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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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Oh Mal-soon is a stubborn, sharp-tongued 74-year-old widow who lives with her son's family and clashes with her daughter-in-law. Upset after learning her family plans to send her to a nursing home, she wanders into a mysterious photo studio and walks out to find she has turned back into her 20-year-old self.
Ha No-ra gave up her dream of dancing when she got pregnant at 19, and spent the next twenty years as a wife and mother. Now 38, facing divorce and a frightening diagnosis, she enrolls in college for the first time, only to share the campus with her 20-year-old son, his girlfriend and her own husband.
Bok Gwi-ju comes from a family with superpowers: he can return to moments from his own past, his sister can fly and his mother dreams of the future. But their gifts have faded under modern troubles like depression and insomnia, and the family is struggling. Then Do Da-hae, a con artist with her own plans, enters Gwi-ju's life.
Seven-year-old Sang-woo, a spoiled city boy, is left with his elderly grandmother in a remote village while his mother looks for work in Seoul. She cannot speak and walks bent over with a cane, and her home has no electricity or running water, so he treats her rudely while she patiently tries to care for him.
Hong Dae-young's marriage to Jung Da-jung is falling apart, his 18-year-old twins barely speak to him, and he has just lost his job. Longing for a second shot at life, he suddenly finds himself in the body he had at 18, with his adult mind intact. Under the name Go Woo-young, he enrolls at his twins' high school.
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.
Kim Do-ran has grown up with foster parents who never told her about her real father. Her foster father treats her kindly, but his wife and daughter Mi-ran resent her. When he dies in an accident, Do-ran is thrown out and must start over alone, just as her father leaves prison and becomes a chauffeur for the wealthy Wang family.
Yoon Gae-hwa, a spirited 35-year-old housewife, needs money to win her child back from her former husband, so she takes a job cleaning for Sung Min-woo, a famous and very touchy star. Things get awkward when the two end up living under the same roof and he pays her to look after his secret daughter, Ye-eun.
At 42, Kwon Yul is South Korea's youngest-ever prime minister, admired for his integrity and raising three children alone since his wife's death. Behind the flawless image, he has almost no parenting skills. Nam Da-jung, a tabloid reporter supporting her sick father, chases him for a big scoop, and the two end up in a contract marriage.
Arrogant surgeon Min Gi-seo is shaken when his girlfriend dies after confessing that, years earlier, a mistake she made gave a little girl HIV. Seeking to make amends, he finds the child, eight-year-old Bom, living happily on Pureun Island with her hardworking single mother Young-shin and her forgetful great-grandfather.
Lee Soon-shin is a college graduate stuck in low-paying temp work, raised with love by Kim Jung-ae after her father brought her home as a baby. Dreaming of acting, she trusts a con man posing as a talent agency boss and is left in debt. To pay it off, she starts working at a restaurant below the real agency's office.
Jo Kang-ja was once the most feared troublemaker at her Busan high school, until a teenage pregnancy made her drop out to raise her daughter, Oh Ah-ran. Now 34, she learns that Ah-ran is being bullied, so she enrolls at the school herself as an undercover student to deal with the bullies.
Gong Shim, seen as plain and awkward, has always lived in the shadow of her beautiful older sister Gong Mi, a lawyer at a top firm who supports the family. Jobless and saving to study art in Italy, Gong Shim rents out her rooftop room and meets Ahn Dan-tae, a rough-edged lawyer who helps people in need for free.
National judo athlete Doo-young permanently loses his sight after an injury at an international match. His estranged older brother Doo-shik, a swindler, uses the crisis to win parole from prison and moves back home, adding fresh stress for a young man who has fended for himself since losing their parents.
A tragic accident leaves an ambitious prosecutor paralyzed and with the mind of a child. Forced to start over, he and his mother set out on a journey to repair their strained relationship and find their way back to each other.
An unmarried woman who is expecting a baby and a single man enter into a fake relationship contract. From there, their story unfolds through romance, pregnancy, childbirth and the everyday work of bringing up a child.
Min Chae-won is the eldest granddaughter of a family that has run a noodle factory on the edge of Seoul for three generations. Married into the wealthy family behind Golden Dragon Food, she has endured years of hostility from a mother-in-law who never accepted her, and when her husband cheats, she decides to leave him.
Song Young-dal and Jang Ok-boon have been married for decades and raised four children. Their daughter Na-hee is a doctor at the same hospital as her husband Gyu-jin, though their marriage is in trouble, while her two older siblings are divorced and back home and the youngest struggles through a company internship.
Nam Hyeon-soo, a former teen idol now in his thirties, works as a radio DJ. His life is turned upside down when a young listener who has been sending in stories about being a single mother shows up at his apartment with her little boy, claiming to be his daughter.
