson Moon (KBS2, 2015) |
| 1754-1762 | Yeongjo | ๋น๋ฐ์ ๋ฌธ – Secret Door (SBS, 2014) โค |
| 1762-1800 | Yeongjo, Jeongjo | ์ด์ฐ – Yi San/ Lee San, Wind of the Palace (MBC, 2007) |
| 1764-1800 | Yeongjo, Jeongjo | ์ท์๋งค ๋ถ์ ๋๋ – The Red Sleeve (MBC) โค |
| 1776 | Yeongjo, Jeongjo | ๋ฐ๋๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์ฌ๋ผ์ง๋ค – The Grand Heist/Gone with the Wind (2012) |
| 1776 | Jeongjo | ์ญ๋ฆฐ – The Fatal Encounter/King’s Wrath (2014) |
| 1776~ | Jeongjo | ์๋ – The Royal Way (MBC, 1991) |
| 1776~ | Jeongjo | ํ๊ตญ์ – Hong Guk Young (MBC, 2001) |
| 1776~ | Jeongjo | ๋ฐ๋์ ํ์ – Painter of the Wind (SBS, 2008) โค |
| 1776~ | Jeongjo | ๋ฏธ์ธ๋ – Portrait of a Beauty (2008) |
| 1776~ | Jeongjo | ๊ฑฐ์ ๊น๋ง๋ – Merchant Kim Man Deok (KBS1, 2010) |
| 1776~ | Jeongjo | ์์ค ๋ชฉ๋ฏผ์ฌ์ – Novel Admonitions on Governing Officials (KBS2, 2000) |
| 1776~ | Jeongjo | ์ฑ๊ท ๊ด ์ค์บ๋ค – Sungkyunkwan Scandal (KBS2, 2010) โค |
| 1793 | Jeongjo | ์กฐ์ ๋ช ํ์ : ๊ฐ์ํฌ๊ตฌ๊ฝ์ ๋น๋ฐ – Detective K: Secret of the Virtuous Widow (2011) |
| 1795 | Jeongjo | ์กฐ์ ๋ช ํ์ : ์ฌ๋ผ์ง ๋์ ๋ธ – Detective K: Secret of the Lost Island (2015) |
| 1795 | Jeongjo | ์กฐ์ ๋ช ํ์ : ํกํ๊ดด๋ง์ ๋น๋ฐ – Detective K: Secret of the Living Dead (2018) |
| 1776~ | Jeongjo | ์ํ์ด์ฌ: ์กฐ์ ๋น๋ฐ์์ฌ๋จ – Royal Secret Agent (KBS2, 2020) |
| 1800 | Jeongjo | ํ์ฑ๋ณ๊ณก-์ – Conspiracy in the Court/Seoul’s Sad Song (KBS2, 2007) โค |
| 1801-1816 | Sunjo | ์์ฐ์ด๋ณด – The Book of Fish (2021) |
| 1803-1840 | Sunjo, Heonjong | ์๋ – Sangdo (MBC, 2001) |
| 1808 | Sunjo | ํ์ ๋ – Blood Rain (2005) |
| 1827~ | Sunjo | ๊ตฌ๋ฅด๋ฏธ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ ๋ฌ๋น – Moonlight Drawn by Clouds/ Love in the Moonlight (KBS2, 2016) |
| 1830-1843 | Sunjo, Heonjong | ๋ช ๋น – Fengshui (2018) |
| 1837-1900 | Heonjong, Cheoljong, Gojong | ํ์์ธ ์ด์ ๋ง – Man of the Sun, Lee Je Ma (KBS2, 2002) |
| 1843-1897 | Heonjong, Cheoljong, Gojong | ์ทจํ์ – Chwihwaseon/ Painted Fire (2002) |
| 1847 | Heonjong | ํฅ๋ถ: ๊ธ๋ก ์ธ์์ ๋ฐ๊พผ ์ – Heung-boo: The Revolutionist (2018) |
| 1849-1866 | Cheoljong, Gojong | ๋ฐ๋๊ณผ ๊ตฌ๋ฆ๊ณผ ๋น – King Maker: The Change of Destiny (TV Chosun, 2020) |
| 1850s | Cheoljong | ์งํจ – The Duo (MBC, 2011) |
| 1850s | Cheoljong, Gojong | ๊ณ ์ฐ์, ๋๋์ฌ์ง๋ – The Map Against the World (2016) |
| 1850s | Cheoljong | ์ฅ์ฌ์ ์ -๊ฐ์ฃผ 2015 – The God of Trade-Gaekju (KBS2, 2015-2016) |
