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In 1988, five friends who grew up together in Seoul's Ssangmun-dong neighborhood lean on each other and their families through the ups and downs of their teenage years. Set during a time of big change in Korea, the story follows their everyday lives as they try to build a future together.
In 1997, Yong-gu, a man with a developmental disability, lives happily with his six-year-old daughter Ye-sung and promises to buy her a Sailor Moon backpack. After a tragic accident involving a police commissioner's young daughter, he is wrongly arrested for her death and sent to prison, where his cellmates at first look down on him.
In 1980, Kim Man-seob is a widowed taxi driver in Seoul, raising his child alone and buried in debt. When he overhears another driver boasting about a well-paid fare to Gwangju, he grabs the job for himself. His passenger is Peter, a German journalist hoping to report on the growing unrest there, which Man-seob knows nothing about.
Five doctors in their forties who became friends in medical school now work together at Yulje Medical Center. Among them are Lee Ik-jun, a cheerful liver transplant surgeon raising his son alone, and Ahn Jeong-won, a kind pediatric surgeon from the family that founded the hospital. The series follows their work, friendship and everyday lives.
Teenagers Yeo-jin and Jae-yeong are trying to save money for a trip to Europe. Jae-yeong sells herself to men while Yeo-jin sets up the meetings and keeps watch for the police, until one day a police raid goes wrong and their plan unravels with painful results.
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.
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.
In Busan in 1997, high schooler Sung Shi-won is a devoted fan of the boy band H.O.T., and her days revolve around her idols and five close friends. The story moves between their teenage years and 2012, when the friends, now 33, gather for a reunion dinner and look back on the past.
Cheerful Shin Ji-hyun seems to have it all: loving, wealthy parents, loyal best friends and a wedding just weeks away. When a car accident leaves her in a coma, a soul guide called the Scheduler gives her one chance to live again. Within 49 days, she must collect three tears cried purely out of love by people who are not her family.
Young-hee is an actress who leaves Seoul after a very public affair with a married film director. She spends time in Hamburg with her older friend Jee-young, wandering markets, parks and bookshops, and later returns to the Korean coastal city of Gangneung, where she meets old friends over dinner and drinks.
Four forty-something men, close since the age of eighteen, juggle careers, romance and setbacks in Seoul. Confident playboy Kim Do-jin falls for Seo Yi-soo, only to learn she likes his friend Tae-san, while the others face their own tangled love lives and a teenager who claims one of them is his father.
In 1994, six university students from different provinces move into a boarding house in Seoul's Sinchon neighborhood, run by a couple whose daughter is Sung Na-jung. Shifting between their college days and the present, the story follows their friendships and romances while keeping viewers guessing who Na-jung will marry.
Three men band together to run Waikiki, a guesthouse that is barely staying in business. Their already chaotic lives get even more complicated when a single mother unexpectedly turns up at the door with her baby in tow.
In 1950, during the Korean War, an American pilot crash-lands near Dongmakgol, a remote mountain village whose residents know nothing about the fighting. Soon three North Korean soldiers and two South Korean deserters are also led there, and the enemies end up in a tense standoff while the puzzled villagers carry on with their daily lives.
Cho Yong-pil and Cho Sam-dal grew up as close friends on Jeju Island. Yong-pil stays home and becomes a weather forecaster, determined to protect the island's elders, while Sam-dal heads to Seoul to chase her dream of becoming a top fashion photographer. When everything abruptly crumbles for her, she returns home and finds herself back in Yong-pil's world.
Eighteen-year-old Choi Joon-woo, shaped by a hard home life and past trouble at school, is forced to transfer to Cheonbong High School over something he did not do. Planning to stay a quiet loner through his junior year, he soon gets pulled out of his shell by classmates facing their own growing pains.
