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In 2000, fire captain Ki Ho-sang is killed in an explosion at a factory, and a ratings-hungry reporter wrongly paints him as responsible for his men's deaths, turning his family into outcasts. His young son Ha-myung is taken in on an island by kind Choi Gong-pil, who mistakes him for his own son, and there he meets Choi In-ha, a girl who hiccups whenever she lies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A woman who runs a side-dish shop is pulled into the fierce world of college entrance exams as her daughter prepares for them. Along the way, her life becomes tangled up with a star instructor at a private cram school, and an unexpected relationship begins to form between them.
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.
Brothers Chan-woo and Chan-hyuk live with their sister and father, a poor family farming in the countryside. Serious, hardworking Chan-woo and his older brother, who hopes to become an artist, both fall for the same girl, Hyo-kyung, who returns Chan-hyuk's feelings. Her gangster father strongly opposes her dating a penniless painter.
After her father dies, orphan Lee Yun-hee goes to live with the family of his friend, where her stepmother and stepsister treat her with open hostility. She has a hidden gift for art, and her path soon crosses with two men: rising singer Kang Min-hee, whose wealthy father opposes his music career, and fashion designer Lee Joon-hee.
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.
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.
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.
Half sisters Ja-myung and Ra-hee are born at the same hour, and an oracle warns that one will save the kingdom of Nakrang while the other will destroy it. After surviving a murder attempt by Ra-hee's ambitious mother, Ja-myung escapes abroad and grows up as a commoner, unaware of her royal identity.
Choi Soo-ah is a seasoned flight attendant married to Park Jin-seok, a pilot who controls every part of her life and their daughter Hyo-eun's. Over her objections, he sends Hyo-eun to an international school in Malaysia, where she meets Annie, the daughter of Seo Do-woo. A tragedy involving Annie soon ties Soo-ah's life to Do-woo's.
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.
Bong Seon-hwa grows up in hard circumstances but stays strong and upbeat, sharing a long relationship with neighborhood friend Moon Sang-hyeok. When greed leads to a tragedy that costs her family everything, she vows revenge and takes on a new identity, Sharon, to win back what was taken from her.
Woo-joo's life falls apart when she discovers her father was unfaithful. After his death, his mistress forces her out of the family home. Woo-joo sets out to get even, but she finds herself falling for Dong-jin, the mistress's son.
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.
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.
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.
Lee Joong-ah was adopted by an Irish family as a child, and after losing them all to violence, she travels to Korea to search for her birth family. There she meets Kang Gook, a kind, lonely bodyguard who offers to help. She also crosses paths with Jae-bok, an aimless young man, and his warm-hearted girlfriend Si-yeon.
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.
Chun Hae-joo grows up in deep poverty in Ulsan, unaware of the secrets surrounding her real parents. At school she grows close to Park Chang-hui, a butler's son facing his own hardships, and meets Kang San, the cheerful heir to a rival shipping group, against the backdrop of Korea's shipbuilding boom.
A Korean belief holds that ages ending in nine bring extra bad luck, and the men of one family put it to the test. Gu Kwang-soo, 39, is a once-celebrated music show producer demoted to a low-rated quiz program after an on-air scandal, and his ex-girlfriend Da-in has just moved in upstairs with her young daughter. His nephews Jin-gu, 29, and Min-gu, 19, face love troubles of their own.
Fed up with her family after her stepbrother loses their home and money in a scam, Park Dan-dan leaves home. On a mountain, she runs into Lee Young-guk, a capable company chairman and widower with three children. She becomes the kids' live-in tutor, and soon other members of her family end up living in his house too.
Lee Ji-yeon is a cheerful, driven accessory designer who is often looked down on for her modest schooling and family background. Married to a wealthy husband, she is drawn into a love triangle with a lonely detective, as the story explores how she defines happiness across love, work and family life.
Woo Joo-young, a bright and caring eldest daughter, is divorced after her husband's affair. Taking her son Chan-noh to a soccer match, she meets Jang Woo-bin, a former national soccer player turned sports agent, and the boy quickly takes to him. A close friendship grows between the two adults, though differences in age, status and experience stand in their way.
Long ago, Ji Young-sun gave away her newborn daughter. Now widowed, she raises her stepson Wang-mo and daughter Seul-ah while quietly searching for the child she left behind. That daughter, Ja-kyung, has grown into a lonely makeup artist, and after a painful heartbreak she meets Wang-mo, a TV news anchor.
The proud, traditional Ha family and the newly rich Lee family, who made their money through loan sharking, could hardly be more different. Ha Dan-ah, the Ha family's dutiful youngest granddaughter, still can't move on after losing her husband young, and she keeps clashing with Lee Kang-suk, a ruthless businessman, until a strange turn of events pulls them into a pretend relationship.
