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Lim Ju-kyung has been bullied over her looks since childhood and transfers to a new school to start over. Having mastered makeup, she changes her appearance so completely that her new classmates think she is a natural beauty and call her a "goddess." There she crosses paths with cold, wealthy Lee Su-ho and rebellious Han Seo-jun.
A young Buddhist apprentice lives with his master in a small monastery floating on a lake deep in the forested mountains. Told across five seasons spread over many years, the film follows the boy's life of prayer and quiet routine as he grows from childhood toward old age.
Six students at Kirin High School dream of becoming K-pop idols and other kinds of performers. As they work on their singing, songwriting, and dancing, they grow as people, develop crushes on one another, and lean on each other's support while chasing their debut.
In 1988, five friends who grew up together in Seoul's Ssangmun-dong neighborhood lean on each other and their families through the ups and downs of their teenage years. Set during a time of big change in Korea, the story follows their everyday lives as they try to build a future together.
In 19th-century Joseon, the young Crown Prince Lee Yeong is still growing from a boy into the ruler he is meant to become. Along the way, he forms an unlikely bond with Hong Ra-on, a palace eunuch, in this coming-of-age tale of youthful romance at court.
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.
After years of being bullied over her looks, Kang Mi-rae has plastic surgery before starting university. Her new face doesn't bring the fresh start she hoped for, as some classmates mock her as a surgery-made beauty. While trying to rebuild her self-esteem, she gets to know Do Kyung-seok, an old classmate from middle school who is cold to everyone except his sister.
In 1998, the IMF crisis shuts down high school fencer Na Hee-do's team, so she transfers schools to keep chasing her dream. Baek Yi-jin's once-wealthy family has been torn apart by the same crisis, leaving him juggling part-time jobs. Decades later, Hee-do's daughter finds her mother's old diary, which tells their story.
During the Korean War, student volunteer Oh Jang-beom barely survives a brutal battle and is shaken by what he has seen. He is then put in charge of a newly formed unit of untrained student soldiers, joined by a defiant young criminal named Ku Kap-jo, and ordered to hold a key position.
In Joseon, where women are barred from schooling and work, Kim Yoon-hee disguises herself as her brother Yoon-shik to support her family. While secretly sitting an entrance exam for Sungkyunkwan, the top Confucian academy, on someone else's behalf, she is caught by the principled Lee Sun-joon, who sees her talent and urges her to enroll.
Choi Ung and Kook Yeon-soo broke up years ago, promising never to see each other again. But when the documentary they filmed together in high school ten years earlier goes viral, a producer friend pushes the former couple back in front of the cameras, stirring up complicated feelings.
In Busan in 1997, high schooler Sung Shi-won is a devoted fan of the boy band H.O.T., and her days revolve around her idols and five close friends. The story moves between their teenage years and 2012, when the friends, now 33, gather for a reunion dinner and look back on the past.
In 1994, six university students from different provinces move into a boarding house in Seoul's Sinchon neighborhood, run by a couple whose daughter is Sung Na-jung. Shifting between their college days and the present, the story follows their friendships and romances while keeping viewers guessing who Na-jung will marry.
A CODA boy, the hearing child of deaf parents, with a natural gift for music clashes with his father over his dream of playing guitar in a band. After their fight, he travels back to 1995, where he forms a band called Watermelon Sugar with his own father as a young man and a group of mysterious youths, connecting with them through music.
Hwang Jini is the illegitimate daughter of a nobleman and a blind gisaeng, a performer who entertains the elite of Joseon. Her mother sends her to a mountain temple to spare her that life, but young Jini slips away, is captivated by a gisaeng performance, and begins training to become an entertainer herself.
Eighteen-year-old Choi Joon-woo, shaped by a hard home life and past trouble at school, is forced to transfer to Cheonbong High School over something he did not do. Planning to stay a quiet loner through his junior year, he soon gets pulled out of his shell by classmates facing their own growing pains.