At the elite Sevit High School in Seoul, grades decide everything. Kang Yeon-doo leads Real King, a street dance club of low-scoring outcasts, while Kim Yeol heads Baek Ho, a club for the very top students. When the two rival groups are forced to merge into one cheerleading squad, they have to learn to work together.
Kim San-ha, Yoon Ju-won and Kang Hae-jun aren't related by blood, but they grow up as one family in their teens, cared for by Ju-won's father, who runs a kalguksu restaurant, and San-ha's father. When circumstances force San-ha and Hae-jun to leave, the three are split up, and ten years later they meet again.
Five young women share a house called Belle Epoque, each going through the growing pains of youth. This slice-of-life story follows how they connect while facing the kinds of problems many young people in South Korea deal with today.
During the period of the strictest alcohol ban in Joseon history, four young people come of age together. As they form friendships and fall in love, they get caught up in the longings and desires of people living in a land where making liquor has been outlawed.
Yoon So-so works as a tour guide in France, leading a group of travelers on a package tour. Among them are San Ma-roo, who was recently dumped, Kim Gyung-jae, who has been dating for seven years, and others carrying their own stories. They prefer to keep to themselves, but traveling together slowly draws them closer.
Han Tae-yang is a hard-working young man determined to turn his tiny vegetable stand into a success. He hires a group of lost young men, including a lonely farmer, a former idol trainee, an awkward genius and a quiet homeless man, who become his staff and his friends. He also falls for Mok Ga-on, a woman who is hiding a secret.
In the Joseon dynasty, four people who come from very different backgrounds band together around Yi Geum, a prince known as Prince Yeoning. They set out to help him claim the throne and to reform the Saheonbu, putting their varied skills toward a shared cause.
Longtime friends and married couple Seok-ho and Ye-jin host a housewarming dinner for their close friends. Over the meal, the group agrees to a game: every new message and call that comes in on their phones must be shared with the whole table. What begins as lighthearted fun soon grows more and more awkward.
After failing the national exam to become a teacher, Hye-won quits her part-time job in Seoul and heads back to the country village where she grew up. Her mother is no longer there, but as Hye-won cooks through the seasons, memories of how her mother made a home for her come back, and she reconnects with two childhood friends.
College student Yun Tae-o suddenly finds his house full when his friends move in, each for their own reasons: a college dropout, a runaway family friend and his longtime childhood friend. Sharing one roof, the young housemates stumble through the messy, confusing business of first love and living together.
Kim Je-hyuk is a star baseball pitcher about to join the Boston Red Sox. His life falls apart overnight when he attacks a man who tried to assault his sister, and he is sentenced to a year in prison. Behind bars, with childhood friend Lee Joon-ho looking out for him, he must learn to get by among a colorful mix of inmates.
Former badminton player Yoon Hyun-jong, struggling to support his family, takes a coaching job at a middle school in rural Haenam, only to find the boys' team down to three players. His city-raised son Hae-kang joins the ragtag squad as they fight to survive, while his wife coaches the local girls' team.
Joo Byung-hee is the wild, free-spirited frontman of Eye Candy, a popular underground rock band made up of high school boys. When their rough, troublemaker-filled school is shut down, the bandmates start to wonder whether going back to high school is even worth it.
Im Na-mi is a well-off housewife who feels lonely and ignored by her husband and daughter. A hospital visit stirs memories of her 1980s school days, when she was a new girl teased for her country accent and was taken in by a lively group of friends called Sunny. Decades later, she sets out to find them again.
At Myeong-il University, charming and wealthy freshman Yeo Jun is popular with everyone. A group project pairs him with Nam Su-hyeon, an awkward third-year from a poor family who only cares about earning credits and money, and Kim So-bin, a struggling, ordinary student, and the three form an unlikely trio.
Three best friends in their thirties, all career women, are searching for love in modern-day Seoul. Funny and a little racy, the series follows their complicated love lives and the ups and downs of dating as they juggle work, friendship and romance.