Widower Lee Sang-tae has raised his two children with help from his late wife's overbearing parents. Divorced mother of three Ahn Mi-jung hides from her family that her ex-husband married her former best friend. When Mi-jung joins Sang-tae's marketing team at a sportswear brand, the two capable colleagues get caught up in each other's family troubles.
Abandoned by her boyfriend after their baby is born, a desperate Lee Soo-jung gives her daughter up for adoption and moves to the United States, renaming herself Rena Jung. Twenty years later she returns to Korea as a glamorous celebrity chef willing to fake credentials and use people to get ahead. Her goal is a loveless match with Park Min-joon, the cold eldest son of TNC Group's chairman.
This drama follows four different couples as they find their way through today's relationships. Through their stories, it looks at modern love, the pressures of life as a working woman, and the question of what marriage truly means to each of them.
In the Lee family, led by grandfather Lee Kyung-cheol, parents Lee Min-ho and Han Kyung-ae have three grown sons who all shy away from marriage. To push them along, the elders announce that whichever son ties the knot within six months will be rewarded with an apartment.
Lee Roo-ri gives up on landing a job at a big company and, after clashing with her strict father, escapes on a trip to Guam. There she meets Jung Tae-yang, a free-spirited wanderer who lives by the YOLO motto and puts his own happiness first, though he hides an emotional wound of his own.
Kim Yi-han is a male nanny from New York who gets stuck in South Korea and needs work. Divorced fashion worker Seo Do-young is raising two kids, Eun-bi and Jung-min, whose antics have scared off every nanny, all while living under the strict rule of her older sister Janice, who runs a modeling agency.
Yoon Seung-joo, a confident graduate art student from a wealthy family, has always been self-centered and short-tempered with her younger brothers. When her father goes bankrupt and vanishes, she is suddenly left to face debt and poverty as head of the household, just as her former boyfriend Geon-woo returns to her life.
The Song family is led by father Kwang-ho and lively mother Ok-hee, who has doted on her four sons and meddled in their love lives. Now she worries they will never marry: shy pharmacist Jin-poong, charming doctor Dae-poong, earnest news reporter Sun-poong and sensitive youngest Mi-poong, who is studying to retake his university entrance exam.
After high school, Jin Dal-rae takes a job at a local bank in Pyeongchang County, where she meets mountain climber Jang Tae-oh and follows him to Seoul to marry him. When he dies in an accident before their baby is born, she raises her daughter Yoo-jin with her mother-in-law, Lee Soon-seom. Years later, Soon-seom urges her to move on and sets up blind dates.
Cha Sang-doo and Chae Eun-hwan grow up as best friends with secret crushes on each other, until a fight over her family's seized record player sends him to prison. Years later, raising a sick daughter and working as a gigolo to pay her bills, he runs into Eun-hwan, now a high school math teacher, and goes back to school to win her heart.
On the marketing team of a cosmetics brand, a romance blooms between Yoon Song-ah and her younger colleague Chae Hyun-seung. Around them, his sisters have their own relationships: dressmaker Chae Ji-seung is dating a coworker from the cosmetics company, and Chae Yeon-seung is raising a young daughter with her husband.
Seo Jung-in, the third child of a rich family, is abandoned by her groom on their wedding day when he learns her family has gone bankrupt. With their house sold and their father arrested, the Seos are forced to move in with the family of their former chauffeur, whose grandson Hyun-soo keeps bickering with Jung-in.
Abandoned by their mother, who fled poverty, Jae-ho and his sister Jae-young are taken in by their aunt. Convinced that love doesn't exist and only money matters, Jae-ho sells crabs at a seafood market while putting them both through college. Dreaming of wealth, he pretends to be rich at school to win over Hyun-soo, a girl from a very wealthy family.
Lee Tae-young has grown hard and guarded after a childhood in a family that never loved him. The only person he can truly open up to is his stepsister Han Ji-min, but their love must face the schemes of his stepmother and a string of cruel turns of fate.
Yang Gook-hwa, a 19-year-old country girl from Yanbian, comes to Seoul to marry Hong Soon-goo, only to learn on arrival that he has just been killed in a car accident. Choosing to stay and build a new life while sending money home, she is taken in by his family, and soon clashes with Park Yoon-hoo, the icy, hot-tempered son of a telecom CEO.
Baek-ho and Dan-poong first meet during a food tasting at a mart and keep bumping into each other in silly situations. Then Baek-ho joins the marketing team at Bonjour Foods, where Dan-poong turns out to be his superior, and at first she finds his inexperience exasperating.
Eun Ah-ri-young is a successful TV drama writer still consumed by hatred for her father, who left the family for another woman. She carefully plots her revenge, writing a script drawn from his affair and casting his unsuspecting actress wife, Shim Soo-jung, as the blind mother, while scheming to win her half-sister's fiancé, Lee Joo-wang.