| 1851 | Cheoljong | ์ฒ ์ธ์ํ – Mr. Queen/ Queen Cheorin (tvn, 2020) โค |
| 1857-1898 | Cheoljong, Gojong | ํ์ด – Poongwoon (KBS1, 1982) |
| 1861-1898 | Cheoljong, Gojong | ๋ช ์ฑํฉํ – Empress Myeongseong (KBS2, 2001) |
| 1862 | Cheoljong | ๊ตฐ๋: ๋ฏผ๋์ ์๋ – Kundo: Age of the Rampant (2014) |
| 1863-1895 | Gojong | ์ฐฌ๋ํ ์ฌ๋ช – Dazzling Dawn (KBS1, 1995) |
| 1863~ | Gojong | ์กฐ์ ์ด์ก์ด – Joseon Gunman (KBS2, 2014) |
| 1863~ | Gojong | ์กฐ์ ๊ณผํ์์ฌ๋ ๋ณ์๊ฒ – Chosun Police (MBC, 2005) |
| 1863~ | Gojong | ๋ณ์๊ฒ ์์ฆ1 – Chosun Police Season 1 (MBC, 2007) |
| 1863~ | Gojong | ๋ณ์๊ฒ ์์ฆ2 – Chosun Police Season 2 (MBC, 2008) |
| 1863-1910 | Gojong, Sunjong | ๋ ๋ฆฝ๋ฌธ – Dokripmun/ Independence Gate (KBS1, 1984) |
| 1866~ | Gojong | ๋ถ๊ฝ์ฒ๋ผ ๋๋น์ฒ๋ผ – The Sword with No Name (2009) |
| 1867 | Gojong | ๋๋ฆฌํ๊ฐ – The Sound of A Flower (2015) |
| 1871-1909 | Gojong, Sunjong | ๋ฏธ์คํฐ ์ ์ค์ธ – Mr Sunshine (tvN, 2018) โค |
| 1876~ | Gojong | ์ ์ค์ – Jejoongwon (SBS, 2010) |
| 1893-1896 | Gojong | ๋ น๋๊ฝ – Nokdu Flower/ Mung Bean Flower (SBS, 2019) |
| 1896 | Gojong | ๊ฐ๋น – Gabi (2012) |
| 1896 | Gojong | ๋์ฅ ๊น์ฐฝ์ – Man of Will (2017) |
| 1910 | Sunjong | ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ ์ด์ธ – Private Eye/ Shadow Murder (2009) |
Fictional Joseon:
- ํ๊ธธ๋ – Hong Gil Dong (SBS, 1998)
- ๋๋ง – Daemang/ Great Ambition (SBS, 2002)
- ํ์ฌ – Duelist (2005) โค
- ์๋์์ – Forbidden Quest (2005)
- ํ๊ธธ๋ – Hong Gil Dong (KBS2, 2008)
- ๋ฐฉ์์ – The Servant (2010)
- ๋ฏธ๋ จ* – Lingering Affection (KBS2, 2011)
- ๊ฐ์ฒ ๋ณธ์* – The True Colours of Kang and Cheol (KBS2, 2012)
- ํด๋ฅผ ํ์ ๋ฌ – The Moon Embracing the Sun (MBC, 2012) โค
- ํ๊ถ: ์์ ์ฒฉ – The Concubine (2012)
- ์๋์ฌ๋์ – Arang and the Magistrate (MBC, 2012) โค
- ์ ์ฐ์น – Jeon Woo Chi (KBS2, 2012)
- ์๋ํ์ถ๊ธฐ* – Swine Escape/ Escaping Slavery (MBC, 2013)
- ๊ณก๋น* – The Dirge Singer (KBS2, 2014) โค
- ์กฐ์ ๋ฏธ๋ ์ผ์ด์ฌ – The Huntresses (2014)
- ์ผ๊ฒฝ๊พผ ์ผ์ง – The Night Watchman’s Journal (MBC, 2014)
- ์์์ – The Royal Tailor (2014)
- ํ์๋น ์ผ๊ธฐ* – Hyeongyeongdang’s Diary (MBC, 2014)
- ์๋ ์ผ๊ธฐ* – Diary of a Resentful Woman (MBC, 2014)
- ๋ฐค์ ๊ฑท๋ ์ ๋น – Scholar Who Walks the Night (MBC, 2015)
- ์กฐ์ ๋ง์ ์ฌ – The Magician (2015)
- ์ฝ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๊ทธ๋ – My Sassy Girl (SBS, 2017)
- ๊ตฐ์ฃผ: ๊ฐ๋ฉด์ ์ฃผ์ธ – Ruler: Master of the Mask (MBC, 2017)
