17 titles, most popular first
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.
Kang In-ho arrives in the city of Mujin to start a new job as the art teacher at Ja-ae Academy, a school for Deaf children. Eager to connect, he finds the students withdrawn and wary of him, and as they slowly open up, he uncovers the terrible abuse they have suffered at the hands of the school's staff.
Seo Jin-woo has hyperthymesia, so he can recall nearly every day of his life in perfect detail, while his father, Seo Jae-hyuk, is losing his memories to Alzheimer's. When his father is wrongly convicted of murder, Jin-woo vows to clear his name. Four years later he becomes a lawyer, facing bribery, corruption and betrayal on his path to justice.
In 1978, Song, a former judge who passed the bar without going to university, moves to Busan to open his own law firm. Looked down on by other lawyers, he grows rich by taking the real estate and tax cases they avoid. By 1981 he is enjoying his success, until the son of the woman who runs his favorite restaurant goes missing.
Kim Hyun-woo and Alex Hong are first-year students from South Korea at Harvard Law School, where Alex quickly becomes a demanding professor's favorite while Hyun-woo struggles to keep up. Both young men fall for Lee Soo-in, a Korean medical student in her third year, adding fuel to their rivalry.
This courtroom drama follows a group of judges through their working lives as they hear cases and try to settle the many disputes brought before them. Along the way, it offers an honest look at the struggles ordinary people face in modern Korean society.
Jo Deul-ho was once a rising star prosecutor, married into the family that heads the country's biggest law firm. After he reports corruption inside the prosecutors' office, he loses it all. Starting over in a shabby little neighborhood law office, he sets out to become a lawyer who truly stands up for ordinary people.
Soon-ho is a lawyer weighed down by his father's debts. He takes on a case in which a housekeeper, Mi-ran, is accused of killing her employer, though she says she simply found him dead. The only witness is Ji-woo, a teenage girl with autism, and Soon-ho sets out to befriend her, hoping to show her account cannot be trusted.
After giving up her career when she married, a woman goes back to practicing law to support her family when her husband, a prosecutor who was once at the top, is jailed in a political corruption scandal. As she takes on cases in the courtroom, she begins to rediscover who she really is.
In the Joseon era, Goo Deok, a runaway slave, builds a new life as a legal expert under the name Ok Tae-young and is always ready to help people in trouble. But her name, her status and even her husband are fake. Then a wandering storyteller, Cheon Seung-hwi, falls for her at first sight.
Top corporate lawyer Kim Seok-joo is cold, successful and ruthless in his work. After an accident leaves him with amnesia, he tries to find out what kind of person he truly is and begins seeing life, people and society through new eyes. His changed outlook soon sets him against his own law firm.
Cha Eun-kyung is a star divorce lawyer, sharp-tongued and fiercely devoted to her clients, whose own marriage is starting to fall apart. When idealistic new hire Han Yu-ri joins the firm and questions her practical methods, the two women clash at first but gradually grow into mentor and student.
Lee Jung-joo is a fiery judge with one goal close to her heart. Her older brother was framed for terrible crimes and lost his life while trying to clear his name, and now she fights to prove that he was innocent.
On Christmas Day, a student at an elite high school falls to his death, and the police and school are quick to call it suicide. When another student claims to have seen a murder, unease spreads; ignored by adults and chased by reporters, the students decide to hold their own trial at school.
Based on its writer's own novel, this series centers on a lonely, prickly photographer who runs a strange studio that opens only for the dead, taking their pictures. His story unfolds alongside that of a passionate lawyer.
Cha Geum-joo once worked as a manager at a law firm, but she now finds herself disgraced, with her career in ruins. The series follows her climb from that low point as she works to remake herself into an outstanding attorney.
Park Jung-hwan heads the anti-corruption team at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, a post he reached through years of moral compromise. When he learns he has a malignant brain tumor and just six months left, he decides to fight for justice at any cost, aiming to bring down his corrupt boss, Prosecutor General Lee Tae-joon, with help from his ex-wife, prosecutor Shin Ha-kyung.
