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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jian" data-source="post: 9845464" data-attributes="member: 78087">We started out watching sageuk (historical K dramas) about 15 years ago, especially Dae Jang Geum (AKA Jewel in the Palace) and Dong Yi (its spiritual successor), but we haven’t really watched any recently. The extremely hierarchical patriarchal society stuff really does my head in, it’s everything I want Korea to stop doing.(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_in_the_Palace" target="_blank">Dae Jang Geum</a> - literally Great Jang Geum - is about Seo Jang-Geum, who is mentioned in historical records as the only female royal physician in Korean history, in the early 16th century. That’s literally all we know about her, so the writers gave her an amazing story mostly made out of whole cloth. She’s an orphan, a chef, and a doctor. DJG was one of the first K-dramas that were seriously exported back in 2003 and was incredibly popular and successful internationally (in South America, the Middle East, India, and China), it probably still holds the record for the most viewed K-drama of all time at well over a billion viewers. Despite that it’s not easy to find these days - your best bet is probably Viki, which has a lot of great older dramas.)</blockquote>