- ๊ถํฉ – The Princess and the Matchmaker (2018)
- ๋๊ตฐ: ์ฌ๋์ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๋ค – The Grand Prince (TV Chosun, 2018)
- ๋ฐฑ์ผ์ ๋ญ๊ตฐ๋ – 100 Days My Prince (tvN, 2018)
- ์ฐฝ๊ถ – Rampant (2018)
- ์ฌ๊ณก์ฑ – The Wrath (2018)
- ์์ด ๋ ๋จ์ – The Man Who Became King/The Crowned Clown (tvn, 2019) โค
- ํน๋ค – Kingdom (NETFLIX, 2019~) โค
- ์ ์ ์ฌ๊ด ๊ตฌํด๋ น – Rookie Historian Goo Hae Ryung (MBC, 2019)
- ๊ธฐ๋ฐฉ๋๋ น – Homme Fatale (2019)
- ๊ฝํ๋น: ์กฐ์ ํผ๋ด๊ณต์์ – Flower Crew: Joseon Marriage Agency (JTBC, 2019)
- ๊ฐํ – ์ฌ์ธ๋ค์ ์ ์ – Queen: Love and War/ Selection (TV Chosun, 2019)
- ํ์ฒ๊ธฐ – Lovers of the Red Sky (SBS, 2021) โค
- ์ฐ๋ชจ – The King’s Affection (KBS2, 2021) โค
- ์ด์ฌ์ ์กฐ์ด – Inspector Joy (tvN, 2021)
- ๊ฝ ํผ๋ฉด ๋ฌ ์๊ฐํ๊ณ – Moonshine (KBS2, 2021)
- ๋ถ์ ๋จ์ฌ – Bloody Heart (KBS2, 2022)
- ์กฐ์ ์ ์ ๊ณผ ์์ฌ ์ ์ธํ – Poong the Joseon Psychiatrist (tvN, 2022)
- ์๋ฃน – Under the Queen’s Umbrella (tvN, 2022)
Japanese Annexation & Provisional Government [1910โ1945; 1919โ1948]
| Year | President | Drama/Movie |
| Early 20th c. | ๋ฐฑ๋ฒ์ผ์ง – Journal of Baekbeom (MBC, 1989) | |
| Early 20th c. | ๊น๊ตฌ – Kim Gu (KBS1, 1995) | |
| 1910s~ | ์์ ์ฐจ์ ์๋ณต๋ – The Cyclist King/ Race to Freedom: Uhm Bok Dong (2019) | |
| 1911-1969 | ์ต์นํฌ – Choi Seung Hee (MBC, 1995) | |
| 1912~ | ๋ํ์น์ฃผ – Princess Deokhye/ The Last Princess (2016) | |
| 1918-1972 | ์ผ์ธ์๋ – Rustic Period (SBS, 2002) | |
| 1919~ | ํญ๊ฑฐ:์ ๊ด์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ – A Resistance/ Yu Gwan Sun’s Story (2019) | |
| 1920s | ๋ฐ์ – Secret Agent/ The Age of Shadows (2016) | |
| 1920s | ๋ชจ๋จ๊ฑธ* – Modern Girl (KBS2, 2020) โค | |
| 1920s-1930s | ๊ฐ์ํ – Bridal Mask (KBS2, 2012) โค | |
| 1920s-1930s | ์ข์ ๋, ๋์ ๋, ์ด์ํ ๋ – The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008) | |
| 1920 | ๋ด์ค๋ ์ ํฌ – The Battle: Roar to Victory (2019) | |
| 1921-1926 | ์ฌ์ ์ฐฌ๋ฏธ – Hymn of Death (SBS, 2018) | |
| 1923-1926 | ๋ฐ์ด – Park Yeol/ Anarchist from Colony (2017) โค | |
| 1925 | ๋ํธ – The Tiger (2015) | |
| 1926 | ๊ฐ๋์ ์ ์ ๋ณ์ฒ์ฌ* – Kang Deok-sun’s Love History (KBS2, 2017) | |
| 1928-1948 | ๋ง์ด ์จ์ด – My Way (2011) | |
| 1930 | ์ํผ* – Vengeful Spirit (KBS2, 2014) | |
| 1930s | ์ ์ * – The Peak (MBC, 2011) | |
| 1931-1932 | ์์ ์ธ ์ดํ์ – Freedom Fighter, Lee Hoe Young (KBS1, 2010) | |
