103 titles, most popular first
Seong Gi-hun is a divorced father buried in gambling debts and living with his elderly mother when he is invited to play children's games for a huge cash prize. He is taken to a remote island with 455 other players who are all desperate for money, and soon learns that losing a game means dying.
Yoo Shi-jin is a captain in the South Korean Army's special forces, and Kang Mo-yeon is a surgeon. They see life and duty very differently, which keeps them apart at first, until they meet again on a humanitarian mission in a disaster-hit country. A second romance grows between master sergeant Seo Dae-young and army doctor Yoon Myung-joo.
In late 1987, as South Korea is gripped by the struggle for democracy, university student Eun Yeong-ro finds graduate student Lim Soo-ho covered in blood. She hides him from the government in her dorm room, drawing herself into a story that unfolds amid the political upheaval of the time.
Surgeon Oh Yeon-joo goes looking for her father, a webtoon artist who has vanished while finishing his series W. In his office, a hand reaches out of the monitor and pulls her into the comic's world, where she saves a wounded man who turns out to be Kang Cheol, the webtoon's wealthy hero.
Born into slavery in Joseon, Eugene Choi escapes to the United States as a boy, grows up in New York and becomes a Marine officer. Returning to Korea as a captain with the US legation, he meets Go Ae-shin, a nobleman's granddaughter who is secretly a sniper fighting for her country, and falls for her despite the gulf between their worlds.
After her father's sudden death, Yoon Ji-woo is set on revenge against whoever was responsible. She joins the drug gang Dongcheon, led by Choi Mu-jin, and with his help enters the police force under the fake name Oh Hye-jin, working as the gang's mole in a drug unit alongside Detective Jeon Pil-do.
Lee Yoon-sung grows up in the Golden Triangle, raised by Lee Jin-pyo, a former presidential bodyguard who survived a secret 1983 mission into North Korea only to see his team betrayed and their records erased. Trained hard in combat from childhood, Yoon-sung learns of Jin-pyo's long-held plan to get revenge on the officials responsible.
Three people are drawn together by an old incident tied to five friends behind an outlawed pro-democracy broadcasting operation: a highly skilled night courier known only as Healer, a reporter for a low-rent tabloid website, and a celebrated journalist at a major network. Investigating what happened in 1992 alongside a string of present-day murders, they set out after the truth.
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 Je-ha, a former mercenary framed for the killing of his lover in Iraq, flees back to South Korea. To get revenge on the presidential candidate he saw order her death, he takes a bodyguard job with Choi Yoo-jin, wife of the rival candidate, and is assigned to protect her husband's secret daughter, Go An-na.
Set in the Unified Silla era, the story follows Jang Bogo, a lowly slave determined to make his name on the seas. Along the way he battles pirates, gains a loyal comrade in the charismatic Yeom Jang, and clashes with Madam Jami, a Silla noble competing with him for control of trade in the South Sea.
Kim Tae-hyun is a gifted surgeon desperate for money to cover his sister's hospital bills. Under the code name Yong-pal, he secretly treats patients who cannot seek care openly, from criminals to corrupt elites. Working with a team of shady doctors, he is drawn to Han Yeo-jin, a chaebol heiress kept in a medically induced coma.
Lee Yul, the king's nephew, would rather play than study, until Yoon Yi-seo, a kind and clever girl from a noble family, scolds him for treating peasant children cruelly. Smitten, he starts working harder to impress her. But Yul's ambitious father is plotting with Kim Cha-eon to seize the throne, and a violent coup soon tears their worlds apart.
Kim Eun-oh, a nobleman who can see and hear spirits, arrives in Miryang searching for his missing mother and is pushed into becoming the town's new magistrate. There he meets Arang, a ghost with no memory who cannot rest until she learns how she died, and who carries a hairpin he once gave his mother.
An underachieving lawyer suddenly finds himself caught up in a murder case. Fighting to survive and keep his family safe, he begins to dig into a conspiracy that reaches deep into the country's wealthy and powerful elite.
Fifteen-year-old Lee Soo-yeon is bullied at school because her late father was convicted of murder. She meets Han Jung-woo, the son of a wealthy and powerful family, who stands up for her, and the two grow close and fall in love. Their young bond is shaken when Jung-woo is kidnapped and Soo-yeon, trying to help him, is taken too.
Set during the founding of the Joseon dynasty on the Korean Peninsula, this story follows the dreams, rivalries, and struggles of a mix of real and fictional figures. At its center is the young Yi Bang-won as a new kingdom takes shape around him.
In the city of Jungjin, the Counters are a small team of demon hunters who track down evil spirits that have fled the afterlife and feed on people through would-be killers. After one of their members falls in battle, his spirit partner from Yung chooses So Mun, a high school boy with a disability, as the team's new recruit.
In the near future, a failed drug has unleashed the Lytta Virus, an illness that drives the infected into fits of madness and bloodlust before leaving them zombie-like. Yoon Sae-bom is scratched while subduing an infected trainee from a special operations unit, and is taken to a research facility where she meets Han Tae-seok.
