23 titles, most popular first
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jin-seok moves into a new house with his parents and older brother Yoo-seok, and they are told that one room holding the previous owner's things is off-limits. That night, Jin-seok watches his brother get kidnapped and dragged into a car. When Yoo-seok returns 19 days later with no memory of what happened, Jin-seok starts to feel something about him is wrong.
Gil Bok-soon is a contract killer working for an agency run by Min-kyu, but at home she is a mother quietly raising her daughter, Jae-young. Unsure how to talk with her daughter about the changes in her life, she finds her two worlds harder and harder to keep apart.
Kim Seung-hyeon, a taekwondo champion, walks away from fighting for good so he can look after his daughter, Sarang. When a ruthless gambling boss kidnaps her, he has no choice but to step into a rigged boxing match in exchange for her release.
A fatal road rage attack puts two brothers on opposite sides. Jae-gyu, a principled surgeon, operates on the victim's badly hurt daughter, while his older brother Jae-wan, a high-earning defense attorney, takes on the driver's case. Their clashing values also shape their family lives, which are soon tested by a violent incident involving their own children.
Byeong-soo, a small-town veterinarian, hides a violent past as a killer and now lives with Alzheimer's after a head injury. He records his days in a memoir while looking after his daughter Eun-hee. When two young women are murdered nearby, he cannot tell whether he did it, and a chance car crash puts a stranger under his suspicion.
An author and professor watches her life collapse after her son is killed in a hit-and-run. Searching for justice, she ends up committing a crime of her own and is sent to prison. The story deals with grief, guilt and the hope of redemption.
A cash-strapped professor accidentally ends up with money that belongs to a drug cartel. With his family already falling apart, he finds that the only way to protect them is to start working as a drug courier for the very people he took from.
Abandoned as a baby in a coin locker in 1996, Il-young is sold at age ten to a woman known only as Mother, who runs a ruthless loan shark ring in Incheon's Chinatown. Seeing toughness in the girl, Mother raises her as a debt collector, until a job sends Il-young after Suk-hyun, a debtor's kind son.
Architect Kang Seo-jin is still grieving his wife, killed six months ago in a hit-and-run, while raising their young daughter alone. Then he gets a call: his sister Yoo-jin, who went missing 25 years ago, has been found. Once she comes home, his family starts to change, and Seo-jin grows suspicious of who she really is.
After his father dies in a car crash, young Ha-eun is raised by a kind family of strangers and grows up to become a police officer. Looking into his father's death, he uncovers troubling truths about the accident and his own identity, including that he has a twin brother who is now a company executive.
Over a single desperate day, an ordinary man learns that his daughter has been kidnapped. To get her back, he must take on the serial killer living right next door, in a race against the clock where only the stronger of the two will make it out alive.
Noh Young-won is celebrated as the country's top family counselor. When an unknown blackmailer threatens both her career and her family, she joins forces with her own mother-in-law to protect the household she has worked so hard to build.
Lee Jung-joo is a fiery judge with one goal close to her heart. Her older brother was framed for terrible crimes and lost his life while trying to clear his name, and now she fights to prove that he was innocent.
Seo Jae-won seems to have it all: she runs a successful furniture company, has over a million social media followers, and shares a loving family with her gentle husband, Heo Soon-young. When her old art school classmate Kwon Yoo-jin, worn down by a painful divorce, comes back into her life, jealousy and hidden secrets start to shake Jae-won's picture-perfect world.
Ki Su-jong bought a building in Seoul by borrowing every penny he could, a practice known as yeongkkeul. He is now a property owner, but the debt is crushing him. Desperate to stop the bank from seizing the building and to keep supporting his family, he gets pulled into a kidnapping scheme.
This mystery thriller follows the search for a missing sister inside an apartment complex set to be torn down and rebuilt. Its seemingly ordinary residents hide their greed behind everyday faces, and the deeper the search goes, the more secrets come to light.
