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Jang Mi-ri works at a karaoke bar in Fukuoka, Japan, to pay off her father's debts and save enough to return to Korea and find her birth mother. A chance car accident brings her to hotel president Jang Myung-hoon, who hires her for her fluent Japanese without knowing her university credentials are fake.
Sohee, a high school student on a vocational track, is sent for field training at a subcontracted call center. The pressure and harsh work culture there weigh heavily on her. The film also follows detective Oh Yoo-jin, who becomes caught up in what happens to Sohee.
A man who once dreamed of being a cook grows up to become a neurosurgeon instead, while a woman takes up cooking because of him. Their story is drawn from the 1995 collapse of the Sampoong Department Store in Seoul.
Kim, a widowed narcotics detective, is meeting a would-be informant named Kang when Kang is arrested for killing his girlfriend. Months later, Kang calls Kim from prison claiming he has murdered six more people, and Kim sets out to find the truth, never sure whether he can trust a word the killer says.
In 1997, as Korea slides toward a financial crisis, three stories unfold side by side. Factory owner Gap-su is paid with a risky promissory note by a department store; young analyst Jung-hak sets up a fund to bet against the economy; and central bank official Si-hyun warns that the country will run out of foreign reserves within a week.
Based on a real figure from the Goryeo dynasty, the series follows Cheonchu, granddaughter of the kingdom's founder, who dreams of reclaiming lands her grandfather lost. When her brother, King Seongjong, names her son as his heir and has his own wife raise the boy, she fights to win her son back amid foreign invasions and court intrigue.
Back in school, Oh Soo-jung was the girl everyone admired, and she dumped her nerdy law-student boyfriend Go Man-soo when he failed the bar exam. Eight years later she is in her thirties managing a jewelry store, while Man-soo returns from America as Karl Go, a rich, famous pro golfer with a plan to pay her back.
Kim Jun is the son of a runaway palace slave and grows up among monks. Torn from his home in wartime, he is forced to set aside his peaceful nature and enter a deadly contest that might win him freedom from his masters, the powerful Choe clan, as Goryeo faces Mongol invasion.
In 15th-century Joseon, Jang Yeong-sil is born a slave but has a rare gift and a deep love of astronomy. His talent catches the attention of King Sejong, who brings him to court, where he sets out to build clocks, gauges and instruments that could change the kingdom.
It is 1374, the last year of King Gongmin's reign, and Goryeo is sinking under corruption, abuse of power and political chaos. The scholar and politician Jeong Do-jeon dreams of a new era and works alongside the general Yi Seong-gye to plan a new dynasty, Joseon, facing many obstacles along the way.
This drama follows Kim Man-deok, born on Jeju Island to a haenyeo diver and a high-ranking official in exile. Losing her mother soon after birth, she is taken in by a former palace lady who runs a training center for orphans in Hanyang, teaching them the skills of trade. There, young Man-deok meets Jung Hong-soo, the son of a powerful lord.
This historical drama follows Baekje's warrior king Geunchogo. The story reaches back seventeen centuries to Hansan, where Yeogu, a second son pushed aside from the royal line, is sent off to make a living selling salt so that no one will fear he might try to claim the throne.
In 1925, with Korea under Japanese rule, Princess Deokhye, the 13-year-old daughter of Joseon's royal family, is sent to Japan for her schooling. Longing for home, she tries again and again to return, but each attempt is blocked by Han Taek-soo, a general loyal to Japan.
In the early days of criminal profiling in South Korea, the country's very first profiler struggles to understand how serial killers think. At the same time, he fights to convince a doubtful society that studying criminal behavior is the future of solving crimes.
Jeong-yeon and Jong-bae are happily married and raising a young daughter, until a friend's unpaid loans, which Jong-bae guaranteed, leave them buried in debt. Desperate, Jeong-yeon agrees to carry what she believes are diamonds from Paris to Seoul for a shady acquaintance, but she is arrested at Orly Airport when police find cocaine in her bag.
Yoon Min-cheol, a TV news producer, urgently needs a big story for his investigative show, PD Chase. A tip that the country's largest fertility clinic is illegally buying eggs leads him to Lee Jang-hwan, a celebrated scientist hailed as a national hero for his stem cell work. Then Shim Min-ho, a young researcher in Lee's lab, calls to say the research is faked.
A team of doctors digs into what really caused a series of industrial accidents and workplace hazards. Each case they investigate is modeled on a real occupational disaster that happened to ordinary people in South Korea, bringing those stories to the screen.
In the fictional city of Iltan, a string of murders blamed on a killer nicknamed Gap-dong goes unsolved. Detective Yang Cheol-gon pursues local man Ha Il-sik, who dies insisting he is innocent, and Ha's son Moo-yeom grows up to become a police officer to clear his father's name. Seventeen years later, new crimes echoing Gap-dong's begin.
When the future King Gwanggaeto is born, Goguryeo is far weaker than it once was: his grandfather has been killed by Baekje forces, and the armies of Later Yan are on the attack. The drama follows his path toward the throne and his vow to bring back the kingdom's lost strength.
Heo Jun, son of a concubine and a provincial governor, is born into a rigid society that looks down on him. After watching the gifted doctor Yoo Ui-tae save a dying patient, he resolves to become a physician, starting as an herb gatherer and studying rare medical texts at Yoo's clinic with help from Ye-jin.
This historical epic follows Yi Sun-sin, the Joseon naval commander who fought the Japanese invasions of the Imjin War. Told largely through flashbacks, it begins with his boyhood as a quiet, often bullied child who is troubled by the cruelty corrupt officials show to ordinary people.
Two people who each lost someone they loved in a terrible building collapse try to go on with life as though the pain is gone. As their paths cross, they slowly grow closer. The story is inspired by the real 1995 collapse of Seoul's Sampoong Department Store.
Set during South Korea's Fifth Republic, this drama follows Chun Doo-hwan as he seizes power through a military coup and rules as a dictator. It portrays the era and the pro-democracy movements that rose up against his government, including the Gwangju uprising.
Inspired by the life of Park Tae-joon, the founder of steelmaker POSCO, this drama follows people fighting poverty and hopelessness in the years after colonial rule and the Korean War. Driven by a vision of economic progress, Park sets out to build a steel mill that could help modernise the country.
In 1885, Jejungwon opens as the first modern Western hospital in Joseon, founded by Emperor Gojong at the urging of American medical missionary Horace Newton Allen. It treats patients no matter their social standing and takes in a small group of students to train in Western medicine. The series follows their studies and careers.
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.
Stretching from Joseon's birth through King Sejong's time, this saga follows Yi Bang-won, fifth son of the dynasty's founder, who later rules as King Taejong. Devoted to keeping the young kingdom stable, he shows deep loyalty to his father and heir, but the killings carried out in his name stir bitter anger in return.
Kang Tae-joo, once a star detective, has been demoted and sent back home to Gangseong, but he still refuses to bend to injustice. He sees the town's serial murder case as a way to win back his reputation, yet he keeps clashing with prosecutor Cha Si-young, who bullied him back in school.
