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Do Ji-ui (Lee Jae-wook) is a plastic surgeon at a prestigious Seoul university hospital — privileged, polished, and convinced he’s above the mandatory military public health service that other men dread. When his posting comes through, it’s not a comfortable clinic near a city. It’s Pyeongdong-do, a remote island so isolated that every doctor assigned there eventually breaks. Worse: Ji-ui has a deep, unresolved trauma tied to the sea — and the island has water on every side.

From the moment he arrives, ominous signs begin stacking. Nurse Yook Ha-ri (Shin Ye-eun) meets him at the dock — warm, sharp, and hiding something that doesn’t match the quiet life she claims to have chosen. As Ji-ui and Ha-ri navigate difficult patients, island secrets, and an undeniable pull toward each other, the mystery beneath Pyeongdong-do’s surface starts to crack open. Based on the webtoon Endurance Doctor by Kim Tae-poong.

Cha Ji-yoon (Park Ji-hyun) has seven years of professional experience, a sharp instinct that her colleagues genuinely respect, and a slump she cannot shake — in work and in life, simultaneously. She’s functional. She’s capable. She’s stuck. Her direct supervisor, Kang Si-woo (Seo In-guk), is the kind of man who looks like a magazine cover and functions like a locked door. Striking looks, disciplined habits, and a personality that has earned him the office nickname everyone uses behind his back: the company’s worst grump.

When Ji-yoon, navigating a workplace situation requiring some creative maneuvering, strategically picks Si-woo as the lesser of two very bad options, their professional lives become irreversibly entangled. Neither of them planned for what comes next. Adapted from the webtoon Back to Work! by McQueen Studio — the workplace romance tvN was made for.

Manager Kim (So Ji-sub) has spent years building a quiet life in South Korea — managing schedules, keeping his head down, letting nobody get too close. The problem is that his real identity is something far more dangerous: a former elite North Korean agent whose skills have not faded, only gone dormant. The cover has held. Until his daughter’s life is put at risk, and the option of staying quiet simply stops being available.

When Kim reactivates, he does not do it alone. Soo (Choi Dae-hoon), a former taekwondo champion whose hands remember exactly what they know how to do, falls into the orbit of the mission. Park Jin-chul (Yoon Kyung-ho) is a legendary field operative who has seen enough to trust almost no one — but enough to make an exception. What follows is a covert war fought by people who understand what it costs, for the one thing that makes the cost acceptable. Based on the popular webtoon adaptation. SBS premiere June 26; Netflix international release June 27.

Na Hwa-jin (Kim Mu-yeol) is known inside the Educational Rights Protection Agency as the Grim Reaper — a field supervisor with a perfect combination of mental, physical, and intellectual ability who has designed every covert operation the agency has ever run. The ERPA is a government body that exists because Korea’s education system has collapsed from the inside: teachers stripped of authority, students completely out of control, parents refusing accountability. The agency’s mandate is aggressive and unconventional — physical intervention included.

Choi Gang-seok (Lee Sung-min), the crusading director behind ERPA’s founding, built this institution from principle. But as Na Hwa-jin and his team go deeper into the cases, the line between disciplinary authority and something far more dangerous starts to blur. Adapted from the wildly popular webtoon Get Schooled by Chae Yong-taek and Han Ga-ram — a story about what happens when a broken system meets someone willing to break back.

Heo Mun-o (Choi Min-sik) published one novel. The review that followed — from his now-famous writer friend Kim Su-hun (Huh Joon-ho) — was not so much a critique as a dismantling. Mun-o never wrote again. He became a Korean literature professor instead, moving through his academic life with the quiet resignation of a man who has accepted that his best work is behind him, and that it wasn’t good enough anyway.

Lee Gang (Choi Hyun-wook) is an engineering student sitting in the back row of Mun-o’s literature class — by accident, by indifference, until the day Mun-o reads something Lee Gang wrote and feels the floor shift beneath him. The gift is real. Undeniable. It reignites something in Mun-o that he thought was permanently dead. But mentoring someone with that kind of talent, while carrying that kind of wound, sets off a chain of consequences neither of them can walk back. Based on the play The Boy in the Last Row by Juan Mayorga, directed by Kim Kyu-tae.