| 1931-1933 | ์ด๋ชฝ – Different Dreams (MBC, 2019) | |
| 1930s | ๊ฒฝ์ฑ์ค์บ๋ค – Capital Scandal (KBS2, 2007) โค | |
| 1930s | ์ด์ ๊ทธ ์ด์* – Lee Sang That Lee Sang (MBC, 2013) | |
| 1930s | ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์๋: ํฌ์ ์ ํ์ – Inspiring Generation (KBS2, 2014) | |
| 1930s | ์๊ฐ์จ – Agasshi/ The Handmaiden (2016) | |
| 1930s | ์์นด๊ณ ํ์๊ธฐ – Chicago Typewriter (tvn, 2017) โค | |
| 1930s-1940s | ๋๊ธธ – Snowy Road (2015) | |
| 1930s-1940s | ๋์ฃผ – Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet (2016) | |
| 1930s-1940s | ๊ทํฅ – The Spirits’ Homecoming (2016) | |
| 1930s-1950s | ๋์๊ทน์ฅ – Orient Theater (KBS1, 2001) | |
| 1933 | ์์ด – Assassination (2015) โค | |
| 1937 | ๋ชจ๋ ๋ณด์ด – Modern Boy (2008) | |
| 1937 | ๋ง๋๊ฒ ํด, ์ฃผ์ค* – Let Us Meet (KBS2, 2017) | |
| 1938 | ๊ฒฝ์ฑํ๊ต: ์ฌ๋ผ์ง ์๋ ๋ค – The Silenced/ Gyeongseong School: The Lost Girls (2015) | |
| 1940s | ์ ์๊ณผ ์ฌ๋ – War and Love (KBS2, 1995) | |
Independence, 1st & 2nd Republic [1948โ1961] (Korean War 1950-1953)
| Year | President | Drama/Movie |
| 1930-1950 | Syngman Rhee | ์์ธ 1945 – Seoul 1945 (KBS1, 2006) |
| 1930s-1950s | Syngman Rhee | ๊ตญํฌ – Kukhee (MBC, 1999) |
| 1930-2004 | Syngman Rhee – Roh Moo-hyun | ์์ ์๋ – The Age of Heroes (MBC, 2004) |
| 1940s-1970s | Syngman Rhee – Park Chung-hee | ๋ถ๊ฝ ์์ผ๋ก – Into the Flames (TV Chosun, 2014) |
| 1940s | Syngman Rhee | ๋ง๋ชจ์ด – MALยทMOยทE: The Secret Mission (2019) |
| 1943 | Syngman Rhee | ํด์ดํ – Haeeohwa/ Love, Lies (2016) |
| 1943-1953 | Syngman Rhee | ์ฌ๋ช ์ ๋๋์ – Eyes of Dawn (MBC, 1991) |
| 1945 | Syngman Rhee | ์์กฐ์ ํ ์ด์ธ์ฌ๊ฑด – The Tooth and the Nail (2017) |
| 1945 | Syngman Rhee | ๊ตฐํจ๋ – The Battleship Island (2017) |
| 1945-1960 | Syngman Rhee | ์ 1๊ณตํ๊ตญ – The First Republic (MBC, 1981) |
| 1945-1987 | Syngman Rhee – Chun Doo-hwan | ์ผ๊น์ฌ๋ – Samgimshidae (SBS, 1998) |
| 1950s | Syngman Rhee | ๊ฒฝ์์ด ๊ฒฝ์ ์๋ฒ์ง – Kyung-sook’s Father (KBS2, 2009) |
| 1950s | Syngman Rhee | ํ๋์ฌ ์ด์ธ์ฌ๊ฑด* – Haneuljae’s Murder (MBC, 2013) |
| 1950s | Syngman Rhee | ์๋ – Guest/ The Piper (2015) |
| 1950s | Syngman Rhee | ์๋ถ์ ์ – Western Front/ The Long Way Home (2015) |
| 1950s | Syngman Rhee | ์ค๋น ์๊ฐ – A Melody to Remember (2016) |
| 1950 | Syngman Rhee | ์์ ์ฐ๋ชป – A Little Pond (2009) |
| 1950 | Syngman Rhee | ์ธ์ฒ์๋ฅ์์ – Operation Chromite (2016) |
| 1950 | Syngman Rhee | ์ฅ์ฌ๋ฆฌ: ์ํ์ง ์์ ๋ค – The Battle of Jangsari (2019) |
