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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.
Ji Seon-u is a respected family doctor and associate director at a hospital in the city of Gosan, and she believes her life with her husband Lee Tae-oh, an aspiring film director, and their son Jun-yeong is perfect. That belief shatters when she discovers Tae-oh is having an affair with a young woman named Yeo Da-kyung.
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.
A widow sells medicinal herbs in a small southern town and dotes on her only son, Do-joon, a shy young man with an intellectual disability. When a high school girl is found dead and Do-joon is arrested on flimsy evidence, his mother is sure he is innocent and sets out to find the real killer herself.
After treatment in a mental hospital, teenager Su-mi returns to her family's isolated country house with her father and younger sister Su-yeon. There she clashes again and again with their unsettling stepmother, Eun-joo, as strange and frightening things begin to happen in the house.
In SKY Castle, a luxury enclave outside Seoul where wealthy doctors and professors live, the wives will do anything to push their husbands ahead and get their children into elite universities. Han Seo-jin, married to an ambitious surgeon, is set on her eldest daughter Ye-seo becoming a doctor, so she hires Kim Joo-young, an admissions coordinator with a flawless record.
Crown Prince Sado, heir to King Yeongjo, sets out on a plot to kill his own father. The film moves back and forth between the crisis that follows and the long story of how father and son reached this point, from a king fixated on his young son's lessons to a boy who would rather paint and socialize.
Cha Moo-hyuk, abandoned as a child and mistreated by his adoptive parents, survives by scamming tourists in Australia. After an accident leaves a bullet in his head and little time to live, he returns to Korea to find his birth mother, a famous actress. Feeling betrayed, he plots revenge by working for her son, singer Choi Yoon, and meets Yoon's devoted friend Song Eun-chae.
Three poor sisters, In-joo, In-hye and In-kyung, are each driven by their own hunger for money, independence or love. When a friend of one sister, believed to be dead, leaves behind 70 billion won, the sisters find themselves up against Korea's richest family, who will stop at nothing.
After her husband dies in a car accident, Lee Shin-ae moves with her young son Jun to Miryang, her late husband's hometown, hoping for a fresh start. When her car breaks down on the way in, local mechanic Kim Jong-chan comes to her aid, and he keeps helping out as she opens a piano school and settles into the town.
Mo Seok-hee, the only daughter of the MC Group chaebol, was sent to America as a teenager after her mother was murdered. Fifteen years later she returns to Korea when her grandfather falls into a coma, and after a prickly first meeting she hires Heo Yoon-do, an honest neighborhood lawyer with no real office.
In 1960s Taebaek, ruthless coal mine director Shin Tae-hwan crushes a miner who fights for workers' rights, and a nurse he has cast aside sets a bitter scheme in motion. Years later, the miner's sons take opposite paths: Dong-chul becomes a gangster to escape poverty, while Dong-wook aims to become a prosecutor and avenge his family.
Fresh out of prison after serving time for a fatal hit-and-run, Hong Jong-du returns to Seoul and finds his family moved away without telling him. Awkward and out of step with everyone, he takes a delivery job and seeks out the victim's family, where he meets Gong-ju, a woman with cerebral palsy who has been left on her own.
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.
This drama follows a family thrown into crisis when their son is left critically injured after an incident of violence at his school. Determined to learn what happened, his family sets out to uncover the truth and seek justice on his behalf.
When a mother learns her husband is cheating, her furious attempt at revenge leaves their son horribly maimed, and she disappears into the night. Left behind, father and son struggle with the aftermath as rumors spread and the boy becomes a target of cruelty. The film tells its story without any spoken dialogue.
Goo Eun-jae, a trained make-up artist, abandons her plans to study in France when she becomes pregnant and marries Jung Gyo-bin. Years later, living as both wife and housekeeper in his wealthy family's home, she learns he has been cheating with Shin Ae-ri, the orphan her own family raised like a sister.
