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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bong Ye-bun is a small-town vet who suddenly gains the psychic power to see someone's past by touching their backside. She teams up with Moon Jang-yeol, a hot-headed detective demoted from Seoul to the quiet village of Mujin, who pushes her to use her odd gift to solve minor crimes around town.
Eight strangers agree to be locked inside a building for a game that pays them money for every minute it lasts. Known only by their floor numbers, they must buy basic supplies at a hundred times the usual price, and at first they work together to keep the game going as long as possible.
In an alternate 2018 where Korea is still an empire, cheerful musical actress Oh Sunny marries the emperor. She is soon pulled into palace power struggles and a mysterious murder, and she joins forces with Na Wang-shik, an imperial bodyguard who took the job to avenge his mother.
Set in the same world as Iris, the story starts when South Korea's president, hoping to lead in nuclear energy, sends black-ops agent Dr. Kwon Yong-kwan to bring home a scientist defecting from North Korea. Three years later, Kwon heads NTS, a new counter-terror task force guarding that technology from foreign enemies, joined by its new top agent, Lee Jung-woo.
Kim Mo-mi is an office worker who feels insecure about her appearance. By night she hides her face behind a mask and becomes a popular online personality, until a string of unlucky events starts to take control of her life.
Seong Soo-ji transfers to Baekyeon High School and learns that students are sorted by a secret ranking system that lets those at the top torment those below. Landing in the lowest rank, she becomes a target of cruel bullying and resolves to fight back against the game itself.
Lee Tang, out of the army for six months, works at a convenience store, leans on his parents and dreams of going to Canada. One night a customer attacks him, and the fight ends with the man dead. Racked with guilt and ready to turn himself in, Tang learns his victim was a serial killer, while detective Jang Nan-gam keeps digging.
Lee Dong-sik and Han Joo-won are two fearless officers at the small Manyang police substation who are willing to break the law to catch a serial killer. As they hunt for the culprit, they begin to doubt the innocence of everyone tied to the case, even each other and themselves.
Ha Dong-soo belongs to a new kind of human, called Connect, whose body heals itself. Kidnapped by organ traffickers, he wakes up in the middle of surgery and escapes, but one of his eyes is gone. He soon realizes he can see through that missing eye, which now sits in a serial killer, and he sets out to hunt the killer down.
Woo Seul-gi grew up in an orphanage after getting lost on a school trip as a child. Now she transfers to Chaehwa Girls' High School, one of the most elite in the country, where amid fierce competition over the college entrance exam she is drawn into the mystery of her father's suspicious death.
Longtime star Yeo Woon-gwang suddenly needs protection and hires Kim Seol-woo, a talented and mysterious bodyguard. Seol-woo is secretly a black ops agent for the intelligence service, using the job as cover for his own mission, while also growing close to the star's manager, Cha Do-ha.
Shooting champion Ok Chan-mi refuses to believe that her twin brother took his own life. As the police prepare to close the case, she transfers to his high school to find out who is responsible, and she teams up with Ji Soo-heon, a troubled boy who seeks justice through risky means of his own.
Since his wife's death, Jeon Yeong-ha has stayed on in a quiet forest town a few hours from Seoul, running a holiday villa beside his modest home. One day a reserved young woman, Seong-a, checks in with her son. When she leaves early the next morning, Yeong-ha finds blood stains, a strong smell of bleach, and no sign of the boy.
Art teacher An Yoon-soo finds her husband, a painter, dead in his studio, and a prosecutor quickly decides she is the killer despite thin evidence. Behind bars she meets Mo-eun, a mysterious woman arrested for a separate poisoning, who offers her a dangerous bargain.
Oh Taek, an ordinary taxi driver, is offered a big fare to drive a passenger all the way to Mokpo. He reluctantly accepts, only to realize his passenger is a serial killer, and he must rely on every bit of his wits to make it through the long, terrifying ride.
Park Mu-jin is South Korea's unambitious environment minister, dismissed after a diplomatic incident. The next day, a bombing at the National Assembly wipes out everyone in the line of succession, and Mu-jin, whose resignation has not yet taken effect, is suddenly sworn in as acting president for 60 days.
Mysterious sphere-shaped creatures fill the sky above Earth, and the senior class at Sungjin High School is drafted to fight them. Promised extra credit toward their university entrance exams, the students learn to handle guns and stay alive under Lieutenant Lee Chun-ho, their platoon commander.
Agents from the General Affairs Bureau and a team of detectives set out to uncover the truth about a mysterious being that once rescued humanity in a time of crisis, following its trail as they hunt for answers about what it really is.
After a fire takes his parents, Lee Ahn gains psychometry, the power to see the past of people and objects just by touching them. Still unable to control it, he meets Yoon Jae-in, a young woman guarding painful secrets, and teams up with his prosecutor guardian Kang Sung-mo and investigator Eun Ji-soo to chase a case tied to all their pasts.
Park Jung-woo, a prosecutor at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office, wakes up one day to find himself a death-row inmate. Suffering from temporary memory loss, he can't recall how he ended up behind bars, and he fights to get his memories back and clear his name.
In Jirisan National Park, rangers and park staff venture into the mountain's mysterious, unexplored corners to rescue survivors and lost hikers. Their work draws them into a mystery surrounding the mountain's many visitors, including people who arrive intent on murder and others who come in despair.
Nam Da-jung, a naive college student in debt, is invited onto Liar Game, a reality show where players deceive one another for a huge cash prize. After being tricked out of her starting money, she desperately turns to Ha Woo-jin, a brilliant former psychology professor and ex-con swindler, for help.