Twins Lee Seo-young and Lee Sang-woo grow up in hardship because of their father Sam-jae's bad money decisions, working odd jobs while she studies law and he studies medicine. After their mother dies, Seo-young blames her father and cuts him out of her life, moving in with the wealthy Kang family as a live-in tutor.
Cho Dong-baek, left with the mind of a nine-year-old after nearly drowning as a child, was adopted in America as Anna Laker and fell for a Korean student called James before they were separated. Years later she moves to Seoul with their son Carl, a speed skater, and when an accident ends his career, he stays to find his father.
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.
In 2041, Lee Juck looks back on the Ahn family in his best-selling novel. When Nae-sang's business partner flees the country after embezzling company money, Nae-sang is left with huge debts and angry creditors. Broke and homeless, he gathers his family and moves in with his wife Yoo-sun's younger brothers, Kye-sang and Ji-seok.
Song Na-young and her husband Jung Sung-min long for a baby but cannot conceive. After Sung-min is suddenly killed in an accident, Na-young gives birth to a daughter, unaware that three of his friends secretly donated sperm to help. Now the baby's father could be Han Soo-hyun, Choi Kwang-hee or Na Hwang Kyung-tae.
Seok-heon, a security guard with a habit of petty theft, gains telekinetic powers after drinking from a mountain spring struck by a meteor. Meanwhile his estranged daughter, Shin Roo-mi, who runs a fried chicken restaurant, is fighting a mob-backed construction company determined to tear down her small business and her neighborhood.
Doctor Cha Mi-rae is raising her little girl Sa-rang alone when she learns she has only a year to live. Turning to Han Yeol, the ex she left a decade ago, a former pro baseball player now working as a rehab coach, she resolves to make the scruffy, short-tempered bachelor into the best possible dad for her child.
As a child, Kim Hye-ja found a special watch on the beach that can turn back time. When she uses it to try to save her father from a car accident, she learns the cost: each time she rewinds time, she grows older. Meanwhile, Lee Joon-ha, a young man she shares a close friendship with, has given up his dreams under the weight of family troubles.
Oh Hyun-jin is the youngest executive at her company and excels at her job, but giving birth to her first child leaves her stunned and unsure how to care for a baby. At an upscale postpartum care center, she finds she is the oldest new mother there and feels lost among women who seem to know exactly what they are doing.
Gye-chun, a haenyeo diver on Jeju, is overjoyed when her granddaughter Hye-ji comes back after being lost for twelve years. The two start living together in Gye-chun's home and slowly try to rebuild their bond, though the grown-up Hye-ji shares very little about herself.
Two families run rival Chinese restaurants. Hyo-dong, whose father built their now-struggling restaurant through decades of hard work, meets the charming Hee-ae and Shin-ae, a poor but determined student, at a cooking class, and as he chases his dream of becoming a top chef, he falls for Hee-ae while the rivalry between the restaurants heats up.
Once their four children have moved out, an older couple, Hyung-sub and Jeong-ae, decide it is finally time to live for themselves. Then one day all four children come back home to stay. At the same time, a new neighbor moves in with a plan for revenge against Hyung-sub.
After her husband's death, Ma Kwang-sook looks after his younger brothers and takes a risk by stepping in to run the family's Eagle Brewery. Along the way she keeps running into Han Dong-seok, the CEO of LX Hotel, and the two unexpectedly end up as business partners.
Seven orphans taken in and raised by the same father grow up as a close-knit family in a seaside town. Bonded more tightly than many blood siblings, they face hardship side by side as they try to make their way in the seafood business.
Architect Woo Jae-hee has long been at odds with his father, who runs a big company, and has lived on his own since starting university. While visiting a remodeling site, he meets interior designer Lee Bitchaewoon for the first time, and the two clash over their different ideas. They are also both residents of Samgwang Villa.
Kim Ji-wan comes from a once-wealthy landowning family that lost its fortune after his father died, and he was raised by his stepmother and grandmother. To support them, he swallows his pride and uses connections to land a job at Nuga Global, a medical appliance company, where CEO Jang Tae-soo, an old friend of his father, offers to mentor him.
Cha Dong-joo lost his hearing in an accident but pretends he can still hear. Bong Woo-ri is a bright woman who plays dumb so her intellectually disabled father can keep his pride, and she has long been searching for her stepbrother, Bong Ma-roo, who left home sixteen years earlier.
Kang Soo-jin, a temporary teacher at an elementary school, realizes that one of her young students is being abused at home, and the police fail to step in. When she finds the girl left out by the roadside one night, she impulsively takes her away, and the two begin a life on the run together.
