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The Kim family, Ki-taek, Chung-sook and their grown children Ki-woo and Ki-jung, scrape by in a cramped semi-basement flat in Seoul. When a friend arranges for Ki-woo to tutor the daughter of the wealthy Park family, the Kims see a chance to work their way, one by one, into the rich household.
Wealthy families live in the luxurious Hera Palace and send their children to the elite Cheong-ah Arts School. Elegant Shim Su-ryeon carries a tragic past and is married to businessman Joo Dan-tae. Oh Yoon-hee, who comes from a humble background, has been at odds since high school with famous soprano Cheon Seo-jin, whose father runs the school.
In October 1986, two women are found murdered on the edge of a small town, and the poorly equipped local police are soon overwhelmed. Detectives Park Doo-man and Cho Yong-koo rely on violence and fake evidence, while Seo Tae-yoon, a better-trained detective from Seoul, joins the hunt as more killings follow.
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.
Park Gang-du is a slow-witted man who sells snacks from a little stand by Seoul's Han River with his father. When a huge creature rises from the water and attacks the riverside park, it carries off his daughter Hyun-seo. After a phone call reveals she is trapped in the sewers, Gang-du and his family escape a government quarantine to search for her.
Man-su, a longtime paper-company employee, lives happily in his childhood home with his wife Mi-ri and their two children. When the company is sold and he is laid off, he promises his family he will be back in the paper business within three months, but more than a year later he is still jobless and growing desperate enough to turn on his rivals.
Cha Do-hyun, heir to his family's business in its third generation, has lived with dissociative identity disorder and seven separate identities since going through several traumatic events. He tries to take back control of his life with secret help from Oh Ri-jin, a first-year psychiatry resident, while her twin brother, a writer eager to expose the rich, starts following him.
Jang Hye-sung, who grew up through a hard childhood, is now a public defender who mostly looks out for herself. Her life changes when she meets Park Soo-ha, a high school senior who can hear what people are thinking just by meeting their gaze. Years ago, her brave testimony mattered in the case of his father's murder, and he has been looking for her ever since.
During the reign of King Yeonsan in the late 15th century, street clowns and tightrope walkers Jangsaeng and Gong-gil flee to Seoul and start a new troupe. When their bold skit poking fun at the king gets them arrested, they are given one chance to escape execution: they must make the tyrant himself laugh.
Noh Ji-wook is a prosecutor and Eun Bong-hee is a prosecutor in training. When a murder takes place, Bong-hee suddenly finds herself the suspect, and Ji-wook, who has since become a private lawyer, works the case with her as they learn their pasts are tied together.
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.
Park Bong-pal has been able to see ghosts all his life and works as an exorcist, saving up for a procedure that will rid him of the ability. At a haunted high school, he meets Kim Hyun-ji, a spirited teenager who has been wandering as a ghost since an accident. Hoping he can help her move on, she talks her way into his home, and the two team up to fight ghosts.
Lee Byeong-gu, a conspiracy theorist obsessed with aliens, is convinced that invaders from Andromeda are about to attack Earth. With help from his childlike girlfriend Sunny, a circus performer, he kidnaps pharmaceutical executive Kang Man-shik, whom he believes is an alien commander, and holds him in his basement ahead of a coming lunar eclipse.
After cat burglar Yenicall and her partners pull off an art gallery theft in Seoul, a visit from a detective convinces them to lie low abroad. They join a job led by master thief Macau Park, alongside a Chinese crew, to steal a 20-million-dollar diamond called the Tear of the Sun from a dangerous crime lord's mistress at a Macau casino.
Go Se-yeon, a top prosecutor, and her friend Cha Min, the plain-looking heir to a cosmetics company, both die in separate incidents. A mystical orb called the Abyss brings them back in new bodies that mirror their souls, leaving her ordinary-looking and him strikingly handsome, and the two team up to learn who killed her.
Bong Ye-bun is a small-town vet who suddenly gains the psychic power to see someone's past by touching their backside. She teams up with Moon Jang-yeol, a hot-headed detective demoted from Seoul to the quiet village of Mujin, who pushes her to use her odd gift to solve minor crimes around town.
