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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.
A fast-spreading zombie virus breaks out inside a high school and soon reaches the surrounding city of Hyosan. Cut off from the outside world while officials scramble to contain it, a group of classmates must band together, stay alive, and search for a route out.
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.
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.
Born under a dark curse, Princess Yeon-hee is abandoned as a baby and raised in hiding by the shaman Choi Hyun-seo, shut away in a house surrounded by talismans. When Heo Jun, a young scholar born to a slave mother and a wealthy master, crosses paths with her, the two set out together to break the curse that brings death to anyone she loves.
In SKY Castle, a luxury enclave outside Seoul where wealthy doctors and professors live, the wives will do anything to push their husbands ahead and get their children into elite universities. Han Seo-jin, married to an ambitious surgeon, is set on her eldest daughter Ye-seo becoming a doctor, so she hires Kim Joo-young, an admissions coordinator with a flawless record.
Kim Tae-hyun is a gifted surgeon desperate for money to cover his sister's hospital bills. Under the code name Yong-pal, he secretly treats patients who cannot seek care openly, from criminals to corrupt elites. Working with a team of shady doctors, he is drawn to Han Yeo-jin, a chaebol heiress kept in a medically induced coma.
An underachieving lawyer suddenly finds himself caught up in a murder case. Fighting to survive and keep his family safe, he begins to dig into a conspiracy that reaches deep into the country's wealthy and powerful elite.
Fifteen-year-old Lee Soo-yeon is bullied at school because her late father was convicted of murder. She meets Han Jung-woo, the son of a wealthy and powerful family, who stands up for her, and the two grow close and fall in love. Their young bond is shaken when Jung-woo is kidnapped and Soo-yeon, trying to help him, is taken too.
Lee Yeon is a gumiho, a fox spirit more than 1,000 years old, who now lives in the city and hunts supernatural beings that threaten humans. Nam Ji-ah, a bold TV producer, spots him during one of his missions and becomes sure he is not human. Ever since a strange accident on her ninth birthday, she has been searching for her missing parents.
Kang Ma-ru, a bright medical student, is devoted to his slightly older neighbor Han Jae-hee, a TV reporter. When she picks a wealthy CEO and a comfortable life over him, the betrayal changes him completely. Years later, working as a bartender, he crosses paths with Seo Eun-gi, a guarded chaebol heiress being groomed to run her father's company.
In 2014, Private Ahn Jun-ho works with Corporal Han Ho-yeol in a Korean military police unit tasked with tracking down soldiers who run away. As they hunt for deserters, their journey exposes an army culture where bullying, hazing and cruel treatment of the weakest recruits are everywhere.
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.
Cha Moo-hyuk, abandoned as a child and mistreated by his adoptive parents, survives by scamming tourists in Australia. After an accident leaves a bullet in his head and little time to live, he returns to Korea to find his birth mother, a famous actress. Feeling betrayed, he plots revenge by working for her son, singer Choi Yoon, and meets Yoon's devoted friend Song Eun-chae.
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.
In a near future where Earth is drying out, drinking water is strictly rationed. Scientist Song Ji-an joins a small elite crew led by captain Han Yun-jae on a trip to an abandoned lunar research base, where her sister died years earlier, to bring back a secret sample. What really happened at the station remains hidden.
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.
Shim Eun-seok is a top judge with a chilly, aloof manner who is known for disliking young offenders. When she is assigned to a juvenile court in Yeonhwa District, she breaks with custom and handles cases in her own way, balancing her distaste for teen criminals with her firm beliefs about justice and punishment.
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.
Genius profiler Lee Hyun comes back to Korea when a case stirs up a memory he believed was gone for good. Detective Cha Ji-an, on his new team, has quietly been looking into him, knowing his father was murdered and his brother vanished in connection with a criminal they both want caught.
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.
Yoon Hyun-woo is a loyal senior employee of the chaebol Soonyang Group until a member of the owning family betrays and kills him to hide a tax evasion scheme. He then wakes up in 1987 in the body of Jin Do-jun, the family's youngest grandson, and starts plotting revenge by aiming to seize control of the company.
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.
In a dystopian South Korea where people resent their leaders and society has fallen into chaos, trials are broadcast as a live television show. Three judges preside over these courtroom broadcasts, presenting themselves as the ones who will restore justice and peace to a nation in turmoil.
In the Joseon era, Lee Dae-gil was born into a noble family, but his life fell apart when Keun-nom, one of his family's slaves, set fire to his home and scarred his face. Now he earns his living hunting runaway slaves, including a former general, while still trying to find the woman he loves.
Mo Seok-hee, the only daughter of the MC Group chaebol, was sent to America as a teenager after her mother was murdered. Fifteen years later she returns to Korea when her grandfather falls into a coma, and after a prickly first meeting she hires Heo Yoon-do, an honest neighborhood lawyer with no real office.
Byun Ji-sook, a department store clerk whose family is hounded by loan sharks, meets Seo Eun-ha, a congressman's daughter who looks exactly like her. When Eun-ha dies, the scheming Min Seok-hoon forces Ji-sook to take her place as the bride of lonely chaebol heir Choi Min-woo, who finds his new wife surprisingly different.
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.
Jeong Ji-an is a college student raised by her secretive uncle, Jeong Jin-man, after her parents' violent deaths, and he trained her in combat and shooting under the cover of odd hobbies. When news of his apparent suicide brings her home, skilled assassins suddenly come after her, and she learns his online farm-equipment store was something far more dangerous.
In the future, a comet has destroyed much of the planet and the air has become badly polluted. Survivors cannot live without oxygen tanks and masks, which are delivered to them by a small group of elite couriers who carry these vital supplies through a harsh, broken land.
A year after a disastrous mistake leads to a hospital bombing that kills several SWAT officers, team leader Kang Ki-hyung returns to the NCI, an elite criminal profiling unit. He is immediately pulled into a serial murder case alongside a local violent crimes unit, including hot-tempered officer Kim Hyun-joon, who seems to hold a grudge against him.
A talented doctor is forced out of his hospital after the spoiled son of the chaebol family that owns it falsely accuses him of malpractice. He takes a job at a prison that houses the elite, planning to build enough powerful connections to get his revenge.
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.
Kim Sum is a developer for the social app Somebody who struggles to connect with people, though she has two close friends, Mok-won and police detective Gi-eun. When a murder linked to the app takes place, an attractive but secretive architect named Sung Yun-oh enters their lives.
After seeing his mother murdered by the gangster Mao, Lee Soo-hyun is taken in by NIS agent Kang Jung-ho's family and grows up to become an agent alongside Jung-ho's son Min-ki. When a mission stirs up his childhood trauma and his hunger for revenge gets him fired, he is offered a chance to go undercover inside Mao's gang.
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.
