Best South Korean family series

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch family shows from South Korea, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

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    Family by Choice 2024

    A youth romance about two men and woman who aren't blood related but treated each other as family during their teens and how they meet again after 10 years.

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  • Poster for Angry Mom

    Angry Mom 2015

    When Jo Gang-Ja attended high school, she was notorious for fighting. She gave birth to her daughter A-Ran in her late teens and became more responsible. Her daughter A-Ran is now a high school student, but A-Ran is bullied at school. Jo Gang-Ja decides to go back to high school to protect her daughter. Jo Gang-Ja becomes a high school student again.

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  • Poster for Graceful Family

    Graceful Family 2019

    Mo Seok-hee is an only child and her father runs the large company MC Group. She is beautiful, smart and rich. Mo Seok-hee appears like she is arrogant, but she struggles over her mother’s death. Her mother was killed 15 years ago. Meanwhile, Heo Yoon-do is a lawyer, but he doesn’t even have an office. He solves small problems of neighborhood residents at a restaurant. He is full of love. Miraculously, Heo Yoon-do is headhunted to join the TOP team at MC Group. The TOP team manages the affairs of the family who runs the MC Group. Their job includes covering up immoral or illegal behaviors done by the family.

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  • Poster for Romance in the House

    Romance in the House 2024

    After his business crashes, a man disappears from his family for 11 years. But when he makes a return as their wealthy landlord, a messy reunion ensues.

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  • Poster for My Father is Strange

    My Father is Strange 2017

    Mi Yeong, Hye Yeong, Ra Yeong, and Joon Yeong are the kids of Yeong Sil and Han Soo. They seem like the average Seoul family, with the typical Seoul problems, but that all changes when Jung Hui, an actor, and former K-Pop idol, ends up in their doorstep claiming that Han Soo is his biological father. The family goes through thick and thin, one marriage after the other, trying to figure out why their father happens to be strange.

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  • Poster for One More Happy Ending

    One More Happy Ending 2016

    Drama series depicts the story of marriage, remarriage and divorce. Han Mi Mo was once an idol group member, but she now works as a representative of a remarriage consulting business. She gives honest answers to her customers who hope to remarry. Song Soo Hyuk is a divorced man in his thirties with an 11-year-old son. He is a good-looking gossip reporter who looks like he is still in his twenties. He is very good at his job, because his looks and smiles melt the hearts of his interview subjects, and they are very willing to disclose even the deepest secrets. “One More Happy Ending” will deal with the stories of the divorced, who dream of becoming happy one more time.

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  • Poster for My Golden Life

    My Golden Life 2017

    A hardworking contract worker desperate for a full-time job finds her life turning upside down after an unexpected revelation about her family.

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  • Poster for Oh My Baby

    Oh My Baby 2020

    A 39-year-old single woman who wants to have a child without getting married. She has three men in her radar and has trouble choosing between them. They walk into her life when she’s already hopeless about love and marriage.

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  • Poster for Larva

    Larva 2011

    Animated comedy about two strange maggots, Red and Yellow, who live under the grill of a sewer drain where people pay little attention. In this secret place, they relish in the things that people throw in the sewer, like chewed up bubble gum, melted ice cream, coins, rings, you name it. They sometimes get into trouble, play happily and squabble over possession of these things.

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  • Poster for You're the Best, Lee Soon Shin

    You're the Best, Lee Soon Shin 2013

    The drama 'You Are The Best' transfers the message of consolation, hope and healing to those of us suffering from this competitive society. This is a humanistic drama that makes us realize that happiness cannot be felt just from materialistic or external values but from simple but truthful love, and a society that is full of people who share.

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  • Poster for When My Love Blooms

    When My Love Blooms 2020

    In 1993, Jisu and Jaehyeon, who met for the first time at the protest scene and being a first love to each other. After 26 years, Jisu and Jaehyeon accidently reunite.

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  • Poster for Young Lady and Gentleman

    Young Lady and Gentleman 2021

    Lee Young Kook is a widower with three children. He still hasn’t gotten over the death of his wife. He decides to hire Park Dan Dan as a live-in tutor for his kids and he becomes attracted to her. Meanwhile, Park Dan Dan has bright and positive personality despite her harsh situation.

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  • Poster for The Suspicious Housekeeper

    The Suspicious Housekeeper 2013

    A suspicious housekeeper who never smiles works for a man and his four children who just lost their mother.

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  • Poster for Modern Farmer

    Modern Farmer 2014

    Excellent Souls was once really successful. Seven years later, one of its members, Min Ki struggles in life.