As the Goryeo dynasty collapses and Joseon begins to rise, two close friends become enemies after a misunderstanding drives them apart. In a time of upheaval, each sets out in his own way to protect his country and the people he loves.
Won-il was once a promising swimmer like his champion father, but after losing both parents he quits the sport and lives recklessly. Facing expulsion, he is brought by his father's old friend Jae-suk to a sports high school, where he runs into his old rival Woo-sang, now a national swimming star forced to start over.
In 2014, a radio DJ receives a letter from his first love that stirs up long-buried memories. Back in the summer of 1991, five friends spend their days together, and shy, innocent Beom-sil falls for Soo-ok, a girl with an injured leg whom he carries wherever she needs to go.
Set in Korea's turbulent 1970s and 80s, this story follows two friends on very different paths. Tough, loyal Park Tae-soo becomes a gangster, while principled Kang Woo-suk becomes a prosecutor. Yoon Hye-rin, Woo-suk's spirited college classmate and the daughter of a wealthy casino owner, meets Tae-soo through him and the two fall in love.
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.
Kim Byung-doo is a small-time gangster in his late 20s who can't raise enough money to save his family from eviction. Desperate, he goes over the head of his boss, Sang-chul, and takes a dangerous job straight from President Hwang, the man above them. Meanwhile, he reunites with childhood friend Min-ho, now a director making a gangster film.
In 1992, four women in a rural village, the Bangpan Sisters, start selling adult products door to door at a time when sex is still a taboo subject. The series follows their friendship, independence and growth as they take on this bold new line of work.
Kim Hwan crosses paths with six other boys and soon realizes that each of them is quietly carrying his own struggles. Drawn together, the seven young men lean on one another as they try to face the hardest parts of their lives.
In 1970s Daegu, Lee Jung-hee, the second daughter of a family that runs a lingerie factory, leads a group of teenage girls on chaotic adventures. Bae Dong-moon falls for her on a group date, but she has a crush on Son Jin, a senior at a boys' school, and things get complicated when transfer student Park Hye-joo arrives from Seoul.
Hong Jeong-hye is serving ten years in prison for killing her abusive husband, and the son she bears behind bars must, by law, be given up for adoption. Promised a day out with her infant if she pulls it off, she sets out to form a choir with fellow inmates, including death-row prisoner Kim Moon-ok.
Four best friends set off on one last trip together before one of them leaves to do his military service. Along the way, they become caught up in an incident that changes the course of their lives forever.
Three lonely people cross paths at a department store. Mi-jung, a stockroom worker, keeps to herself to avoid others' eyes; Yo-han, who works in the parking garage, is outgoing and loves rock music; and Kyung-rok has traded his dreams for a safe but empty life. Kyung-rok is drawn to Mi-jung right away.
Han Tae-woong is a quiet 17-year-old math genius who enters an elite high school, where a rivalry with fellow prodigy Kim Jung-kyu grows into a close friendship. Years later, now living a very different life as an unknown boxer carrying a painful past, he is hired as a driver for Bo-ra, the cold daughter of a wealthy businessman.
In 1970s and 1980s Busan, four boys grow up together as friends on the city's rough streets. As they become men, best friends Dong-soo and Joon-seok are pulled into the local gang underworld. The series expands a semi-autobiographical film of the same story.
Wei Wei is a young circus ringmaster whose only family and friend is Ling Ling, a gorilla who can swing a baseball bat. When her grandfather dies and leaves a huge debt, a loan shark wants to take Ling Ling away to pay it off, so Wei Wei lets a money-minded sports agent named Sung bring the gorilla to play in the Korean Baseball League.
Yong-ju, Gi-woong and Gi-taek were best friends in middle school, but they have since drifted apart, with Gi-woong now a feared fighter who runs with a powerful bully's gang. Under heavy pressure to get into a top university, Yong-ju worries as Gi-taek is targeted by the gang, while his own feelings for Gi-woong grow.