Go Ae-rin is a woman who has just lost her husband. Together with her neighbor Kim Bon, a former NIS agent, she begins to dig into the truth about how her husband was tangled up in a vast conspiracy.
Choi Kang-seok is a skilled and highly respected lawyer at the firm Kang & Ham. He recruits Go Yeon-woo, a young man with a remarkable memory but no law degree, to work at his side, and the unlikely pair begin taking on cases together.
Eight strangers agree to be locked inside a building for a game that pays them money for every minute it lasts. Known only by their floor numbers, they must buy basic supplies at a hundred times the usual price, and at first they work together to keep the game going as long as possible.
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.
Seo Do-cheol is a tough, relentless police detective. When a truck driver named Bae is found dead in an apparent suicide after protesting over unpaid wages, Do-cheol learns from Bae's son that Jo Tae-oh, the cruel heir to the powerful Sinjin Group, had beaten him, and he starts digging despite the heir's efforts to stop him.
Yong-nam was a star rock climber in college but is now jobless and living with his parents. At his mother's 70th birthday party, he runs into his old crush and fellow climber Eui-joo. When a mysterious toxic white gas suddenly spreads through the city, the two must use their climbing skills to help his family and escape.
Kim Mo-mi is an office worker who feels insecure about her appearance. By night she hides her face behind a mask and becomes a popular online personality, until a string of unlucky events starts to take control of her life.
Hong Ji-ah runs Daebak Real Estate, where she uses exorcism skills inherited from her late mother to clear out haunted buildings. Oh In-beom is a con artist who profits off ghosts and has never learned why his uncle died. The two join forces to uncover what really happened to her mother and his uncle 20 years ago.
Lee Tang, out of the army for six months, works at a convenience store, leans on his parents and dreams of going to Canada. One night a customer attacks him, and the fight ends with the man dead. Racked with guilt and ready to turn himself in, Tang learns his victim was a serial killer, while detective Jang Nan-gam keeps digging.
For a hundred years, the Choi family behind Taeyang Group, Korea's biggest conglomerate, is said to have lived under a curse: the eldest son's first bride always dies. When heiress Jang Yi-kyung vanishes just before her wedding to heir Choi Kang-joo, her look-alike Na Doo-rim, a warm and cheerful woman, is brought in to take her place.
A former profiler who has turned to working as a shaman gets caught up in a string of mysterious events, together with his colleagues. Much of the story revolves around Minamdang, a suspicious café, and the customers who come through its doors.
Mi-yeong, once a member of a police squad, now handles desk work at a public service center after getting married. When a young woman's death lands on their desk, she teams up with her sister-in-law Ji-hye, a rookie officer at the same center, and uncovers a ring of men exploiting women online. With their superiors refusing to act, the two decide to chase the case themselves.
Ahn Soo-ji is a veteran domestic secret agent and martial arts expert, while Lee Jae-joon is a rookie international agent better at analysis than fieldwork. They are dating, but neither knows the other's secret job. When a Russian crime group gets hold of a dangerous bio-chemical weapon from Korea, the two end up on the same mission without realizing it.
In a 21st-century country still ruled as a constitutional monarchy, wealthy heiress Seong Hui-ju wants to escape the stigma of being born outside marriage to a commoner. She proposes a marriage contract to Grand Prince I-an, who is under pressure from the Queen Dowager to wed and quiet rumors that he wants the throne. Their union quickly meets fierce resistance.
The Kang family leaves the city for a big house in the mountains and turns it into a guesthouse for hikers. But their guests keep dying in strange ways, and the family, afraid no one will believe them, starts hiding the bodies, which only pulls them into deeper and deeper trouble.
Jo Kang-ja was once the most feared troublemaker at her Busan high school, until a teenage pregnancy made her drop out to raise her daughter, Oh Ah-ran. Now 34, she learns that Ah-ran is being bullied, so she enrolls at the school herself as an undercover student to deal with the bullies.
