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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.
After 13 years in prison for the kidnapping and murder of a young boy, a crime she did not commit, Lee Geum-ja walks free, praised as a model of reform. But her gentle behavior behind bars was only a cover. Calling in favors from former inmates, she sets out to take revenge on the real killer.
In South Korea, a ghostly face suddenly starts appearing to tell people the exact moment they are condemned to Hell, and when that moment arrives, monstrous beings burst in to kill them in public. As fear spreads, a detective, a principled lawyer and the leader of a rising religious group called the New Truth are drawn into the chaos.
In a reunified Korea, a criminal mastermind known as the Professor plans a daring heist and gathers a crew of skilled but desperate robbers. They take over the unified nation's mint and trap hostages inside, while police scramble to stop both the robbers and the hidden mastermind pulling the strings.
After his fiancée Joo-yun is brutally murdered, secret agent Kim Soo-hyun vows to make her killer pay. Working outside the law, he sets out to hunt down the man responsible, a school bus driver named Jang Kyung-chul who has killed before, and his quest for vengeance turns into a vicious contest between the two men.
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.
In 2015, criminal profiler Park Hae-young finds an old walkie-talkie and hears Detective Jae-han, a man somehow speaking from the past who talks to him like an old friend. Working together across time, they crack a 15-year-old kidnapping and murder case, which leads to a cold case team led by Detective Cha Soo-hyun.
Baek Hee-sung keeps his true identity and past hidden from his wife, detective Cha Ji-won. Together with their six-year-old daughter, they seem like an ideal family. But when Ji-won and her team begin looking into a string of unexplained killings, she starts to wonder whether her husband is keeping something from her.
Insomniac Busan detective Jang Hae-jun, who sees his wife only on weekends, looks into the death of a retired immigration officer found dead below a mountain he liked to climb. Suspicion falls on the man's much younger widow, Song Seo-rae, a Chinese emigrant who cares for the elderly, and as Hae-jun watches her closely, he begins to develop feelings for her.
Cha Tae-sik is a quiet man who runs a pawnshop, and his only friend is So-mi, the little girl who lives next door. When So-mi's mother steals drugs from a gang and hides them in a bag she leaves with Tae-sik, the gangsters come for the drugs and take So-mi, pulling him into a violent fight to get her back.
Kim Sun-woo is a top enforcer who has served crime boss Kang loyally for years. Before leaving on a business trip, Kang asks him to keep watch over his young mistress, Hee-soo, whom he suspects of seeing another man. When Sun-woo catches her with her lover, he chooses to spare them, a decision that turns his boss against him.
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.
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.
Lee Ja-sung is a police officer who has spent eight years working undercover inside Goldmoon International, a crime syndicate run like a giant corporation. Chief Kang keeps putting off his promised transfer, and when Goldmoon's chairman dies in an accident, a fierce fight over who will replace him puts Ja-sung in even greater danger.
Shim Eun-seok is a top judge with a chilly, aloof manner who is known for disliking young offenders. When she is assigned to a juvenile court in Yeonhwa District, she breaks with custom and handles cases in her own way, balancing her distaste for teen criminals with her firm beliefs about justice and punishment.
In the Chinese city of Yanji, ethnic Korean taxi driver Gu-nam is buried in gambling debt and tormented by worries about his wife, who went to work in South Korea and has not been in touch. After losing his job, he accepts an offer from a local gangster to cross into South Korea and kill a professor for money.
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.
A grim reaper is ordered to hunt down his partner, who has gone on the run. While searching, he gets caught up in a string of unsolved murders from 20 years ago, and his job of guiding the dead to the afterlife grows complicated as he starts breaking the rules against meddling in human lives.
Detective Ko Moo-chi, still haunted by a horrific crime he saw as a child, is determined to catch a psychopathic serial killer. With rookie officer Jeong Ba-reum at his side, he digs into what drives psychopaths and whether a tendency toward psychopathy could be spotted in a person's genes.
Yoon Hyun-woo is a loyal senior employee of the chaebol Soonyang Group until a member of the owning family betrays and kills him to hide a tax evasion scheme. He then wakes up in 1987 in the body of Jin Do-jun, the family's youngest grandson, and starts plotting revenge by aiming to seize control of the company.
Hwang Si-mok is a dedicated prosecutor who lost his sense of empathy after surgery for an extreme sensitivity to sound. While investigating a murder, he teams up with police lieutenant Han Yeo-jin, and the two soon find their search for the truth blocked at every turn by powerful interests.
Yoon Jong-woo, a man in his twenties, moves to Seoul for a company internship. Short on money, he rents a room at Eden Studio, a cheap, gloomy dormitory full of odd residents, including his neighbor Seo Moon-jo. He plans to put up with it until he can afford to leave, but strange events start making him fear the people around him.
In a dystopian South Korea where people resent their leaders and society has fallen into chaos, trials are broadcast as a live television show. Three judges preside over these courtroom broadcasts, presenting themselves as the ones who will restore justice and peace to a nation in turmoil.