| 1950-1951 | Syngman Rhee | ๋ก๋ ๋๋ฒ์ – Road Number One (MBC, 2010) |
| 1950-1953 | Syngman Rhee | ํ๊ตญ๊ธฐ – Taegukgi (2004) |
| 1950-1953 | Syngman Rhee | ์ฐ์ปด ํฌ ๋๋ง๊ณจ – Welcome to Dongmakgol (2005) โค |
| 1950-1953 | Syngman Rhee | ํฌํ ์์ผ๋ก – 71: Into the Fire (2010) |
| 1950-1953 | Syngman Rhee | ์ ์ฐ – Comrades (KBS1, 2010) |
| 1951~ | Syngman Rhee | ๊ตญ์ ์์ฅ – Ode to My Father (2015) |
| 1951 | Syngman Rhee | ์ค์ํค์ฆ – Swing Kids (2018) |
| 1953 | Syngman Rhee | ๊ณ ์ง์ – The Front Line (2011) |
| 1952-1970 | Syngman Rhee – Park Chung-hee | ์๊ธ์ ๋ – Gold Land (KBS2, 2014) |
| 1957-1963 | Syngman Rhee – Park Chung-hee | ์ 2๊ณตํ๊ตญ – The Second Republic (MBC, 1989) |
| 1950s-1970s | Syngman Rhee – Park Chung-hee | ์ผ์์ด – TV Novel Samsaengi (KBS2, 2013) |
| 1950s-1970s | Syngman Rhee – Park Chung-hee | ์ํฌ – TV Novel Eunhee (KBS2, 2013) |
3rd Republic – 6th Republic [1961โToday]
| Year | President | Drama/Movie |
| 1958-1972 | Syngman Rhee – Park Chung-hee | ์ 3๊ณตํ๊ตญ – The Third Republic (MBC, 1993) |
| 1960s | Yun Bo-seon – Park Chung-hee | ํจ์ 70’s – Fashion 70s (SBS, 2005) |
| 1960s-1970s | Yun Bo-seon – Park Chung-hee | ๋ณตํฌ ๋๋ – TV Novel Dear My Sister (KBS2, 2011) |
| 1960-2002 | Yun Bo-seon – Kim Dae-jung | ์๋ด์ ๋์ชฝ – East of Eden (KBS2, 2011) |
| 1961-1982 | Yun Bo-seon – Chun Doo-hwan | ์ 4๊ณตํ๊ตญ – The Fourth Republic (MBC, 1995) |
| 1968-1971 | Park Chung-hee | ์ค๋ฏธ๋ – Silmido (2003) |
| 1969 | Park Chung-hee | ๊ทธํด, ์ฌ๋ฆ – Once in a Summer (2006) |
| 1970s-1980s | Park Chung-hee – Chun Doo-hwan | ์ฌ๋์ ์ฌ๋์ – Love, My Love (KBS2, 2012) |
| 1970s-1980s | Park Chung-hee – Chun Doo-hwan | ๋น๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ – Lights and Shadows (MBC, 2011) |
| 1970s-1990s | Park Chung-hee – Kim Young-sam | ๋ชจ๋์๊ณ – Sandglass (SBS, 1995) |
| 1970s-1990s | Park Chung-hee – Kim Young-sam | ์์๋ด – C’est si bon (2015) |
| 1970-2010 | Park Chung-hee – Lee Myung-bak | ์์ด์ธํธ – Giant (SBS, 2010) |
| 1970s-1990s | Park Chung-hee – Kim Young-sam | ๋์๋ ์ฌ๋ – Endless Love (SBS, 2014) |
| 1970s | Park Chung-hee | ๋ง์ฝ์ – The Drug King (2018) |
| 1971 | Park Chung-hee | ๋์ ๋จผ๊ณณ์ – Sunny/My Dear is Far Away (2008) |
| 1972 | Park Chung-hee | ์ ํฌ์ธํธ – R-Point (2004) |
| 1972-1994 | Park Chung-hee – Roh Tae-woo | ๋์ ๋ ์ฌ์ – My Dictator (2014) |
