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In 1988, businessman Oh Dae-su is snatched off the street after a night of drunken trouble and locked inside a sealed room with only a television. For fifteen years he has no idea who imprisoned him or why. When he is suddenly set free, he hunts for his captor, crossing paths with a young sushi chef named Mi-do.
Seok-woo, a cynical, workaholic divorced father in Seoul, agrees to take his young daughter Su-an to see her mother in Busan. They board the KTX train with a mix of other passengers just as a sudden outbreak sweeps the country, and an infected woman slips aboard right before departure.
In Seoul in 1950, Lee Jin-tae shines shoes to pay for his younger brother Jin-seok's schooling and dreams of a better future for the family. When North Korea invades, both brothers are forced into the South Korean army, and Jin-tae throws himself into dangerous missions, hoping a medal will win Jin-seok a ticket home.
Four years after a zombie outbreak overran South Korea and the whole peninsula was sealed off, former marine officer Jung-seok is living as a refugee in Hong Kong. Chinese gangsters hire him, his brother-in-law Chul-min and a pair of fellow refugees to sneak back and recover a truck holding 20 million US dollars, in return for half of it.
After his fiancée Joo-yun is brutally murdered, secret agent Kim Soo-hyun vows to make her killer pay. Working outside the law, he sets out to hunt down the man responsible, a school bus driver named Jang Kyung-chul who has killed before, and his quest for vengeance turns into a vicious contest between the two men.
Cha Tae-sik is a quiet man who runs a pawnshop, and his only friend is So-mi, the little girl who lives next door. When So-mi's mother steals drugs from a gang and hides them in a bag she leaves with Tae-sik, the gangsters come for the drugs and take So-mi, pulling him into a violent fight to get her back.
During the Korean War, student volunteer Oh Jang-beom barely survives a brutal battle and is shaken by what he has seen. He is then put in charge of a newly formed unit of untrained student soldiers, joined by a defiant young criminal named Ku Kap-jo, and ordered to hold a key position.
Kim Sun-woo is a top enforcer who has served crime boss Kang loyally for years. Before leaving on a business trip, Kang asks him to keep watch over his young mistress, Hee-soo, whom he suspects of seeing another man. When Sun-woo catches her with her lover, he chooses to spare them, a decision that turns his boss against him.
In 1992, an elite group of North Korean soldiers trains under commander Park Mu-young to slip into South Korea as sleeper agents. Years later, South Korean agent Yu Jung-won and his partner Lee Jang-gil hunt for Lee Bang-hee, a deadly sniper from that unit, while Jung-won keeps the truth about his job from his fiancée Myung-hyun.
Joong-ho, a former detective now running call girls, is losing money because two of his women have vanished. Convinced a certain client is selling them off, he sends Mi-jin, who is sick, to meet the man and text back his address. That night turns into a desperate race through Seoul's streets as Joong-ho hunts for her.
In an alternate 2009, Korea is still ruled by Imperial Japan. Masayuki Sakamoto, an agent of the Japanese Bureau of Investigation, and his partner Shojiro Saigo stop a hostage crisis at a museum, and Sakamoto grows curious about why the rebels were after a mysterious artifact and the foundation linked to it.
Lee Ja-sung is a police officer who has spent eight years working undercover inside Goldmoon International, a crime syndicate run like a giant corporation. Chief Kang keeps putting off his promised transfer, and when Goldmoon's chairman dies in an accident, a fierce fight over who will replace him puts Ja-sung in even greater danger.
As a seven-year-old, Sook-hee watches her father being killed, and is later rescued from a terrible situation by the assassin Lee Joong-sang, who raises her and trains her as a killer. As an adult, she is recruited by South Korea's intelligence agency, handed a new identity, and offered freedom in exchange for ten years of service.
In the Chinese city of Yanji, ethnic Korean taxi driver Gu-nam is buried in gambling debt and tormented by worries about his wife, who went to work in South Korea and has not been in touch. After losing his job, he accepts an offer from a local gangster to cross into South Korea and kill a professor for money.
In the 1970s, as Seoul's southern Gangnam area begins to be developed amid political corruption, childhood friends Jong-dae and Yong-ki scrape by until thugs tear down their shanty homes. Desperate for money, they get caught up in violent political clashes and are separated. Three years later, each has found his own place in Seoul's criminal underworld.
