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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.
Born on Jeju in 1951, Ae-sun is a poor girl who dreams of becoming a poet, and Gwan-sik is the young man who adores her. Told through the eyes of their daughter, Yang Geum-myeong, the drama follows the adventures and many hardships that fill their lives.
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.
Cha Moo-hyuk, abandoned as a child and mistreated by his adoptive parents, survives by scamming tourists in Australia. After an accident leaves a bullet in his head and little time to live, he returns to Korea to find his birth mother, a famous actress. Feeling betrayed, he plots revenge by working for her son, singer Choi Yoon, and meets Yoon's devoted friend Song Eun-chae.
Eun-jo has learned to trust no one after being hauled through one unstable household after another by her manipulative, money-hungry mother. When her mother lands Dae-sung, the quiet owner of an old rice wine brewery, Eun-jo moves into his big home, where he and his sweet, spoiled daughter Hyo-sun greet her with a kindness she can't bear.
Cha Dal-gun is an overlooked stuntman raising his orphaned nephew Hoon. After the two argue, Hoon leaves on a school trip to Morocco, and soon Dal-gun learns that the plane has crashed, killing over 200 people. Arriving in Morocco for the victims' funeral, he spots at the airport a passenger who was supposed to have died on that flight.
Go Eun-sung, a student in New York, comes home on break to take her autistic brother Eun-woo to America to study music. Sunwoo Hwan, another student in New York, is called back by his grandmother Jang Sook-ja to learn how to run her food company. On the same flight home, their bags get swapped, sparking a string of misunderstandings.
A woman who runs a side-dish shop is pulled into the fierce world of college entrance exams as her daughter prepares for them. Along the way, her life becomes tangled up with a star instructor at a private cram school, and an unexpected relationship begins to form between them.
In 1994, six university students from different provinces move into a boarding house in Seoul's Sinchon neighborhood, run by a couple whose daughter is Sung Na-jung. Shifting between their college days and the present, the story follows their friendships and romances while keeping viewers guessing who Na-jung will marry.
A CODA boy, the hearing child of deaf parents, with a natural gift for music clashes with his father over his dream of playing guitar in a band. After their fight, he travels back to 1995, where he forms a band called Watermelon Sugar with his own father as a young man and a group of mysterious youths, connecting with them through music.
Mo Seok-hee, the only daughter of the MC Group chaebol, was sent to America as a teenager after her mother was murdered. Fifteen years later she returns to Korea when her grandfather falls into a coma, and after a prickly first meeting she hires Heo Yoon-do, an honest neighborhood lawyer with no real office.
Seo Jin-woo has hyperthymesia, so he can recall nearly every day of his life in perfect detail, while his father, Seo Jae-hyuk, is losing his memories to Alzheimer's. When his father is wrongly convicted of murder, Jin-woo vows to clear his name. Four years later he becomes a lawyer, facing bribery, corruption and betrayal on his path to justice.
Brothers Chan-woo and Chan-hyuk live with their sister and father, a poor family farming in the countryside. Serious, hardworking Chan-woo and his older brother, who hopes to become an artist, both fall for the same girl, Hyo-kyung, who returns Chan-hyuk's feelings. Her gangster father strongly opposes her dating a penniless painter.
Fresh out of prison after serving time for a fatal hit-and-run, Hong Jong-du returns to Seoul and finds his family moved away without telling him. Awkward and out of step with everyone, he takes a delivery job and seeks out the victim's family, where he meets Gong-ju, a woman with cerebral palsy who has been left on her own.
Ha No-ra gave up her dream of dancing when she got pregnant at 19, and spent the next twenty years as a wife and mother. Now 38, facing divorce and a frightening diagnosis, she enrolls in college for the first time, only to share the campus with her 20-year-old son, his girlfriend and her own husband.
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.
Bok Gwi-ju comes from a family with superpowers: he can return to moments from his own past, his sister can fly and his mother dreams of the future. But their gifts have faded under modern troubles like depression and insomnia, and the family is struggling. Then Do Da-hae, a con artist with her own plans, enters Gwi-ju's life.
Hong Dae-young's marriage to Jung Da-jung is falling apart, his 18-year-old twins barely speak to him, and he has just lost his job. Longing for a second shot at life, he suddenly finds himself in the body he had at 18, with his adult mind intact. Under the name Go Woo-young, he enrolls at his twins' high school.
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.
Yoon Gae-hwa, a spirited 35-year-old housewife, needs money to win her child back from her former husband, so she takes a job cleaning for Sung Min-woo, a famous and very touchy star. Things get awkward when the two end up living under the same roof and he pays her to look after his secret daughter, Ye-eun.
Gang Nam-soon went missing in Mongolia as a child, where she found out she has superhuman strength. Now grown up, she travels to South Korea to look for her parents and finds her mother, a billionaire businesswoman, and her grandmother in Gangnam, just as a detective is looking into a drug case.
Lee Soon-shin is a college graduate stuck in low-paying temp work, raised with love by Kim Jung-ae after her father brought her home as a baby. Dreaming of acting, she trusts a con man posing as a talent agency boss and is left in debt. To pay it off, she starts working at a restaurant below the real agency's office.
Jo Kang-ja was once the most feared troublemaker at her Busan high school, until a teenage pregnancy made her drop out to raise her daughter, Oh Ah-ran. Now 34, she learns that Ah-ran is being bullied, so she enrolls at the school herself as an undercover student to deal with the bullies.
