The King of Tears, Lee Bang Won (Season 1)

"The King of Tears, Lee Bang Won" (2021) is a South Korean historical drama you can watch online on iFILM. The series follows Yi Bang-won from the years he spent as his father's most effective weapon — strategist, general, eliminator of rivals — to the palace revolts in which he fought his own brothers for the throne.

Yi Seonggye could not have built Joseon without him. That much was clear. What was less clear was what he would do once the dynasty was established and the succession pointed elsewhere. Two armed confrontations later, he had his answer. Joo Sang-wook plays the lead, and directors Kim Hyeong-il and Sim Jae-hyun give the story the moral weight it earns: a man capable of both founding a nation and destroying his family to rule it. Stream "Lee Bang Won" online on iFILM.