The King in Love

The King in Love

2017
★★☆☆☆ 4.1/10
📺 1 Season
🎬 40 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 KO
⏱️ 30 min/episode
Drama
Set during the Goryeo dynasty, Won, crown prince, has a sweet appearance hiding a lust for conquest. He is best friends with Rin, an elegant man of royal descent and Won's bodyguard. When beautiful San, the sole daughter of the wealthiest man in the nation, enters the lives of the two young men, the three at first become friends but a tragic romance ensues afterwards. Based on the novel of the same name by Kim Yi-Ryung.

Where to Watch (US)

Stream

Rakuten Viki

Seasons

Season 1
2017 • 40 Episodes

User Reviews

ParkMin
★ 1/10
The way they handled things was just all over the place. This loathsome love triangle infested its core amidst everything else. Forcefully pushing it in our throats around every single detour. It got trashier the longer it kept going. The drama was covered with palace politics, as always, but it was impossible to care about anything because they just obsessed over who's in love with whom, overshadowing anything the drama tried to offer. The pacing followed through in that regard—slow moments that dragged on forever for what could have been a quick tale. The drama fell way short of establishing a watchable narrative. It was like biting into a cookie and finding out it's all crumbs.
December 19, 2023

Crew

Director
Kim Sang-hyub
Writer
No Sun-Jae, Park Chan-Kyung, Song Ji-na

Network

MBC

Production

Tencent, U-Story9

Keywords

love trianglebased on novel or bookroyal familyromancehistoricalhistorical dramagoryeo dynasty