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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.
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.
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.
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.
Moon Gang-tae works as a caregiver in psychiatric wards, moving from town to town with his older brother Sang-tae, who has autism and whom he has devoted his life to looking after. At one hospital he meets Ko Moon-young, a famous and prickly children's book author, who becomes fixated on him and follows him back to their old hometown.
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.
Ji Seon-u is a respected family doctor and associate director at a hospital in the city of Gosan, and she believes her life with her husband Lee Tae-oh, an aspiring film director, and their son Jun-yeong is perfect. That belief shatters when she discovers Tae-oh is having an affair with a young woman named Yeo Da-kyung.
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.
In Sandbox, a fictional hub for tech start-ups in South Korea, bright and ambitious Seo Dal-mi hopes to be the Steve Jobs of Korea. Nam Do-san, a former math prodigy whose small company has been failing for two years, learns that Dal-mi mistakes him for the pen pal she remembers as her first love.
When the sun is blotted out in a full eclipse, 25-year-old modern woman Go Ha-jin is swept back to the year 941 and wakes up as Hae Soo in the Goryeo royal world. Surrounded by the King's many sons, she is drawn to the kind 8th Prince Wang Wook and the feared, masked 4th Prince Wang So as rivalry for the throne grows.
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.
Boo Yong-joo was once a top surgeon at a leading Seoul hospital until a traumatic incident led him to vanish and take the name Kim Sa-bu. Now working at Doldam, a small hospital in Gangwon Province, he mentors young doctors Kang Dong-joo and Yoon Seo-jeong, teaching them to put patients ahead of power and money.
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.
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.
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.
Inside the KBS building in Yeouido, the sixth floor holds the partitioned offices of the network's variety department. There, its staff juggle hectic schedules packed with filming, editing and all-night meetings, as the series follows their working lives behind the scenes of TV entertainment.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
Cha Yu-ri has been a ghost for five years since dying in an accident. Through a reincarnation project, she is given a chance to become human again if she can reclaim her place in life within 49 days, but her husband Gang-hwa has since remarried, forcing her to weigh her own happiness against his.
After his father dies in an accident, Park Sae-ro-yi lashes out at Jang Geun-won, son of the Jangga Group's founder, and ends up in prison. Once released, he opens a small bar called DanBam in Itaewon, determined to succeed and to get revenge on the Jangga Group, though he has much to learn about running a business.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As a child, Kim Hye-jin was a pretty girl from a rich family, while Ji Sung-joon was a plain boy with little confidence. Years later, after her family's bankruptcy and hard times, Hye-jin has frizzy hair and freckles, and Sung-joon is a handsome, successful editor. Embarrassed, she sends her glamorous best friend Ha-ri to meet him in her place, then ends up working at his fashion magazine.
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.
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.
Woo Young-woo is an autistic woman who finished first in her law school class but keeps being turned away by employers. Through her father's connection, she lands a position at Hanbada, a big Seoul firm, where her remarkable memory sets her apart and coworkers find her way of speaking strange and blunt.
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.
