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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
This drama follows the life of King Jeongjo of Joseon, starting with his childhood as Prince Yi San. As a boy, he befriends two young palace workers, Seong Song-yeon and Park Dae-su, and turns to them for help when his grandfather, King Yeongjo, turns against his father, Crown Prince Sado, fearing a coup.
In a dystopian South Korea where people resent their leaders and society has fallen into chaos, trials are broadcast as a live television show. Three judges preside over these courtroom broadcasts, presenting themselves as the ones who will restore justice and peace to a nation in turmoil.
A young prosecutor is killed while trying to bring down a powerful politician. He is then handed a second chance at life, and this time he is determined to use every moment of it to see justice done.
News anchor Seo Hye-rim loses her job after speaking out about the unjust death of her husband. When ruling-party politician Kang Tae-san invites her into politics, she steps into a brand-new world, backed by Ha Do-ya, a man she has known since childhood, on a path that could lead all the way to the presidency.
In an alternate present where South Korea is still a constitutional monarchy, carefree crown prince Lee Jae-ha wants nothing to do with politics or the throne. The king tricks him into joining a joint military training with North Korea, where he meets Kim Hang-ah, a tough North Korean special forces officer, and the two clash from the start.
In 1970s South Korea, President Park rules with total power through the KCIA. Its director, Kim Gyu-pyeong, is almost the second most powerful man in the country but faces a fierce rival in the president's security chief. When former director Park Yong-gak flees abroad and testifies before the U.S. Congress, pressure inside the government starts to build.
In the Joseon court, Grand Prince Suyang hopes to win over the loyal official Kim Jong-seo by marrying his daughter Se-ryung to Kim's son, Seung-yoo. Curious about her intended, Se-ryung trades places with her cousin, Princess Gyeonghye, to get a look at him, and a romance begins in the shadow of their fathers' bitter rivalry.
After President Park Chung-hee is assassinated in October 1979, martial law is declared and Major General Chun Doo-gwang is put in charge of the investigation. As he quietly gathers power, the principled Major General Lee Tae-shin is reluctantly appointed to command the capital's defense, setting the two men on a collision course.
Under President Chun Doo-hwan's military regime, student activist Park Jong-chul dies while being questioned by police. Commissioner Park Cheo-won moves to hide what happened by having the body cremated before any autopsy, but a stubborn prosecutor refuses to sign off. The film is based on real events.
In 1970, a band of young Japanese radicals hijacks a passenger plane and demands to be flown to Pyongyang. Seeing a chance to win favor abroad, the head of South Korea's intelligence agency hands the rescue to a shadowy fixer known only as Nobody, who dreams up a bold scheme to land the plane in Seoul instead.
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.
In 1978, Song, a former judge who passed the bar without going to university, moves to Busan to open his own law firm. Looked down on by other lawyers, he grows rich by taking the real estate and tax cases they avoid. By 1981 he is enjoying his success, until the son of the woman who runs his favorite restaurant goes missing.
In Joseon, Lee Tae becomes king after King Seonjong, who seized the throne through a rebellion. Lee Tae is a ruler who must give up the woman he loves just to survive, Yoo Jeong is a woman who has to become queen to stay alive, and the real power lies with first vice-premier Park Gye-won.
In 1990, civil war tears through Somalia as rebels rise against the Barre government. The North and South Korean embassies are each courting Somali support in their bids to join the United Nations. While South Korean ambassador Han Sin-seong confronts his northern rival Rim Yong-su over a sabotaged meeting, rebel forces storm the capital. The film is based on real events.
In the 1980s, under military rule, intelligence agents Park Pyong-ho and Kim Jung-do lead rival foreign and domestic units. After an assassination attempt in Washington goes badly, they learn that a North Korean mole called Donglim is hiding inside their agency, and the two begin hunting the spy while growing suspicious of each other.
Wang So, a Goryeo prince, is banished from the palace and rejected by his family because of a prophecy that he will drown the country in blood. Shin Yool, a princess of Later Balhae, barely survived her own people as a child because she is said to be destined to bring light to a different kingdom. When the two are swept into a hasty marriage, they begin to grow close.
Prince Gwanghae, born to a concubine, seizes the Joseon throne from his father King Seonjo's direct line. After her younger brother, Grand Prince Yeongchang, is executed, Princess Jeongmyeong escapes the palace and lives among commoners disguised as a man, plotting her revenge.
Nae-gyeong is the most gifted face reader in Joseon, able to judge a person's character from their features, but he lives far from the world. When a gisaeng named Yeon-hong offers him a profitable deal reading her guests' faces, he is pulled into a murder case, and his talent soon draws the attention of the royal court.
Gwanghae, born to a royal concubine, is named Crown Prince of Joseon and must survive constant threats to his life and his place as heir. Locked in a bitter rivalry with his father, King Seonjo, he turns to the art of reading faces, enlisting a fortuneteller skilled in physiognomy to help him claim the throne.