Gong Shim, seen as plain and awkward, has always lived in the shadow of her beautiful older sister Gong Mi, a lawyer at a top firm who supports the family. Jobless and saving to study art in Italy, Gong Shim rents out her rooftop room and meets Ahn Dan-tae, a rough-edged lawyer who helps people in need for free.
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.
Choi Soo-ah is a seasoned flight attendant married to Park Jin-seok, a pilot who controls every part of her life and their daughter Hyo-eun's. Over her objections, he sends Hyo-eun to an international school in Malaysia, where she meets Annie, the daughter of Seo Do-woo. A tragedy involving Annie soon ties Soo-ah's life to Do-woo's.
An unmarried woman who is expecting a baby and a single man enter into a fake relationship contract. From there, their story unfolds through romance, pregnancy, childbirth and the everyday work of bringing up a child.
Min Chae-won is the eldest granddaughter of a family that has run a noodle factory on the edge of Seoul for three generations. Married into the wealthy family behind Golden Dragon Food, she has endured years of hostility from a mother-in-law who never accepted her, and when her husband cheats, she decides to leave him.
Woo-joo's life falls apart when she discovers her father was unfaithful. After his death, his mistress forces her out of the family home. Woo-joo sets out to get even, but she finds herself falling for Dong-jin, the mistress's son.
Yeon-hwa and Yoo-ra become stepsisters when their parents get engaged, but a quiet distance grows between them, made worse by Yoo-ra's crush on Yeon-hwa's boyfriend, Yoon-jae. When Yoo-ra causes a deadly car crash, she and her father, a judge, frame Yeon-hwa for it, and Yeon-hwa is sent to prison for a crime she did not commit.
Song Young-dal and Jang Ok-boon have been married for decades and raised four children. Their daughter Na-hee is a doctor at the same hospital as her husband Gyu-jin, though their marriage is in trouble, while her two older siblings are divorced and back home and the youngest struggles through a company internship.
Byeon Woo-jin's marriage ended in divorce after he went bankrupt and lost everything he had. Now he returns to the family he left behind, only this time he arrives as a multibillionaire, and they must figure out what his sudden return means for all of them.
Twins Lee Seo-young and Lee Sang-woo grow up in hardship because of their father Sam-jae's bad money decisions, working odd jobs while she studies law and he studies medicine. After their mother dies, Seo-young blames her father and cuts him out of her life, moving in with the wealthy Kang family as a live-in tutor.
Joo Ah-ran and Shin Hyun-woo marry in a lavish hotel ceremony, and while he truly loves her, she has a hidden purpose. His parents once ruined her family, and the wedding is the first step in her secret plan to make them pay.
Song Na-young and her husband Jung Sung-min long for a baby but cannot conceive. After Sung-min is suddenly killed in an accident, Na-young gives birth to a daughter, unaware that three of his friends secretly donated sperm to help. Now the baby's father could be Han Soo-hyun, Choi Kwang-hee or Na Hwang Kyung-tae.
Inspired by the biblical tale of two brothers, the series follows Lee Cho-in, a brilliant doctor who seems to have everything. His older brother Seon-woo burns with jealousy, blaming Cho-in for taking away their father's love, the recognition he craved as a doctor and the woman he loves.
After her husband's death, Ma Kwang-sook looks after his younger brothers and takes a risk by stepping in to run the family's Eagle Brewery. Along the way she keeps running into Han Dong-seok, the CEO of LX Hotel, and the two unexpectedly end up as business partners.
Seven orphans taken in and raised by the same father grow up as a close-knit family in a seaside town. Bonded more tightly than many blood siblings, they face hardship side by side as they try to make their way in the seafood business.
Lee Joong-ah was adopted by an Irish family as a child, and after losing them all to violence, she travels to Korea to search for her birth family. There she meets Kang Gook, a kind, lonely bodyguard who offers to help. She also crosses paths with Jae-bok, an aimless young man, and his warm-hearted girlfriend Si-yeon.
Cha Dong-joo lost his hearing in an accident but pretends he can still hear. Bong Woo-ri is a bright woman who plays dumb so her intellectually disabled father can keep his pride, and she has long been searching for her stepbrother, Bong Ma-roo, who left home sixteen years earlier.
The drama follows a man who, as his memory begins to fade, throws himself into protecting what matters most to him: the worth of a life lived with dignity and the love he shares with his family.
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.
Little Jung Hae-won lives with her mother, Young-ran, who has been given a large sum of money by Hae-won's grandfather. When Young-ran dies, two kitchen helpers, Im Cheong-ok and Song Kyung-hwa, split the money between them, and Cheong-ok abandons the crying girl on a train bound for Seoul.
A Korean belief holds that ages ending in nine bring extra bad luck, and the men of one family put it to the test. Gu Kwang-soo, 39, is a once-celebrated music show producer demoted to a low-rated quiz program after an on-air scandal, and his ex-girlfriend Da-in has just moved in upstairs with her young daughter. His nephews Jin-gu, 29, and Min-gu, 19, face love troubles of their own.
Lee Hye-won and Lee Hye-ji are sisters who were split apart as children when their parents divorced. Twenty years later their paths cross again, but instead of a warm reunion, the meeting pulls them into a tangled and bitter relationship.
This family drama follows Kim Tae-joo, the eldest daughter in her household, and Lee Sang-joon, a top star who is the eldest son in his. Each carries the weight of being the oldest child while looking for a happiness of their own.
Hwa-young is convinced that Yeon-hee, her brother's ex-girlfriend, drove him to his death. When Yeon-hee, now married, learns that uterine cancer means she cannot carry a child, Hwa-young offers to become her surrogate while secretly planning her revenge.
