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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.
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.
Geum Jan-di, a dry cleaner's daughter, ends up on a scholarship at Shinhwa High, an elite school for rich kids ruled by a clique called F4. Its leader is Gu Jun-pyo, heir to the Shinhwa Group. When Jan-di refuses to bow to F4's bullying and stands up to Jun-pyo, she becomes their target, while growing close to quiet member Yoon Ji-hoo.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gyeon-woo is an engineering student who can never seem to get a romantic break. On his way to meet a possible date, he pulls a drunk young woman back from the edge of a train platform. On the train she gets sick, passes out and calls him "honey," leaving him stuck taking care of her.
Six students at Kirin High School dream of becoming K-pop idols and other kinds of performers. As they work on their singing, songwriting, and dancing, they grow as people, develop crushes on one another, and lean on each other's support while chasing their debut.
High schooler Eun Dan-oh, a student at an elite academy, suddenly realizes that she and everyone around her are characters in a comic book called Secret. Worse, she is only an extra with a grim storyline, so she sets out to rewrite her fate and find love on her own terms.
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.
Field reporter Nam Hong-joo, rookie prosecutor Jung Jae-chan and police officer Han Woo-tak share an unusual gift: they can see the future in their dreams. Some visions show crimes Jae-chan must investigate, others show disasters waiting to happen, so the three team up to stop their dark dreams from coming true.
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.
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.
In the fictional land of Daeho, a forbidden spell called the Alchemy of Souls lets a soul move into another body. Elite warrior Naksu's soul ends up trapped by accident in the frail body of Mu-deok. She crosses paths with Jang Uk, a young man from a noble family, and becomes his servant while secretly training him in her skills.
Ki Seung-nyang is a woman born in Goryeo who climbs to power despite the rigid class system of her time. Her story weaves together her political ambitions and her bonds with two men: Wang Yoo, her first love, and Toghon Temür, emperor of the Yuan dynasty.
Joo Joong-won is the cold, aloof CEO of Kingdom, a company that runs a large department store and hotel. Tae Gong-shil, a gloomy woman, has been seeing ghosts ever since an accident. When she finds that touching Joong-won makes the spirits vanish, she begs to stay near him and agrees to help recover a fortune taken from him in a kidnapping attempt.
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.
Hong Hae-in, an heiress of the wealthy Queens Group, and Baek Hyun-woo, a farmer's son from a small village, have been married for three years and are close to divorce. When Hae-in learns she has a serious illness, the troubled couple must face old hurts and their very different personalities, while her childhood friend Yoon Eun-sung steps in to support her.
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.
Lee Yoon-sung grows up in the Golden Triangle, raised by Lee Jin-pyo, a former presidential bodyguard who survived a secret 1983 mission into North Korea only to see his team betrayed and their records erased. Trained hard in combat from childhood, Yoon-sung learns of Jin-pyo's long-held plan to get revenge on the officials responsible.
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.
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.
Three people are drawn together by an old incident tied to five friends behind an outlawed pro-democracy broadcasting operation: a highly skilled night courier known only as Healer, a reporter for a low-rent tabloid website, and a celebrated journalist at a major network. Investigating what happened in 1992 alongside a string of present-day murders, they set out after the truth.
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.
Insomniac Busan detective Jang Hae-jun, who sees his wife only on weekends, looks into the death of a retired immigration officer found dead below a mountain he liked to climb. Suspicion falls on the man's much younger widow, Song Seo-rae, a Chinese emigrant who cares for the elderly, and as Hae-jun watches her closely, he begins to develop feelings for her.
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.
Oh Jin-shim, a famous actress known by the stage name Oh Yoon-seo, has been out of work for two years after a scandal hurt her career. To win a big role in a new drama and clean up her image, she must first take a job as the secretary of a lawyer named Kwon Jung-rok.
In 1998, the IMF crisis shuts down high school fencer Na Hee-do's team, so she transfers schools to keep chasing her dream. Baek Yi-jin's once-wealthy family has been torn apart by the same crisis, leaving him juggling part-time jobs. Decades later, Hee-do's daughter finds her mother's old diary, which tells their story.
Han Ji-eun, an aspiring writer, lives in Full House, the home her late father built. Tricked by her best friends into a supposedly free vacation, she comes back to find they have sold the house to famous actor Lee Young-jae, whom she met on the plane. Determined to win it back, she agrees to live there as his maid.
Kim Hyun-jun and Jin Sa-woo, best friends as close as brothers, serve together in an elite army special forces unit until they are recruited into the NSS, a secret South Korean black-ops agency. Both fall for Choi Seung-hee, the agent who quietly scouted them, as they begin a dangerous new life in espionage.
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.
Kim Sam-soon is a loud, gifted pastry chef nearing thirty who hates her old-fashioned name. On Christmas Eve she is dumped by her cheating boyfriend and loses her job. Hyun Jin-heon, owner of a fancy French restaurant, hires her, and when she needs money to save her mother's house, he offers it if she will pose as his girlfriend.
Shin Joon-young and Noh Eul were high school classmates who drifted apart after a troubled relationship. Years later, he is a top actor and singer, and she is a documentary producer who grew up struggling after losing her father. When Noh Eul is assigned to make a documentary about him, she promises to win his consent, and the two are thrown back together.
As a toddler, Yoon Joon-suh accidentally knocks over the name cards on two newborns' cribs in a hospital nursery, and a nurse puts them back on the wrong babies. Years later, his sister Eun-suh is the most popular girl in her class, while her smart but overlooked classmate Choi Shin-ae grows jealous of her.
Han Jung-suh and Cha Song-joo are childhood friends whose close bond grows into love. When Jung-suh's father remarries, her new stepmother, an actress, and stepsister Yoo-ri make her life miserable, and Song-joo leaves to study in America without her.
In Joseon, where women are barred from schooling and work, Kim Yoon-hee disguises herself as her brother Yoon-shik to support her family. While secretly sitting an entrance exam for Sungkyunkwan, the top Confucian academy, on someone else's behalf, she is caught by the principled Lee Sun-joon, who sees her talent and urges her to enroll.
Noh Ji-wook is a prosecutor and Eun Bong-hee is a prosecutor in training. When a murder takes place, Bong-hee suddenly finds herself the suspect, and Ji-wook, who has since become a private lawyer, works the case with her as they learn their pasts are tied together.
Kim Eun-oh, a nobleman who can see and hear spirits, arrives in Miryang searching for his missing mother and is pushed into becoming the town's new magistrate. There he meets Arang, a ghost with no memory who cannot rest until she learns how she died, and who carries a hairpin he once gave his mother.
Three resistance fighters from the 1930s, when Korea was under Japanese rule, are reborn in the present day as a best-selling author stuck in a slump, a devoted fan, and a ghostwriter. As the three cross paths, the unresolved truth of their shared past starts to catch up with them.
