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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In an alternate 2009, Korea is still ruled by Imperial Japan. Masayuki Sakamoto, an agent of the Japanese Bureau of Investigation, and his partner Shojiro Saigo stop a hostage crisis at a museum, and Sakamoto grows curious about why the rebels were after a mysterious artifact and the foundation linked to it.
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.
An underachieving lawyer suddenly finds himself caught up in a murder case. Fighting to survive and keep his family safe, he begins to dig into a conspiracy that reaches deep into the country's wealthy and powerful elite.
Lee Ja-sung is a police officer who has spent eight years working undercover inside Goldmoon International, a crime syndicate run like a giant corporation. Chief Kang keeps putting off his promised transfer, and when Goldmoon's chairman dies in an accident, a fierce fight over who will replace him puts Ja-sung in even greater danger.
Cha Dal-gun is an overlooked stuntman raising his orphaned nephew Hoon. After the two argue, Hoon leaves on a school trip to Morocco, and soon Dal-gun learns that the plane has crashed, killing over 200 people. Arriving in Morocco for the victims' funeral, he spots at the airport a passenger who was supposed to have died on that flight.
A grim reaper is ordered to hunt down his partner, who has gone on the run. While searching, he gets caught up in a string of unsolved murders from 20 years ago, and his job of guiding the dead to the afterlife grows complicated as he starts breaking the rules against meddling in human lives.
In the Joseon era, Chae-ok, the daughter of a disgraced nobleman, is separated from her brother as a child and raised as a servant in Hwangbo Yoon's household, learning martial arts and swordsmanship alongside him. She quietly loves Yoon despite their class difference, and joins his police bureau as a damo, a lowly female detective, to stay at his side.
Genius profiler Lee Hyun comes back to Korea when a case stirs up a memory he believed was gone for good. Detective Cha Ji-an, on his new team, has quietly been looking into him, knowing his father was murdered and his brother vanished in connection with a criminal they both want caught.
Detective Ko Moo-chi, still haunted by a horrific crime he saw as a child, is determined to catch a psychopathic serial killer. With rookie officer Jeong Ba-reum at his side, he digs into what drives psychopaths and whether a tendency toward psychopathy could be spotted in a person's genes.
Hwang Si-mok is a dedicated prosecutor who lost his sense of empathy after surgery for an extreme sensitivity to sound. While investigating a murder, he teams up with police lieutenant Han Yeo-jin, and the two soon find their search for the truth blocked at every turn by powerful interests.
Go Se-yeon, a top prosecutor, and her friend Cha Min, the plain-looking heir to a cosmetics company, both die in separate incidents. A mystical orb called the Abyss brings them back in new bodies that mirror their souls, leaving her ordinary-looking and him strikingly handsome, and the two team up to learn who killed her.
Bong Ye-bun is a small-town vet who suddenly gains the psychic power to see someone's past by touching their backside. She teams up with Moon Jang-yeol, a hot-headed detective demoted from Seoul to the quiet village of Mujin, who pushes her to use her odd gift to solve minor crimes around town.
When an elderly Catholic priest dies under mysterious circumstances, a hot-tempered priest who used to be an intelligence agent sets out to bring those responsible to justice. His mission pits him against gangsters and corrupt officials, and the city's crooked prosecutor is in no hurry to help.
Jang Dong-soo, a feared crime boss, survives a brutal attack by a seemingly random serial killer. Detective Jung Tae-suk, whose superior dismisses his serial killer theory, wants Dong-soo's help, and the two very different men end up joining forces to hunt the killer, each for his own reasons.
Seo Do-cheol is a tough, relentless police detective. When a truck driver named Bae is found dead in an apparent suicide after protesting over unpaid wages, Do-cheol learns from Bae's son that Jo Tae-oh, the cruel heir to the powerful Sinjin Group, had beaten him, and he starts digging despite the heir's efforts to stop him.
In 2050, an agency called Alice sends clients back in time, and agent Yoon Tae-yi disappears into the past with a mysterious book of prophecy. Her son, Park Jin-gyeom, grows up unable to recognize his own emotions, and years after finding his mother murdered, he becomes a detective determined to track down her killer.
In 1990, detective Choi Hyeong-goo corners a serial killer who has murdered ten women, but the man gets away after a brutal fight that leaves Choi scarred. Fifteen years later, as the statute of limitations runs out, a man publishes a book titled I Am the Murderer, claiming the crimes as his own.
A year after a disastrous mistake leads to a hospital bombing that kills several SWAT officers, team leader Kang Ki-hyung returns to the NCI, an elite criminal profiling unit. He is immediately pulled into a serial murder case alongside a local violent crimes unit, including hot-tempered officer Kim Hyun-joon, who seems to hold a grudge against him.
