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Yoon Se-ri, a South Korean chaebol heiress, is out paragliding when a sudden tornado sweeps her across the border and drops her in North Korea. There she meets Ri Jeong-hyeok, a captain in the North Korean army, who chooses to hide and protect her despite the risks.
Lim Ju-kyung has been bullied over her looks since childhood and transfers to a new school to start over. Having mastered makeup, she changes her appearance so completely that her new classmates think she is a natural beauty and call her a "goddess." There she crosses paths with cold, wealthy Lee Su-ho and rebellious Han Seo-jun.
Kim Shin, a Goryeo-era general falsely branded a traitor and put to death, is cursed to live on as an immortal goblin, watching everyone he loves die. Only his destined bride can pull out the sword lodged in his body and end his life. Cheerful high schooler Ji Eun-tak, who can see ghosts, summons him by chance, just as he ends up sharing his home with a Grim Reaper.
Yoo Shi-jin is a captain in the South Korean Army's special forces, and Kang Mo-yeon is a surgeon. They see life and duty very differently, which keeps them apart at first, until they meet again on a humanitarian mission in a disaster-hit country. A second romance grows between master sergeant Seo Dae-young and army doctor Yoon Myung-joo.
In late 1987, as South Korea is gripped by the struggle for democracy, university student Eun Yeong-ro finds graduate student Lim Soo-ho covered in blood. She hides him from the government in her dorm room, drawing herself into a story that unfolds amid the political upheaval of the time.
Kim Tan, heir to the Jeguk Group, has been sent off to the United States by a half-brother who wants the family business. There he meets Cha Eun-sang, a girl searching for her sister, and falls for her despite his engagement to fellow heiress Yoo Rachel. Back in Korea, at a high school for the very rich, his former best friend Choi Young-do starts targeting Eun-sang.
Do Min-joon is an alien who landed in Joseon in 1609 and, after saving a girl, missed his ride home, leaving him stranded on Earth for 400 years without aging. Just three months before he can finally leave, haughty top actress Cheon Song-yi moves in next door, and he keeps getting pulled into her chaotic life.
Shim Cheong is a mermaid who swims all the way across the sea to find Heo Joon-jae, a quick-witted con artist. Their love story runs alongside a tale from the Joseon era, where a mermaid named Se-hwa and a nobleman's son, Kim Dam-ryeong, become close friends after she saves him from drowning when they are children.
Lee Gon is the emperor of the Kingdom of Corea, a modern monarchy in a parallel world. When he crosses into another reality where the Republic of Korea exists instead, he meets detective Jeong Tae-eul, a woman he recognizes from an identity card that came into his hands.
Vice-chairman Lee Young-joon helps run a major corporation, and Kim Mi-so has been his remarkably capable secretary for nine years. When she suddenly announces that she plans to quit, his orderly world is shaken, and he sets out to do whatever it takes to make her stay.
Kim Min-kyu, the wealthy chairman of a finance company, lives alone because touching another person sets off a dangerous allergic reaction. When a humanoid robot built to look like struggling inventor Jo Ji-ah breaks down just before it is shown to him, Ji-ah is asked to pretend to be the robot.
Na Bong-sun is a timid assistant chef with low self-esteem who can sometimes see ghosts. When she is possessed by Shin Soon-ae, the ghost of a young woman set on finding romance before she moves on, Bong-sun suddenly turns bold and confident, catching the eye of her arrogant star chef boss, Kang Sun-woo.
Surgeon Oh Yeon-joo goes looking for her father, a webtoon artist who has vanished while finishing his series W. In his office, a hand reaches out of the monitor and pulls her into the comic's world, where she saves a wounded man who turns out to be Kang Cheol, the webtoon's wealthy hero.
Tae-suk is a loner who rides around on his motorbike, slipping into homes whose owners are away, where he quietly washes clothes and fixes broken things. In one large house, he is watched by Sun-hwa, a former model mistreated by her husband. After seeing the husband's cruelty firsthand, Tae-suk leaves with her, and the two begin a wordless bond.
Joon-sang, a gifted but withdrawn student who feels unloved by everyone around him, moves to the small city of Chuncheon. After his classmate Yoo-jin dozes off against his shoulder on the bus one morning, the two grow close and a tender first love begins.
In 19th-century Joseon, the young Crown Prince Lee Yeong is still growing from a boy into the ruler he is meant to become. Along the way, he forms an unlikely bond with Hong Ra-on, a palace eunuch, in this coming-of-age tale of youthful romance at court.
