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In Joseon, at a time when women had little influence, the orphaned Jang-geum enters the royal kitchen as a young apprentice cook. Determined and hardworking, she sets out to master the secrets of Korean cooking and medicine, in a story inspired by a real woman of the era.
Boo Yong-joo was once a top surgeon at a leading Seoul hospital until a traumatic incident led him to vanish and take the name Kim Sa-bu. Now working at Doldam, a small hospital in Gangwon Province, he mentors young doctors Kang Dong-joo and Yoon Seo-jeong, teaching them to put patients ahead of power and money.
Kim Min-kyu, the wealthy chairman of a finance company, lives alone because touching another person sets off a dangerous allergic reaction. When a humanoid robot built to look like struggling inventor Jo Ji-ah breaks down just before it is shown to him, Ji-ah is asked to pretend to be the robot.
Na Bong-sun is a timid assistant chef with low self-esteem who can sometimes see ghosts. When she is possessed by Shin Soon-ae, the ghost of a young woman set on finding romance before she moves on, Bong-sun suddenly turns bold and confident, catching the eye of her arrogant star chef boss, Kang Sun-woo.
Six students at Kirin High School dream of becoming K-pop idols and other kinds of performers. As they work on their singing, songwriting, and dancing, they grow as people, develop crushes on one another, and lean on each other's support while chasing their debut.
In 1988, five friends who grew up together in Seoul's Ssangmun-dong neighborhood lean on each other and their families through the ups and downs of their teenage years. Set during a time of big change in Korea, the story follows their everyday lives as they try to build a future together.
In 19th-century Joseon, the young Crown Prince Lee Yeong is still growing from a boy into the ruler he is meant to become. Along the way, he forms an unlikely bond with Hong Ra-on, a palace eunuch, in this coming-of-age tale of youthful romance at court.
Field reporter Nam Hong-joo, rookie prosecutor Jung Jae-chan and police officer Han Woo-tak share an unusual gift: they can see the future in their dreams. Some visions show crimes Jae-chan must investigate, others show disasters waiting to happen, so the three team up to stop their dark dreams from coming true.
Choi Han-gyeol, the carefree grandson of a food company chairwoman, is still hung up on his first love. He mistakes Go Eun-chan, a hardworking tomboy supporting her family, for a boy and pays her to pose as his boyfriend to dodge blind dates. Needing money, she keeps up the act to work at the rundown coffee shop he takes over.
When her life in Seoul goes off track, skilled dentist Yoon Hye-jin visits the peaceful seaside village of Gongjin on her late mother's birthday. On a whim, she decides to open a dental clinic there and gets to know Hong Du-sik, a handyman everyone calls Chief Hong, along with the town's other residents.
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.
Woo Young-woo is an autistic woman who finished first in her law school class but keeps being turned away by employers. Through her father's connection, she lands a position at Hanbada, a big Seoul firm, where her remarkable memory sets her apart and coworkers find her way of speaking strange and blunt.
Yoo Hye-jung is a headstrong, tough high school girl who keeps everyone at a distance because of painful childhood wounds. Meeting her mentor Hong Ji-hong begins to change her life, until a report about their close relationship pulls them apart. Thirteen years later, the two meet again, now that Hye-jung has become a successful doctor.
Lee Yeon-seo, a gifted ballerina whose family runs a ballet company, is left blind after an accident on stage and turns bitter and harsh toward everyone around her. Dan, a cheerful, trouble-prone angel who wants to return to heaven, is given what seems an impossible task: helping her find true love.
After years of being bullied over her looks, Kang Mi-rae has plastic surgery before starting university. Her new face doesn't bring the fresh start she hoped for, as some classmates mock her as a surgery-made beauty. While trying to rebuild her self-esteem, she gets to know Do Kyung-seok, an old classmate from middle school who is cold to everyone except his sister.
Park Si-on is a young surgeon who is autistic and has savant syndrome, giving him a remarkable memory and sharp spatial skills. He gets six months to show he can handle a pediatric surgery residency, but colleagues and patients doubt him, especially hot-tempered surgeon Kim Do-han, who is reluctant to guide him.