Kim Yeon-hong seems to have an ideal life as the wife of Kim Jong-chan, a young politician running for office against a powerful rival. Just days before the election, their teenage daughter Min-jin disappears. While her husband stays focused on his campaign, Yeon-hong starts digging into her daughter's secret life on her own.
A fatal road rage attack puts two brothers on opposite sides. Jae-gyu, a principled surgeon, operates on the victim's badly hurt daughter, while his older brother Jae-wan, a high-earning defense attorney, takes on the driver's case. Their clashing values also shape their family lives, which are soon tested by a violent incident involving their own children.
Twelve-year-old Yoo Ji-ho, raised by his adoptive grandmother, loses her when a mysterious black car runs her down during a storm. He is then brought into the wealthy family of a piano company CEO, who introduces him as his elder son. The CEO's younger son, cocky piano prodigy Yoo In-ha, soon feels threatened by Ji-ho's musical gift.
This black comedy pokes fun at Korea's powerful upper class. Han Jeong-ho and Choi Yeon-hee are a wealthy couple from a prestigious family whose image is thrown into turmoil when their teenage son In-sang gets his girlfriend Seo Bom, who comes from an ordinary family, pregnant. Bom is determined to endure for her child's sake.
Yeon-hwa and Yoo-ra become stepsisters when their parents get engaged, but a quiet distance grows between them, made worse by Yoo-ra's crush on Yeon-hwa's boyfriend, Yoon-jae. When Yoo-ra causes a deadly car crash, she and her father, a judge, frame Yeon-hwa for it, and Yeon-hwa is sent to prison for a crime she did not commit.
Joo Ah-ran and Shin Hyun-woo marry in a lavish hotel ceremony, and while he truly loves her, she has a hidden purpose. His parents once ruined her family, and the wedding is the first step in her secret plan to make them pay.
Nineteen-year-old Yoon-young dreams of a civil service job and lives with her deaf single mother while working part-time at a café. After a violent assault one night, she ends up in prison, known only as inmate 2037. In despair, she pulls away from her mother and slowly finds support among her cellmates in room 12.
A cash-strapped professor accidentally ends up with money that belongs to a drug cartel. With his family already falling apart, he finds that the only way to protect them is to start working as a drug courier for the very people he took from.
In Gwangju in May 1980, Min-woo lives a fairly quiet life with his younger brother Jin-woo, until soldiers suddenly turn their weapons on the city's people. As residents band together into a militia to protect their families, Min-woo finds himself caught in the middle. The film is based on the real Gwangju massacre.
After his wife dies suddenly in an accident, Sang-won is left alone with his daughter Yi-na, and the two have grown distant. Hoping to repair their bond, he moves them into a new house near the countryside. Just as Yi-na brightens up and talks about a new friend, strange noises begin coming from the closet in her room.
Jung-yeon has spent six years searching for her missing son. When an anonymous tip leads her to a remote fishing village, the locals and a wary police officer insist they have never seen him, but she senses they are hiding something and refuses to give up.
Inspired by the biblical tale of two brothers, the series follows Lee Cho-in, a brilliant doctor who seems to have everything. His older brother Seon-woo burns with jealousy, blaming Cho-in for taking away their father's love, the recognition he craved as a doctor and the woman he loves.
Abandoned as a baby in a coin locker in 1996, Il-young is sold at age ten to a woman known only as Mother, who runs a ruthless loan shark ring in Incheon's Chinatown. Seeing toughness in the girl, Mother raises her as a debt collector, until a job sends Il-young after Suk-hyun, a debtor's kind son.
A wealthy business family starts to tear itself apart in a vicious fight over who will take over. Kim Tae-jin's children all crave his money and power as company president and will stop at nothing to win. Leading the battle is the ruthless Yoon Na-young, wife of his third son, Kim Young-min, who manipulates her husband and son to get what she wants.