Choi Han-gyeol, the carefree grandson of a food company chairwoman, is still hung up on his first love. He mistakes Go Eun-chan, a hardworking tomboy supporting her family, for a boy and pays her to pose as his boyfriend to dodge blind dates. Needing money, she keeps up the act to work at the rundown coffee shop he takes over.
Gil Ra-im is a tough stuntwoman, and Kim Joo-won is the CEO of a luxury department store. They meet while sorting out a scandal involving Joo-won's cousin Oska, a famous singer, and Joo-won is struck by how cool she is. Unable to get her out of his head, he decides to chase her, even though she wants nothing to do with him.
In modern-day Korea, Son Oh-gong and Woo Ma-wang clash as they search for light in a dark world full of evil. Twenty-five years ago, a little girl named Jin Seon-mi set Son Oh-gong free in exchange for a promise that he would help whenever she called. Now they meet again, and he is bound to protect her.
Born into slavery in Joseon, Eugene Choi escapes to the United States as a boy, grows up in New York and becomes a Marine officer. Returning to Korea as a captain with the US legation, he meets Go Ae-shin, a nobleman's granddaughter who is secretly a sniper fighting for her country, and falls for her despite the gulf between their worlds.
Do Bong-soon has had superhuman strength since birth, a power inherited only by the women of her family. She longs to seem delicate and graceful, the type her crush, police officer and childhood friend In Guk-doo, prefers. Her strength lands her a job as bodyguard to Ahn Min-hyuk, the wealthy CEO of gaming company Ainsoft, just as a string of kidnappings hits her neighborhood.
Lee Gyu-won, a college student studying traditional Korean music, gets off on the wrong foot with Lee Shin, the cocky leader of the band The Stupid, after a string of misunderstandings. Dragged to his concert by her friends, she is suddenly won over by his performance. Both then join the university's 100th anniversary musical, led by music director Kim Suk-hyun.
In 2000, fire captain Ki Ho-sang is killed in an explosion at a factory, and a ratings-hungry reporter wrongly paints him as responsible for his men's deaths, turning his family into outcasts. His young son Ha-myung is taken in on an island by kind Choi Gong-pil, who mistakes him for his own son, and there he meets Choi In-ha, a girl who hiccups whenever she lies.
During King Sukjong's reign in Joseon, young Choe Dong-yi loses her father and brother after their group is wrongly accused of murdering noblemen. Hiding who she is, she enters the palace as a servant in the Bureau of Music, determined to prove her family's innocence. The story is based on the real-life Consort Suk.
In a made-up Joseon era, Crown Prince Lee Hwon falls in love with Heo Yeon-woo, a bright girl whose father is a palace scholar, while his older half-brother, Prince Yangmyung, loves her too. But the scheming Queen Dowager wants her own relative to become Crown Princess, and dangerous palace plots soon threaten Yeon-woo and the young prince.
Clumsy, unpopular Oh Ha-ni has a crush on Baek Seung-jo, a brilliant, popular classmate who keeps turning her down. Things get far more awkward when unexpected circumstances force Ha-ni and her father to move into the same house as Seung-jo and his parents.
Ko Mi-nyeo grew up in an orphanage with her twin brother Mi-nam and is training to become a nun. When Mi-nam wins a spot in the band A.N.Jell but must go to the United States to fix a botched plastic surgery, his manager begs Mi-nyeo to pose as her brother for a month. She agrees, hoping fame will help the twins find their mother.
Cha Soo-hyun, a politician's daughter, has always lived the life others chose for her, including a marriage into a chaebol family that ended over her husband's affair. On a work trip to Cuba, she meets Kim Jin-hyuk, a carefree young man travelling alone. Back in Korea, they meet again when he starts work at Donghwa Hotel, where she is CEO.
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.
Yoo Hye-jung is a headstrong, tough high school girl who keeps everyone at a distance because of painful childhood wounds. Meeting her mentor Hong Ji-hong begins to change her life, until a report about their close relationship pulls them apart. Thirteen years later, the two meet again, now that Hye-jung has become a successful doctor.
Lee Yeon-seo, a gifted ballerina whose family runs a ballet company, is left blind after an accident on stage and turns bitter and harsh toward everyone around her. Dan, a cheerful, trouble-prone angel who wants to return to heaven, is given what seems an impossible task: helping her find true love.
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.
