Big Mouth
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.
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Juvenile Justice
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.
Stranger
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.
The Devil Judge
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.
Graceful Family
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.
A Normal Family
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.
Made in Korea
Set against major events of 1970s Korea, the story follows Baek Ki-tae, a shrewd and ambitious KCIA agent who secretly runs illegal business networks to gain power and wealth. When principled prosecutor Jang Geon-young begins investigating Ki-tae's smuggling and its ties to high-ranking officials, the two men are pulled into a dangerous rivalry.
Misty
Go Hye-ran becomes the main suspect in a murder investigation. Her husband, Kang Tae-wook, ends up acting as her lawyer, even though their marriage is already badly strained by her choice to put her career ahead of family.
Class of Lies
Gi Moo-hyeok, a well-known lawyer, takes on a false name, Gi Kang-jae, and slips into Chunmyung High School, an elite private school, as a substitute teacher. His real aim is to dig into the murder of one of its female students.
Golden Cross
Prosecutor Kang Do-yoon's life falls apart when his beloved sister is killed through a scheme by Golden Cross, a secret group that controls Korea's economy, and his father is blamed for her death. Vowing revenge on the group's leader Seo Dong-ha, Do-yoon faces a painful complication: Seo is the father of Yi-re, the fellow prosecutor he loves.
Dongjae, the Good or the Bastard
Prosecutor Seo Dong-jae, stuck at the Cheongju office with a past stained by corruption, sees little future for himself. While wrestling with a redevelopment case, he is handed a case involving a murdered high school student and must balance his gut as a prosecutor against his habits as an opportunist.
Honour
Yoon Ra-young, Kang Shin-jae and Hwang Hyun-jin have been inseparable since university, united by a shared drive for justice. Now lawyers at L&J Law Firm, they defend women who have been victims of crime, until a secret the three buried twenty years ago comes back to shake their lives.
Incarnation of Money
Raised in an orphanage, Lee Cha-don has become a prosecutor, a respected job he uses to squeeze extra cash out of gamblers. He has no memory of his early life. His fate is bound up with Bok Jae-in, whose loan-shark mother paid for his upbringing and wants a return, and with senior prosecutor Ji Se-kwang, who poses as honest while hiding past wrongs.