In 2004 Seoul, detective Ma Seok-do and his captain work to keep the peace as two Chinese-Korean gangs fight over Chinatown. The fragile balance breaks when Zhang Qian, the brutal head of a loan-shark gang, arrives with his henchmen to take the area for himself.
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.
In Kisung, a lawless and corrupt city, former gangster turned lawyer Bong Sang-pil returns home to bring those behind his mother's death to justice, turning a loan shark business into the Lawless Law Firm. Ha Jae-yi, a principled lawyer suspended for assaulting a judge, also comes back to Kisung and ends up working for him.
Seo Jin-woo has hyperthymesia, so he can recall nearly every day of his life in perfect detail, while his father, Seo Jae-hyuk, is losing his memories to Alzheimer's. When his father is wrongly convicted of murder, Jin-woo vows to clear his name. Four years later he becomes a lawyer, facing bribery, corruption and betrayal on his path to justice.
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.
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.
Jang Dong-soo, a feared crime boss, survives a brutal attack by a seemingly random serial killer. Detective Jung Tae-suk, whose superior dismisses his serial killer theory, wants Dong-soo's help, and the two very different men end up joining forces to hunt the killer, each for his own reasons.
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.
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.
In 1990, detective Choi Hyeong-goo corners a serial killer who has murdered ten women, but the man gets away after a brutal fight that leaves Choi scarred. Fifteen years later, as the statute of limitations runs out, a man publishes a book titled I Am the Murderer, claiming the crimes as his own.
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.
In 2010, with a presidential election looming, a driven prosecutor named Woo Jang-hoon is ordered to investigate the hidden slush fund of front-running candidate Jang Pil-woo. Gangster Ahn Sang-goo, meanwhile, grabs the key evidence for Lee Kang-hee, an influential newspaper editor he trusts, only to be betrayed and maimed, leaving him set on revenge.
Kim Sum is a developer for the social app Somebody who struggles to connect with people, though she has two close friends, Mok-won and police detective Gi-eun. When a murder linked to the app takes place, an attractive but secretive architect named Sung Yun-oh enters their lives.
Four years after his crackdown in Garibong-dong, detective Ma Seok-do heads to Ho Chi Minh City with Captain Jeon Il-man to bring back a Korean suspect. There they stumble onto the trail of Kang Hae-sang, a vicious criminal who kidnaps and murders Korean tourists and then extorts their families.
Byun Jae-wook is a hot-tempered prosecutor known for his rough investigations. When a suspect dies during his questioning, the evidence points at him and he is sent to prison for 15 years. Inside, he wins over inmates and guards with his legal know-how, then teams up with a young con man, Chi-won, to strike back at the people who framed him.
Detective Oh Gu-tak, brought back to the force to stamp out the city's worst crimes, gets three convicts released to help him: gangster Park Woong-chul, hitman Jung Tae-soo, and Lee Jung-moon, a genius serial killer who can't remember his crimes. For every criminal they catch, time is cut from their sentences.
Gil Bok-soon is a contract killer working for an agency run by Min-kyu, but at home she is a mother quietly raising her daughter, Jae-young. Unsure how to talk with her daughter about the changes in her life, she finds her two worlds harder and harder to keep apart.
Shooting champion Ok Chan-mi refuses to believe that her twin brother took his own life. As the police prepare to close the case, she transfers to his high school to find out who is responsible, and she teams up with Ji Soo-heon, a troubled boy who seeks justice through risky means of his own.
Since his wife's death, Jeon Yeong-ha has stayed on in a quiet forest town a few hours from Seoul, running a holiday villa beside his modest home. One day a reserved young woman, Seong-a, checks in with her son. When she leaves early the next morning, Yeong-ha finds blood stains, a strong smell of bleach, and no sign of the boy.
Art teacher An Yoon-soo finds her husband, a painter, dead in his studio, and a prosecutor quickly decides she is the killer despite thin evidence. Behind bars she meets Mo-eun, a mysterious woman arrested for a separate poisoning, who offers her a dangerous bargain.
Newly promoted, Detective Ma Seok-do and his team move up to the Metropolitan Investigation Unit. Their first big case is the suspicious death of a woman, Go Sun-hee, whose autopsy shows a powerful new drug called Hiper in her body. The trail leads to a nightclub and a yakuza member bringing the drug in through Incheon.
In the Philippines, former special forces soldier Baek Chang-gi runs a brutal online gambling ring and kills a worker who tries to flee. Back in Korea, Detective Ma Seok-do is looking into that worker over suspected money laundering and starts to realize the case reaches much deeper than it first seemed.
Lee Na-mi works as a marketer at a start-up and helps out at her father's cafe. One night she leaves her smartphone on a bus, and the stranger who finds it, Oh Jun-yeong, arranges to return it through a repair shop. While fixing its cracked screen, he secretly installs spyware, opening a window into every part of her life.