Seoul, 1994. Fourteen-year-old Eun-hee is a shy girl who loves drawing and spends her days with her best friend Ji-suk at cram school. Overlooked by her parents and mistreated by her older brother, she finds new warmth when a free-spirited teacher, Ms. Kim, arrives to teach her class.
Yoon Ah-yi, a high school student living in poverty, gave up on magic long ago and just wants to grow up fast to escape her hard life. Then she meets Ri Eul, a mysterious magician who lives in an abandoned amusement park and refuses to grow up, while her well-off classmate Na Il-deung starts secretly watching her magic lessons.
At the elite Sevit High School in Seoul, grades decide everything. Kang Yeon-doo leads Real King, a street dance club of low-scoring outcasts, while Kim Yeol heads Baek Ho, a club for the very top students. When the two rival groups are forced to merge into one cheerleading squad, they have to learn to work together.
Five young women share a house called Belle Epoque, each going through the growing pains of youth. This slice-of-life story follows how they connect while facing the kinds of problems many young people in South Korea deal with today.
Brash lawyer Kang Suk-ho is put in charge of shutting down the failing Byung Moon High School, but he sees his own troubled past in its aimless students. He vows to get five of them into Cheonha University, the country's top school, and starts a special class despite objections from idealistic English teacher Han Soo-jung.
During the period of the strictest alcohol ban in Joseon history, four young people come of age together. As they form friendships and fall in love, they get caught up in the longings and desires of people living in a land where making liquor has been outlawed.
Eighteen students choose to follow their own path instead of preparing for the university entrance exam. As they face the hurdles that come with a road few others take, these school friends lean on one another and learn about dreams, love, friendship and life.
Park Se-ri is a cheerful high school student who worries about her naturally curly hair and has a crush on popular classmate Kim Hyun. When a new salon offering hair straightening she can't afford opens in town, she befriends Han Yoon-seok, a transfer student she saved from drowning, whose mother turns out to own the salon.
College student Yun Tae-o suddenly finds his house full when his friends move in, each for their own reasons: a college dropout, a runaway family friend and his longtime childhood friend. Sharing one roof, the young housemates stumble through the messy, confusing business of first love and living together.
Former badminton player Yoon Hyun-jong, struggling to support his family, takes a coaching job at a middle school in rural Haenam, only to find the boys' team down to three players. His city-raised son Hae-kang joins the ragtag squad as they fight to survive, while his wife coaches the local girls' team.
Joo Byung-hee is the wild, free-spirited frontman of Eye Candy, a popular underground rock band made up of high school boys. When their rough, troublemaker-filled school is shut down, the bandmates start to wonder whether going back to high school is even worth it.
Im Na-mi is a well-off housewife who feels lonely and ignored by her husband and daughter. A hospital visit stirs memories of her 1980s school days, when she was a new girl teased for her country accent and was taken in by a lively group of friends called Sunny. Decades later, she sets out to find them again.
Six high school students who are turning eighteen deal with the ups and downs of their teenage years. A follow-up to the web drama Seventeen, the series looks at their everyday school lives as they figure out how to grow up.
At Myeong-il University, charming and wealthy freshman Yeo Jun is popular with everyone. A group project pairs him with Nam Su-hyeon, an awkward third-year from a poor family who only cares about earning credits and money, and Kim So-bin, a struggling, ordinary student, and the three form an unlikely trio.
Won-il was once a promising swimmer like his champion father, but after losing both parents he quits the sport and lives recklessly. Facing expulsion, he is brought by his father's old friend Jae-suk to a sports high school, where he runs into his old rival Woo-sang, now a national swimming star forced to start over.
Ji-hwan is a taekwondo student and part-time stuntman who dreams of becoming the Korean Jackie Chan. Dal-rae is a drama student and hopeful actress whose shyness keeps costing her auditions. The two have been friends since childhood, but things get complicated when each of them starts dating someone else.