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  • Poster for Motel California

    Motel California 2025

    A woman with a unique upbringing in a motel in the countryside leaves her hometown at 20 to pursue her career in Seoul. Twelve years later though, she returns home to heal her heart and experiences twists and turns as she reunites with her first love, a now eligible bachelor and veterinarian.

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  • Poster for Welcome 2 Life

    Welcome 2 Life 2019

    Lee Jae-Sang is a lawyer at JK Law Firm, which is one of the biggest law firms in South Korea. He is an excellent lawyer, but he only cares about winning for his benefit. One day, he has a mysterious car accident and he is drawn into a parallel world. There, Lee Jae-Sang finds himself working as a prosecutor. He is strict in carrying out the law. He is married to Ra Shi-On, who loves Lee Jae-Sang and is faithful to him. In the world where Lee Jae-Sang came from, he broke up with Ra Shi-On ten years earlier and Ra Shi-On works as a detective. Lee Jae-Sang struggles to cope with his different selves.

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  • Poster for My Fair Lady

    My Fair Lady 2016

    Geum Bi is only 8-years-old, but she suffers from dementia. She is slowly losing her memory. Her father Hwi Cheol is a swindler. While taking care of Geum Bi, he learns about the preciousness of life. Jang Joo Young becomes involved with Geum Bi and Hwi Cheol.

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  • Poster for The Lady in Dignity

    The Lady in Dignity 2017

    Woo Ah-Jin lives a luxurious life due to her wealthy father-in-law, but her father-in-law's finances become decimated and her husband betrays her. Woo Ah-Jin's life hits rock bottom. Park Bok-Ja is a mysterious woman and she hides her heartbreaking story. She brings about fierce hardship on Woo Ah-Jin.

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  • Poster for Five Enough

    Five Enough 2016

    Sang-Tae is left with his two children after his wife passes away. Since that time, he lives with his two kids and parents-in-law. He works as a marketing team leader for a fashion brand. Mi-Jung works as an assistant manager at the same fashion company. 3 years ago, her husband had an affair with her friend and left her. She couldn't tell her kids the truth about their father and lied that their father went to work in America. To this day, the children still believe that their father is in America. Sang-Tae and Mi-Jung never thought about falling in love again, but they fall in love with each other.

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  • Poster for Iron Family

    Iron Family 2024

    Iron Family depicts warm love and fierce conflict between family members and provides an opportunity to reflect on the meaning of 'family' in modern society.

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  • Poster for Bubble Gum

    Bubble Gum 2015

    Four people whose lives revolve around a hospital and a radio station become close and work out their various problems together.

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  • Poster for Super Wings

    Super Wings 2014

    An action-packed preschool series about an adorable jet plane named Jett who travels the world delivering packages to children. On every delivery, Jett encounters a new problem that the he and his friends the Super Wings must work together to solve!

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  • Poster for Couple or Trouble

    Couple or Trouble 2006

    The arrogant, spoiled heiress Anna Jo and the brazen, no-nonsense handyman Jang Chul-soo find their paths crossing as an accident causes Anna to lose her memory. Will the unlikely pair learn to get along?

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  • Poster for Power Rangers Dino Force Brave

    Power Rangers Dino Force Brave 2017

    Power Rangers Dino Force Brave is a South Korean-Japanese superhero series that serves as the sequel to Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger’s Korean dub, Power Rangers Dino Force. The show was later dubbed into Japanese and aired in Japan as Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger Brave.

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  • Poster for It's Beautiful Now

    It's Beautiful Now 2022

    Three brothers search for marriage partners in order to win the apartment offered by their family elders.

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  • Poster for My Daughter, Geum Sa-Wol

    My Daughter, Geum Sa-Wol 2015

    A family has been dismantled by revenge and hate, but Geum Sa-Wol (Baek Jin-Hee) attempts to build up a dream house for the dismantled family.

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  • Poster for Curtain Call

    Curtain Call 2022

    A drama about an elderly woman from North Korea who doesn’t have much time left to live and a theatre actor who acts as her grandson in order to fulfill her final wish.

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  • Poster for Recipe for Farewell

    Recipe for Farewell 2022

    Based on the true story of writer Kang Chang-rae. Da-jung used to be a sweet working mom, but as colorectal cancer strikes her, she gradually becomes unable to eat. Da-jung's husband, Chang-wook, has never cooked before, but he begins cooking to take care of his wife's health and meals. Chang-wook handpicks decent ingredients and tries to develop healthy recipes to make a precious meal for his ill wife. Although he may be clumsy sometimes, he begins to realize how to treasure the time cooking and having a meal together with his family.

