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Seong Gi-hun is a divorced father buried in gambling debts and living with his elderly mother when he is invited to play children's games for a huge cash prize. He is taken to a remote island with 455 other players who are all desperate for money, and soon learns that losing a game means dying.
The Kim family, Ki-taek, Chung-sook and their grown children Ki-woo and Ki-jung, scrape by in a cramped semi-basement flat in Seoul. When a friend arranges for Ki-woo to tutor the daughter of the wealthy Park family, the Kims see a chance to work their way, one by one, into the rich household.
In 1988, businessman Oh Dae-su is snatched off the street after a night of drunken trouble and locked inside a sealed room with only a television. For fifteen years he has no idea who imprisoned him or why. When he is suddenly set free, he hunts for his captor, crossing paths with a young sushi chef named Mi-do.
Wealthy families live in the luxurious Hera Palace and send their children to the elite Cheong-ah Arts School. Elegant Shim Su-ryeon carries a tragic past and is married to businessman Joo Dan-tae. Oh Yoon-hee, who comes from a humble background, has been at odds since high school with famous soprano Cheon Seo-jin, whose father runs the school.
Seok-woo, a cynical, workaholic divorced father in Seoul, agrees to take his young daughter Su-an to see her mother in Busan. They board the KTX train with a mix of other passengers just as a sudden outbreak sweeps the country, and an infected woman slips aboard right before departure.
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.
A fast-spreading zombie virus breaks out inside a high school and soon reaches the surrounding city of Hyosan. Cut off from the outside world while officials scramble to contain it, a group of classmates must band together, stay alive, and search for a route out.
In October 1986, two women are found murdered on the edge of a small town, and the poorly equipped local police are soon overwhelmed. Detectives Park Doo-man and Cho Yong-koo rely on violence and fake evidence, while Seo Tae-yoon, a better-trained detective from Seoul, joins the hunt as more killings follow.
Lee Gon is the emperor of the Kingdom of Corea, a modern monarchy in a parallel world. When he crosses into another reality where the Republic of Korea exists instead, he meets detective Jeong Tae-eul, a woman he recognizes from an identity card that came into his hands.
After Han China conquers Gojoseon, resistance leader Haemosu secretly works with Prince Geumwa of Buyeo to protect refugees across the land. Twenty years later, Lady Yuhwa's son Jumong is a weak, timid prince in Buyeo, looked down on by his older half-brothers Daeso and Youngpo as they compete for the throne of King Geumwa.
Surgeon Oh Yeon-joo goes looking for her father, a webtoon artist who has vanished while finishing his series W. In his office, a hand reaches out of the monitor and pulls her into the comic's world, where she saves a wounded man who turns out to be Kang Cheol, the webtoon's wealthy hero.
Park Gang-du is a slow-witted man who sells snacks from a little stand by Seoul's Han River with his father. When a huge creature rises from the water and attacks the riverside park, it carries off his daughter Hyun-seo. After a phone call reveals she is trapped in the sewers, Gang-du and his family escape a government quarantine to search for her.
After 13 years in prison for the kidnapping and murder of a young boy, a crime she did not commit, Lee Geum-ja walks free, praised as a model of reform. But her gentle behavior behind bars was only a cover. Calling in favors from former inmates, she sets out to take revenge on the real killer.
In 1601, three years after the Imjin War, Crown Prince Lee Chang tries to look into the strange illness that has struck the King. His search drags him into a deadly outbreak that is turning people across Joseon into zombies, while rivals at court plot to seize the throne.
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.
Lee Jong-su, an aspiring novelist doing odd jobs in Seoul, runs into Shin Hae-mi, a childhood neighbor he barely remembers. Before leaving on a trip to Africa, she asks him to feed her cat, and when she returns she introduces him to Ben, a mysterious young man who leaves Jong-su uneasy.
In South Korea, a ghostly face suddenly starts appearing to tell people the exact moment they are condemned to Hell, and when that moment arrives, monstrous beings burst in to kill them in public. As fear spreads, a detective, a principled lawyer and the leader of a rising religious group called the New Truth are drawn into the chaos.
In the Silla Kingdom, Queen Jiso rules as regent while hiding her son, the young king Sammaekjong, from assassins. To weaken the scheming nobles, she creates the Hwarang, a new band of elite young men. Among the recruits are the king himself, keeping his identity hidden, and Kim Sun-woo, a commoner.
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.
In a reunified Korea, a criminal mastermind known as the Professor plans a daring heist and gathers a crew of skilled but desperate robbers. They take over the unified nation's mint and trap hostages inside, while police scramble to stop both the robbers and the hidden mastermind pulling the strings.
Man-su, a longtime paper-company employee, lives happily in his childhood home with his wife Mi-ri and their two children. When the company is sold and he is laid off, he promises his family he will be back in the paper business within three months, but more than a year later he is still jobless and growing desperate enough to turn on his rivals.
Four years after a zombie outbreak overran South Korea and the whole peninsula was sealed off, former marine officer Jung-seok is living as a refugee in Hong Kong. Chinese gangsters hire him, his brother-in-law Chul-min and a pair of fellow refugees to sneak back and recover a truck holding 20 million US dollars, in return for half of it.
Soon after a mysterious Japanese stranger arrives in the mountain village of Gokseong, a strange sickness spreads, driving villagers to violently attack their own families. Police officer Jong-goo starts looking into the killings, and his fear deepens when his young daughter, Hyo-jin, begins showing signs of the illness.
