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In late 1987, as South Korea is gripped by the struggle for democracy, university student Eun Yeong-ro finds graduate student Lim Soo-ho covered in blood. She hides him from the government in her dorm room, drawing herself into a story that unfolds amid the political upheaval of the time.
When two North Korean soldiers are shot dead at a guard post inside the Joint Security Area, wounded South Korean sergeant Lee Soo-hyeok escapes back across the border. To calm rising tensions, Swiss Army Major Sophie E. Jean is sent by a neutral commission to investigate, and she soon notices that the stories from both sides do not add up.
Ki Seung-nyang is a woman born in Goryeo who climbs to power despite the rigid class system of her time. Her story weaves together her political ambitions and her bonds with two men: Wang Yoo, her first love, and Toghon Temür, emperor of the Yuan dynasty.
In a made-up Joseon era, Crown Prince Lee Hwon falls in love with Heo Yeon-woo, a bright girl whose father is a palace scholar, while his older half-brother, Prince Yangmyung, loves her too. But the scheming Queen Dowager wants her own relative to become Crown Princess, and dangerous palace plots soon threaten Yeon-woo and the young prince.
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.
Lee Yul, the king's nephew, would rather play than study, until Yoon Yi-seo, a kind and clever girl from a noble family, scolds him for treating peasant children cruelly. Smitten, he starts working harder to impress her. But Yul's ambitious father is plotting with Kim Cha-eon to seize the throne, and a violent coup soon tears their worlds apart.
Set during the founding of the Joseon dynasty on the Korean Peninsula, this story follows the dreams, rivalries, and struggles of a mix of real and fictional figures. At its center is the young Yi Bang-won as a new kingdom takes shape around him.
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.
News anchor Seo Hye-rim loses her job after speaking out about the unjust death of her husband. When ruling-party politician Kang Tae-san invites her into politics, she steps into a brand-new world, backed by Ha Do-ya, a man she has known since childhood, on a path that could lead all the way to the presidency.
In the Joseon court, Grand Prince Suyang hopes to win over the loyal official Kim Jong-seo by marrying his daughter Se-ryung to Kim's son, Seung-yoo. Curious about her intended, Se-ryung trades places with her cousin, Princess Gyeonghye, to get a look at him, and a romance begins in the shadow of their fathers' bitter rivalry.
Under President Chun Doo-hwan's military regime, student activist Park Jong-chul dies while being questioned by police. Commissioner Park Cheo-won moves to hide what happened by having the body cremated before any autopsy, but a stubborn prosecutor refuses to sign off. The film is based on real events.
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.
In 1980 Gwangju, medical student Hwang Hee-tae, the pride of his hometown, is pulled by his activist best friend into running an illegal clinic for students hiding from the government. To cover some costs, he agrees to a marriage meeting arranged by his father. There he meets nurse Kim Myung-hee, who came in her friend's place to raise money to study in Germany.
In Joseon, Lee Tae becomes king after King Seonjong, who seized the throne through a rebellion. Lee Tae is a ruler who must give up the woman he loves just to survive, Yoo Jeong is a woman who has to become queen to stay alive, and the real power lies with first vice-premier Park Gye-won.
In 1990, civil war tears through Somalia as rebels rise against the Barre government. The North and South Korean embassies are each courting Somali support in their bids to join the United Nations. While South Korean ambassador Han Sin-seong confronts his northern rival Rim Yong-su over a sabotaged meeting, rebel forces storm the capital. The film is based on real events.
Nae-gyeong is the most gifted face reader in Joseon, able to judge a person's character from their features, but he lives far from the world. When a gisaeng named Yeon-hong offers him a profitable deal reading her guests' faces, he is pulled into a murder case, and his talent soon draws the attention of the royal court.
Gwanghae, born to a royal concubine, is named Crown Prince of Joseon and must survive constant threats to his life and his place as heir. Locked in a bitter rivalry with his father, King Seonjo, he turns to the art of reading faces, enlisting a fortuneteller skilled in physiognomy to help him claim the throne.
