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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.
In a modern-day Korea where the monarchy still exists, Crown Prince Lee Shin must marry quickly when the Emperor falls seriously ill. His bride is Chae-kyeong, an ordinary girl chosen through a promise their grandfathers made long ago, even though Shin has feelings for a ballerina named Hyo-rin. The two start out indifferent, and Chae-kyeong struggles with strict palace life.
Oh Jin-shim, a famous actress known by the stage name Oh Yoon-seo, has been out of work for two years after a scandal hurt her career. To win a big role in a new drama and clean up her image, she must first take a job as the secretary of a lawyer named Kwon Jung-rok.
In 1998, the IMF crisis shuts down high school fencer Na Hee-do's team, so she transfers schools to keep chasing her dream. Baek Yi-jin's once-wealthy family has been torn apart by the same crisis, leaving him juggling part-time jobs. Decades later, Hee-do's daughter finds her mother's old diary, which tells their story.
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.
Han Ji-eun, an aspiring writer, lives in Full House, the home her late father built. Tricked by her best friends into a supposedly free vacation, she comes back to find they have sold the house to famous actor Lee Young-jae, whom she met on the plane. Determined to win it back, she agrees to live there as his maid.
Kim Hyun-jun and Jin Sa-woo, best friends as close as brothers, serve together in an elite army special forces unit until they are recruited into the NSS, a secret South Korean black-ops agency. Both fall for Choi Seung-hee, the agent who quietly scouted them, as they begin a dangerous new life in espionage.
Joo Yoo-rin, from Jeju Island, has become a skilled liar and grifter thanks to her gambling father's debts. When Seol Gong-chan, sole heir to a hotel fortune, needs someone to pose as his dying grandfather's long-lost granddaughter, he hires Yoo-rin for a monthly salary and a bonus, and she reluctantly takes the job.
Kim Sam-soon is a loud, gifted pastry chef nearing thirty who hates her old-fashioned name. On Christmas Eve she is dumped by her cheating boyfriend and loses her job. Hyun Jin-heon, owner of a fancy French restaurant, hires her, and when she needs money to save her mother's house, he offers it if she will pose as his girlfriend.
Kim Je-ha, a former mercenary framed for the killing of his lover in Iraq, flees back to South Korea. To get revenge on the presidential candidate he saw order her death, he takes a bodyguard job with Choi Yoo-jin, wife of the rival candidate, and is assigned to protect her husband's secret daughter, Go An-na.
Shin Joon-young and Noh Eul were high school classmates who drifted apart after a troubled relationship. Years later, he is a top actor and singer, and she is a documentary producer who grew up struggling after losing her father. When Noh Eul is assigned to make a documentary about him, she promises to win his consent, and the two are thrown back together.
As a toddler, Yoon Joon-suh accidentally knocks over the name cards on two newborns' cribs in a hospital nursery, and a nurse puts them back on the wrong babies. Years later, his sister Eun-suh is the most popular girl in her class, while her smart but overlooked classmate Choi Shin-ae grows jealous of her.
Born under a dark curse, Princess Yeon-hee is abandoned as a baby and raised in hiding by the shaman Choi Hyun-seo, shut away in a house surrounded by talismans. When Heo Jun, a young scholar born to a slave mother and a wealthy master, crosses paths with her, the two set out together to break the curse that brings death to anyone she loves.
Han Jung-suh and Cha Song-joo are childhood friends whose close bond grows into love. When Jung-suh's father remarries, her new stepmother, an actress, and stepsister Yoo-ri make her life miserable, and Song-joo leaves to study in America without her.
In Joseon, where women are barred from schooling and work, Kim Yoon-hee disguises herself as her brother Yoon-shik to support her family. While secretly sitting an entrance exam for Sungkyunkwan, the top Confucian academy, on someone else's behalf, she is caught by the principled Lee Sun-joon, who sees her talent and urges her to enroll.
Noh Ji-wook is a prosecutor and Eun Bong-hee is a prosecutor in training. When a murder takes place, Bong-hee suddenly finds herself the suspect, and Ji-wook, who has since become a private lawyer, works the case with her as they learn their pasts are tied together.
Kim Tae-hyun is a gifted surgeon desperate for money to cover his sister's hospital bills. Under the code name Yong-pal, he secretly treats patients who cannot seek care openly, from criminals to corrupt elites. Working with a team of shady doctors, he is drawn to Han Yeo-jin, a chaebol heiress kept in a medically induced coma.
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.
Kim Eun-oh, a nobleman who can see and hear spirits, arrives in Miryang searching for his missing mother and is pushed into becoming the town's new magistrate. There he meets Arang, a ghost with no memory who cannot rest until she learns how she died, and who carries a hairpin he once gave his mother.
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.
Fifteen-year-old Lee Soo-yeon is bullied at school because her late father was convicted of murder. She meets Han Jung-woo, the son of a wealthy and powerful family, who stands up for her, and the two grow close and fall in love. Their young bond is shaken when Jung-woo is kidnapped and Soo-yeon, trying to help him, is taken too.
Choi Ung and Kook Yeon-soo broke up years ago, promising never to see each other again. But when the documentary they filmed together in high school ten years earlier goes viral, a producer friend pushes the former couple back in front of the cameras, stirring up complicated feelings.
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.
Jin-ah, a coffee franchise supervisor in her thirties, reconnects with Jun-hui, her best friend's younger brother, when he comes home after working overseas. Their easy friendship slowly turns into romance, and the two must face their age gap and the reactions of the people around them, while Jin-ah also deals with unfair treatment at work.