After his fiancée Joo-yun is brutally murdered, secret agent Kim Soo-hyun vows to make her killer pay. Working outside the law, he sets out to hunt down the man responsible, a school bus driver named Jang Kyung-chul who has killed before, and his quest for vengeance turns into a vicious contest between the two men.
Cha Do-hyun, heir to his family's business in its third generation, has lived with dissociative identity disorder and seven separate identities since going through several traumatic events. He tries to take back control of his life with secret help from Oh Ri-jin, a first-year psychiatry resident, while her twin brother, a writer eager to expose the rich, starts following him.
After a tragedy takes his whole family, Cha Hyun-su moves into Green Home, a shabby apartment complex. One night, terrifying monsters start appearing and tearing through the city. Hyun-su and some of his neighbors band together inside the building to stay alive, while other residents begin turning into monsters shaped by their own desires.
In the fictional land of Daeho, a forbidden spell called the Alchemy of Souls lets a soul move into another body. Elite warrior Naksu's soul ends up trapped by accident in the frail body of Mu-deok. She crosses paths with Jang Uk, a young man from a noble family, and becomes his servant while secretly training him in her skills.
During King Sukjong's reign in Joseon, young Choe Dong-yi loses her father and brother after their group is wrongly accused of murdering noblemen. Hiding who she is, she enters the palace as a servant in the Bureau of Music, determined to prove her family's innocence. The story is based on the real-life Consort Suk.
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.
Jang Hye-sung, who grew up through a hard childhood, is now a public defender who mostly looks out for herself. Her life changes when she meets Park Soo-ha, a high school senior who can hear what people are thinking just by meeting their gaze. Years ago, her brave testimony mattered in the case of his father's murder, and he has been looking for her ever since.
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.
A widow sells medicinal herbs in a small southern town and dotes on her only son, Do-joon, a shy young man with an intellectual disability. When a high school girl is found dead and Do-joon is arrested on flimsy evidence, his mother is sure he is innocent and sets out to find the real killer herself.
After her father's sudden death, Yoon Ji-woo is set on revenge against whoever was responsible. She joins the drug gang Dongcheon, led by Choi Mu-jin, and with his help enters the police force under the fake name Oh Hye-jin, working as the gang's mole in a drug unit alongside Detective Jeon Pil-do.
In 2015, criminal profiler Park Hae-young finds an old walkie-talkie and hears Detective Jae-han, a man somehow speaking from the past who talks to him like an old friend. Working together across time, they crack a 15-year-old kidnapping and murder case, which leads to a cold case team led by Detective Cha Soo-hyun.
After treatment in a mental hospital, teenager Su-mi returns to her family's isolated country house with her father and younger sister Su-yeon. There she clashes again and again with their unsettling stepmother, Eun-joo, as strange and frightening things begin to happen in the house.
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 Yoon-sung grows up in the Golden Triangle, raised by Lee Jin-pyo, a former presidential bodyguard who survived a secret 1983 mission into North Korea only to see his team betrayed and their records erased. Trained hard in combat from childhood, Yoon-sung learns of Jin-pyo's long-held plan to get revenge on the officials responsible.
Baek Hee-sung keeps his true identity and past hidden from his wife, detective Cha Ji-won. Together with their six-year-old daughter, they seem like an ideal family. But when Ji-won and her team begin looking into a string of unexplained killings, she starts to wonder whether her husband is keeping something from her.
Three people are drawn together by an old incident tied to five friends behind an outlawed pro-democracy broadcasting operation: a highly skilled night courier known only as Healer, a reporter for a low-rent tabloid website, and a celebrated journalist at a major network. Investigating what happened in 1992 alongside a string of present-day murders, they set out after the truth.
Sang-hyun, a Catholic priest, volunteers for an experiment to find a vaccine for a deadly virus. The trial goes wrong, and although he seems to recover, he is left a vampire who craves human blood. At the same time, he finds himself drawn to Tae-ju, who is married to his childhood friend Kang-woo.
Oh Joon-woo is home alone in his family's Seoul apartment when zombies start attacking and infecting people outside. Barricaded inside and cut off from everyone, he struggles to survive as his food, water and phone signal slowly run out.
Insomniac Busan detective Jang Hae-jun, who sees his wife only on weekends, looks into the death of a retired immigration officer found dead below a mountain he liked to climb. Suspicion falls on the man's much younger widow, Song Seo-rae, a Chinese emigrant who cares for the elderly, and as Hae-jun watches her closely, he begins to develop feelings for her.
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.
Ko Bum-seok is the police chief of Hope Harbor, a small village of mostly elderly residents near the DMZ. When his cousin asks him to look into a cow with gaping wounds, local hunters blame a stray tiger, but the attacks keep coming, and with wildfires cutting off help, Bum-seok and his rookie deputy must defend the village.
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.
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.
During the reign of King Yeonsan in the late 15th century, street clowns and tightrope walkers Jangsaeng and Gong-gil flee to Seoul and start a new troupe. When their bold skit poking fun at the king gets them arrested, they are given one chance to escape execution: they must make the tyrant himself laugh.
Cha Tae-sik is a quiet man who runs a pawnshop, and his only friend is So-mi, the little girl who lives next door. When So-mi's mother steals drugs from a gang and hides them in a bag she leaves with Tae-sik, the gangsters come for the drugs and take So-mi, pulling him into a violent fight to get her back.
