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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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
