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The Kim family, Ki-taek, Chung-sook and their grown children Ki-woo and Ki-jung, scrape by in a cramped semi-basement flat in Seoul. When a friend arranges for Ki-woo to tutor the daughter of the wealthy Park family, the Kims see a chance to work their way, one by one, into the rich household.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In a modern-day Korea where the monarchy still exists, Crown Prince Lee Shin must marry quickly when the Emperor falls seriously ill. His bride is Chae-kyeong, an ordinary girl chosen through a promise their grandfathers made long ago, even though Shin has feelings for a ballerina named Hyo-rin. The two start out indifferent, and Chae-kyeong struggles with strict palace life.
Joo Yoo-rin, from Jeju Island, has become a skilled liar and grifter thanks to her gambling father's debts. When Seol Gong-chan, sole heir to a hotel fortune, needs someone to pose as his dying grandfather's long-lost granddaughter, he hires Yoo-rin for a monthly salary and a bonus, and she reluctantly takes the job.
Fifteen-year-old Lee Soo-yeon is bullied at school because her late father was convicted of murder. She meets Han Jung-woo, the son of a wealthy and powerful family, who stands up for her, and the two grow close and fall in love. Their young bond is shaken when Jung-woo is kidnapped and Soo-yeon, trying to help him, is taken too.
Kang Ma-ru, a bright medical student, is devoted to his slightly older neighbor Han Jae-hee, a TV reporter. When she picks a wealthy CEO and a comfortable life over him, the betrayal changes him completely. Years later, working as a bartender, he crosses paths with Seo Eun-gi, a guarded chaebol heiress being groomed to run her father's company.
Su-jin, a 27-year-old fashion designer and the daughter of a construction company CEO, is heartbroken after being rejected by a married colleague. A brief mix-up with a tall stranger at a convenience store leads to a chance reunion, and she is drawn to Chul-soo, a man from a very different background.
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.
In their early twenties, medical student Oh Chang-min and dietitian Oh Jin-hee marry against the wishes of his wealthy family of doctors, who cut him off. Needing money fast, he gives up medicine to sell pharmaceuticals, and constant fights end in divorce. Six years later, both have gone through medical school and land as interns in the same hospital's emergency room.
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.
Lee Jung-joo has worked hard all her life without catching a break, and after seven years at a Seoul clothing company she loses her job, her home and her boyfriend almost at once. Reluctantly starting over on Jeju Island, she meets Baek Gun-woo, a carefree, smooth-talking restaurant owner from a rich family whom she first takes for a con artist.
Julian has lived off money from wealthy female clients, but a rushed business expansion leaves him with crushing debts and one month to pay or die. His only way out is to pose as the long-lost brother of Min, a cold, blind heiress, and get his hands on her fortune.
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.
Su-min, an orphan, must leave his orphanage when he turns 18. Unable to afford university, he moves to Seoul and works several jobs, including driving drunk people home, to cover the cost of computer lessons. When his factory job ends he starts working at a host bar, where Jae-min, a man he once drove home who has since fallen for him, walks back into his life.
Yoon Jae-ha is a gifted pianist from a wealthy family, though his early years with a con-artist father were miserable. Seo Eun-young, who once lived happily with her mother on Chungsan Island, now makes accessories and sells them on the street. When she wins a contest and travels to Austria, she meets Jae-ha and his friends Phillip and Song Yi-na, and the two clash at first.
Restaurant worker Eun-yi is hired as a live-in nanny for a wealthy couple: Hoon and his wife Hae-ra, who is expecting twins. Her main job is caring for their young daughter Nami, who slowly warms to her, but Hoon soon begins secretly flirting with her behind his wife's back.
Jang Yoon-ha, the youngest daughter of a troubled chaebol family, hides who she is and works part-time at a supermarket, hoping to live an ordinary life. There she befriends Lee Ji-yi, who dreams of marrying rich, while Choi Joon-gi, an ambitious man from a poor family who plans to marry into wealth, catches Yoon-ha's eye.
After her father dies, orphan Lee Yun-hee goes to live with the family of his friend, where her stepmother and stepsister treat her with open hostility. She has a hidden gift for art, and her path soon crosses with two men: rising singer Kang Min-hee, whose wealthy father opposes his music career, and fashion designer Lee Joon-hee.
Oh Dae-san runs a small clothing shop in Seoul's Dongdaemun Market and dreams of one day being rich. Then he crosses paths with Lee Jun-hee, the heir to a fashion empire who looks exactly like him, and Jun-hee asks Dae-san to step into his life and pretend to be him.
Hong Gil-dong, the bright son of a minister born outside marriage, has been told his status means he can never amount to anything, so he spends his days idling and causing trouble. A local monk sees more in him and trains him in martial arts, while cheerful Heo Yi-nok arrives from China and befriends him.
Kim Do-ran has grown up with foster parents who never told her about her real father. Her foster father treats her kindly, but his wife and daughter Mi-ran resent her. When he dies in an accident, Do-ran is thrown out and must start over alone, just as her father leaves prison and becomes a chauffeur for the wealthy Wang family.
Lee Seung-cheon is a boy from a poor family. Through a mysterious golden spoon, he trades lives with a friend who was born into wealth, stepping into that friend's place and becoming rich by his own choice rather than by birth.
Jang Seon-kyul is a wealthy man with a severe fear of germs who is obsessed with tidiness and even runs his own cleaning company. His orderly world is disrupted when Gil Oh-sol, a carefree, messy young woman always seen in her tracksuit, joins the company as a new hire. Worn down by years of part-time jobs, she gave up on neatness long ago.
