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Seong Gi-hun is a divorced father buried in gambling debts and living with his elderly mother when he is invited to play children's games for a huge cash prize. He is taken to a remote island with 455 other players who are all desperate for money, and soon learns that losing a game means dying.
The Kim family, Ki-taek, Chung-sook and their grown children Ki-woo and Ki-jung, scrape by in a cramped semi-basement flat in Seoul. When a friend arranges for Ki-woo to tutor the daughter of the wealthy Park family, the Kims see a chance to work their way, one by one, into the rich household.
In 1988, businessman Oh Dae-su is snatched off the street after a night of drunken trouble and locked inside a sealed room with only a television. For fifteen years he has no idea who imprisoned him or why. When he is suddenly set free, he hunts for his captor, crossing paths with a young sushi chef named Mi-do.
Wealthy families live in the luxurious Hera Palace and send their children to the elite Cheong-ah Arts School. Elegant Shim Su-ryeon carries a tragic past and is married to businessman Joo Dan-tae. Oh Yoon-hee, who comes from a humble background, has been at odds since high school with famous soprano Cheon Seo-jin, whose father runs the school.
Seok-woo, a cynical, workaholic divorced father in Seoul, agrees to take his young daughter Su-an to see her mother in Busan. They board the KTX train with a mix of other passengers just as a sudden outbreak sweeps the country, and an infected woman slips aboard right before departure.
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.
In October 1986, two women are found murdered on the edge of a small town, and the poorly equipped local police are soon overwhelmed. Detectives Park Doo-man and Cho Yong-koo rely on violence and fake evidence, while Seo Tae-yoon, a better-trained detective from Seoul, joins the hunt as more killings follow.
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.
After 13 years in prison for the kidnapping and murder of a young boy, a crime she did not commit, Lee Geum-ja walks free, praised as a model of reform. But her gentle behavior behind bars was only a cover. Calling in favors from former inmates, she sets out to take revenge on the real killer.
In 1601, three years after the Imjin War, Crown Prince Lee Chang tries to look into the strange illness that has struck the King. His search drags him into a deadly outbreak that is turning people across Joseon into zombies, while rivals at court plot to seize the throne.
Lee Jong-su, an aspiring novelist doing odd jobs in Seoul, runs into Shin Hae-mi, a childhood neighbor he barely remembers. Before leaving on a trip to Africa, she asks him to feed her cat, and when she returns she introduces him to Ben, a mysterious young man who leaves Jong-su uneasy.
In South Korea, a ghostly face suddenly starts appearing to tell people the exact moment they are condemned to Hell, and when that moment arrives, monstrous beings burst in to kill them in public. As fear spreads, a detective, a principled lawyer and the leader of a rising religious group called the New Truth are drawn into the chaos.
When two North Korean soldiers are shot dead at a guard post inside the Joint Security Area, wounded South Korean sergeant Lee Soo-hyeok escapes back across the border. To calm rising tensions, Swiss Army Major Sophie E. Jean is sent by a neutral commission to investigate, and she soon notices that the stories from both sides do not add up.
Man-su, a longtime paper-company employee, lives happily in his childhood home with his wife Mi-ri and their two children. When the company is sold and he is laid off, he promises his family he will be back in the paper business within three months, but more than a year later he is still jobless and growing desperate enough to turn on his rivals.
Four years after a zombie outbreak overran South Korea and the whole peninsula was sealed off, former marine officer Jung-seok is living as a refugee in Hong Kong. Chinese gangsters hire him, his brother-in-law Chul-min and a pair of fellow refugees to sneak back and recover a truck holding 20 million US dollars, in return for half of it.
Soon after a mysterious Japanese stranger arrives in the mountain village of Gokseong, a strange sickness spreads, driving villagers to violently attack their own families. Police officer Jong-goo starts looking into the killings, and his fear deepens when his young daughter, Hyo-jin, begins showing signs of the illness.
