5 titles, most popular first
Kim Gun-woo is a talented young boxer who wants a better life for his single mother, but she falls into the clutches of Smile Capital, a ruthless loan shark outfit run by Kim Myeong-gil. Desperate to help her, Gun-woo accepts aid from kindly moneylender Choi Tae-ho and forms an unlikely bond with Hong Woo-jin, a former marine who also boxes.
Yeon Si-eun is a top student who cares only about his grades and is far from strong, yet he refuses to give in to the classroom bullies led by Jeon Yeong-bin. Using quick thinking and whatever is at hand, he fights back, and he finds unexpected allies in tough fighter Ahn Su-ho and troubled Oh Beom-seok.
Kim Byung-doo is a small-time gangster in his late 20s who can't raise enough money to save his family from eviction. Desperate, he goes over the head of his boss, Sang-chul, and takes a dangerous job straight from President Hwang, the man above them. Meanwhile, he reunites with childhood friend Min-ho, now a director making a gangster film.
Ex-bodyguard Jang Ok-ju loses her best friend Min-hee and learns that her friend's final wish was for revenge on Choi Pro, a predator who exploited her. Grieving and furious, Ok-ju starts tracking him down, determined to make him pay.
Four childhood friends grow up side by side: Joon-seok, the group's leader and son of a powerful mob boss; Dong-su, an undertaker's son; Jung-ho, the class clown; and Sang-taek, a model student. As teenagers they share crushes, run-ins with teachers and brawls with rival schools, before their paths start to pull in different directions.
