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In 1997, Yong-gu, a man with a developmental disability, lives happily with his six-year-old daughter Ye-sung and promises to buy her a Sailor Moon backpack. After a tragic accident involving a police commissioner's young daughter, he is wrongly arrested for her death and sent to prison, where his cellmates at first look down on him.
In 1980, Kim Man-seob is a widowed taxi driver in Seoul, raising his child alone and buried in debt. When he overhears another driver boasting about a well-paid fare to Gwangju, he grabs the job for himself. His passenger is Peter, a German journalist hoping to report on the growing unrest there, which Man-seob knows nothing about.
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.
Three resistance fighters from the 1930s, when Korea was under Japanese rule, are reborn in the present day as a best-selling author stuck in a slump, a devoted fan, and a ghostwriter. As the three cross paths, the unresolved truth of their shared past starts to catch up with them.
Cheerful Shin Ji-hyun seems to have it all: loving, wealthy parents, loyal best friends and a wedding just weeks away. When a car accident leaves her in a coma, a soul guide called the Scheduler gives her one chance to live again. Within 49 days, she must collect three tears cried purely out of love by people who are not her family.
This drama follows the life of King Jeongjo of Joseon, starting with his childhood as Prince Yi San. As a boy, he befriends two young palace workers, Seong Song-yeon and Park Dae-su, and turns to them for help when his grandfather, King Yeongjo, turns against his father, Crown Prince Sado, fearing a coup.
Young-hee is an actress who leaves Seoul after a very public affair with a married film director. She spends time in Hamburg with her older friend Jee-young, wandering markets, parks and bookshops, and later returns to the Korean coastal city of Gangneung, where she meets old friends over dinner and drinks.
In the Joseon era, Shin Yun-bok is a gifted young painter who hides that she is a girl so she can enter the all-male royal painting academy and find out who killed her father. There she meets master painter Kim Hong-do, who sees her talent, shields her from palace plots, and becomes her teacher and close friend.
Ra Eun-ho is a sunny 18-year-old who hopes to become a webtoon artist, but her high school runs on grade rankings and pressure. When she is blamed for the pranks of a mysterious troublemaker called "Student X," she faces expulsion, while classmates Hyun Tae-woon and top-ranked Song Dae-hwi carry struggles of their own.
Yeon Si-eun is a top student who cares only about his grades and is far from strong, yet he refuses to give in to the classroom bullies led by Jeon Yeong-bin. Using quick thinking and whatever is at hand, he fights back, and he finds unexpected allies in tough fighter Ahn Su-ho and troubled Oh Beom-seok.
Eighteen-year-old Choi Joon-woo, shaped by a hard home life and past trouble at school, is forced to transfer to Cheonbong High School over something he did not do. Planning to stay a quiet loner through his junior year, he soon gets pulled out of his shell by classmates facing their own growing pains.
Kim San-ha, Yoon Ju-won and Kang Hae-jun aren't related by blood, but they grow up as one family in their teens, cared for by Ju-won's father, who runs a kalguksu restaurant, and San-ha's father. When circumstances force San-ha and Hae-jun to leave, the three are split up, and ten years later they meet again.
With an asteroid set to strike Earth in 200 days, South Korea is under martial law and many wealthy people have fled. In the city of Woongcheon, former teacher Jin Se-kyeong volunteers at city hall while her friends, an army captain and an assistant priest, each try to hold things together amid fear, shortages, and crime.
Five young women share a house called Belle Epoque, each going through the growing pains of youth. This slice-of-life story follows how they connect while facing the kinds of problems many young people in South Korea deal with today.
Eighteen students choose to follow their own path instead of preparing for the university entrance exam. As they face the hurdles that come with a road few others take, these school friends lean on one another and learn about dreams, love, friendship and life.
In 1930s Korea under Japanese rule, Lee Kang-to is a Korean officer working with the Japanese police to capture Bridal Mask, a mysterious masked rebel fighting for independence. Meanwhile, his best friend, gentle Japanese schoolteacher Kimura Shunji, falls for the fiercely patriotic Mok-dan.
In the Joseon dynasty, four people who come from very different backgrounds band together around Yi Geum, a prince known as Prince Yeoning. They set out to help him claim the throne and to reform the Saheonbu, putting their varied skills toward a shared cause.
Kim Je-hyuk is a star baseball pitcher about to join the Boston Red Sox. His life falls apart overnight when he attacks a man who tried to assault his sister, and he is sentenced to a year in prison. Behind bars, with childhood friend Lee Joon-ho looking out for him, he must learn to get by among a colorful mix of inmates.
On his birthday, high schooler Sung Hae-sung is sent back to school on an errand and is killed in an accident. Twelve years later, he wakes up on his school's rooftop, still 19, while everyone he loved has grown up, including his girlfriend Jung-won, now 31. With his friends' help, he tries to learn what really happened to him.
Joo Byung-hee is the wild, free-spirited frontman of Eye Candy, a popular underground rock band made up of high school boys. When their rough, troublemaker-filled school is shut down, the bandmates start to wonder whether going back to high school is even worth it.
Orphaned and raised by his gambler uncle, Kim In-ha spends his days with friends in the basement of a movie theater. He forms an unlikely friendship with Choi Jung-won, a straight-laced, wealthy boy whose family owns the theater, and both boys fall for Min Su-yeon, whose father runs the theater's projector.
At Myeong-il University, charming and wealthy freshman Yeo Jun is popular with everyone. A group project pairs him with Nam Su-hyeon, an awkward third-year from a poor family who only cares about earning credits and money, and Kim So-bin, a struggling, ordinary student, and the three form an unlikely trio.