Sa-wol, Hye-sang and Oh-wol grow up as best friends in the same orphanage. On the day the building collapses, Hye-sang learns that a DNA mix-up means Sa-wol, not she, is the one a wealthy father will adopt, and, desperate for a privileged life, she goes to dark lengths to bury the truth.
Lee Hye-won and Lee Hye-ji are sisters who were split apart as children when their parents divorced. Twenty years later their paths cross again, but instead of a warm reunion, the meeting pulls them into a tangled and bitter relationship.
Hwa-young is convinced that Yeon-hee, her brother's ex-girlfriend, drove him to his death. When Yeon-hee, now married, learns that uterine cancer means she cannot carry a child, Hwa-young offers to become her surrogate while secretly planning her revenge.
For three generations, the powerful Jang family has kept Bukcheon firmly under its control. Behind that iron grip lie ruthless power games and long-buried secrets, as members of the family battle one another over who will hold the reins.
Shin Do-young is a popular TV news anchor who seems to have everything. Adopted from an orphanage by a kind, well-off couple, she feared losing their love after they had a daughter of their own, and as a teenager she left her little sister behind at a train station. Twenty years later, Do-young hires a cheerful personal shopper named Yoon Sa-wol.
Over a single desperate day, an ordinary man learns that his daughter has been kidnapped. To get her back, he must take on the serial killer living right next door, in a race against the clock where only the stronger of the two will make it out alive.
Abandoned by her boyfriend after their baby is born, a desperate Lee Soo-jung gives her daughter up for adoption and moves to the United States, renaming herself Rena Jung. Twenty years later she returns to Korea as a glamorous celebrity chef willing to fake credentials and use people to get ahead. Her goal is a loveless match with Park Min-joon, the cold eldest son of TNC Group's chairman.
In the Joseon era, a gumiho named Gu San-daek loses her power to change form after her husband breaks a promise, and she wanders with her young half-human daughter, Yeon-yi. They are taken in by Yoon Doo-soo, a gentle-seeming former official whose own daughter suffers from a mysterious illness.
Seo Jae-won seems to have it all: she runs a successful furniture company, has over a million social media followers, and shares a loving family with her gentle husband, Heo Soon-young. When her old art school classmate Kwon Yoo-jin, worn down by a painful divorce, comes back into her life, jealousy and hidden secrets start to shake Jae-won's picture-perfect world.
Choi Seon-hee's family looks happy and flawless to everyone around them. After Park Kyung-ho, a friend of Seon-hee's, is murdered, the family members grow more and more suspicious of one another, and the picture of a perfect household begins to crack.
Kim In-sook married into a powerful chaebol family, where her in-laws look down on her as a gold digger and ignore her for years. After her husband dies in a helicopter crash, her mother-in-law takes away her son. Han Ji-hoon, the family's sharp new lawyer who knows In-sook from their past, becomes determined to end her mistreatment.
In this revenge drama, a woman searching for the mother who gave birth to her makes a bold move: she marries into the family of her enemy. As the new daughter-in-law, she pursues a desperate plan for payback from inside their home.
Lee Seon-yoo is about to become a nun when she learns her beloved older sister Jin-yoo has died, betrayed by her lover Jang Tae-jung, who married into a wealthy family. Giving up her dream, Seon-yoo marries Seo Ji-seok, an immature rich heir, becoming Tae-jung's sister-in-law so she can get close enough to make him pay.
Lee Tae-young has grown hard and guarded after a childhood in a family that never loved him. The only person he can truly open up to is his stepsister Han Ji-min, but their love must face the schemes of his stepmother and a string of cruel turns of fate.
Eun Ah-ri-young is a successful TV drama writer still consumed by hatred for her father, who left the family for another woman. She carefully plots her revenge, writing a script drawn from his affair and casting his unsuspecting actress wife, Shim Soo-jung, as the blind mother, while scheming to win her half-sister's fiancé, Lee Joo-wang.