In 1953, ceasefire talks drag on while soldiers keep battling over hills along the 38th Parallel that change hands again and again. When a South Korean company commander at the Aerok Hills is found shot by a southern bullet, counterintelligence officer Kang Eun-pyo is sent to investigate and find a suspected mole.
In 2004 Seoul, detective Ma Seok-do and his captain work to keep the peace as two Chinese-Korean gangs fight over Chinatown. The fragile balance breaks when Zhang Qian, the brutal head of a loan-shark gang, arrives with his henchmen to take the area for himself.
During Japan's occupation of Korea in World War II, more than 400 Koreans are forced into brutal labor on Hashima Island. Pushed to their limits by the harsh conditions, they gamble everything on a bold plan to break out.
Jang Dong-soo, a feared crime boss, survives a brutal attack by a seemingly random serial killer. Detective Jung Tae-suk, whose superior dismisses his serial killer theory, wants Dong-soo's help, and the two very different men end up joining forces to hunt the killer, each for his own reasons.
After President Park Chung-hee is assassinated in October 1979, martial law is declared and Major General Chun Doo-gwang is put in charge of the investigation. As he quietly gathers power, the principled Major General Lee Tae-shin is reluctantly appointed to command the capital's defense, setting the two men on a collision course.
Years after an earthquake has turned Seoul into a lawless wasteland, Nam-san is a tough hunter who, with his friend Choi Ji-wan, scavenges to keep their small village of survivors going. When Su-na, a girl from their village, is taken by a rogue scientist named Dr. Yang Gi-su, they set out to bring her back.
In 1990, detective Choi Hyeong-goo corners a serial killer who has murdered ten women, but the man gets away after a brutal fight that leaves Choi scarred. Fifteen years later, as the statute of limitations runs out, a man publishes a book titled I Am the Murderer, claiming the crimes as his own.
In 1968, after North Korean commandos sneak into the South in a failed attempt to kill President Park Chung Hee, the South Korean military gathers 31 outcasts, including convicts facing death sentences, into a secret team called Unit 684. Sent to the island of Silmido for brutal training, the men are promised their freedom and a fresh start if they complete a mission to kill Kim Il Sung.
In Berlin, an illegal arms deal involving North Korean agent Pyo Jong-seong falls apart when unknown attackers break it up, and Pyo barely gets away. South Korean agent Jung Jin-soo starts chasing him to learn who he really is, while Pyongyang sends a ruthless fixer who suspects Pyo's wife, an embassy translator, of leaking secrets.
Yong-hoo lost both parents as a child and grew up bitter toward God, pouring his anger into a career as a successful MMA fighter. After a bout in the United States, a stigmata-like wound appears on him, leading him to Father Ahn, an exorcist priest who sees something special in him as dark forces stir in Korea.
A man wakes up in a bloodstained motel bed in Seoul with no memory and a cross-shaped scar on his head, as CIA agents demand to know where a Dr. Jung Byung-ho is. A woman's voice in his ear tells him his name is Carter and that he must follow her orders to survive, while a virus that turns people violent and zombie-like spreads.
In the 1980s, under military rule, intelligence agents Park Pyong-ho and Kim Jung-do lead rival foreign and domestic units. After an assassination attempt in Washington goes badly, they learn that a North Korean mole called Donglim is hiding inside their agency, and the two begin hunting the spy while growing suspicious of each other.
Gil Bok-soon is a contract killer working for an agency run by Min-kyu, but at home she is a mother quietly raising her daughter, Jae-young. Unsure how to talk with her daughter about the changes in her life, she finds her two worlds harder and harder to keep apart.
In the Philippines, former special forces soldier Baek Chang-gi runs a brutal online gambling ring and kills a worker who tries to flee. Back in Korea, Detective Ma Seok-do is looking into that worker over suspected money laundering and starts to realize the case reaches much deeper than it first seemed.
In 2029, as North and South Korea prepare to reunify, unrest spreads and a terror group called the Sect rises against the plan. Special Unit officer Lim Joong-kyung is shaken after a young terrorist dies in front of him to avoid capture, and he befriends Lee Yun-hee, who says she is that girl's sister.
After a bloody incident, a little girl breaks out of a secret lab and falls unconscious on a farm. A kind couple takes her in and raises her. Ten years later, Ja-yoon lives a quiet life, but her family is short on money and she suffers painful headaches. To win prize money she enters a national singing contest, and what she shows on stage draws dangerous attention.
