16 titles, most popular first
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.
Kim Sun-woo is a top enforcer who has served crime boss Kang loyally for years. Before leaving on a business trip, Kang asks him to keep watch over his young mistress, Hee-soo, whom he suspects of seeing another man. When Sun-woo catches her with her lover, he chooses to spare them, a decision that turns his boss against him.
Lee Ja-sung is a police officer who has spent eight years working undercover inside Goldmoon International, a crime syndicate run like a giant corporation. Chief Kang keeps putting off his promised transfer, and when Goldmoon's chairman dies in an accident, a fierce fight over who will replace him puts Ja-sung in even greater danger.
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.
In 2010, with a presidential election looming, a driven prosecutor named Woo Jang-hoon is ordered to investigate the hidden slush fund of front-running candidate Jang Pil-woo. Gangster Ahn Sang-goo, meanwhile, grabs the key evidence for Lee Kang-hee, an influential newspaper editor he trusts, only to be betrayed and maimed, leaving him set on revenge.
After seeing his mother murdered by the gangster Mao, Lee Soo-hyun is taken in by NIS agent Kang Jung-ho's family and grows up to become an agent alongside Jung-ho's son Min-ki. When a mission stirs up his childhood trauma and his hunger for revenge gets him fired, he is offered a chance to go undercover inside Mao's gang.
Kim Seung-hyeon, a taekwondo champion, walks away from fighting for good so he can look after his daughter, Sarang. When a ruthless gambling boss kidnaps her, he has no choice but to step into a rigged boxing match in exchange for her release.
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.
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.
A cash-strapped professor accidentally ends up with money that belongs to a drug cartel. With his family already falling apart, he finds that the only way to protect them is to start working as a drug courier for the very people he took from.
In 1994, recent graduate Goni loses all his savings, along with money taken from his sister, to a crew of card cheats. Determined to win it back, he trains under Mr. Pyeong, one of the country's best gamblers, learning the tricks of the Korean card game hwatu.
Abandoned as a baby in a coin locker in 1996, Il-young is sold at age ten to a woman known only as Mother, who runs a ruthless loan shark ring in Incheon's Chinatown. Seeing toughness in the girl, Mother raises her as a debt collector, until a job sends Il-young after Suk-hyun, a debtor's kind son.
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.
Korean gangster Han Ki-chul is ordered by his boss to look after Lim Aryong, a guest from Hong Kong everyone assumes is a tough male mobster. Instead, she is a cold, aloof woman who speaks no Korean, and the timid interpreter Yeon-hee is too frightened to translate her blunt replies honestly.
In 1592, during a corrupt era of the Joseon Dynasty when the once-clear Gyeonggang River has turned muddy, three lives become tangled together. Si-yool conceals where he came from and joins the gangster world, Choi Eun is sharp and principled, and Jeong-cheon dreams of serving as an upright official.
Seok-cheol is the eldest grandson in a family that has lived the gangster life for three generations. He struggles to hold on to and protect the things that matter most to him: his family, his job, and the woman he loves.