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  • Poster for Love in Her Bag

    Love in Her Bag 2013

    Despite her poverty and lack of education or connections, bright and plucky Eun Jung-soo works her way up in the luxury handbag industry based on sheer talent alone. She encounters Do Jin-hoo, the smart and handsome chaebol heir of a fashion company, and Kim Seo-hyun who has to hide her true identity in order to achieve her dreams.

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  • Poster for Wind-Bell

    Wind-Bell 2019

    Set in backdrops of Seoul’s most popular tourist spots including Han River and Bukchon, it is a story about a writer, named Daniel, who was adopted to the US when he was 10 years old, coming back to Korea after becoming a world-class novelist. He decided to come back to Korea to meet his family including his mother who had no option but to put her son up for adoption. While he traces back in memory, he meets Yeo Jin, the editor helping Daniel with the publication of his book in Korea and the two soon realize some undeniable chemistry between them.

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  • Poster for Father, I'll Take Care of You

    Father, I'll Take Care of You 2016

    After their 4 children become independent, an old couple decide to live for themselves. One day, their 4 children come back to them.

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  • Poster for Ugly Alert

    Ugly Alert 2013

    Gong Joon-soo is a man who's had a rough life and early on had to fend for himself. He takes the blame for a murder his younger sibling commits and serves time in prison. There he learns to sew and acquires a trade. With his newly acquired skills, Joon-soo goes to work for Na Do-hee at a fashion company. Do-hee has inherited her job because her grandfather built the company. But even though she inherited her position, she is serious about doing a good job and is something of a workaholic.

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  • Poster for Jang Bo Ri Is Here

    Jang Bo Ri Is Here 2014

    A story about the life of a mother and her two daughters; a real daughter and an adopted daughter whose fates are twisted and lives change due to the real daughter and the adopted daughter have been swapped, cause intense conflicts within the family.

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  • Poster for On the Way to the Airport

    On the Way to the Airport 2016

    Can women and men stay just as friends? Both Choi Sua and Seo Dou are married, but not to each other. The relationship between the two is interesting. They are definitely not a couple. They are not friends, either. Yet, they are involved in each other's life.

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  • Poster for Marry Me Now

    Marry Me Now 2018

    Park Yoo-Ha studied hard in medical school and finished her intern course. She works hard to become a doctor due to her father. Her father raised 4 children by himself and her oldest sister also sacrificed for the family. Park Yoo-Ha is not interested in other people. Suddenly, her father marries a woman rich enough to own a building. Meanwhile, Jung Eun-Tae works as a doctor. He volunteered for performing medical service abroad, but he comes back to Korea. Jung Eun-Tae is not interested in marriage, because his father placed priority on his medical work over family and Jung Eun-Tae believes he is like his father.

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  • Poster for Homemade Love Story

    Homemade Love Story 2020

    Strangers living together at the Samkwang Villa get to know each other and even fall in love.

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  • Poster for Lovers in Bloom

    Lovers in Bloom 2017

    Moo Goong Hwa is a former boxer. After the death of her husband, she has raised her daughter alone. She now works as a police officer. Meanwhile, Cha Tae Jin is an elite police officer who graduated from the police university. He is full of justice.

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  • Poster for Can We Get Married?

    Can We Get Married? 2012

    Is the easiest part of a relationship planning for the wedding? Hye Yoon and Jung Hoon are engaged to be married in 100 days. Hye Yoon’s older sister, Hye Jin is nicely married to a doctor, so Hye Yoon’s mother, Deul Ja, was determined to find an equally suitable husband for Hye Yoon. Imagine her disappointment when she learned that Hye Yoon had already fallen in love with a simple salaryman. Can Hye Yoon and Jung Hoon maintain their faith in love as they face family pressures in their relationship?

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  • Poster for Little Forest

    Little Forest 2019

    From fine dust in the playgrounds to noise complaint issues in the apartments, children these days have fewer and fewer reasons to spend time running and playing outdoors. An eco-friendly childcare center in the woods is now open for children who don’t have places to run and play freely. Four celebrities, ‘Tsundere’ Lee Seo Jin, ‘Newbie babysitter’ Lee Seung Gi, ‘Energizer’ Park Na Rae, and ‘Sentimental’ Jung So Min, come together to create a Kids Garden and enjoy their time playing with the kids there. The children leave the stuffy confines of the city and come to Neverland in the forest, where there is plenty of green space to run around in and lots of eco-friendly food to eat. They will show the viewers how they learn to cooperate with their friends and grow through healthy competition. A childcare service taking place in nature, full of green grass and fresh air, Little Forest!