Kang Yeo-joo is a crime novelist who spends her days dreaming up ways to kill people, and her husband Han Woo-sung is a divorce lawyer. Their marriage rests on a written memo she gave him, warning that cheating will cost him his life, which sets the stage for a comic mystery thriller.
After a fire takes his parents, Lee Ahn gains psychometry, the power to see the past of people and objects just by touching them. Still unable to control it, he meets Yoon Jae-in, a young woman guarding painful secrets, and teams up with his prosecutor guardian Kang Sung-mo and investigator Eun Ji-soo to chase a case tied to all their pasts.
Longtime friends and married couple Seok-ho and Ye-jin host a housewarming dinner for their close friends. Over the meal, the group agrees to a game: every new message and call that comes in on their phones must be shared with the whole table. What begins as lighthearted fun soon grows more and more awkward.
Jin Jung is a prosecutor who plays dirty, choosing shortcuts over the rules and tricks over standard procedure. Armed with grit and a rebellious streak, he sets out to break through the shield that money and power have built around corrupt officials and make them pay.
Hong Ji-hyo comes from a wealthy family and holds a stable job she got through family connections. One night, the man she has dated for four years suddenly vanishes. While searching for him, she teams up with a community of UFO watchers, including Heo Bo-ra, to uncover the truth behind a strange mystery.
Jun was once an elite NIS assassin who faked his death to chase his real dream of drawing webtoons. Now a struggling artist, he gets drunk one night and draws a comic about a secret agent that becomes a huge hit. The trouble is, the story is based on a real top-secret mission.
Yoo Dong-man, a detective with two decades on the job, is sent to teach at the Police University after a botched investigation. Hacker Kang Seon-ho, who has no real dream of his own, enrolls there after falling for aspiring officer Oh Kang-hee, only to run into Dong-man again, a man he already has bad blood with.
Just before the Joseon Dynasty is founded, the Chinese emperor's royal seal, being carried to Joseon by envoys, ends up inside a whale. A big reward is offered for its return, so mountain bandit leader Jang Sa-jung sets sail to chase the whale, where he clashes with Yeo-wol, a female pirate captain.
A hard-working detective who handles violent crimes suddenly has an unwanted guest in his body: the spirit of a shady swindler. As the two very different men struggle to share one life, the detective also finds himself drawn to a bold young reporter who is new on the job.
Yoo Ryeong joined the police to find her missing twin sister, convinced she fell victim to a serial killer known as the Subway Ghost. Working for the subway police, the rule-bending officer is paired with Go Ji-seok, a by-the-book partner who would much rather stay out of trouble.
Goo Hae-ra is clever and beautiful, but a string of family tragedies has left her life in a miserable state. Seeing money as her only way out, she deliberately approaches Tae In-joon, the second son of a shoe company owner, and he falls in love with her.
Koo Kyung-yi is a former police officer whose world now revolves around games and alcohol. She is drawn back into detective work when she stumbles onto a mysterious string of murders cleverly made to look like accidents, putting her on a collision course with a cunning young killer.
Wong Iring, a rookie Chinese intelligence officer, is sent to Korea under the name Yoo Da-hee to track down weapons smugglers. Instead of her intended contact, she ends up teaming with Woo Soo-han, a former special forces soldier now working as a detective, and the mismatched pair start trailing a suspected arms dealer.
Yook Dong-sik is a timid securities analyst who can't stand up to anyone. After witnessing a murder, he flees with the killer's diary and is hit by police officer Shim Bo-kyung's patrol car, losing his memory. Finding the diary in his hands, he becomes convinced that he himself is a psychopath.
In the Goryeo era, Moo-chi, a bandit leader who calls himself the best swordsman in the land, keeps crossing paths with Hae-rang, the captain of a pirate ship. When they learn that a lost royal treasure is hidden somewhere, they set off on a risky hunt for it, while the ruthless traitor Bu Heung-soo chases the same prize.
In the late 1950s, Detective Park Yeong-han is known for catching petty thieves. He teams up with three colorful colleagues to take on corrupt and powerful figures using nothing but common sense, instinct, and persistence, on his way to becoming a detective who truly serves ordinary people.
