Shows Like Uncle Sam-sik

The reign of King Sejong the Great — not the history-book version, but the man: the battles with his court, the resistance from scholars who saw the creation of Hangul as a threat …

If you loved Uncle Sam-sik's political maneuvering where every alliance is temporary, Perfect Crown delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about the intoxication of power and what it costs to keep it.

A Joseon prince investigates a mysterious plague that turns the dead into zombies while facing political enemies.

If you loved Uncle Sam-sik's political maneuvering where every alliance is temporary, Kingdom delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about the intoxication of power and what it costs to keep it. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

A tyrant king, threatened by conspirators, secretly replaces himself with a peasant clown who looks exactly like him. As the clown impersonates the king and begins to genuinely gov…

If you loved Uncle Sam-sik's political maneuvering where every alliance is temporary, The Crowned Clown delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about the intoxication of power and what it costs to keep it. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

When the Prime Minister of South Korea assassinates the President in a desperate bid to save the country from a corrupt system, he discovers that the system fights back harder than…

If you loved Uncle Sam-sik's political maneuvering where every alliance is temporary, The Whirlwind delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about the intoxication of power and what it costs to keep it.

An ambitious couple ruthlessly climbs to the top of South Korea's political cartel — only to discover that the summit looks different from what they imagined, and the people who le…

Both are built around the intoxication of power and what it costs to keep it. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

A low-ranked court lady in the Joseon inner palace discovers a hidden ledger containing evidence of systematic financial fraud that has been draining the state treasury for decades…

Both are built around the intoxication of power and what it costs to keep it. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

A queen fights to protect her sons in a brutal royal competition to become the next crown prince.

Both are built around ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely.

Set in 1920s Manchuria during Japanese colonial rule, a group of Korean independence fighters and outlaws converge on a lawless frontier. When their paths collide amid brutal gunfi…

Like Uncle Sam-sik, it leans hard into historical setting. At its core, it's about survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of.

Haru Tatsumi wants to be the richest person in the world and has exactly one skill: the ability to talk anyone into anything. Gaku Mikoshiba is a genius programmer who wants nothin…

Like Uncle Sam-sik, it leans hard into odd couple. At its core, it's about loyalty tested until it breaks — or proves it won't.

The epic true-ish story of Ki Seung-nyang, a Goryeo woman who rises from virtual slave to become Empress of the Yuan dynasty — navigating two men who love her, a throne she was nev…

Both are built around the intoxication of power and what it costs to keep it.