Sun-hee, a hardworking cashier and mother of two, works at a big supermarket with single mother Hye-mi and cleaner Soon-rye, all on temporary contracts. Sun-hee hopes to be made a permanent employee, but when the company suddenly announces that every temporary worker will be let go, the women decide to go on strike.
As the Goryeo dynasty collapses and Joseon begins to rise, two close friends become enemies after a misunderstanding drives them apart. In a time of upheaval, each sets out in his own way to protect his country and the people he loves.
Won-il was once a promising swimmer like his champion father, but after losing both parents he quits the sport and lives recklessly. Facing expulsion, he is brought by his father's old friend Jae-suk to a sports high school, where he runs into his old rival Woo-sang, now a national swimming star forced to start over.
In 2014, a radio DJ receives a letter from his first love that stirs up long-buried memories. Back in the summer of 1991, five friends spend their days together, and shy, innocent Beom-sil falls for Soo-ok, a girl with an injured leg whom he carries wherever she needs to go.
Set in Korea's turbulent 1970s and 80s, this story follows two friends on very different paths. Tough, loyal Park Tae-soo becomes a gangster, while principled Kang Woo-suk becomes a prosecutor. Yoon Hye-rin, Woo-suk's spirited college classmate and the daughter of a wealthy casino owner, meets Tae-soo through him and the two fall in love.
In the Goryeo dynasty, the ambitious young Crown Prince Wang Won shares a deep bond with his childhood friend Wang Rin. When the two meet a young woman named Eun San, the three quickly become close friends, but both young men soon find themselves falling for her.
In the turbulent 1960s, the series follows the bond between Uncle Samsik, a man known for eating three meals a day even through the Korean War, and Kim San, a member of the elite. Driven by ambition, the two form a partnership shaped by affection, trust and suspicion.
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 Hwan crosses paths with six other boys and soon realizes that each of them is quietly carrying his own struggles. Drawn together, the seven young men lean on one another as they try to face the hardest parts of their lives.
As a child, Joon-hee befriends a little girl named Kang-hee, along with two boys: Kim Dong-young, a general's son, and Jang Bin, whose parent is a fashion designer. When North Korean troops invade their town during the Korean War, the two girls are torn from their families, sending all four children down very different paths toward adulthood.
Hong Jeong-hye is serving ten years in prison for killing her abusive husband, and the son she bears behind bars must, by law, be given up for adoption. Promised a day out with her infant if she pulls it off, she sets out to form a choir with fellow inmates, including death-row prisoner Kim Moon-ok.
Four best friends set off on one last trip together before one of them leaves to do his military service. Along the way, they become caught up in an incident that changes the course of their lives forever.
Han Tae-woong is a quiet 17-year-old math genius who enters an elite high school, where a rivalry with fellow prodigy Kim Jung-kyu grows into a close friendship. Years later, now living a very different life as an unknown boxer carrying a painful past, he is hired as a driver for Bo-ra, the cold daughter of a wealthy businessman.
Orphan Moon Soo-in marries into the chaebol family behind bakery giant Shinhwa Group, but after her husband's sudden death, the family blames her for their own crimes and she is sent to prison. There she bonds with three cellmates, and the four grow close in baking classes taught by widowed hotel chef Nam Woo-suk.
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.
In 1970s and 1980s Busan, four boys grow up together as friends on the city's rough streets. As they become men, best friends Dong-soo and Joon-seok are pulled into the local gang underworld. The series expands a semi-autobiographical film of the same story.
Cotton Candy, a K-pop girl group made up of Jenna, Hyun-ji, Stella, El and Chae-ah, has been neglected by their agency, which now pours its energy into boy group Mars. Labeled failed idols by the public after six years of struggle, they face disbanding. Before they go, they decide to fight for one goal: winning first place on a music show.
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.
Yoon Yoo-seul, a piano prodigy, loses her sight in a car accident and struggles to put her life back together. Help comes from Jung Cha-sik, another aspiring pianist, and Seo Jin-mok, her former rival, as the three teenagers find their way through music and growing up.
Three women with nothing in common but their stay at a hospice decide to use the little time they have left to take down one bad person. An unexpected encounter with a mysterious hitman soon pulls them into a murder case.
After her mother's death, lonely Soo-rin moves to Hwano Road with her new stepfather and keeps to herself until a boy named Sung-min befriends her. One day they go into the mountains with friends to watch a construction blast, and everyone vanishes except Soo-rin. Days later, a grown man appears, claiming to be Sung-min.
Five mothers meet through their children's elementary school community, each carrying insecurities she has never managed to overcome. The series follows the friendships they form, their love for their children and the ways they grow along the way.
Orphan Lee Woo-jin, known as Andrew, is badly treated by his aunt until his uncle, a priest back from Italy, takes him in. Eun-ha, also an orphan, comes to live at the cathedral too, and after a rocky start the two become inseparable. As high school ends and she prepares to confess her feelings, Andrew shares his dream of becoming a priest.
In high school, top student Jang-il and carefree troublemaker Sun-woo become unlikely best friends, both poor but proud. Their fathers are both tied to a powerful businessman, and a crime between those families sets the two boys on a dark path that follows them into adulthood.
Set in South Korea during the turbulent 1980s and 1990s, this series follows three young people as they fight hard to hold on to their dreams, to their friendship, and to the single first love that ties them together.
Jo Eun-kang and the friends and relatives around her each hope to reach their goals after earlier setbacks in life. As they chase those dreams side by side, they become tangled up in a web of conflicts and affairs.