In 2092, with Earth dying and most of humanity living in poverty, Tae-ho, Captain Jang, Tiger Park and the android Bubs scrape by as a crew of space sweepers, sinking deeper into debt. On a job, they find Dorothy, a child robot said to hold a devastating weapon, and see a chance to cash in with a ransom.
Scientist Oh Laura, forced to leave her young son Nam Shin behind, builds AI robots modeled after him. Years later, when the real Nam Shin, heir to a chaebol, falls into a coma after an attempt on his life, Laura sends the robot Nam Shin III to take his place. Kang So-bong, once part of Nam Shin's security team, becomes the robot's bodyguard.
Born on Jeju in 1951, Ae-sun is a poor girl who dreams of becoming a poet, and Gwan-sik is the young man who adores her. Told through the eyes of their daughter, Yang Geum-myeong, the drama follows the adventures and many hardships that fill their lives.
Sang-hyeon and his friend Dong-soo secretly take babies left in a church's baby box and sell them to adoptive parents on the black market. When So-young comes back for her newborn son, she decides to join them on a road trip to find a family for him, while two detectives follow their trail.
Five doctors in their forties who became friends in medical school now work together at Yulje Medical Center. Among them are Lee Ik-jun, a cheerful liver transplant surgeon raising his son alone, and Ahn Jeong-won, a kind pediatric surgeon from the family that founded the hospital. The series follows their work, friendship and everyday lives.
In the Joseon era, Hur Jun is born to a nobleman father and a low-born mother, and the harsh discrimination he faces leaves him drifting into smuggling. When his mother falls ill, he turns to the respected physician Yoo Ui-tae for help, becomes his student, and discovers a real gift for medicine.
Louis is a wealthy heir who buys anything that catches his eye. After losing his memory, he meets Bok-shil, a cheerful, pure-hearted woman from the countryside who is shocked by his spending, and she begins teaching him to live on simple necessities.
In the city of Jungjin, the Counters are a small team of demon hunters who track down evil spirits that have fled the afterlife and feed on people through would-be killers. After one of their members falls in battle, his spirit partner from Yung chooses So Mun, a high school boy with a disability, as the team's new recruit.
Nam Se-hee is a socially awkward IT worker who owns a home, and Yoon Ji-ho is a struggling writer with nowhere to live. They sign a two-year marriage contract to share the house as landlord and tenant. Family pressure, social expectations and old wounds keep getting in the way of their tidy arrangement.
Kim Seong-geun, buried in debt and feeling hopeless, jumps from a bridge into the Han River and washes up on Bamseom, a small island in the middle of Seoul. Unable to swim back, he starts to enjoy a simple life free of his worries, while Kim Jung-yeon, a young woman who never leaves her room, spots his message written in the sand.
Ko Dong-man and Choi Ae-ra have been friends for years, and their childish bickering hasn't changed even though they are now adults. Both are underdogs with big dreams, scraping by in careers they don't quite have the qualifications for, as their long friendship slowly starts turning into something more.
Go Dok-mi is a shy freelance copy editor who rarely leaves her apartment, spending her mornings secretly watching her neighbor Han Tae-joon through binoculars. Webtoon artist Oh Jin-rak, who lives in her building, has quietly loved her for years, and her sheltered life is shaken up when Enrique Geum, a genius game developer, arrives from Spain.
Ma Dong-chan and Go Mi-ran agree to be frozen for a 24-hour experiment, but they wake up 20 years later instead. To survive the side effects, they must keep their body temperature low and their heart rate steady, all while trying to catch up on lives that moved on without them.
In Busan in 1997, high schooler Sung Shi-won is a devoted fan of the boy band H.O.T., and her days revolve around her idols and five close friends. The story moves between their teenage years and 2012, when the friends, now 33, gather for a reunion dinner and look back on the past.
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.
Go Eun-sung, a student in New York, comes home on break to take her autistic brother Eun-woo to America to study music. Sunwoo Hwan, another student in New York, is called back by his grandmother Jang Sook-ja to learn how to run her food company. On the same flight home, their bags get swapped, sparking a string of misunderstandings.
