11 titles, most popular first
In 1980, Kim Man-seob is a widowed taxi driver in Seoul, raising his child alone and buried in debt. When he overhears another driver boasting about a well-paid fare to Gwangju, he grabs the job for himself. His passenger is Peter, a German journalist hoping to report on the growing unrest there, which Man-seob knows nothing about.
Kim Hyun-jun and Jin Sa-woo, best friends as close as brothers, serve together in an elite army special forces unit until they are recruited into the NSS, a secret South Korean black-ops agency. Both fall for Choi Seung-hee, the agent who quietly scouted them, as they begin a dangerous new life in espionage.
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.
Orphaned and raised by his gambler uncle, Kim In-ha spends his days with friends in the basement of a movie theater. He forms an unlikely friendship with Choi Jung-won, a straight-laced, wealthy boy whose family owns the theater, and both boys fall for Min Su-yeon, whose father runs the theater's projector.
As the Goryeo dynasty collapses and Joseon begins to rise, two close friends become enemies after a misunderstanding drives them apart. In a time of upheaval, each sets out in his own way to protect his country and the people he loves.
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.
North Korean detective Im Cheol-ryung is sent back to Seoul to catch Jang Myong-jun, a terrorist leader who escaped custody in New York and slipped into the South with a fortune. He reunites with South Korean detective Kang Jin-tae, and the pair are soon joined by Jack, an FBI agent chasing the same fugitive.
NIS agent Lee Han-gyu fails to stop an assassination carried out by North Korean sleeper spy Ji-won, and loses his job over it. Six years later, Han-gyu tracks down runaway brides as a private investigator and Ji-won works construction. When they cross paths by chance, each recognizes the other but keeps quiet, and they end up working and living together.
In the neighborhood of Changri-dong, a group of retired special-forces operatives have spent years living as ordinary civilians. When strange incidents, including a string of mysterious explosions, start to threaten their families and community, they band together and put their old military skills to work, all while juggling everyday life.
