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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.
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.
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.
Gyeon-woo is an engineering student who can never seem to get a romantic break. On his way to meet a possible date, he pulls a drunk young woman back from the edge of a train platform. On the train she gets sick, passes out and calls him "honey," leaving him stuck taking care of 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.
In 1997, Yong-gu, a man with a developmental disability, lives happily with his six-year-old daughter Ye-sung and promises to buy her a Sailor Moon backpack. After a tragic accident involving a police commissioner's young daughter, he is wrongly arrested for her death and sent to prison, where his cellmates at first look down on him.
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.
Squad Chief Go's team of narcotics detectives keeps botching operations, and after a chase ends in a massive pileup, their jobs are on the line. To redeem themselves, they launch an undercover stakeout of an international drug gang, using a fried chicken restaurant as their cover.
Kim Seong-geun, buried in debt and feeling hopeless, jumps from a bridge into the Han River and washes up on Bamseom, a small island in the middle of Seoul. Unable to swim back, he starts to enjoy a simple life free of his worries, while Kim Jung-yeon, a young woman who never leaves her room, spots his message written in the sand.
Young-goon, a young woman who works assembling radios, believes she is a cyborg. After she tries to "recharge" herself with a power cord, she is sent to a mental hospital full of colorful patients, where she refuses food and talks only to machines. There she meets Il-soon, a man who begins to fall for her.
Ham Cheon-soo, an art-house filmmaker, comes to Suwon a day early for a screening of his work. Wandering the city with time to kill, he meets Yoon Hee-jung, a former model who now paints, and the two spend the day together over coffee, sushi and soju.
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.
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.
In 1950, during the Korean War, an American pilot crash-lands near Dongmakgol, a remote mountain village whose residents know nothing about the fighting. Soon three North Korean soldiers and two South Korean deserters are also led there, and the enemies end up in a tense standoff while the puzzled villagers carry on with their daily lives.
Yeo Kyung-jin is an ambitious young Seoul police officer. While chasing a purse snatcher, she arrests the wrong man: Go Myung-woo, a physics teacher at a girls' school who was really trying to stop the thief himself. When she is later assigned to escort him through a rough district, the two end up handcuffed together in the middle of a gang clash.
Just before her 100-day anniversary, high school student Ha-yeong is dumped by her boyfriend. Venting her anger, she kicks a can that hits college student Hyung-jun and makes him scratch his luxury car. Unable to pay, she is forced to sign an agreement to work off the damage as his servant for 100 days.
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.
Oh Mal-soon is a stubborn, sharp-tongued 74-year-old widow who lives with her son's family and clashes with her daughter-in-law. Upset after learning her family plans to send her to a nursing home, she wanders into a mysterious photo studio and walks out to find she has turned back into her 20-year-old self.
Bo-eun is an ordinary 15-year-old high schooler who frets about grades and has a crush on Jung-woo, the star of her school's baseball team. Then her grandfather insists she marry Sang-min, honoring a promise he made with Sang-min's grandfather during the Korean War. Despite both young people objecting, the wedding goes ahead, and Bo-eun tries to keep her marriage hidden.
At a public relations firm, new hire Jung Ji-hoo and manager Jung Ji-woo have nearly identical names, so a package meant for him ends up on her desk. Inside she finds a collar and leash, and his secret wish to be a submissive comes out. Soon he asks her to take the dominant role.
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.
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.
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.
After failing the national exam to become a teacher, Hye-won quits her part-time job in Seoul and heads back to the country village where she grew up. Her mother is no longer there, but as Hye-won cooks through the seasons, memories of how her mother made a home for her come back, and she reconnects with two childhood friends.
Park Se-ri is a cheerful high school student who worries about her naturally curly hair and has a crush on popular classmate Kim Hyun. When a new salon offering hair straightening she can't afford opens in town, she befriends Han Yoon-seok, a transfer student she saved from drowning, whose mother turns out to own the salon.
National judo athlete Doo-young permanently loses his sight after an injury at an international match. His estranged older brother Doo-shik, a swindler, uses the crisis to win parole from prison and moves back home, adding fresh stress for a young man who has fended for himself since losing their parents.
Im Na-mi is a well-off housewife who feels lonely and ignored by her husband and daughter. A hospital visit stirs memories of her 1980s school days, when she was a new girl teased for her country accent and was taken in by a lively group of friends called Sunny. Decades later, she sets out to find them again.
Hanna Kang is an overweight young woman who secretly provides the voice for Ammy, a famous pop star who only lip-syncs. Hanna has a crush on Sang-jun, a director whose father owns Ammy's record label, but after a cruel humiliation she persuades a plastic surgeon to completely transform her appearance.
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.
Choi Su-wan, a 21-year-old university student whose family sells fried chicken, takes a well-paid job tutoring Kim Ji-hoon, a rich troublemaker her own age who is repeating his last year of high school. If his grades don't improve, his father will send him back to America, but Ji-hoon cares far more about fighting than studying.
Nam Hyeon-soo, a former teen idol now in his thirties, works as a radio DJ. His life is turned upside down when a young listener who has been sending in stories about being a single mother shows up at his apartment with her little boy, claiming to be his daughter.
Tae-soo, a lawyer stuck in a temporary job at a top law firm, is desperate for a permanent position. He is handed a special assignment: revive a failing zoo within three months. The catch is that the zoo has no animals, so he and the zookeepers decide to dress up as animals themselves.
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.
Kang Jae-kyung is an arrogant rich kid who drives flashy cars and rides his motorcycle through the school halls. To inherit his grandfather's fortune when he turns 18, he must first transfer to a school in rural Gangwon Province and graduate, with his penthouse and credit cards cut off until he does.
Ji-hwan is a taekwondo student and part-time stuntman who dreams of becoming the Korean Jackie Chan. Dal-rae is a drama student and hopeful actress whose shyness keeps costing her auditions. The two have been friends since childhood, but things get complicated when each of them starts dating someone else.
Jae-pil and Sang-goo move into their dream European-style house hoping for a fresh start, though local police already watch them with suspicion. When they try to rescue a young woman named Mi-na from drowning, they are mistaken for kidnappers, while an evil spirit locked in the basement begins to stir.
Sang-man, a lonely man who knows nothing about his family, survives an attempt on his own life and wakes up in the hospital able to see ghosts. Four spirits follow him home and refuse to leave, so he agrees to carry out their unfinished wishes, while also getting to know a kind nurse named Yun-soo.
A congresswoman running for her fourth term suddenly finds herself unable to tell a lie, just days before the election. The trouble is that her entire political career has been built on lies, and now nothing but the truth comes out of her mouth.
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.
