Historically Inspired K-dramas

 

     I really liked the following. Writing summaries for these series is very challenging, though, because these aren't 2hr or even 3hr movies. These are 16+ hour series with side plots, and surprises, and mysterious character backstories, and romance, and sadness, and treason, and amnesia, and face blindness, and sometimes even action.






100 Days My Prince -- 2018

Narrowly surviving an assassination attempt, a grumpy crown prince gets amnesia and lives as a poor villager. Beyond that... it's so hard to give a good-- but also concise!-- summary without any spoilers. So I'll stop here.




Goo Hae-Ryung, Rookie Historian -- 2019

Hae-Ryung is a noble, but not very rich. She becomes a court historian and meets the youngest prince. Also, there's mysteries.




My Sassy Girl -- 2017 (NOT the 2001 movie)

This one wasn't as promising at first, but the characters grew on me, and I definitely binge-watched the last several hours. A nobleman has an awkward run-in with the unruly princess (not realizing who she is). He becomes a tutor to the young crown prince, and he and the princess fall in love.

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