After his fiancée Joo-yun is brutally murdered, secret agent Kim Soo-hyun vows to make her killer pay. Working outside the law, he sets out to hunt down the man responsible, a school bus driver named Jang Kyung-chul who has killed before, and his quest for vengeance turns into a vicious contest between the two men.
After a tragedy takes his whole family, Cha Hyun-su moves into Green Home, a shabby apartment complex. One night, terrifying monsters start appearing and tearing through the city. Hyun-su and some of his neighbors band together inside the building to stay alive, while other residents begin turning into monsters shaped by their own desires.
After her father's sudden death, Yoon Ji-woo is set on revenge against whoever was responsible. She joins the drug gang Dongcheon, led by Choi Mu-jin, and with his help enters the police force under the fake name Oh Hye-jin, working as the gang's mole in a drug unit alongside Detective Jeon Pil-do.
In 2015, criminal profiler Park Hae-young finds an old walkie-talkie and hears Detective Jae-han, a man somehow speaking from the past who talks to him like an old friend. Working together across time, they crack a 15-year-old kidnapping and murder case, which leads to a cold case team led by Detective Cha Soo-hyun.
In 1980, Kim Man-seob is a widowed taxi driver in Seoul, raising his child alone and buried in debt. When he overhears another driver boasting about a well-paid fare to Gwangju, he grabs the job for himself. His passenger is Peter, a German journalist hoping to report on the growing unrest there, which Man-seob knows nothing about.
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.
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.
Ko Bum-seok is the police chief of Hope Harbor, a small village of mostly elderly residents near the DMZ. When his cousin asks him to look into a cow with gaping wounds, local hunters blame a stray tiger, but the attacks keep coming, and with wildfires cutting off help, Bum-seok and his rookie deputy must defend the village.
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.
Cha Tae-sik is a quiet man who runs a pawnshop, and his only friend is So-mi, the little girl who lives next door. When So-mi's mother steals drugs from a gang and hides them in a bag she leaves with Tae-sik, the gangsters come for the drugs and take So-mi, pulling him into a violent fight to get her back.
In 1992, an elite group of North Korean soldiers trains under commander Park Mu-young to slip into South Korea as sleeper agents. Years later, South Korean agent Yu Jung-won and his partner Lee Jang-gil hunt for Lee Bang-hee, a deadly sniper from that unit, while Jung-won keeps the truth about his job from his fiancée Myung-hyun.
In an alternate 2009, Korea is still ruled by Imperial Japan. Masayuki Sakamoto, an agent of the Japanese Bureau of Investigation, and his partner Shojiro Saigo stop a hostage crisis at a museum, and Sakamoto grows curious about why the rebels were after a mysterious artifact and the foundation linked to it.
In the city of Jungjin, the Counters are a small team of demon hunters who track down evil spirits that have fled the afterlife and feed on people through would-be killers. After one of their members falls in battle, his spirit partner from Yung chooses So Mun, a high school boy with a disability, as the team's new recruit.
Famed shaman Hwa-rim and her protégé Bong-gil are hired by a wealthy Korean American family whose newborn son has a mysterious illness. Blaming an angry ancestor's spirit, they team up with feng shui master Kim Sang-deok and mortician Yeong-geun to dig up and move the grandfather's grave on a remote mountain, though Sang-deok senses something sinister there.
In the near future, a failed drug has unleashed the Lytta Virus, an illness that drives the infected into fits of madness and bloodlust before leaving them zombie-like. Yoon Sae-bom is scratched while subduing an infected trainee from a special operations unit, and is taken to a research facility where she meets Han Tae-seok.
Three poor sisters, In-joo, In-hye and In-kyung, are each driven by their own hunger for money, independence or love. When a friend of one sister, believed to be dead, leaves behind 70 billion won, the sisters find themselves up against Korea's richest family, who will stop at nothing.