Kim Sum is a developer for the social app Somebody who struggles to connect with people, though she has two close friends, Mok-won and police detective Gi-eun. When a murder linked to the app takes place, an attractive but secretive architect named Sung Yun-oh enters their lives.
Four years after his crackdown in Garibong-dong, detective Ma Seok-do heads to Ho Chi Minh City with Captain Jeon Il-man to bring back a Korean suspect. There they stumble onto the trail of Kang Hae-sang, a vicious criminal who kidnaps and murders Korean tourists and then extorts their families.
Lee Tang, out of the army for six months, works at a convenience store, leans on his parents and dreams of going to Canada. One night a customer attacks him, and the fight ends with the man dead. Racked with guilt and ready to turn himself in, Tang learns his victim was a serial killer, while detective Jang Nan-gam keeps digging.
Detective Oh Gu-tak, brought back to the force to stamp out the city's worst crimes, gets three convicts released to help him: gangster Park Woong-chul, hitman Jung Tae-soo, and Lee Jung-moon, a genius serial killer who can't remember his crimes. For every criminal they catch, time is cut from their sentences.
Lee Dong-sik and Han Joo-won are two fearless officers at the small Manyang police substation who are willing to break the law to catch a serial killer. As they hunt for the culprit, they begin to doubt the innocence of everyone tied to the case, even each other and themselves.
A former profiler who has turned to working as a shaman gets caught up in a string of mysterious events, together with his colleagues. Much of the story revolves around Minamdang, a suspicious café, and the customers who come through its doors.
At Incheon airport, a strange man named Jin-seok secretly carries a deadly virus onto a passenger flight, hidden in an asthma inhaler. Among those on board are Jae-hyuk and his young daughter Soo-min, while on the ground Detective In-ho starts tracing an online terror threat video back to the man.
Jin I-soo, a carefree third-generation chaebol heir, becomes a detective and lands in the violent crimes unit. Veteran detective Lee Gang-hyun sees him as nothing but a nuisance in her life, yet the two end up as partners working tough cases together.
Mi-yeong, once a member of a police squad, now handles desk work at a public service center after getting married. When a young woman's death lands on their desk, she teams up with her sister-in-law Ji-hye, a rookie officer at the same center, and uncovers a ring of men exploiting women online. With their superiors refusing to act, the two decide to chase the case themselves.
Shooting champion Ok Chan-mi refuses to believe that her twin brother took his own life. As the police prepare to close the case, she transfers to his high school to find out who is responsible, and she teams up with Ji Soo-heon, a troubled boy who seeks justice through risky means of his own.
Since his wife's death, Jeon Yeong-ha has stayed on in a quiet forest town a few hours from Seoul, running a holiday villa beside his modest home. One day a reserved young woman, Seong-a, checks in with her son. When she leaves early the next morning, Yeong-ha finds blood stains, a strong smell of bleach, and no sign of the boy.
Art teacher An Yoon-soo finds her husband, a painter, dead in his studio, and a prosecutor quickly decides she is the killer despite thin evidence. Behind bars she meets Mo-eun, a mysterious woman arrested for a separate poisoning, who offers her a dangerous bargain.
Newly promoted, Detective Ma Seok-do and his team move up to the Metropolitan Investigation Unit. Their first big case is the suspicious death of a woman, Go Sun-hee, whose autopsy shows a powerful new drug called Hiper in her body. The trail leads to a nightclub and a yakuza member bringing the drug in through Incheon.
In the Philippines, former special forces soldier Baek Chang-gi runs a brutal online gambling ring and kills a worker who tries to flee. Back in Korea, Detective Ma Seok-do is looking into that worker over suspected money laundering and starts to realize the case reaches much deeper than it first seemed.
Lee Na-mi works as a marketer at a start-up and helps out at her father's cafe. One night she leaves her smartphone on a bus, and the stranger who finds it, Oh Jun-yeong, arranges to return it through a repair shop. While fixing its cracked screen, he secretly installs spyware, opening a window into every part of her life.
After seeing his mother murdered as a boy, Kim Ji-yong becomes a detective to uncover the truth, changing his name to Eun Dae-gu to stay hidden from her killer. On a new police team, he reunites with Eo Soo-sun, a former middle school classmate, and quietly watches his team leader Seo Pan-seok, whom he suspects is linked to the case.
Kang Min-ho wakes up as a zombie with no memory of who he was. After teaching himself to pass as human, he takes on the identity of private eye Kim Moo-young, and when former investigative reporter Gong Sun-ji joins his agency and learns his secret, the two team up to solve cases.
Su-yeol is a capable but ethically shaky police officer who will do whatever it takes to get ahead, and he has climbed the ranks fast. His smooth life is turned upside down when K, a fiercely righteous figure, suddenly appears. Meanwhile, Lee Hui-gyeom works as a lieutenant on a drug squad.