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  • Poster for Legendary Witches

    Legendary Witches 2014

    The four women bond and become friends, particularly when they join the baking classes being taught by Nam Woo-suk, a hotel chef. Woo-suk is a widower who is raising his daughter alone after the death of his wife six years ago. At his father-in-law's suggestion, he became a volunteer at the local prison's vocational training center, where he meets Soo-in and begins to fall for her.

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  • Poster for Golden Rainbow

    Golden Rainbow 2013

    A drama about seven siblings, all of them are orphans and not blood-related, love each other more than real siblings. They will go through many hardships together. Baek Won is the leader of seven orphans who band together to make their own family. Meanwhile, Do Young is the prosecutor who falls in love with her.

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  • Poster for Baby Singer

    Baby Singer 2022

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  • Poster for High Kick: Revenge of the Short Legged

    High Kick: Revenge of the Short Legged 2011

    Ahn Nae Sang and Yoon Yoo Sun are middle aged husband and wife. When his business goes bankrupt, this couple moves in to her brother's house and the conflict starts.

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  • Poster for Ojakgyo Family

    Ojakgyo Family 2011

    The story of a family with four sons who live together with their relatives on a farm near Seoul. Hwang Tae Hee is the third son and a policeman who falls in love with a girl named Baek Ja Eun. Baek Ja Eun is a haughty young woman who only believes in her pretty looks and is quick to flare up in anger.

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  • Poster for Potato Star 2013QR3

    Potato Star 2013QR3 2013

    A mysterious asteroid crash-lands on Earth in 2013 and causes all sorts of weird things to start happening, specifically to the Noh family and their neighbors.

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  • Poster for Three Daddies with One Mommy

    Three Daddies with One Mommy 2008

    Song Na Young and her husband, Jung Sung Min, desperately want a child but her husband is unable to get her pregnant. Her husband's friends decide to help them. But Na Young suddenly loses her husband in an accident and she gives birth to her daughter but does not know which of her husband's friends fathered her child. The father of Na Young's child can either be Han Soo Hyun, Choi Kwang Hee, or Hwang Kyung Tae.

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  • Poster for Wonderful Life

    Wonderful Life 2005

    Han Seung Wan and Jung Se Jin bumps into each other at the airport and accidentally take each other's passports. They meet again and Seung Wan and Se Jin end up spending the day together. Both having to deal with love complications, they end up drunk and having a one night stand. Back in Korea, Se Jin discovers she is pregnant and leaves to have the baby alone. A year later, Se Jin's clueless sister ends up spilling the secret to Seung-Wan at his engagement party, showing up with his baby daughter. Seung-wan and Se Jin are then forced to marry by their respective families. Complicated love takes place between Do Hyun, Se Jin, Chae Young and Seung-Wan. The rest of the story revolves around the family's journey in learning to take responsibility, and learning to love each other.

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  • Poster for Mother of Mine

    Mother of Mine 2019

    Story of a mother and three daughters living in modern day Korean society. The drama conveys a message about the low fertility rate, divorce rate, and the problems of the younger generation who are avoiding marriage.

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  • Poster for Fresh off the Sea

    Fresh off the Sea 2024

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  • Poster for Sweden Laundry

    Sweden Laundry 2014

    Middle child Kim Bom had a difficult childhood because her mother showered all her affection on Bom's older brother Eun-chul and her younger sister Eun-sol. Now that Bom is an adult, she runs a laundromat named Sweden Laundry. But she also has the supernatural ability to understand her customers' worries through their laundry. With the help of her employee Yong Soo-chul, Bom uses this to solve the problems of those around her.

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  • Poster for The Most Beautiful Goodbye

    The Most Beautiful Goodbye 2017

    An ordinary middle-aged woman has devoted her life to her family. She is diagnosed with terminal cancer and must prepare her goodbye to her family.

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  • Poster for Beauty and Mr. Romantic

    Beauty and Mr. Romantic 2024

    A love story about an actress falls to the bottom overnight, and a producer's effort to try and get her back on her feet because he loves her. A cheerful family drama that reveals the truth of the case and restores love and justice through revenge and a family's desire going through confusion due to family conflicts.

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  • Poster for Life Is Beautiful

    Life Is Beautiful 2010

    Set in Jeju, the drama revolves around a loving, multi-generation family led by the parents, Yang Byung Tae and Kim Min Jae, and their four children Tae Sub, Ji Hye, Ho Sup, and Cho Rong, as well as assorted grandparents and uncles. The story follows the family's everyday lives and conflicts.

