10 titles, most popular first
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