In spring 1945, under Japanese occupation, Jang Tae-sang runs the richest pawnshop in Gyeongseong, while Yoon Chae-ok is a tracker searching for her missing mother. Their paths lead them to face a strange creature created through hidden biological experiments carried out inside Ongseong Hospital.
Cha Dal-gun is an overlooked stuntman raising his orphaned nephew Hoon. After the two argue, Hoon leaves on a school trip to Morocco, and soon Dal-gun learns that the plane has crashed, killing over 200 people. Arriving in Morocco for the victims' funeral, he spots at the airport a passenger who was supposed to have died on that flight.
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.
In the Joseon era, Lee Dae-gil was born into a noble family, but his life fell apart when Keun-nom, one of his family's slaves, set fire to his home and scarred his face. Now he earns his living hunting runaway slaves, including a former general, while still trying to find the woman he loves.
In the Joseon era, a young man dresses as a woman to slip into a mysterious village where only women live, hoping to learn the real story of how he was born. There he crosses paths with a young woman who refuses to become a kisaeng and is set on avenging her family.
When an elderly Catholic priest dies under mysterious circumstances, a hot-tempered priest who used to be an intelligence agent sets out to bring those responsible to justice. His mission pits him against gangsters and corrupt officials, and the city's crooked prosecutor is in no hurry to help.
In the Joseon court, Grand Prince Suyang hopes to win over the loyal official Kim Jong-seo by marrying his daughter Se-ryung to Kim's son, Seung-yoo. Curious about her intended, Se-ryung trades places with her cousin, Princess Gyeonghye, to get a look at him, and a romance begins in the shadow of their fathers' bitter rivalry.
Han Gil-ro spent his childhood watching James Bond films and finally lands his dream job as a rookie agent at the National Intelligence Service. Kim Seo-won is a clumsy but determined fellow trainee. After training side by side, the two must keep their real identities hidden from one another, even as romance grows between them.
Jeong Ji-an is a college student raised by her secretive uncle, Jeong Jin-man, after her parents' violent deaths, and he trained her in combat and shooting under the cover of odd hobbies. When news of his apparent suicide brings her home, skilled assassins suddenly come after her, and she learns his online farm-equipment store was something far more dangerous.
Set in the same world as Iris, the story starts when South Korea's president, hoping to lead in nuclear energy, sends black-ops agent Dr. Kwon Yong-kwan to bring home a scientist defecting from North Korea. Three years later, Kwon heads NTS, a new counter-terror task force guarding that technology from foreign enemies, joined by its new top agent, Lee Jung-woo.
In the future, a comet has destroyed much of the planet and the air has become badly polluted. Survivors cannot live without oxygen tanks and masks, which are delivered to them by a small group of elite couriers who carry these vital supplies through a harsh, broken land.
A year after a disastrous mistake leads to a hospital bombing that kills several SWAT officers, team leader Kang Ki-hyung returns to the NCI, an elite criminal profiling unit. He is immediately pulled into a serial murder case alongside a local violent crimes unit, including hot-tempered officer Kim Hyun-joon, who seems to hold a grudge against him.
Set in the kingdom of Baekje in the middle of the 7th century, this period drama traces the life of Gyebaek, the famed warrior and general who is remembered for leading Baekje in its final stand against the rival kingdom of Silla at the Battle of Hwangsanbeol.
Hong Gil-dong, the bright son of a minister born outside marriage, has been told his status means he can never amount to anything, so he spends his days idling and causing trouble. A local monk sees more in him and trains him in martial arts, while cheerful Heo Yi-nok arrives from China and befriends him.
Longtime star Yeo Woon-gwang suddenly needs protection and hires Kim Seol-woo, a talented and mysterious bodyguard. Seol-woo is secretly a black ops agent for the intelligence service, using the job as cover for his own mission, while also growing close to the star's manager, Cha Do-ha.
During the period of the strictest alcohol ban in Joseon history, four young people come of age together. As they form friendships and fall in love, they get caught up in the longings and desires of people living in a land where making liquor has been outlawed.
Gang Nam-soon went missing in Mongolia as a child, where she found out she has superhuman strength. Now grown up, she travels to South Korea to look for her parents and finds her mother, a billionaire businesswoman, and her grandmother in Gangnam, just as a detective is looking into a drug case.
While the South Korean president is on vacation at a private villa, three gunshots ring out in the night and he vanishes. Elite bodyguard Han Tae-kyung and his team have just three days to find him and bring him safely back to the Blue House.
After seeing his mother murdered as a boy, Kim Ji-yong becomes a detective to uncover the truth, changing his name to Eun Dae-gu to stay hidden from her killer. On a new police team, he reunites with Eo Soo-sun, a former middle school classmate, and quietly watches his team leader Seo Pan-seok, whom he suspects is linked to the case.
Mysterious sphere-shaped creatures fill the sky above Earth, and the senior class at Sungjin High School is drafted to fight them. Promised extra credit toward their university entrance exams, the students learn to handle guns and stay alive under Lieutenant Lee Chun-ho, their platoon commander.
