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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Set in the Unified Silla era, the story follows Jang Bogo, a lowly slave determined to make his name on the seas. Along the way he battles pirates, gains a loyal comrade in the charismatic Yeom Jang, and clashes with Madam Jami, a Silla noble competing with him for control of trade in the South Sea.
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.
In SKY Castle, a luxury enclave outside Seoul where wealthy doctors and professors live, the wives will do anything to push their husbands ahead and get their children into elite universities. Han Seo-jin, married to an ambitious surgeon, is set on her eldest daughter Ye-seo becoming a doctor, so she hires Kim Joo-young, an admissions coordinator with a flawless record.
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.
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.
Set during the founding of the Joseon dynasty on the Korean Peninsula, this story follows the dreams, rivalries, and struggles of a mix of real and fictional figures. At its center is the young Yi Bang-won as a new kingdom takes shape around him.
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.
In the city of Jungjin, the Counters are a small team of demon hunters who track down evil spirits that have fled the afterlife and feed on people through would-be killers. After one of their members falls in battle, his spirit partner from Yung chooses So Mun, a high school boy with a disability, as the team's new recruit.
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.
In 2014, Private Ahn Jun-ho works with Corporal Han Ho-yeol in a Korean military police unit tasked with tracking down soldiers who run away. As they hunt for deserters, their journey exposes an army culture where bullying, hazing and cruel treatment of the weakest recruits are everywhere.
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.
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.
In the near future, a failed drug has unleashed the Lytta Virus, an illness that drives the infected into fits of madness and bloodlust before leaving them zombie-like. Yoon Sae-bom is scratched while subduing an infected trainee from a special operations unit, and is taken to a research facility where she meets Han Tae-seok.
Three poor sisters, In-joo, In-hye and In-kyung, are each driven by their own hunger for money, independence or love. When a friend of one sister, believed to be dead, leaves behind 70 billion won, the sisters find themselves up against Korea's richest family, who will stop at nothing.
Parasitic creatures from outer space begin taking over human hosts, and a police squad called The Grey, led by Choi Jun-kyung, hunts them while keeping the attacks hidden. Supermarket cashier Jeong Su-in is stabbed one night, and a parasite that tries to seize her brain ends up sharing her body instead, something small-time thug Seol Kang-woo witnesses.
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.
In a near future where Earth is drying out, drinking water is strictly rationed. Scientist Song Ji-an joins a small elite crew led by captain Han Yun-jae on a trip to an abandoned lunar research base, where her sister died years earlier, to bring back a secret sample. What really happened at the station remains hidden.
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.
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 spring 1945, under Japanese occupation, Jang Tae-sang runs the richest pawnshop in Gyeongseong, while Yoon Chae-ok is a tracker searching for her missing mother. Their paths lead them to face a strange creature created through hidden biological experiments carried out inside Ongseong Hospital.