Parasitic creatures from outer space begin taking over human hosts, and a police squad called The Grey, led by Choi Jun-kyung, hunts them while keeping the attacks hidden. Supermarket cashier Jeong Su-in is stabbed one night, and a parasite that tries to seize her brain ends up sharing her body instead, something small-time thug Seol Kang-woo witnesses.
Hee-jin, a woman who does not speak, runs a remote fishing resort of small floating cabins, rowing guests back and forth and quietly supplying whatever they need. When Hyun-shik, a troubled man on the run from the law, arrives at the resort, an unusual and intense bond slowly forms between them, told almost entirely without dialogue.
Park Ji-sang is a gifted surgeon at the country's top cancer hospital who is secretly a vampire, holding back his thirst for blood to save patients. He finds himself drawn to Yoo Ri-ta, an arrogant star physician and niece of the chaebol chairman who owns the hospital.
In spring 1945, under Japanese occupation, Jang Tae-sang runs the richest pawnshop in Gyeongseong, while Yoon Chae-ok is a tracker searching for her missing mother. Their paths lead them to face a strange creature created through hidden biological experiments carried out inside Ongseong Hospital.
In 2019, Kim Seo-yeon visits her ill, estranged mother at her run-down childhood home and finds an old cordless phone. Through it she starts getting calls from Oh Young-sook, a frightened young woman living in the same house in 1999. The two begin talking across time, bonding over their troubled relationships with their mothers.
In the Chinese city of Yanji, ethnic Korean taxi driver Gu-nam is buried in gambling debt and tormented by worries about his wife, who went to work in South Korea and has not been in touch. After losing his job, he accepts an offer from a local gangster to cross into South Korea and kill a professor for money.
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.
In 1933, with Korea under Japanese rule, resistance captain Yem Sek-jin is tasked with recruiting three unruly independence fighters, Ahn Okyun, Big Gun and Duk-sam. Their mission is to sneak into Seoul and kill a Japanese general, Kawaguchi Mamoru, along with the pro-Japanese businessman Kang In-guk.
A grim reaper is ordered to hunt down his partner, who has gone on the run. While searching, he gets caught up in a string of unsolved murders from 20 years ago, and his job of guiding the dead to the afterlife grows complicated as he starts breaking the rules against meddling in human lives.
Kim Gun-woo is a talented young boxer who wants a better life for his single mother, but she falls into the clutches of Smile Capital, a ruthless loan shark outfit run by Kim Myeong-gil. Desperate to help her, Gun-woo accepts aid from kindly moneylender Choi Tae-ho and forms an unlikely bond with Hong Woo-jin, a former marine who also boxes.
When his father, King Haejong, kills the queen while under a spell, young Prince Rin is orphaned and sent away from the palace as his half-brother Gi-san takes the throne. Twelve years later, Rin lives a carefree life that hides his loneliness and his secret ability to see ghosts. Then he meets Do-ha, a young shaman searching for her older sister.
Detective Ko Moo-chi, still haunted by a horrific crime he saw as a child, is determined to catch a psychopathic serial killer. With rookie officer Jeong Ba-reum at his side, he digs into what drives psychopaths and whether a tendency toward psychopathy could be spotted in a person's genes.
Hwang Si-mok is a dedicated prosecutor who lost his sense of empathy after surgery for an extreme sensitivity to sound. While investigating a murder, he teams up with police lieutenant Han Yeo-jin, and the two soon find their search for the truth blocked at every turn by powerful interests.
Yoon Jong-woo, a man in his twenties, moves to Seoul for a company internship. Short on money, he rents a room at Eden Studio, a cheap, gloomy dormitory full of odd residents, including his neighbor Seo Moon-jo. He plans to put up with it until he can afford to leave, but strange events start making him fear the people around him.
Yeon Si-eun is a top student who cares only about his grades and is far from strong, yet he refuses to give in to the classroom bullies led by Jeon Yeong-bin. Using quick thinking and whatever is at hand, he fights back, and he finds unexpected allies in tough fighter Ahn Su-ho and troubled Oh Beom-seok.