Hae-won is a cold, competitive bank worker in Seoul who refuses to get involved after witnessing a woman being attacked. When a clash at work gets her suspended, she takes a break on Mudo, the remote island where she grew up. There she is warmly greeted by her childhood friend Bok-nam, who lives a hard life under her husband's cruel treatment.
Li Myung-hoon, 19, grew up privileged in North Korea dreaming of becoming a pianist, until his spy father died in disgrace. Sent with his younger sister Hye-in to a labor camp, he accepts Colonel Moon's deal: become an assassin in the South to win their freedom. Posing as a defector, he enrolls at a South Korean high school.
Former national taekwondo champion Kwon Yoo spends his days at an internet cafe, where his character in an online shooter leads a tight-knit team. After he returns a lost smartphone to its owner's apartment, he is arrested the next day for killing a young girl, and with the evidence stacked against him, he is sentenced to life in prison.
In Vladivostok, South Korean intelligence manager Zo is tracking an international crime ring working near the border, while North Korean security official Park Geon arrives to look into a recent breach. Agents from both sides try to win over Chae Seon-hwa, who works at a North Korean restaurant, as an informant, putting her in serious danger.
Yoon Ji-wook is a tough homicide detective, a legend on the force and feared by gangsters. Behind that hard image, Ji-wook has longed to live as a woman since adolescence and finally decides to have gender-affirming surgery. But a gang Ji-wook once cracked down on is set on revenge, throwing those plans into chaos.
Byeong-soo, a small-town veterinarian, hides a violent past as a killer and now lives with Alzheimer's after a head injury. He records his days in a memoir while looking after his daughter Eun-hee. When two young women are murdered nearby, he cannot tell whether he did it, and a chance car crash puts a stranger under his suspicion.
During a job in America, professional hitman Gon makes a tragic mistake that leaves him wracked with guilt. His bosses then send him to South Korea to deal with one last loose end: Choi Mo-gyeong, a risk manager at an investment firm and the mother of the girl caught up in that job. Watching her grieve, Gon becomes torn about his task.
As bad weather sweeps over an airport bridge, a chain of collisions and an explosion leave people stranded on a structure close to collapse. In the chaos, secret military test dogs from a program called Project Silence break loose, and every survivor on the bridge becomes their prey.
A small crew works an oil rig called Sector 7 off Jeju Island, worn down after failing again and again to strike oil. When Hae-joon's uncle returns hoping to tap new wells, he brings a hidden plan of his own, and a strange new life-form soon puts everyone on board in danger.
In 1777, a year into his reign, King Jeongjo lives under constant threat from ambitious rivals at court and trains alone to defend himself. His one trusted ally is loyal servant Gap-soo, who grew up as an orphan trained to kill alongside his friend Eul-soo, now the deadliest member of a secret band of assassins ordered to kill the king within a day.
Born into a poor family, Park Tae-soo decides that power matters most in life and sets his sights on becoming a prosecutor. He gets into a top law school and reaches his goal, only to find the job feels like ordinary office work, until a chance opening lets him join a circle of powerful prosecutors.
Behind prison walls, Han Jae-ho is the powerful leader of the inmates, and Hyun-soo is a police officer secretly working undercover as a prisoner. The two men team up with a plan to take control of a gang, in a story built on shifting loyalty and betrayal.
Ji Hyeong-do is one of the most skilled killers at a metal fabrication company that secretly runs an assassination business. After a job, he is ordered to get rid of his young partner Ra-hun, who asks him to pass money to his family. When Hyeong-do visits, he meets Ra-hun's mother Yu Mi-yeon, a former singer, and falls for her.
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.
Homicide detective Han Do-kyung takes money to handle dirty work behind the scenes for corrupt mayor Park Sung-bae, needing cash for his wife's hospital bills. When prosecutors Kim Cha-in and Do Chang-hak find his weak spot, they force him to help them build a case against the mayor, leaving him trapped between both sides.
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.
Detective Won-ho is consumed by his hunt for the head of Asia's largest drug ring, a faceless boss called "Mr. Lee" whom rivals often impersonate. After a deadly blast, his team finds one survivor, a low-ranking gang member named Rak, who agrees to help the police get closer to the man at the top.