After years of being bullied over her looks, Kang Mi-rae has plastic surgery before starting university. Her new face doesn't bring the fresh start she hoped for, as some classmates mock her as a surgery-made beauty. While trying to rebuild her self-esteem, she gets to know Do Kyung-seok, an old classmate from middle school who is cold to everyone except his sister.
In a modern-day Korea where the monarchy still exists, Crown Prince Lee Shin must marry quickly when the Emperor falls seriously ill. His bride is Chae-kyeong, an ordinary girl chosen through a promise their grandfathers made long ago, even though Shin has feelings for a ballerina named Hyo-rin. The two start out indifferent, and Chae-kyeong struggles with strict palace life.
In 1998, the IMF crisis shuts down high school fencer Na Hee-do's team, so she transfers schools to keep chasing her dream. Baek Yi-jin's once-wealthy family has been torn apart by the same crisis, leaving him juggling part-time jobs. Decades later, Hee-do's daughter finds her mother's old diary, which tells their story.
Scientist Oh Laura, forced to leave her young son Nam Shin behind, builds AI robots modeled after him. Years later, when the real Nam Shin, heir to a chaebol, falls into a coma after an attempt on his life, Laura sends the robot Nam Shin III to take his place. Kang So-bong, once part of Nam Shin's security team, becomes the robot's bodyguard.
Han Ji-eun, an aspiring writer, lives in Full House, the home her late father built. Tricked by her best friends into a supposedly free vacation, she comes back to find they have sold the house to famous actor Lee Young-jae, whom she met on the plane. Determined to win it back, she agrees to live there as his maid.
Joo Yoo-rin, from Jeju Island, has become a skilled liar and grifter thanks to her gambling father's debts. When Seol Gong-chan, sole heir to a hotel fortune, needs someone to pose as his dying grandfather's long-lost granddaughter, he hires Yoo-rin for a monthly salary and a bonus, and she reluctantly takes the job.
Shin Joon-young and Noh Eul were high school classmates who drifted apart after a troubled relationship. Years later, he is a top actor and singer, and she is a documentary producer who grew up struggling after losing her father. When Noh Eul is assigned to make a documentary about him, she promises to win his consent, and the two are thrown back together.
As a toddler, Yoon Joon-suh accidentally knocks over the name cards on two newborns' cribs in a hospital nursery, and a nurse puts them back on the wrong babies. Years later, his sister Eun-suh is the most popular girl in her class, while her smart but overlooked classmate Choi Shin-ae grows jealous of her.
Born under a dark curse, Princess Yeon-hee is abandoned as a baby and raised in hiding by the shaman Choi Hyun-seo, shut away in a house surrounded by talismans. When Heo Jun, a young scholar born to a slave mother and a wealthy master, crosses paths with her, the two set out together to break the curse that brings death to anyone she loves.
Han Jung-suh and Cha Song-joo are childhood friends whose close bond grows into love. When Jung-suh's father remarries, her new stepmother, an actress, and stepsister Yoo-ri make her life miserable, and Song-joo leaves to study in America without her.
In Joseon, where women are barred from schooling and work, Kim Yoon-hee disguises herself as her brother Yoon-shik to support her family. While secretly sitting an entrance exam for Sungkyunkwan, the top Confucian academy, on someone else's behalf, she is caught by the principled Lee Sun-joon, who sees her talent and urges her to enroll.
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.
Lee Yul, the king's nephew, would rather play than study, until Yoon Yi-seo, a kind and clever girl from a noble family, scolds him for treating peasant children cruelly. Smitten, he starts working harder to impress her. But Yul's ambitious father is plotting with Kim Cha-eon to seize the throne, and a violent coup soon tears their worlds apart.
Three resistance fighters from the 1930s, when Korea was under Japanese rule, are reborn in the present day as a best-selling author stuck in a slump, a devoted fan, and a ghostwriter. As the three cross paths, the unresolved truth of their shared past starts to catch up with them.
Fifteen-year-old Lee Soo-yeon is bullied at school because her late father was convicted of murder. She meets Han Jung-woo, the son of a wealthy and powerful family, who stands up for her, and the two grow close and fall in love. Their young bond is shaken when Jung-woo is kidnapped and Soo-yeon, trying to help him, is taken too.
Choi Ung and Kook Yeon-soo broke up years ago, promising never to see each other again. But when the documentary they filmed together in high school ten years earlier goes viral, a producer friend pushes the former couple back in front of the cameras, stirring up complicated feelings.
