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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.
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.
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.
In 1970, a band of young Japanese radicals hijacks a passenger plane and demands to be flown to Pyongyang. Seeing a chance to win favor abroad, the head of South Korea's intelligence agency hands the rescue to a shadowy fixer known only as Nobody, who dreams up a bold scheme to land the plane in Seoul instead.
In 1990, civil war tears through Somalia as rebels rise against the Barre government. The North and South Korean embassies are each courting Somali support in their bids to join the United Nations. While South Korean ambassador Han Sin-seong confronts his northern rival Rim Yong-su over a sabotaged meeting, rebel forces storm the capital. The film is based on real events.
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.
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.
In North Korea, agent Eom Chul-woo is ordered to kill powerful officials to head off a coup. When missiles strike Kaesong during an event attended by the supreme leader, Eom flees across the border into the South with the badly wounded leader. In Seoul, senior presidential secretary Kwak Chul-woo learns that a coup may be brewing in the North.
In 1992, South Korean intelligence recruits Major Park Seok-young to learn the truth about North Korea's nuclear program. Posing as a debt-ridden ex-soldier turned businessman, he sets up in Beijing looking to trade North Korean goods, hoping to win the trust of Ri Myung-woon, a senior North Korean economic official.
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.
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.
In 1896, after his queen is killed and his throne is under threat, Joseon's King Gojong shelters at the Russian legation, where he discovers a taste for coffee. Back in power, he hires the worldly Tanya as his personal barista. Tanya soon finds herself pulled into a dangerous circle that includes the Russian marksman Ilyich and a mysterious socialite who goes by two names.
In 2007, a group of South Korean missionaries is kidnapped in Afghanistan. A diplomat and a National Intelligence Service agent travel to the region and put their own lives in danger far from home, pushing through tense negotiations and rescue efforts to bring the hostages back.
In Joseon, a plague that turns people into flesh-hungry creatures starts spreading from a foreign ship. Prince Lee Chung, raised abroad in Qing China, returns home to carry out his late older brother's request to protect his widow and unborn child, but is ambushed by assassins sent by scheming War Minister Kim Ja-joon.
