6 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.
Three desperate people chase a way out of their troubles. Joong-man, stuck in a thankless job and caring for his sick mother, finds a huge bag of cash in a sauna locker; customs officer Tae-young, deep in debt to a criminal, plots a scam; and Mi-ran, trapped with an abusive husband, sees an escape when a client offers to kill him.
Hee-joo, a woman desperate to escape a life of hardship, gets hold of a fortune in gold bars through a risky scheme planned by her lover, Do-kyung. She hides out in the old mining town of Jeongsan, a place full of painful memories, as word of the gold draws ruthless criminals tied to a casino onto her trail.
Ham Dae-gil enters the world of gambling, only to be set up as the fall guy in a rigged deal. Bent on revenge, he joins one last high-stakes game in which losing could cost him his life.
In 1994, recent graduate Goni loses all his savings, along with money taken from his sister, to a crew of card cheats. Determined to win it back, he trains under Mr. Pyeong, one of the country's best gamblers, learning the tricks of the Korean card game hwatu.
In the 1970s, petty criminal Gwan-seok and his nephew Hee-dong get out of prison, where they befriended antique dealer Song Gi-taek. He offers them a job raising valuable ceramics from a centuries-old shipwreck near Sinan, but the deal soon pulls in cheats, a rich chairman's suspicious wife and many rival interests.
