Sageuk Lover

So this one was written by Rebel Thief Who Stole the People writer. It wasn't perfect but it was really good, I really recommend.

https://kisskh.at/dramalist/123girl these are my watched dramas/movies. I usually give 8- 8.5 for average shows. Any drama that I rated 9 and above are the best shows for me.

I've watched it already and even have the original DVD from Korea cause the female lead is a super favorite of mine.

Have you watched a historical drama/movie before? Lots of sageuks and historical films have couples spending a lot of time apart because of challenges. Even Jane Austen couples have the couples spent time apart before they are together near the end of the story. We do see previews for the next episode and they are together in that.

Instead of CLOY of Goblin, I think this deserves to be in line with beloved Korean sageuks of the past 20 years like Damo, Hwang Jini, The Princess Man, Jewel in the Palace, Yi San, Queen Seon Deok, and the most recent Red Sleeve. To people arguing the other dramas (aside from Red Sleeve) I mentioned are not classics or good enough compared to CLOY or Goblin, I'm gonna assume you've only been watching kdramas since 2016 since the dramas I mentioned are some of the most popular and beloved sageuks in Korea.

it's my first time seeing her i thought at first she looked very similar to the female lead in song of the bandits.

she never loved her husband. plus if jang hyun married someone else this whole drama's title "my dearest" would no longer make sense. it's about a love story that has to overcome so many trials and tribulations. remember this is a historical drama and women back then had it really hard.

Such a good drama, can't believe I almost miss seeing this one.

the story is not perfect but the actinf of the 3 main leads in Innocent Man is so good for me its worth the watch.

As someone who watched kdramas since I was a kid (2000s) Descendants of the Sun and Moon Lovers Scarlet Heart Ryeo are definitely not OG. They are only highly regarded because they are included in the first few kdramas where the english subtitled episodes come as fast as episodes released in Korea, that's why many people saw them. Before that, most people have to wait for months for a good english subbed kdrama. Some kdramas we watched have not so good quality subtitles. Moon Lovers Scarlet Heart Ryeo is actually a show I don't understand why people regard as one of the best sageuks, it's not even an original Korean story. It has great cinematography, beautiful scenery and great acting of the male lead so I give that. But there are tons of amazing sageuks people are missing out because they don't want to watch older shows.

King Sejo/Suyang didn't become just a "nice" person in the end of the drama. The last few episodes of the drama shows him being guilty by his conscience, his skin disease, some haunted dreams of the people he killed. For all his wickedness, we see in the show that the evil king did love his family. I think both his son's death and seeing his beloved daughter happy with a new family (and the fact that he was getting old) made him change a bit. The writers couldn't just kill him because the historical king didn't die. Some recent kdramas tried to change historical events and they got cancelled.
You have to also take note that the female lead is pregnant. Most other people on Kim Seung Yoo's side are dead as well. Kim Seung Yoo became blind too. Those details contribute to the factor on why Kim Seung Yoo stopped his revenge and why the ending is that way. And I don't think the ending is rushed or just decided on the spot because the ending is indeed the ending of the legend/years long rumored romance between an alleged daughter of King Sejo/Suyang and the chilf of Kim Jong Seo.
What this drama did was to fill up the blanks missing from the historical events as well as what is known from the legend of the romance between Suyang's alleged daughter and Kim Seung Yoo's son to create a compelling romance.

Okay, okay. I'm not denying the fact that the female lead in the drama you watched really suffered a lot. But that doesn't erase the fact that the female lead here suffered a lot too. Emotional suffering shouldn't be taken lightly anyway. Plus none of Seryung's family members tried to understand her which made her guilt feel bigger since her own family members feel heartless towards the man she loves as well as doing the right thing (none of her family was against her father banishing the former teen boy king). Emotional suffering only? Her father disowned her, made her a slave to a man she does not want to marry. Those are really painful sufferings since almost all her life this was the father that doted on her.
We were just talking how much we love this show and I'm really sorry if I really love this show and personally feel you're quite trying to put it down (what with your negative comments about the ending as well). Really sorry

it's supposed to be TPM, meant for The Princess's Man

she's a great character because she's a character who grows and develop throughout the drama. she's young and naive at first. but she did owe up to her actions, even risking her life to save the male lead (even after male lead tried to kill her father).

her father told her not to tell him. plus she did not know how dreadful would be the result of the male lead not knowing who she actually is until it is too late (if you remember, she only accidentally heard her father's plan to kill male lead's family).

try The Red Sleeve

all sageuks used to be like this. the use of teeny bopper songs with english lyrics started only with the youth oriented sageuks,.

the first king is weak and sickly and his only heir is a teenage boy. he has a very ambitious brother. so naturally the brother will use this opportunity (his brother's sickness and his brother's heir being young) to get his ambitions. the weak king did have a strong supporter (general kim jong seo) at first which the ambitious king was very successful in fooling.

For those not liking the ending, please watch these videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue_lxcEWioU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=shared&fbclid=IwAR0qlPRHmlnYaSOuZB6m7DKZ8TzoXLkwM4_s_eywPOz9bS_HHmDw3h3B31w&v=cwnD1nd9iN0
=> both are in Korean but you can check the comments in the first video for explanation of the summary of both videos . First video is actually a documentary that discusses the historicity of the lead characters while the drama was being shown in Korea.

This is not 100% true of course but the link I posted are about Koreans debating the existence of the titular princess in the story. There is really a rumor that the king really had a princess that ran away with her lover (son of her father's enemy) and that years later the princess's father met his grandchild through the princess, which is a similar ending to the drama. Here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=shared&fbclid=IwAR0qlPRHmlnYaSOuZB6m7DKZ8TzoXLkwM4_s_eywPOz9bS_HHmDw3h3B31w&v=cwnD1nd9iN0) shows this very similar story based on the rumor (video is different from the one I posted above). Notice how both this video and the drama had the king seeing his grandchild years after the princess ran away from him. This drama is partly based on this rumor and they followed this ending (princess and lover living in hiding with king seeing his granddaughter years later) quite faithfully.