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.
This period drama looks at the strained relationship between King Yeongjo and his son, Crown Prince Yi Sun, also known as Sado. The shrewd king is determined to strengthen royal authority, while his passionate, idealistic son dreams of a society free of rank and inequality.
In Joseon under the tyrant King Yeonsangun, Hong Gil-dong is the son of a slave, which leaves him with no legal standing despite his brilliance. Shut out of honest work, he becomes the leader of a band of smugglers who take from the rich and give to the poor, while the king's favored concubine, Jang Nok-su, secretly still loves him.
In 1970s Korea, a corrupt KCIA official, Jo Pil-yeon, has the Lee siblings' father killed during a gold robbery and then hunts down the rest of the family. Kang-mo, Sung-mo and Mi-joo are scattered as they flee to Seoul, and the separated siblings grow up determined to avenge their parents.
In the Joseon era, the suspicious and fearful King Gwanghae orders his official Heo Gyun to find a double who can stand in for him against assassins. Heo Gyun finds Ha-sun, a humble acrobat and jester who looks just like the king, and when the king is suddenly incapacitated, Ha-sun must take his place on the throne.
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.
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.
Four young people who grow up together are swept up in Korea's upheaval, from the last days of Japanese rule to the split between North and South. Choi Woon-hyuk is a gifted son of poor miners, Kim Hae-kyung comes from a family of tenant farmers, Lee Dong-woo is heir to a powerful family, and Moon Suk-kyung is the only child of an influential pro-Japanese politician.
Overthrown by his uncle, Grand Prince Suyang, the teenage king of Joseon is stripped of his title, renamed Prince Nosan and sent into exile. Eom Heung-do, chief of a poor mountain village in Yeongwol, hopes that hosting an exiled nobleman will bring his people good fortune, and his village is chosen to receive Nosan, who arrives with his loyal maid Mae-hwa.
In 1923 Tokyo, Park Yeol leads a small anarchist group of Korean and Japanese members resisting Japan's mistreatment of Koreans, with his sharp, good-humored partner Fumiko at his side. When the Kanto Earthquake devastates the city and violence turns against Koreans, the Japanese government sets its sights on Yeol and his group.
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.
The wife of a National Assembly member lives a quiet, careful life while keeping something from long ago hidden. When that buried past starts to come out in public, she finds herself caught in a series of hard moral dilemmas.
Jin Sang-pil has worked as a shipyard welder for 23 years. When he and his coworkers are laid off, he leads their fight to get their jobs back, which unexpectedly lands him a seat in the National Assembly. Idealistic and naive, he struggles with politics until sharp aide Choi In-kyung steps in to guide him.
This drama follows Kim Su-ro, remembered in legend as the founding king of Geumgwan Gaya, a city-state known for sea trade and ironwork. Relying on his fiery temper, charisma and sharp mind, he battles through a long political struggle against rivals including his half-brother Ijinashi, his former friend Seok Tal-hae and the ambitious Shingwi Ghan.
Three months before his party's nominating convention, Jang Il-joon announces his run for president. Documentary producer Yoo Min-ki returns to Sam-Chuk after his mother dies in a gas explosion, and soon Jang asks him to film the campaign, confessing that Min-ki is his son. Min-ki starts to suspect his mother's death was no accident.
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.
Stretching from Joseon's birth through King Sejong's time, this saga follows Yi Bang-won, fifth son of the dynasty's founder, who later rules as King Taejong. Devoted to keeping the young kingdom stable, he shows deep loyalty to his father and heir, but the killings carried out in his name stir bitter anger in return.
Detective Baek Hong-suk is a devoted family man whose life falls apart when his 15-year-old daughter is killed in a car accident. Learning that her death is tied to a cover-up by powerful politician Kang Dong-yoon, who is chasing the presidency, Hong-suk sets out for revenge against the corrupt officials behind it.