Lee Yeon is a gumiho, a fox spirit more than 1,000 years old, who now lives in the city and hunts supernatural beings that threaten humans. Nam Ji-ah, a bold TV producer, spots him during one of his missions and becomes sure he is not human. Ever since a strange accident on her ninth birthday, she has been searching for her missing parents.
Kang Ma-ru, a bright medical student, is devoted to his slightly older neighbor Han Jae-hee, a TV reporter. When she picks a wealthy CEO and a comfortable life over him, the betrayal changes him completely. Years later, working as a bartender, he crosses paths with Seo Eun-gi, a guarded chaebol heiress being groomed to run her father's company.
Su-jin, a 27-year-old fashion designer and the daughter of a construction company CEO, is heartbroken after being rejected by a married colleague. A brief mix-up with a tall stranger at a convenience store leads to a chance reunion, and she is drawn to Chul-soo, a man from a very different background.
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.
Park Bong-pal has been able to see ghosts all his life and works as an exorcist, saving up for a procedure that will rid him of the ability. At a haunted high school, he meets Kim Hyun-ji, a spirited teenager who has been wandering as a ghost since an accident. Hoping he can help her move on, she talks her way into his home, and the two team up to fight ghosts.
When the queen of Goryeo is badly wounded, King Gongmin sends Choi Young, captain of the Royal Guard, through a mystical portal to find a legendary healer. He arrives in modern-day Seoul and brings back plastic surgeon Yoo Eun-soo, promising to send her home once she saves the queen.
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.
This fantasy action drama follows a young man who is half human and half monster, searching for an ancient book said to hold the secret to becoming fully human. His story begins with Gu Wol-ryung, a gumiho who guards the forest, and Yoon Seo-hwa, a noblewoman on the run after her father is falsely branded a traitor and killed.
Sung Deok-mi is a skilled chief curator at Cheum Museum of Art who secretly runs a famous fansite for idol Cha Shi-an. Her new boss is Ryan Gold, an aloof former artist who becomes the museum's art director. When false rumours say she is dating the idol, Ryan suggests they pretend to be a couple to keep angry fans away.
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.
Do Do-hee is a proud but well-organized heiress to a conglomerate, and Jeong Gu-won is a cold, carefree demon who has temporarily lost his powers. After a fateful encounter, the two agree to a contract marriage so that each can help the other.
In a world where vampires live alongside humans and no longer need blood, they still face fear and prejudice, so many hide who they are. Baek Ma-ri is a withdrawn high school girl keeping her vampire identity secret, hoping to settle quietly in a new city, until an accidental kiss on the neck of popular classmate Jung Jae-min turns her life upside down.
In Joseon, the power-hungry Lord Sangheon believes a prince who shared the womb with a sister cannot rule, so when his daughter bears twins, he orders the baby girl killed. Instead, a loyal servant leaves little Dam-yi outside a monastery. Years later, unaware of who she is, Dam-yi works as a palace servant while her twin brother is now crown prince.
A department manager at a mobile media company loses the ability to recognize faces after he is attacked, leaving him unsure which of the people around him he can trust. He teams up with his secretary to get to the bottom of what happened, and the two grow close along the way.
In present-day Seoul, architect Lee Seung-min is caught off guard when Yang Seo-yeon, a woman he knew in college years ago, asks him to build her a new house where her old family home stands on Jeju Island. As they work together, he is pulled back into memories of the early 1990s, when they first met in an architecture class.
Park Ji-sang is a gifted surgeon at the country's top cancer hospital who is secretly a vampire, holding back his thirst for blood to save patients. He finds himself drawn to Yoo Ri-ta, an arrogant star physician and niece of the chaebol chairman who owns the hospital.
Eun Ha-won is a cheerful high school senior who hopes to become a teacher. After her mother dies, her cruel stepmother takes her college money, forcing Ha-won into part-time jobs. Then a wealthy chairman persuades her to move into his mansion alongside his three grandsons, who stand to inherit his fortune.
Eun-jo has learned to trust no one after being hauled through one unstable household after another by her manipulative, money-hungry mother. When her mother lands Dae-sung, the quiet owner of an old rice wine brewery, Eun-jo moves into his big home, where he and his sweet, spoiled daughter Hyo-sun greet her with a kindness she can't bear.
As a boy, Park Hoon is sent to North Korea with his father, a famous surgeon, and the two end up trapped there. Trained by his father, he becomes a brilliant heart surgeon and falls in love with Song Jae-hee, but escapes south alone. At Myungwoo University Hospital, he meets Dr. Han Seung-hee, who looks just like Jae-hee yet claims not to know him.
In their early twenties, medical student Oh Chang-min and dietitian Oh Jin-hee marry against the wishes of his wealthy family of doctors, who cut him off. Needing money fast, he gives up medicine to sell pharmaceuticals, and constant fights end in divorce. Six years later, both have gone through medical school and land as interns in the same hospital's emergency room.
Young-goon, a young woman who works assembling radios, believes she is a cyborg. After she tries to "recharge" herself with a power cord, she is sent to a mental hospital full of colorful patients, where she refuses food and talks only to machines. There she meets Il-soon, a man who begins to fall for her.
When Eun-joo moves out of a seaside house called Il Mare, she leaves a Christmas card in its mailbox for the next tenant. Sung-hyun, an architecture student and the house's very first resident, finds the card dated two years in the future. Writing back and forth, the two realize the mailbox links them across time.
In the 1970s, shy university students Seo In-ha and Kim Yoon-hee fall for each other at first sight, though both hesitate to speak their feelings. Decades later, In-ha's son Seo Joon, a photographer, crosses paths with Yoon-hee's lively daughter Jung Ha-na, and the two bicker even as they are drawn together.