While the South Korean president is on vacation at a private villa, three gunshots ring out in the night and he vanishes. Elite bodyguard Han Tae-kyung and his team have just three days to find him and bring him safely back to the Blue House.
Park Mu-jin is South Korea's unambitious environment minister, dismissed after a diplomatic incident. The next day, a bombing at the National Assembly wipes out everyone in the line of succession, and Mu-jin, whose resignation has not yet taken effect, is suddenly sworn in as acting president for 60 days.
In the Joseon dynasty, four people who come from very different backgrounds band together around Yi Geum, a prince known as Prince Yeoning. They set out to help him claim the throne and to reform the Saheonbu, putting their varied skills toward a shared cause.
In 2029, as North and South Korea prepare to reunify, unrest spreads and a terror group called the Sect rises against the plan. Special Unit officer Lim Joong-kyung is shaken after a young terrorist dies in front of him to avoid capture, and he befriends Lee Yun-hee, who says she is that girl's sister.
Hong Tae-ra has lost every memory of her past. Determined to protect the family she loves, she climbs her way to becoming first lady, while setting out to punish the people who seized command of her destiny and turned her life upside down.
This period drama looks at the strained relationship between King Yeongjo and his son, Crown Prince Yi Sun, also known as Sado. The shrewd king is determined to strengthen royal authority, while his passionate, idealistic son dreams of a society free of rank and inequality.
In North Korea, agent Eom Chul-woo is ordered to kill powerful officials to head off a coup. When missiles strike Kaesong during an event attended by the supreme leader, Eom flees across the border into the South with the badly wounded leader. In Seoul, senior presidential secretary Kwak Chul-woo learns that a coup may be brewing in the North.
In Joseon under the tyrant King Yeonsangun, Hong Gil-dong is the son of a slave, which leaves him with no legal standing despite his brilliance. Shut out of honest work, he becomes the leader of a band of smugglers who take from the rich and give to the poor, while the king's favored concubine, Jang Nok-su, secretly still loves him.
In 1992, South Korean intelligence recruits Major Park Seok-young to learn the truth about North Korea's nuclear program. Posing as a debt-ridden ex-soldier turned businessman, he sets up in Beijing looking to trade North Korean goods, hoping to win the trust of Ri Myung-woon, a senior North Korean economic official.
In 1970s Korea, a corrupt KCIA official, Jo Pil-yeon, has the Lee siblings' father killed during a gold robbery and then hunts down the rest of the family. Kang-mo, Sung-mo and Mi-joo are scattered as they flee to Seoul, and the separated siblings grow up determined to avenge their parents.
Set against major events of 1970s Korea, the story follows Baek Ki-tae, a shrewd and ambitious KCIA agent who secretly runs illegal business networks to gain power and wealth. When principled prosecutor Jang Geon-young begins investigating Ki-tae's smuggling and its ties to high-ranking officials, the two men are pulled into a dangerous rivalry.
In the Joseon era, the suspicious and fearful King Gwanghae orders his official Heo Gyun to find a double who can stand in for him against assassins. Heo Gyun finds Ha-sun, a humble acrobat and jester who looks just like the king, and when the king is suddenly incapacitated, Ha-sun must take his place on the throne.
As the Goryeo dynasty collapses and Joseon begins to rise, two close friends become enemies after a misunderstanding drives them apart. In a time of upheaval, each sets out in his own way to protect his country and the people he loves.
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.
Four young people who grow up together are swept up in Korea's upheaval, from the last days of Japanese rule to the split between North and South. Choi Woon-hyuk is a gifted son of poor miners, Kim Hae-kyung comes from a family of tenant farmers, Lee Dong-woo is heir to a powerful family, and Moon Suk-kyung is the only child of an influential pro-Japanese politician.
Mun-ju is a skilled diplomat who once served as UN ambassador, and San-ho is an international special agent whose nationality is a mystery. After Mun-ju's husband is killed, the two join forces to uncover the truth behind a deadly attack that could shake the security of the Korean Peninsula.
Lee Jin-woo is a reporter living in 2015, and Seo Jung-in is a reporter living in 2020. When they find they can reach each other by phone across those five years, they join forces to prevent the killing of Seo Gi-tae, Jung-in's father and South Korea's president.
In 1923 Tokyo, Park Yeol leads a small anarchist group of Korean and Japanese members resisting Japan's mistreatment of Koreans, with his sharp, good-humored partner Fumiko at his side. When the Kanto Earthquake devastates the city and violence turns against Koreans, the Japanese government sets its sights on Yeol and his group.
Homicide detective Han Do-kyung takes money to handle dirty work behind the scenes for corrupt mayor Park Sung-bae, needing cash for his wife's hospital bills. When prosecutors Kim Cha-in and Do Chang-hak find his weak spot, they force him to help them build a case against the mayor, leaving him trapped between both sides.