Yoo Jung is a naturally gifted girl with a fiery artistic spirit who dreams of becoming the greatest potter in Joseon. She learns her craft at Bunwon, the government-backed kilns in Gwangju where pottery blends art and science, at a time when Joseon's white porcelain is prized as the finest in Asia.
During the 1950 Hungnam evacuation of the Korean War, young Deok-soo is separated from his little sister, and his father stays behind to search for her. Before they part, his father makes Deok-soo promise to look after the family, and the boy flees to Busan with his mother and siblings to start over.
In 1994, six university students from different provinces move into a boarding house in Seoul's Sinchon neighborhood, run by a couple whose daughter is Sung Na-jung. Shifting between their college days and the present, the story follows their friendships and romances while keeping viewers guessing who Na-jung will marry.
Cha Eun-ho is a successful author and chief editor at a publishing house, and Kang Dan-i has been his close friend since childhood. Now divorced, out of work, and raising a child, Dan-i hides her struggles from him, secretly cleaning his home for pay before applying for a temporary support job at his company.
A CODA boy, the hearing child of deaf parents, with a natural gift for music clashes with his father over his dream of playing guitar in a band. After their fight, he travels back to 1995, where he forms a band called Watermelon Sugar with his own father as a young man and a group of mysterious youths, connecting with them through music.
Jung Da-eun is a skilled nurse in the psychiatry department at Myungshin University Hospital. The series follows her days on the ward and the bonds she forms with the patients in her care, each of whom is facing struggles of their own.
Cheerful pianist Goo Ra-ra loses everything overnight, and her lucky, wealthy life is suddenly gone. While trying to start over, she meets Sunwoo Joon, a warm, mysterious young man juggling several part-time jobs, who quietly helps her get back on her feet, even setting up a little piano studio called Lala Land in a small country town.
Cha Young-min is a brilliant heart surgeon who is also arrogant and selfish. Go Seung-tak knows medicine inside out but lacks surgical skill and is afraid to operate. When Young-min gets caught up in an unexpected incident, his spirit ends up inside Seung-tak's body.
After his father dies suddenly, Geu-ru, who has Asperger syndrome, meets his uncle Sang-gu, a former convict, for the first time. Named as Geu-ru's guardian, Sang-gu joins him in running the family's trauma cleaning business, where clearing out the belongings of the dead reveals the stories they left behind. Sang-gu also struggles with his troubled history with Geu-ru's father.
Weol-ju is a short-tempered woman who runs a mysterious street-side drinking tent, where she and former afterlife detective Chief Gwi enter customers' dreams to help solve their troubles. She hires gentle part-timer Han Kang-bae, whose touch makes people spill their worries, which is handy since she has 100,000 souls' grudges to resolve.
Woo Seo-ri fell into a coma at 17 and wakes up thirteen years later, suddenly 30 and lost in a world that has moved on without her. Gong Woo-jin is a 30-year-old set designer who keeps people at arm's length because of guilt over an accident in his teens, and the two are thrown into each other's lives.
In 1950, during the Korean War, an American pilot crash-lands near Dongmakgol, a remote mountain village whose residents know nothing about the fighting. Soon three North Korean soldiers and two South Korean deserters are also led there, and the enemies end up in a tense standoff while the puzzled villagers carry on with their daily lives.
Cho Yong-pil and Cho Sam-dal grew up as close friends on Jeju Island. Yong-pil stays home and becomes a weather forecaster, determined to protect the island's elders, while Sam-dal heads to Seoul to chase her dream of becoming a top fashion photographer. When everything abruptly crumbles for her, she returns home and finds herself back in Yong-pil's world.
Widower Cha Soon-bong has spent his life raising his three children. Eldest daughter Kang-shim has given up on marriage after a failed relationship, eldest son Kang-jae is a brilliant cancer doctor who resents his humble roots, and youngest son Dal-bong completes the household.
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.
Yoon Jae-in is a hard-working nurse who grew up in an orphanage and cannot remember her past. Kim Young-kwang was once one of baseball's most promising hitters, but he has been sent down to the minors after clashing with his rival Seo In-woo, the league's rich, star player. When Young-kwang is injured, Jae-in saves him by giving him her blood.