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  • Poster for My Little Baby

    My Little Baby 2016

    Cha Jung Han is a detective for a special investigation team. He is busy with investigating violent cases including drugs and gangs, but one day he takes in his niece, Eun Ae and struggles to raise her. Meanwhile, Han Ye Seul is a single mother who raises her 5-years-old son alone. She is Cha Jung-Han’s first love.

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  • Poster for Cold Blooded Intern

    Cold Blooded Intern 2023

    A woman in her 40s returns to work as an intern after seven years of being disconnected from work, and starts to endure and survive in a jungle-like society again.

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  • Poster for Bravo, My Life

    Bravo, My Life 2022

    Even though Seo Dong Hee comes from a poor family background, she has a bright and positive personality. She dreams of becoming a designer and slowly works her way to achieve her dream. She decides to become the mother of her nephew and raise him by herself. She also gets involved with Kang Cha Yeol. Kang Cha Yeol’s father runs a big company. His father wants him to work for his company, but Kang Cha Yeol doesn't want to. He wants to go back to the U.S., but he realizes he can't do anything without his father's financial support. His father tells Kang Cha Yeol to work for 1 year at his company.

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  • Poster for I'm Sorry, I Love You

    I'm Sorry, I Love You 2017

    Ritsu was abandoned by his mother Reiko when he was little, so now he belongs in the lower social strata. One day, Ritsu gets involved in a case and his head is severely injured, so he can die at anytime. Convinced she abandoned him due to poverty, Ritsu attempts to find his mother and be good to her before his death. But when he learns that she is leading a happy life instead, with her pianist son Satoru, he decides to take revenge on his mother. Ritsu then meets Rinka, a girl whom he happened to help in the past, and discovers she is Satoru’s childhood friend.

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  • Poster for Three Bold Siblings

    Three Bold Siblings 2022

    The K-eldest-son and K-eldest-daughter meet while sacrificing themselves in search of happiness and love.

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  • Poster for Super Daddy Yeol

    Super Daddy Yeol 2015

    Cha Mi-rae is a doctor and single mother to her young daughter Sa-rang. When she gets diagnosed with terminal cancer and told she has one year left to live, she seeks out her ex-boyfriend Han Yeol, a former baseball player. Mi-rae and Yeol were a couple a decade ago, but she broke up with him to study abroad and because she didn't think much of his prospects. Soon after, a serious injury forced him to retire from the sport, and Yeol became the rehabilitation coach of a major league baseball team. Mi-rae is determined to transform still-single, grungy, irritable Yeol into the best father possible for her daughter.

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  • Poster for The Virtual Bride

    The Virtual Bride 2015

    In an attempt to regain her popularity, former idol star In Young goes on a TV Show where she clashes with her on-screen mother-in-law, Yang Choon Ja. However, the tension is increasingly worse off-set when In Young starts dating Choon Ja's real son!

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  • Poster for A Hundred Year Legacy

    A Hundred Year Legacy 2013

    A warm-hearted family drama about a three-generation family and their noodle factory that they operate in the outskirts of Seoul.

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  • Poster for The Gentlemen of Wolgyesu Tailor Shop

    The Gentlemen of Wolgyesu Tailor Shop 2016

    Depicts the trials and tribulations of four men who work at Laurel Tree Tailor Shop.

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  • Poster for Liver or Die

    Liver or Die 2019

    Poong Sang is a lonely, pitiful middle-aged man, who has never lived his life for himself. Up until now, he took care of his four younger siblings and supported them financially. Will he ever get to find happiness for himself?

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  • Poster for Bad Papa

    Bad Papa 2018

    Yoo Ji-Cheol used to be a top boxer, but he lost everything in a moment. All of his money and fame vanished and his life was ruined. He decides to gain control of his life through mixed martial arts.

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  • Poster for All About My Mom

    All About My Mom 2015

    A story about the tiring but sad love and hatred between a mother and her daughters. Lee Jin-ae has a love and hate relationship with her mother, Im San-ok. She dreams of becoming independent from her family and especially from her mother. Jin-ae falls in love with Kang Hoon-jae and marries to him. Meanwhile, what awaits for Jin-ae is her new mother-in-law, Hwang Young-sun. While experiencing difficult times with her mother-in-law, Jin-ae begins to understand her mother San-ok for the first time.

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  • Poster for With My Dear Bro

    With My Dear Bro 2023

    A traveling variety show featuring, DO-WON and DO-JIN from LOVE TRACTOR

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