| 1977-1979 | Park Chung-hee | ์ฝ๋ฆฌ์๊ฒ์ดํธ – Korea Gate (SBS, 1995) |
| 1978 | Park Chung-hee | ๊ตญ๋น์์ฌ – The Classified File (2015) โค |
| 1979 | Park Chung-hee | ๋์ ๋ฆฌ ์๋ ์๋ – Girls’ Generation 1979/Lingerie Girls’ Generation (KBS2, 2017) |
| 1979 | Park Chung-hee | ๋จ์ฐ์ ๋ถ์ฅ๋ค – The Man Standing Next (2020) |
| 1979-1997 | Choi Kyu-hah – Kim Young-sam | ์ 5๊ณตํ๊ตญ – The Fifth Republic (MBC, 2005) |
| 1979~2017 | Choi Kyu-hah | ๋น๊ตฌ* – Ice Mound (MBC, 2017) โค |
| 1980s | Chun Doo-hwan | ์ธ๊ฐ์์ฅ – Human Market (MBC, 1988) |
| 1980s | ํํธ – Hunt (2022) | |
| 1980s-2011 | Chun Doo-hwan | ์จ๋ – Sunny (2011) โค |
| 1980~ | Chun Doo-hwan | ๊ฝ์ – A Petal (1996) |
| 1980-1999 | Chun Doo-hwan | ๋ฐํ์ฌํ – Peppermint Candy (1999) |
| 1980-2006 | Chun Doo-hwan | ์ค๋๋ ์ ์ – The Old Garden (2016) |
| 1980 | Chun Doo-hwan | ํ๋ คํ ํด๊ฐ – A Splendid Holiday/May 18 (2007) |
| 1980-2006 | Chun Doo-hwan | 26๋ – 26 Years (2012) |
| 1980 | Chun Doo-hwan | ํ์์ด์ ์ฌ – A Taxi Driver (2017) |
| 1980 | Chun Doo-hwan | ์ค์์ ์ฒญ์ถ – Youth of May (KBS2, 2021) |
| 1982 | Chun Doo-hwan | ํผ๋๋ ์ฒญ์ถ – Hot Young Bloods/ Blood Boiling Youth (2014) |
| 1983~2015 | Chun Doo-hwan | ์๊ฐ์ดํ์ – Time Renegades (2016) |
| 1985- 1986 | Chun Doo-hwan | ์ด์์ฌ์ด – Best Friends (2020) |
| 1985~1987 | Chun Doo-hwan | ๋นจ๊ฐ ์ ์๋* – The Red Teacher (KBS2, 2016) |
| 1985~2015 | Chun Doo-hwan | ๋น์ , ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ ์์ด์ค๋์ – Will You Be There (2016) โค |
| 1986~2016 | Chun Doo-hwan | ์๊ทธ๋ – Signal (tvn, 2016) โค |
| 1986~2017 | Chun Doo-hwan | ํฐ๋ – Tunnel (OCN, 2017) |
| 1987 | Chun Doo-hwan | 1987 – 1987: When the Day Comes (2018) |
| 1988-1995 | Chun Doo-hwan | ์๋ตํ๋ผ 1988 – Reply 1988/ Answer Me 1988 (tvn, 2015) โค |
| 1988 | Chun Doo-hwan | ์์ธ๋์์ – Seoul Vibe (NETFLIX, 2022) |
| 1989 | Roh Tae-woo | ์์ฌ๋ถ๋ฐ์ฅ-์์กฐํ์ ์ง์ผ๋ผ!*- Save Wang Jo Hyun! (MBC, 2013) |
| 1990s | Roh Tae-woo – Kim Dae-jung | 2014 ์ธ๊ฐ์์ฅ – New Human Market (SBS, 2004) |
| 1990s-2000s | Roh Tae-woo – Roh Moo-hyun | ํฉ๊ธ์ ์ ๊ตญ – Empire of Gold (SBS, 2013) |
Other Sources: here here here here
My personal favourites are marked with โค
Titles marked with asterisks(*) are parts of Drama Special (KBS) or Drama Festival (MBC)
the talking cupboard 
I love watching historical drama and to have this list, thumbs up! It’s really nicely done. Thanks so much for sharing!
