8 titles, most popular first
During the Korean War, student volunteer Oh Jang-beom barely survives a brutal battle and is shaken by what he has seen. He is then put in charge of a newly formed unit of untrained student soldiers, joined by a defiant young criminal named Ku Kap-jo, and ordered to hold a key position.
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 1953, ceasefire talks drag on while soldiers keep battling over hills along the 38th Parallel that change hands again and again. When a South Korean company commander at the Aerok Hills is found shot by a southern bullet, counterintelligence officer Kang Eun-pyo is sent to investigate and find a suspected mole.
During Japan's occupation of Korea in World War II, more than 400 Koreans are forced into brutal labor on Hashima Island. Pushed to their limits by the harsh conditions, they gamble everything on a bold plan to break out.
In January 1972, during the Vietnam War, a South Korean army base receives a radio message from a platoon that vanished at R-Point, an island near Saigon. Lieutenant Choi leads a small squad there with one week to bring the soldiers back, in exchange for an early discharge, but the place soon feels deeply wrong.
In the 1920s, under Japanese occupation, many people of Joseon cross the Tumen River into Gando, a lawless region of China, some to earn a living and others to fight for Korean independence. There, a band of people who have left their homeland behind come together to protect the Koreans living in Gando.
Cheon Yeong is a slave with extraordinary fighting skill who longs to escape his unjust bondage, and Jong-ryeo is the master he once served. In a time of chaos under King Seonjo, the two meet again on opposite sides, one as the king's trusted military officer and the other as a volunteer soldier.
Kim Jun is the son of a runaway palace slave and grows up among monks. Torn from his home in wartime, he is forced to set aside his peaceful nature and enter a deadly contest that might win him freedom from his masters, the powerful Choe clan, as Goryeo faces Mongol invasion.
