The King's Affection

Series Similar to The King's Affection

If you enjoyed The King's Affection, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Red Sleeve

   2021 · Drama, Romance, History · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance / History profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Red Sleeve tells the record of a royal court romance between the King of Joseon who believes his duty is to his country first above love, and a court lady who wants to protect the life she has chosen.

2. Hwarang

   2016 · Drama, Romance, History · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance / History profile, also on KBS2.

   The names of just few Hwarangs are recorded in history. Not many people these days truly know about Hwarangs. How did they start? How did beautiful looking young men become at the center of unifying old Korea's Three Kingdoms? To these countless questions, we look forward to finding the answers. Let's imagine how life must have been for young people of Silla back in the 6th century. Let us tell you a story about their friendships and love.

3. My Dearest

   2023 · Drama, Romance, History · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance / History profile.

   A love-story between a noble woman and a mysterious man who shows up in her hometown set in the 1600s during the Qing invasion. Yu Gil Chae is a pretty, bubbly and a bit spoiled young lady who's named as the 99 tailed fox of Neunggun-ri. She is a bit of an outcast too because other young ladies are jealous of her. They seem to think she's too straight forward and her behavior is inappropriate for a young lady while young noble men think highly of her. Gil Chae knows how to get men to fall for her but fails to capture the heart of the person she likes. Lee Jang Hyun is a mysterious man who suddenly appears in the Neunggun-ri social scene one day. Nobody really knows about him. Young nobles don't like him while he has elderly people wrapped around his finger. He's been dating around a lot but becomes curious about a certain 99 tailed fox. And one day, the said fox crash lands to his arm literally. With the brewing war, the pair find themselves separated even before they start to make sense of their feelings.  

4. War & Peace

   2016 · Drama, Romance, History · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance / History profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   In a new adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's timeless novel, three young people experience life, love and loss against the epic backdrop of Russia's wars with Napoleon.

5. The Rise of Phoenixes

   2018 · Drama, Romance, History · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance / History profile, hidden gem.

   The story of power, desire, lust and love among people of different kingdoms in ancient China. No matter who you are, you have to rise from the mud to become The Great Phoenix.

6. Memoir of Rati

   2025 · Drama, Romance, History · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance / History profile, hidden gem.

   From the pages of the memoir of Rati, an orphan born of a commoner who has been adopted by an aristocrat, who returns to Siam for the first time in 20 years as an interpreter for the French ambassador. There, he meets Theeratorn, a marquis in the Ministry of Education. Their love at first sight turns into companionship, which then turns into love. But this love blooms among various constraints and conflicts of its time. Just like the taboo of social differences between Mek, a lowly commoner, and Baronnet Dech which threatens their budding friendship. Does true love pull through everything?

7. The Dovekeepers

   2015 · Drama, Romance, History · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance / History profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Based on Alice Hoffman's historical novel about the Siege of Masada, the miniseries focuses on four extraordinary women whose lives intersect in a fight for survival at the siege of Masada. Set in ancient Israel, "The Dovekeepers" is based on the true events at Masada in 70 C.E. After being forced out of their home in Jerusalem by the Romans, 900 Jews were ensconced in a fortress at Masada, a mountain in the Judean desert. Besieged at Masada, the Jews held out for months against the vast Roman armies. The project will recount the events from the perspective of a few extraordinary women who arrive at Masada with unique backstories, but a common bond for survival. Additionally, these women, who work together daily as dovekeepers, are all concealing substantial secrets.

8. Inspiring Generation

   2014 · Action, Romance, History · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance / History profile, hidden gem, also on KBS2.

   Based in the 1930's of Shanghai, China, this drama is a story about love, friendship, patriotism and desire. Shin Jung Tae is an outrageous and clumsy man, but has an unconditional love for his country and family. He was known as one of the best fighter in the alleys of Shanghai.

9. Chernobyl

   2019 · Drama, History · ended

   Recommended for similar History profile, highly rated (8.9).

   Chernobyl dramatizes the true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history and tells of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster. The miniseries focuses on the heartbreaking scope of the nuclear plant disaster that occurred in Ukraine in April 1986, revealing how and why it happened and telling the shocking, remarkable stories of the heroes who fought and fell.

10. The Empress Ki

    2013 · Drama, Romance, History · ended

    Recommended for similar Romance / History profile.

    This drama is about the loves and battles of Empress Ki from Goryeo who exercises her influence in the Yuan Dynasty.