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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.
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.
Kim Sun-woo is a top enforcer who has served crime boss Kang loyally for years. Before leaving on a business trip, Kang asks him to keep watch over his young mistress, Hee-soo, whom he suspects of seeing another man. When Sun-woo catches her with her lover, he chooses to spare them, a decision that turns his boss against him.
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.
In the Chinese city of Yanji, ethnic Korean taxi driver Gu-nam is buried in gambling debt and tormented by worries about his wife, who went to work in South Korea and has not been in touch. After losing his job, he accepts an offer from a local gangster to cross into South Korea and kill a professor for money.
In Kisung, a lawless and corrupt city, former gangster turned lawyer Bong Sang-pil returns home to bring those behind his mother's death to justice, turning a loan shark business into the Lawless Law Firm. Ha Jae-yi, a principled lawyer suspended for assaulting a judge, also comes back to Kisung and ends up working for him.
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.
In 2010, with a presidential election looming, a driven prosecutor named Woo Jang-hoon is ordered to investigate the hidden slush fund of front-running candidate Jang Pil-woo. Gangster Ahn Sang-goo, meanwhile, grabs the key evidence for Lee Kang-hee, an influential newspaper editor he trusts, only to be betrayed and maimed, leaving him set on revenge.
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.
After seeing his mother murdered by the gangster Mao, Lee Soo-hyun is taken in by NIS agent Kang Jung-ho's family and grows up to become an agent alongside Jung-ho's son Min-ki. When a mission stirs up his childhood trauma and his hunger for revenge gets him fired, he is offered a chance to go undercover inside Mao's gang.
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.
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.
Kim Seung-hyeon, a taekwondo champion, walks away from fighting for good so he can look after his daughter, Sarang. When a ruthless gambling boss kidnaps her, he has no choice but to step into a rigged boxing match in exchange for her release.
A man climbs to the very top of the casino business in the Philippines, becoming a kingpin, until his fortunes take a hard turn. Charged with a killing he did not commit, he must make the biggest gamble of his life, with everything at stake, to win back his place.
Yoon Ji-wook is a tough homicide detective, a legend on the force and feared by gangsters. Behind that hard image, Ji-wook has longed to live as a woman since adolescence and finally decides to have gender-affirming surgery. But a gang Ji-wook once cracked down on is set on revenge, throwing those plans into chaos.
Tae-gu is a mobster who turns down an offer to defect to the rival Bukseong gang. In retaliation, his sister and niece are killed, and after taking bloody revenge on the rival boss, he flees to Jeju Island, where he meets Jae-yeon, a woman with a terminal illness, and her uncle Kuto, an arms dealer.
During a job in America, professional hitman Gon makes a tragic mistake that leaves him wracked with guilt. His bosses then send him to South Korea to deal with one last loose end: Choi Mo-gyeong, a risk manager at an investment firm and the mother of the girl caught up in that job. Watching her grieve, Gon becomes torn about his task.
Set in Korea's turbulent 1970s and 80s, this story follows two friends on very different paths. Tough, loyal Park Tae-soo becomes a gangster, while principled Kang Woo-suk becomes a prosecutor. Yoon Hye-rin, Woo-suk's spirited college classmate and the daughter of a wealthy casino owner, meets Tae-soo through him and the two fall in love.
Kim Byung-doo is a small-time gangster in his late 20s who can't raise enough money to save his family from eviction. Desperate, he goes over the head of his boss, Sang-chul, and takes a dangerous job straight from President Hwang, the man above them. Meanwhile, he reunites with childhood friend Min-ho, now a director making a gangster film.
A cash-strapped professor accidentally ends up with money that belongs to a drug cartel. With his family already falling apart, he finds that the only way to protect them is to start working as a drug courier for the very people he took from.
Nam Gi-jun, a former enforcer for a criminal gang, walked away from that life and from his brother after an incident. Eleven years later, his younger brother Nam Gi-seok is brutally killed, pulling Gi-jun back into the underworld to find out what happened and take revenge on those behind it.
In 1994, recent graduate Goni loses all his savings, along with money taken from his sister, to a crew of card cheats. Determined to win it back, he trains under Mr. Pyeong, one of the country's best gamblers, learning the tricks of the Korean card game hwatu.
A girl known as Ark 1 escapes from a secret laboratory and wanders lost through the countryside, where she is snatched by the men of a dangerous gangster, Yong-doo. Fellow captive Kyung-hee, who refuses to hand her house over to him, takes the strange girl under her wing, unaware of the powers she carries or the people hunting her.
Abandoned as a baby in a coin locker in 1996, Il-young is sold at age ten to a woman known only as Mother, who runs a ruthless loan shark ring in Incheon's Chinatown. Seeing toughness in the girl, Mother raises her as a debt collector, until a job sends Il-young after Suk-hyun, a debtor's kind son.
Gang-pae is a local gang boss who secretly wishes he could act, while Soo-ta is a hot-tempered actor who hurts a stuntman while playing a gangster on set. After a chance meeting, Soo-ta asks Gang-pae to join his film, and the real gangster agrees on one condition: every fight scene must be real.
In 1592, during a corrupt era of the Joseon Dynasty when the once-clear Gyeonggang River has turned muddy, three lives become tangled together. Si-yool conceals where he came from and joins the gangster world, Choi Eun is sharp and principled, and Jeong-cheon dreams of serving as an upright official.
Jang Tae-ho is a successful fund manager until a deal goes disastrously wrong, losing 35 billion won and costing his partner his life. On the run from loan shark gangsters, he sinks into Seoul's underworld and finds a secret society of homeless people living inside Seoul Station, with its own strict rules and ranks.
Park Hae-gang, a former gang boss, runs for president of the residents' association at a newly built apartment complex so he can hunt down a hidden pile of dirty cash. Along the way, he stumbles onto deep-rooted corruption inside the complex, and his neighbors slowly begin to see him as a hero.
The drama follows the life of the real historical figure Kim Du-han, a gang leader who later turns to politics. His story is set against Korea's turbulent modern history, stretching from the Japanese occupation through the era of Park Chung Hee's rule.
Seok-cheol is the eldest grandson in a family that has lived the gangster life for three generations. He struggles to hold on to and protect the things that matter most to him: his family, his job, and the woman he loves.
