Hotel King
An heiress fights to hold on to her father's legacy, the only seven-star hotel in the country. Meanwhile, a hotel manager is willing to turn against his own mentor to protect her, and a love story slowly grows between the two of them.
Completed K-dramas & movies: Chaebol (rich families)
70 titles, most popular first
Theme: Chaebol (rich families)
New Tales of Gisaeng
In a modern Korea where gisaeng, traditional entertainers skilled in dance, music and poetry, still exist, Dan Sa-ran is a proud, graceful classical dance student from a humble home. Her talent and beauty win her a place at Buyonggak, the country's only traditional gisaeng house for VIP guests. There she catches the eye of Ah Da-mo, a cocky chaebol heir who usually ignores women.
Night Light
Three people driven by greed fight their way toward wealth and power. Seo Yi-kyung is a cold, ambitious woman who will do anything to get ahead; Park Gun-woo is a warm, principled company heir she betrayed twelve years ago; and Lee Se-jin, orphaned young and raised poor, is desperate to escape her life.
Red Swan
Born into a poor family, Oh Wan-soo becomes a world-class golfer and marries Kim Yong-kook, heir to the Hwain Group, partly to pay off her mother's debts, then learns of his affair. Over a decade later, as a goodwill ambassador in Manila, she narrowly survives a terrorist attack thanks to Seo Do-yoon, who then becomes her bodyguard.
Something About 1%
Kind elementary school teacher Kim Da-hyun helps an old man who collapses behind her school. He turns out to be Chairman Lee, the hugely wealthy head of a major conglomerate, who writes her into his will: his grandsons inherit nothing unless one of them wins her over and marries her. Grandson Lee Jae-in wants no part of this game and keeps clashing with her.
Something Happened in Bali
Lee Soo-jung, an orphan guiding tourists in Bali, struggles to get by and dreams of a rich man rescuing her. Her path crosses with Jung Jae-min, the careless playboy heir of a wealthy group, his fiancée Choi Young-joo, and Young-joo's former boyfriend, the hardworking but guarded Kang In-wook.
Temptation
Cha Seok-hoon, a hardworking man from a poor rural family, shares a loving marriage with his wife Hong-joo until a failed business leaves him buried in debt. On a trip to Hong Kong, they meet Yoo Se-young, a cool, work-driven hotel heiress, who offers to pay off his debts in exchange for three days with him.
Wedding Impossible
Na A-jeong is a little-known actress still waiting for her break. When Lee Do-han, a wealthy heir who is gay, proposes a sham marriage, she decides to take the offer. His ambitious younger brother, Lee Ji-han, cannot stand the idea of their fake union and sets out to stop it.
Artificial City
Yoon Jae-hee runs the art museum owned by Sungjin Group, a conglomerate with deep reach into politics and finance. Having left her longtime love to escape poverty and marry Jung Joon-hyuk, an illegitimate son of the family, she battles her in-laws to push her husband toward the presidency.
Becoming a Billionaire
Choi Seok-bong, a bellboy at a luxury hotel, is convinced he is the secret son of a billionaire and trains himself to act like an heir for the day they finally meet. When he is diagnosed with a serious illness he cannot afford to treat, he turns to Lee Shin-mi, a famously stingy heiress, for help finding his father.
Don't Look Back: The Legend of Orpheus
Han Yi-soo's father, chauffeur to the family that owns Gaya Hotel Group, is killed after backing out of taking the blame for a hit-and-run caused by the family's son. When high schooler Yi-soo digs for the truth, he barely survives an attempt on his life and vanishes. Twelve years later he returns under a new Japanese-Korean identity, while his first love, Jo Hae-woo, has become a prosecutor.
Flower of Queen
Abandoned by her boyfriend after their baby is born, a desperate Lee Soo-jung gives her daughter up for adoption and moves to the United States, renaming herself Rena Jung. Twenty years later she returns to Korea as a glamorous celebrity chef willing to fake credentials and use people to get ahead. Her goal is a loveless match with Park Min-joon, the cold eldest son of TNC Group's chairman.
Midas
Kim Do-hyun, a bright man from a modest background, is the top student at one of the country's best law schools. While job hunting, he is hired as an attorney for a wealthy family whose real fortune may be far larger than anyone imagined, and an offer he cannot turn down upends his hopes for a quiet life with his girlfriend.
Ms. Incognito
A poor female bodyguard who dreams of having a room to call her own agrees to a contract marriage with a gravely ill chaebol chairman. For three months, she must take on a new identity and stay alive while dodging the people plotting to grab her huge inheritance.
Royal Family
Kim In-sook married into a powerful chaebol family, where her in-laws look down on her as a gold digger and ignore her for years. After her husband dies in a helicopter crash, her mother-in-law takes away her son. Han Ji-hoon, the family's sharp new lawyer who knows In-sook from their past, becomes determined to end her mistreatment.
Where Your Eyes Linger
Han Tae-joo is the confident, flirtatious heir of TB Group, and Kang-gook has been his best friend and bodyguard for fifteen years. As they grow up, Kang-gook realizes his feelings for Tae-joo go beyond friendship but keeps them hidden, even as Tae-joo teases him and their closeness blurs every line.
Climax
Prosecutor Bang Tae-seop tries to climb the cutthroat ranks of South Korea's power cartel, in a world of major conglomerates and the entertainment industry. At the heart of the story is a married couple whose shared ambition drives them to chase power and success at any cost.
Good Job
A brilliant, athletic heir to a wealthy conglomerate secretly leads a double life as a detective. The story revolves around him and a poor but cheerful woman who was born with extraordinary eyesight and hides her gift behind a pair of thick glasses.
Princess Lulu
Go Hee-soo is the charming granddaughter of the head of KS Group, South Korea's largest conglomerate, and still grieves her mother, lost in a plane crash. She is drawn to Kang Woo-jin, a free-spirited man just back from the UK, while his close friend Kim Chan-ho, who grew up alongside her, has feelings of his own.
Reborn Rookie
Young soccer player Hwang Jun-hyeon loses his career when the son of Choiseong Group chairman Kang Yong-ho hits him with a car while covering up embezzlement. When Jun-hyeon confronts the chairman, the two tumble down the stairs together, and the elderly chairman ends up in the young man's body, working as a rookie at his own company.
Save the Last Dance for Me
Hyun-woo is the reluctant heir to his father's chemical company and is engaged to Soo-jin. After an attempt on his life ends in a car crash, he loses his memory and is found by Eun-soo, who runs a bed and breakfast with her elderly father. The two take him in and care for him while he recovers.
The Woman Who Swallowed the Sun
In a world where those who are wronged are often painted as the wrongdoers, one woman takes a desperate stand. Fighting in the name of her only daughter, she sets out to take revenge on a powerful chaebol family.