Flower Crew: Joseon Marriage Agency (2019) [+]
Jun 10 2026
Flower Crew is a South Korean romance-drama-comedy set in Joseon era Korea and runs for 16 hour-long episodes.
Ma Hoon (Kim Min-jae) heads a boutique marriage agency along with Go Young-soo (Park Ji-hoon), specializes in makeup and clothing, and Doo Joon (Byeon Woo-seok), specializes in attracting women and information gathering. For the most part their agency finds suitable partners for their clients and act as go-betweens because often the couple don't even meet until the wedding. They also do wedding planning.
Blacksmith's son Lee Soo (Seo Ji-hoon) hires them to help him marry his long-time friend Gae-ttong (Gong Seung-yeon), a lower-class escaped slave who can't read and works doing odd jobs in order to raise money and find her brother who is a household slave (apparently she escaped when she was little and doesn't remember where she was "employed").
The wedding day arrives and Lee Soo doesn't show up because he's kidnapped, brought to the palace, and is revealed to be the long-lost prince and heir to the throne because the king recently passed away and the crown prince was murdered the same night. King Lee Soo is trapped in the palace, manipulated by his "benefactor" Chief State Councillor Ma Bong-deck (Park Ho-san), who also happens to be Ma Hoon's estranged father.
About halfway through the series the concept solidifies. Lee Soo asks Ma Hoon to make Gae-ttong into a court lady so that she can be chosen as the new queen. Gae-ttong wants to be a court lady because she bet lady Kang Ji-hwa (Go Won-hee, one of two friends of the lead in King the Land, 2023) that if she passes a court lady gathering Ji-hwa will release her brother. And all the while Ma Hoon is falling for Gae-ttong (and eventually vice versa because at this point she still thinks Lee Soo ran away on her wedding day and it's not like commoners ever see the king in person)...
This series was a pleasant surprise because I thought it was going to be more about the Flower Crew arranging these zany marriages (like making sure two people accidentally meet and foiling rival agencies). But that part quickly becomes a vehicle for the romance which gets better and better as the series progresses.
Overall a good romantic series.
Ma Hoon (Kim Min-jae) heads a boutique marriage agency along with Go Young-soo (Park Ji-hoon), specializes in makeup and clothing, and Doo Joon (Byeon Woo-seok), specializes in attracting women and information gathering. For the most part their agency finds suitable partners for their clients and act as go-betweens because often the couple don't even meet until the wedding. They also do wedding planning.
Blacksmith's son Lee Soo (Seo Ji-hoon) hires them to help him marry his long-time friend Gae-ttong (Gong Seung-yeon), a lower-class escaped slave who can't read and works doing odd jobs in order to raise money and find her brother who is a household slave (apparently she escaped when she was little and doesn't remember where she was "employed").
The wedding day arrives and Lee Soo doesn't show up because he's kidnapped, brought to the palace, and is revealed to be the long-lost prince and heir to the throne because the king recently passed away and the crown prince was murdered the same night. King Lee Soo is trapped in the palace, manipulated by his "benefactor" Chief State Councillor Ma Bong-deck (Park Ho-san), who also happens to be Ma Hoon's estranged father.
About halfway through the series the concept solidifies. Lee Soo asks Ma Hoon to make Gae-ttong into a court lady so that she can be chosen as the new queen. Gae-ttong wants to be a court lady because she bet lady Kang Ji-hwa (Go Won-hee, one of two friends of the lead in King the Land, 2023) that if she passes a court lady gathering Ji-hwa will release her brother. And all the while Ma Hoon is falling for Gae-ttong (and eventually vice versa because at this point she still thinks Lee Soo ran away on her wedding day and it's not like commoners ever see the king in person)...
This series was a pleasant surprise because I thought it was going to be more about the Flower Crew arranging these zany marriages (like making sure two people accidentally meet and foiling rival agencies). But that part quickly becomes a vehicle for the romance which gets better and better as the series progresses.
Overall a good romantic series.