Kang Young-gul has nothing to his name and runs a clothing stall at Dongdaemun Market, never having had real dreams for his future. That changes when he meets Lee Ga-young, an orphan with a natural gift for design, who wins a scholarship to a fashion school in New York.
Yoon Jae-hee, the daughter of Korea's president, works as a diplomat in Prague and is only just getting over a painful breakup from five years ago. Detective Choi Sang-hyun arrives in the city looking for his ex-girlfriend Hye-joo, who ended things with him over the phone. When Jae-hee and Sang-hyun meet, a string of misunderstandings follows.
A blunt, short-tempered female police officer crosses paths with a man who seems to be an ordinary parking attendant but is secretly a millionaire. The series follows the relationship that grows between these two mismatched people.
A young woman is handed a chance to climb into a higher social class, only to find herself sinking into deep trouble instead. Alongside her story is a man who is searching for his own happiness, and who hopes to find it with her.
Oh Hye-won, 40, is the elegant, highly capable planning director of the Seohan Arts Foundation and believes her life is complete. Then she meets Lee Sun-jae, a poor 20-year-old delivery worker with a piano gift he doesn't recognize, and for the first time she truly falls in love. It is a romance they must keep hidden.
In Joseon under the tyrant King Yeonsangun, Hong Gil-dong is the son of a slave, which leaves him with no legal standing despite his brilliance. Shut out of honest work, he becomes the leader of a band of smugglers who take from the rich and give to the poor, while the king's favored concubine, Jang Nok-su, secretly still loves him.
Iljimae is born to a high-ranking nobleman and a lowly servant, and is abandoned as a baby under a tree to protect his father's family name. Raised by a family in the Qing Kingdom, he returns to Joseon only to be rejected by his father once more. Hiding behind a mask, he takes on the ruling class to fight injustice for ordinary people.
Han Jae-hyun and Yoon Ji-soo fell in love as university students. Twenty years later their paths cross again, but their lives could hardly be more different: he is a successful businessman chasing wealth and status, while she is a mother working on contract and struggling to get by.
College student Jin Sun-mi lives happily with her widowed father, with her best friend Kim Woo-jin always by her side. Her life changes when her father takes in Heo Young-mi, a poor, ambitious girl her age whose father died working for his company. Young-mi soon envies everything Sun-mi has, and the two become rivals chasing careers as TV news anchors.
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.
Told through pansori singing, this film retells a classic Korean folktale set in 18th-century Korea. Mongryong, a governor's son, falls in love with and secretly marries Chunhyang, the daughter of a courtesan, but when his father is posted to Seoul he must leave her behind, promising to return once he passes the state exam.
This black comedy pokes fun at Korea's powerful upper class. Han Jeong-ho and Choi Yeon-hee are a wealthy couple from a prestigious family whose image is thrown into turmoil when their teenage son In-sang gets his girlfriend Seo Bom, who comes from an ordinary family, pregnant. Bom is determined to endure for her child's sake.
Seodong is a commoner, a technician raised at Taehaksa, Baekje's leading institute of science and technology. He falls for Princess Seonhwa, who belongs to the enemy kingdom of Silla, a love that ignores rank and class. He also hides something that could change Baekje's future, while his rival Sataek Giru schemes with Buyeo Seon to ruin his plans.
Hong Seol is an ordinary university student juggling part-time jobs to cover her tuition and living costs. Yoo Jung, her senior, seems flawless: rich, kind and handsome, yet something about him makes her uneasy. When he suddenly asks her out, the two begin an awkward relationship.
Jang Mi-ri works at a karaoke bar in Fukuoka, Japan, to pay off her father's debts and save enough to return to Korea and find her birth mother. A chance car accident brings her to hotel president Jang Myung-hoon, who hires her for her fluent Japanese without knowing her university credentials are fake.
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.
Gun-wook loses everything in a single night when the wealthy Hong family takes him in as President Hong's illegitimate son, then throws him onto the streets once they realize they were wrong. Years later he returns to bring down the Hongs and their Haeshin corporation piece by piece, using the family's children as pawns, until he meets the sharp and ambitious Jae-in.
After losing their father, young sisters Tae-hee and Yoon-hee set out to find their wealthy grandfather, who had cut ties with the family. At the train station, robbers split them up: Tae-hee is helped by a boy named Jae-hyuk, while Yoon-hee is struck by a truck, loses her memory and is taken in by another family.
Chun Hae-joo grows up in deep poverty in Ulsan, unaware of the secrets surrounding her real parents. At school she grows close to Park Chang-hui, a butler's son facing his own hardships, and meets Kang San, the cheerful heir to a rival shipping group, against the backdrop of Korea's shipbuilding boom.
Three people driven by greed fight their way toward wealth and power. Seo Yi-kyung is a cold, ambitious woman who will do anything to get ahead; Park Gun-woo is a warm, principled company heir she betrayed twelve years ago; and Lee Se-jin, orphaned young and raised poor, is desperate to escape her life.
Born into a poor family, Oh Wan-soo becomes a world-class golfer and marries Kim Yong-kook, heir to the Hwain Group, partly to pay off her mother's debts, then learns of his affair. Over a decade later, as a goodwill ambassador in Manila, she narrowly survives a terrorist attack thanks to Seo Do-yoon, who then becomes her bodyguard.