Kim Hwan crosses paths with six other boys and soon realizes that each of them is quietly carrying his own struggles. Drawn together, the seven young men lean on one another as they try to face the hardest parts of their lives.
After going bankrupt, Kirin High School of Art is taken over by Oz Entertainment, which moves its own young trainees in and sparks a rivalry with the school's troubled students. Shin Hae-sung gets in with a top exam score but can't sing, and befriends classmates Jin Yoo-jin, a former child actor who dreams of rock stardom, and JB, a member of a famous idol group.
In 1970s Daegu, Lee Jung-hee, the second daughter of a family that runs a lingerie factory, leads a group of teenage girls on chaotic adventures. Bae Dong-moon falls for her on a group date, but she has a crush on Son Jin, a senior at a boys' school, and things get complicated when transfer student Park Hye-joo arrives from Seoul.
Told in three short parts, the film follows a young man named Youngho. He waits to see his father, a traditional Korean doctor, at his clinic; later surprises his girlfriend Juwon in Berlin, where she has gone to study fashion; and years after, meets a famous actor, an old friend of his mother, at a seaside restaurant.
Jae-hee is a free-spirited young woman, and Heung-soo is a man keeping something deeply hidden about himself. The two become close friends and share an apartment in Seoul, facing the highs and lows of young adult life side by side. The film is adapted from part of a novel.
Four best friends set off on one last trip together before one of them leaves to do his military service. Along the way, they become caught up in an incident that changes the course of their lives forever.
In Seoul in 1975, nine-year-old Jin-hee is left at a Catholic orphanage by her father after he remarries, having been led to believe she is going on a trip. At the orphanage she struggles to accept being abandoned, holding on to the hope that her father will come back for her.
Four childhood friends grow up side by side: Joon-seok, the group's leader and son of a powerful mob boss; Dong-su, an undertaker's son; Jung-ho, the class clown; and Sang-taek, a model student. As teenagers they share crushes, run-ins with teachers and brawls with rival schools, before their paths start to pull in different directions.
In 1970s and 1980s Busan, four boys grow up together as friends on the city's rough streets. As they become men, best friends Dong-soo and Joon-seok are pulled into the local gang underworld. The series expands a semi-autobiographical film of the same story.
Jang Ji-goo is a 16-year-old on probation, living with his bedridden grandfather, his only known family. His sweet new girlfriend Sae-rom is the one bright spot in his life. After he is caught in a burglary with older boys from the neighborhood, he has no parent to speak for him and is sent to a juvenile reformatory.
Yong-ju, Gi-woong and Gi-taek were best friends in middle school, but they have since drifted apart, with Gi-woong now a feared fighter who runs with a powerful bully's gang. Under heavy pressure to get into a top university, Yong-ju worries as Gi-taek is targeted by the gang, while his own feelings for Gi-woong grow.
When an invitation to his first love's wedding arrives, a man looks back on everything they shared since meeting in high school. The film follows ten years of friendship and romance between the two, from their teenage days into adulthood, with all its ups and downs.
Yoon Yoo-seul, a piano prodigy, loses her sight in a car accident and struggles to put her life back together. Help comes from Jung Cha-sik, another aspiring pianist, and Seo Jin-mok, her former rival, as the three teenagers find their way through music and growing up.
In the 1980s, Go Young-rye works as a bus hostess on route 100 while hoping to get into university, and she befriends Seo Jong-hee, a charismatic newcomer. Both girls are drawn to Han Jae-pil, son of a wealthy department store owner, in a story about youth, friendship and first love.
This series follows five high school friends from their school days into adulthood. Cheerful 17-year-old Shin Sol-i has a crush on her neighbor and classmate Cha Heon and keeps confessing to him, though he struggles to show his feelings. Then swimmer Woo Dae-seong transfers to their school and falls for Sol-i.
Eun Chae-ryung is the spoiled youngest child who has always leaned on her father for everything. When he suddenly suffers a brain hemorrhage, she must leave her sheltered life behind and face real hardship as she learns to stand on her own two feet.
