25 titles, most popular first
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 high school, Yeo Jeong-woo and Nam Ha-neul were fierce rivals for the top exam scores. Fourteen years later, star plastic surgeon Jeong-woo loses everything after a patient dies during surgery and he is hit with a huge lawsuit, while anesthesiologist Ha-neul burns out under an abusive senior professor. Both of their lives hit bottom at the same time.
Cha Eun-ho is a successful author and chief editor at a publishing house, and Kang Dan-i has been his close friend since childhood. Now divorced, out of work, and raising a child, Dan-i hides her struggles from him, secretly cleaning his home for pay before applying for a temporary support job at his company.
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.
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.
After a run of bad luck, cellist Mok Hae-won quits her job in Seoul and returns to Hyecheon, a town in Gangwon Province where she briefly lived as a teenager. There she reconnects with her old classmate and neighbor Im Eun-seob, who now runs a bookstore, and through the cold winter the two begin to find comfort in one another.
Kim Sol-ah works as a graphic designer and brings home a white cat named Hong-jo. What she doesn't know is that Hong-jo can turn into a man, and he starts to fall for her while keeping his true nature a secret.
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.
Han Ji-yul, a veterinarian from Seoul, reluctantly moves to the village of Huidong to run his grandfather's clinic. There he meets friendly local police officer Ahn Ja-young and cafe owner Lee Sang-hyeon, and quickly learns that adjusting to small-town life is harder than he expected.
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.
In Sanpo, a quiet suburb on the edge of Seoul, three siblings endure long daily commutes into the city, while a mysterious stranger works for their father nearby. Each of them longs to break free from lives that feel stuck, weighed down by office politics, money worries and private secrets.
Seo Hye-jin is a seasoned instructor at a cram school in Daechi-dong. Ten years after he was her student, quirky Lee Jun-ho returns to the academy and begins to stir her feelings, sparking a secret late-night romance. Alongside their story, the drama looks at the lives of the academy's other teachers.
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.
Thirty-year-old best friends Lim Jin-joo, Lee Eun-jung and Hwang Han-joo navigate work and love together. Jin-joo, a writer, gets her first shot at writing a TV series and spars with director Son Beom-soo; Eun-jung is a documentary filmmaker; and Han-joo is a single mother at a marketing company.
Yoon Bom, a lively teacher from Seoul, moves to the rural town of Shinsu-eup after being unfairly caught up in a scandal. She starts teaching there but keeps everyone at arm's length, until she meets Seon Jae-gyu, a rough-edged but kind local man who begins to draw her out of her shell.
Set around a cram school in Seoul's Noryangjin that prepares students for the civil service exam, this drama follows teachers, students and staff who each like to drink alone after work. It centers on Jin Jung-suk, a handsome star lecturer, and Park Ha-na, a rookie lecturer fighting to stay afloat in the cutthroat academy world.
Four single neighbors love living alone but share one problem: restaurants are not made for eating by yourself. Lee Soo-kyung, a happily divorced paralegal, Goo Dae-young, a mysterious food lover, and design student Yoon Jin-yi start eating out together and slowly become part of each other's lives, while a murder case shakes their neighborhood.
Insurance salesman Goo Dae-young moves from Seoul to the small city of Sejong. There he meets his next-door neighbor Baek Soo-ji, and the two quickly become friends and strike a deal while she chases Lee Sang-woo, the man she believes is the love of her life.
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.
Moon Ha-won is a kind and steady AI programmer who founded his own business, AH Company. Han Seo-woo records classical music for a living and has no family or home to call her own, yet she stays hopeful. This romantic drama follows the connection between the two.
Since her divorce, Yoon-hee has lived in the countryside with her teenage daughter Sae-bom. When Sae-bom finds a romantic letter written to her mother by Jun, a Korean-Japanese woman who went to school with Yoon-hee long ago, she senses her mother's deep loneliness and plans a trip to the snowy Japanese town of Otaru, where Jun lives.
Worn out by hectic, complicated city life, a group of people leave their old routines behind and move to an unfamiliar town with one simple plan: to do nothing at all. Away from the pressure, they slowly begin to rediscover who they really are.
Sunwoo Hae spent a hard childhood working in the entertainment world and has since found calm as a novelist and florist. He crosses paths again with his first love, Sung Je-yeon, now an ambitious team leader at a company. Their reunion pushes both of them to face who they used to be and who they are now, amid their own personal and work struggles.
A painter who is hard of hearing has always shared his feelings through his drawings rather than words. He meets a young woman hoping to become an actress, who lets everything she feels come out through her voice, and a quiet romance begins between two people who communicate in very different ways.
Lee Ji-hyun is an ambitious young clothing designer from the city who dreams of launching her own label. When her grand-uncle offers her his vineyard on the condition that she works there for a full year, she reluctantly agrees. Learning to grow grapes means taking orders from Jang Taek-gi, the rough, unfriendly man who runs the place.