Mind if you share your fave historical dramas / movies also? ๐
You’re welcome! Glad the list can be of help to you ๐
Hmmm maybe I should put some asterisks indicating my favourites but for now, here are some of them: Tree with Deep Roots, Princess’ Man, King’s Daughter Soo Baek Hyang, and War of the Arrows.
War of the Arrows. On to watching it now! ๐
Just new into sageuk dramas since lockdown. Absolutely love the history, music and acting. Can you suggest a series to watch that has a happy ending. The ones Iโve watched have ended so sad with the women sacrificing so much. Too sad for my system to endure
Hi Amelia!
Have you watched Flower Crew: Joseon Marriage Agency? It’s a fusion sageuk and from what I know, it ends well for the characters so you might want to check that out. Sageuk’s middle name is ‘death and pain’ so happy ending is quite a rare sight in historical kdramas ^^;
Thank you so much. I have some favourite sageuks and it’s nice to have an idea of where they all fit in. You’ve worked hard.
No problem! Do tell me if I have missed any show in this list ๐
I am new fan of ur blog. It’s lovely. The contents, especially this one. It’s a good idea. Thx for ur hardwork. Hug hug hug i love you
Awwwww thanks a lot for the love! โค hugs
Awesome.. thank you so much. Huge help in watching in order, and putting things in perspective. Please do add “Into the Flames” drama about the man who created POSCO, and hence brought about modern steel mill to S. Korea. It was an amazing drama.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Flames
Thank you for the tip! I really need help especially the dramas/movies set post-Korean War. Do share with me the titles I have missed in this list ๐
OK, so based on your recommendation, I finally watched Faith and I REALLY liked it. The whole time travel thing turned me off which is why I was hesitant from the get-go. But it worked. Thank you!
Anyway, based on what I gathered, I would say the drama ended in the year 1379. Without giving too much away to those who haven’t seen it, 1379 would have been 5 years into the reign of King U ์ฐ์ who followed King Gongmin.
Glad you liked it! I’m curious, though..what made you think it ended in that year?
(I’ll delete the spoiler once I read it! I promise… ๐ )
HI,
This is LACruiser from the Sageuk Channel on Viki.com. I added a link to your site there.
There is one sageuk from 1996 called Tears of the Dragon that I would really like to find where I can watch it online. I am hoping you or one of your fans will know. You have it listed from Sejong’s time but I have never been able to find a place to watch it.
Thanks for all you do!
Hi LACrusier! ๐
Hello~
Thanks for adding this blog to the channel. I have only seen the episodes on youtube without subs. Here’s the link to the first episode: https://youtu.be/4ZNWcz8R2Sg
I really love Ja Myung Go. I recommend it to anyone that liked Queen Seon Deok and Empress Ki. That drama was so underrated
I agree with you – I really liked that one too. Then you might also like The Ballad of Suh Dong or The King Daughter, Soo Baek Hyang
This is a really great list – extremely comprehensive. Here are some more you might want to add on the list:
1) ์๋์ฌ๋์ – Arang and The Magistrate (MBC 2012) – Perhaps this one was an oversight. This was a great drama – I loved it! Although there is not a specific date in the drama, it is based on a Korean folktale called “The Tale of Arang” that was set during the reign of King Myeongjong (1545-1567).
The following are sageuks are part of KBSโs “Drama Special” Series. They can be viewed on YouTube or on the KBS app on AppleTV.
2) ๋ง๊ท-The Devil Rider (KBS2 2013) 1-episode – drama starts in the year 1637 (during the reign of Injo)
The following have no specific dates, but are Joseon Era:
3) ๊ฐ์ฒ ๋ณธ์ The True Colors of Gang and Cheol (KBS2 2012) – 4 episode (very cute comedy!)
4) ๊ณก๋น – Dirge Singer (KBS2 2014) 1 Espisode
5) ๊ฐ์์น์ด์ – The Tale of the Bookworm (KBS2 2014) 1 episode
And one super tiny correction: Freedom Fighter, Lee Hoe Young takes place from 1931-1932 (with some occasional flashbacks to early times in Joseon).
