214 titles, most popular first
Seong Gi-hun is a divorced father buried in gambling debts and living with his elderly mother when he is invited to play children's games for a huge cash prize. He is taken to a remote island with 455 other players who are all desperate for money, and soon learns that losing a game means dying.
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 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.
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.
After Han China conquers Gojoseon, resistance leader Haemosu secretly works with Prince Geumwa of Buyeo to protect refugees across the land. Twenty years later, Lady Yuhwa's son Jumong is a weak, timid prince in Buyeo, looked down on by his older half-brothers Daeso and Youngpo as they compete for the throne of King Geumwa.
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.
In 1601, three years after the Imjin War, Crown Prince Lee Chang tries to look into the strange illness that has struck the King. His search drags him into a deadly outbreak that is turning people across Joseon into zombies, while rivals at court plot to seize the throne.
Cha Do-hyun, heir to his family's business in its third generation, has lived with dissociative identity disorder and seven separate identities since going through several traumatic events. He tries to take back control of his life with secret help from Oh Ri-jin, a first-year psychiatry resident, while her twin brother, a writer eager to expose the rich, starts following him.
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.
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.
Set in the Unified Silla era, the story follows Jang Bogo, a lowly slave determined to make his name on the seas. Along the way he battles pirates, gains a loyal comrade in the charismatic Yeom Jang, and clashes with Madam Jami, a Silla noble competing with him for control of trade in the South Sea.
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.
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.
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.
Set during the founding of the Joseon dynasty on the Korean Peninsula, this story follows the dreams, rivalries, and struggles of a mix of real and fictional figures. At its center is the young Yi Bang-won as a new kingdom takes shape around him.
Lee Yeon is a gumiho, a fox spirit more than 1,000 years old, who now lives in the city and hunts supernatural beings that threaten humans. Nam Ji-ah, a bold TV producer, spots him during one of his missions and becomes sure he is not human. Ever since a strange accident on her ninth birthday, she has been searching for her missing parents.
In 2014, Private Ahn Jun-ho works with Corporal Han Ho-yeol in a Korean military police unit tasked with tracking down soldiers who run away. As they hunt for deserters, their journey exposes an army culture where bullying, hazing and cruel treatment of the weakest recruits are everywhere.
When the queen of Goryeo is badly wounded, King Gongmin sends Choi Young, captain of the Royal Guard, through a mystical portal to find a legendary healer. He arrives in modern-day Seoul and brings back plastic surgeon Yoo Eun-soo, promising to send her home once she saves the queen.
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.
Park Ji-sang is a gifted surgeon at the country's top cancer hospital who is secretly a vampire, holding back his thirst for blood to save patients. He finds himself drawn to Yoo Ri-ta, an arrogant star physician and niece of the chaebol chairman who owns the hospital.
As a boy, Park Hoon is sent to North Korea with his father, a famous surgeon, and the two end up trapped there. Trained by his father, he becomes a brilliant heart surgeon and falls in love with Song Jae-hee, but escapes south alone. At Myungwoo University Hospital, he meets Dr. Han Seung-hee, who looks just like Jae-hee yet claims not to know him.
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.
Long ago, Hwan-woong steps in to end a deadly war between the fire-wielding Tiger Tribe and the Bear Tribe, taking the power of fire from the Tiger Tribe's leader, Kajin, and sealing it in an artifact called the Heart of Jujak. Loosely inspired by the legends of Dangun and Goguryeo's King Gwanggaeto, the story weaves in four mythical guardians who serve a destined king.
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.
In the Joseon era, Chae-ok, the daughter of a disgraced nobleman, is separated from her brother as a child and raised as a servant in Hwangbo Yoon's household, learning martial arts and swordsmanship alongside him. She quietly loves Yoon despite their class difference, and joins his police bureau as a damo, a lowly female detective, to stay at his side.
Genius profiler Lee Hyun comes back to Korea when a case stirs up a memory he believed was gone for good. Detective Cha Ji-an, on his new team, has quietly been looking into him, knowing his father was murdered and his brother vanished in connection with a criminal they both want caught.
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.
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.
A young prosecutor is killed while trying to bring down a powerful politician. He is then handed a second chance at life, and this time he is determined to use every moment of it to see justice done.
Bong Ye-bun is a small-town vet who suddenly gains the psychic power to see someone's past by touching their backside. She teams up with Moon Jang-yeol, a hot-headed detective demoted from Seoul to the quiet village of Mujin, who pushes her to use her odd gift to solve minor crimes around town.
News anchor Seo Hye-rim loses her job after speaking out about the unjust death of her husband. When ruling-party politician Kang Tae-san invites her into politics, she steps into a brand-new world, backed by Ha Do-ya, a man she has known since childhood, on a path that could lead all the way to the presidency.
Cha Young-min is a brilliant heart surgeon who is also arrogant and selfish. Go Seung-tak knows medicine inside out but lacks surgical skill and is afraid to operate. When Young-min gets caught up in an unexpected incident, his spirit ends up inside Seung-tak's body.
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 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.
Byun Ji-sook, a department store clerk whose family is hounded by loan sharks, meets Seo Eun-ha, a congressman's daughter who looks exactly like her. When Eun-ha dies, the scheming Min Seok-hoon forces Ji-sook to take her place as the bride of lonely chaebol heir Choi Min-woo, who finds his new wife surprisingly different.
Go Ae-rin is a woman who has just lost her husband. Together with her neighbor Kim Bon, a former NIS agent, she begins to dig into the truth about how her husband was tangled up in a vast conspiracy.
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.
In an alternate present where South Korea is still a constitutional monarchy, carefree crown prince Lee Jae-ha wants nothing to do with politics or the throne. The king tricks him into joining a joint military training with North Korea, where he meets Kim Hang-ah, a tough North Korean special forces officer, and the two clash from the start.
In an alternate 2018 where Korea is still an empire, cheerful musical actress Oh Sunny marries the emperor. She is soon pulled into palace power struggles and a mysterious murder, and she joins forces with Na Wang-shik, an imperial bodyguard who took the job to avenge his mother.
In the Joseon court, Grand Prince Suyang hopes to win over the loyal official Kim Jong-seo by marrying his daughter Se-ryung to Kim's son, Seung-yoo. Curious about her intended, Se-ryung trades places with her cousin, Princess Gyeonghye, to get a look at him, and a romance begins in the shadow of their fathers' bitter rivalry.
Han Gil-ro spent his childhood watching James Bond films and finally lands his dream job as a rookie agent at the National Intelligence Service. Kim Seo-won is a clumsy but determined fellow trainee. After training side by side, the two must keep their real identities hidden from one another, even as romance grows between them.
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.
