28 titles, most popular first
Boo Yong-joo was once a top surgeon at a leading Seoul hospital until a traumatic incident led him to vanish and take the name Kim Sa-bu. Now working at Doldam, a small hospital in Gangwon Province, he mentors young doctors Kang Dong-joo and Yoon Seo-jeong, teaching them to put patients ahead of power and money.
Cha Do-hyun, heir to his family's business in its third generation, has lived with dissociative identity disorder and seven separate identities since going through several traumatic events. He tries to take back control of his life with secret help from Oh Ri-jin, a first-year psychiatry resident, while her twin brother, a writer eager to expose the rich, starts following him.
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.
Kim Seong-geun, buried in debt and feeling hopeless, jumps from a bridge into the Han River and washes up on Bamseom, a small island in the middle of Seoul. Unable to swim back, he starts to enjoy a simple life free of his worries, while Kim Jung-yeon, a young woman who never leaves her room, spots his message written in the sand.
Go Dok-mi is a shy freelance copy editor who rarely leaves her apartment, spending her mornings secretly watching her neighbor Han Tae-joon through binoculars. Webtoon artist Oh Jin-rak, who lives in her building, has quietly loved her for years, and her sheltered life is shaken up when Enrique Geum, a genius game developer, arrives from Spain.
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 Hyun-wook, CEO of an agency that trains idols, cannot move on from losing his ex-girlfriend in an accident he saw with his own eyes three years ago. Her younger sister Yoon Se-na moves to Seoul to chase a career writing music, and Hyun-wook steps in to help her as the two begin to heal through music.
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.
Jang Jae-yeol is a playful, slightly arrogant mystery novelist and radio DJ who lives with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Ji Hae-soo is a driven first-year psychiatry fellow who cares deeply for her patients but is wary of love. When the two meet, their strong personalities clash at every turn.
Woo Seo-ri fell into a coma at 17 and wakes up thirteen years later, suddenly 30 and lost in a world that has moved on without her. Gong Woo-jin is a 30-year-old set designer who keeps people at arm's length because of guilt over an accident in his teens, and the two are thrown into each other's lives.
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.
Lee Jung-hoon is a news anchor with hyperthymesia, a condition that lets him recall almost every moment of his life. Yeo Ha-jin is a top actress who has lost the memory of her painful past and lives however she likes. Their love story brings together a man who can't forget and a woman who already has.
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.
Joo Hong-bin is a rich man with a thorny temper who discovers a strange power: whenever he feels anger or emotional pain, knives burst out of his body. His life becomes entangled with Son Se-dong, a warmhearted young woman, and she begins to soften his wounded heart.
Seo Mok-ha is a girl who dreams of becoming a singing star. On her way to an audition in Seoul, an accident leaves her stranded on a deserted island, and she is not found for 15 years. Back home, she struggles to fit into a changed world while still holding on to her dream.
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.
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.
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.
Announcer Joo Eun-ho carries a deep emotional wound that leads her to develop a new personality. Her ex-boyfriend, Jung Hyun-oh, has his own pain too, but he keeps it locked tightly away. This romance follows two hurting people and the scars they each carry.
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.
Two people who each lost someone they loved in a terrible building collapse try to go on with life as though the pain is gone. As their paths cross, they slowly grow closer. The story is inspired by the real 1995 collapse of Seoul's Sampoong Department Store.
Jung Deok-in left her job as a homicide detective after losing her only son. Now she runs a food stall outside his old school, watching over local children and her student customers to keep them safe from bullies and other dangers, while she searches for the truth about what happened to her son.
Lee Bom-yi was once terminally ill, but a heart transplant has given her a new lease on life, and she now treasures every single day. She meets Kang Dong-ha, the CEO of Hanuiron and a widowed father of two whose wife died in an accident, and she begins to fall for him.
Go Eun-ho, a doctor from Seoul, travels to Biyang Island to see his father's old mentor. There he meets Seo Jung-eun, a quiet, mysterious woman whose past trauma has been so heavy that she no longer speaks. Moved by her, Eun-ho sets out to help her find a way past the pain she carries.
