5 titles, most popular first
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.
Three desperate people chase a way out of their troubles. Joong-man, stuck in a thankless job and caring for his sick mother, finds a huge bag of cash in a sauna locker; customs officer Tae-young, deep in debt to a criminal, plots a scam; and Mi-ran, trapped with an abusive husband, sees an escape when a client offers to kill him.
Civil servant Baek Sung-il and his team chase down habitual tax dodgers and people who refuse to pay what they owe. To get the money back, they team up with an unlikely partner: Yang Jeong-do, a professional fraudster.
In the 1970s, petty criminal Gwan-seok and his nephew Hee-dong get out of prison, where they befriended antique dealer Song Gi-taek. He offers them a job raising valuable ceramics from a centuries-old shipwreck near Sinan, but the deal soon pulls in cheats, a rich chairman's suspicious wife and many rival interests.
Eo Yong-mi, Ahn In-kyung and Maeng Soo-ja work as cleaners at a financial company and struggle to support their families. When they happen to overhear a valuable piece of financial information, the three decide to try insider trading, hoping to provide for their loved ones and chase their dreams.