Hi! Thank you so much for the addition and correction! I tend to miss lots of shows O.O
Regarding Arang, I’m torn in between listing it as a story set in fictional Joseon because it’s a folklore, or putting it according to the year it is published. Ahh yes, the drama specials! Gotta make time to watch them~ Thanks again ๐
Arang…..yeah, that’s a tough one. Since we know the time period based on the actual folktale then perhaps it should go on the actual list…but then it again it is totally fictional. I trust you’ll make the best decision. ๐๐๐
Talking about drama specials, there are some drama specials depicting sageuk.
Like Story of Hyang Dan (Hyang Dan Jeon) starring Siwon.
Btw Mimi, I love your list.. Very comprehensive. Thank you so much for pouring your effort into this! Gotta catch some dramas and movies as well!
Thank you for the lead Kanz! I love the story of Chun-hyang. Can’t wait to watch it. It’s only 2 episodes, so I can bang it out this weekend. ๐
Awww you’re welcome! It won’t be complete without the help I received from fellow fans. If you happen to see any that I haven’t included in the list, feel free to leave a comment!
Oh, KBS has a recent sageuk drama special, Crimson Moon (๋ถ์ ๋ฌ) about Crown Prince Sado ^^
Hey Mimi,
I LOVE your list! It has some elements that I’ve been meaning to add to mine but have never gotten around to doing. Maybe someday. Cheers!
thanks for sharing all that
I’m a sageuk addict…love the history….I was just thinking how cool it would be to have a comprehensive collated list….and what do you know…I found it in ‘The Cupboard’!
I’m sure I’ll pick up some more interesting things from your site….THANK YOU for the great effort you put in, you’ve worked hard!
Thank you for dropping by~ Glad you find it useful ๐
thanks again…currently im in love in korean historical drama….. u help me more
You’re welcome ๐ Glad to be of help~
First of all, thank you for this list. And sorry I wanted to add also “Jejoongwoon” 2010 for late 1800 and early 1900 with the annexation from Japan.
Oh sorry, I failed to see it (Jejoongwon from the list, I’m dumb) and also I replied to the wrong comment. I’m so sorry, thank you so much for the list and the incredible amount of effort and work you put in. (โฟ^โฟ^)
Awww no worries! Iโll just delete that comment if thatโs okay with you. Thank you so much for dropping by ๐
This post helps me so much! I can tell you’ve been work really hard to make this! Thanks!
Wow! This needs to go on every drama site and wiki. Good job!
Thanks for such a dandy list of sageuks. It’s a wonderful reference! I’d like to return the favor with another entry (unless I somehow failed to see it listed already).
DER YALU FLIESST aka AMNOK RIVER FLOWS (2008-09) 3 eps.; joint production of Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian Broadcasting) and SBS.
A touching and evocative account of the winds of change observed by the Confucian scholar Li Mi Reuk (Maitreya). Born around the turn of the 20th Century, he came of age after the last Joseon monarch abdicated to the Emperor of Japan. On the lam following a student demonstration, he made his way to Weimar Germany and eventually became a professor of Oriental philosophy. He was encouraged to write his memoirs, which were published as an autobiographical novel in German after the Second World War.
I was left with a peculiar, peaceful feeling after watching this drama. I’d never heard of Li Mi Reuk before, and was intrigued to learn of his connection with Weimar Germany… and the White Rose, who opposed the National Socialists. His translation of Lao Tse provided ethical support for the resistance movement.
I’m so glad I came across this list!! Extremely helpful especially for people who are truly interested in Sageuk dramas.
By the way, I’m just really curious, hope you’d reply…. have you already watched everything in this list? :O
The Duo ? They named an insurrection at a specific location, but for the life of me I can’t remember the name of the location now. I looked it up at the time though, and it did really happen. I remember thinking it was earlier than I thought it would be given the types of guns they had.
Got it – Hwanghae Province rebellion 1559-1562
Wow, I’ve been looking for a list like this for so long! Thanks. Question: Where can I watch “The Railroad” with Kim Kang Woo? I think it takes place around DMZ. Should it be added to the list?
Thanks so much for compiling this post!! I was searching for one just like it this whole time.
You’re welcome! ๐
Thank you very much for your efforts
i want to add this
Royal Secret Agent
Black Knight The Man Who Guards Me
Rooftop Prince
My Love From the Star
The Legend of the Blue Sea
Splash Splash LOVE
Queen In Hyun’s Man
100 Days My Prince
Gu Family Book
King Maker: The Change of Destiny