11 titles, most popular first
Teenagers Yeo-jin and Jae-yeong are trying to save money for a trip to Europe. Jae-yeong sells herself to men while Yeo-jin sets up the meetings and keeps watch for the police, until one day a police raid goes wrong and their plan unravels with painful results.
In the 1970s, as Seoul's southern Gangnam area begins to be developed amid political corruption, childhood friends Jong-dae and Yong-ki scrape by until thugs tear down their shanty homes. Desperate for money, they get caught up in violent political clashes and are separated. Three years later, each has found his own place in Seoul's criminal underworld.
In 1938, during the Japanese occupation, sickly Ju-ran is sent to a girls' boarding school that doubles as a sanatorium. With help from her new friend Yeon-deok and the headmistress's special treatments, her health improves, but classmates start vanishing one after another and her own body begins changing in strange ways.
Nineteen-year-old Yoon-young dreams of a civil service job and lives with her deaf single mother while working part-time at a café. After a violent assault one night, she ends up in prison, known only as inmate 2037. In despair, she pulls away from her mother and slowly finds support among her cellmates in room 12.
Kim Byung-doo is a small-time gangster in his late 20s who can't raise enough money to save his family from eviction. Desperate, he goes over the head of his boss, Sang-chul, and takes a dangerous job straight from President Hwang, the man above them. Meanwhile, he reunites with childhood friend Min-ho, now a director making a gangster film.
Ex-bodyguard Jang Ok-ju loses her best friend Min-hee and learns that her friend's final wish was for revenge on Choi Pro, a predator who exploited her. Grieving and furious, Ok-ju starts tracking him down, determined to make him pay.
Three bored high school girls hold a séance with a traditional Korean spirit board, and a ghost tied to water seems to answer. Meanwhile Min Ji-won, a skilled swimmer who has lost her memory, is troubled by nightmares from her forgotten past, and an old friend warns her that someone named Su-in is coming for them.
Four childhood friends grow up side by side: Joon-seok, the group's leader and son of a powerful mob boss; Dong-su, an undertaker's son; Jung-ho, the class clown; and Sang-taek, a model student. As teenagers they share crushes, run-ins with teachers and brawls with rival schools, before their paths start to pull in different directions.
Yong-ju, Gi-woong and Gi-taek were best friends in middle school, but they have since drifted apart, with Gi-woong now a feared fighter who runs with a powerful bully's gang. Under heavy pressure to get into a top university, Yong-ju worries as Gi-taek is targeted by the gang, while his own feelings for Gi-woong grow.
After college, a group of six friends go their separate ways. Years later, Sun-ae returns from the United States and tells Hye-jin she is being followed by Kyung-ah, a girl who is supposed to be dead, while Se-hoon is haunted by dreams of a woman whose face he cannot recall. Soon Hye-jin starts seeing Kyung-ah too.
At an all-girls art school, Yun Jin-sung, from a humble background, and graceful, privileged Kim So-hee are best friends studying ballet. When both compete for one place at a Russian ballet school, Jin-sung hears a legend that a fox spirit will grant a wish to anyone who finds a hidden 29th step on the dormitory stairs.
