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It’s 1999, and Haeseong City is already on edge — Y2K fears have people convinced civilization might collapse at midnight. Eun Chae-ni (Park Eun-bin) lives with her grandmother and has built a reputation in her neighborhood as someone who causes chaos wherever she goes. When a mysterious incident strikes, Chae-ni and her equally hapless neighbors Son Gyeong-un (Choi Dae-hoon) and Kang Ro-bin (Im Seong-jae) emerge from it with superpowers. Unstable, unpredictable, deeply inconvenient superpowers.

Lee Woon-jeong (Cha Eun-woo) arrives from Seoul as a by-the-book civil servant with impeccable principles and absolutely zero people skills. He becomes entangled with Chae-ni and her neighbor-heroes as a string of mysterious disappearances tears through the city — and as a shadowy organization called Wunderkinder, led by the cold and calculating Ha Won-do (Son Hyun-joo), begins to make its move. The director of Extraordinary Attorney Woo reunites with Park Eun-bin. All 8 episodes are now available to binge on Netflix.

Seo An-na (Yeri) was a national youth swimming champion — until an injury ended her career before it properly began. Paralyzed by fear of the future and unable to move an inch forward, she retreats to her mother’s hometown on the coast of Haenam, where no one knows her name or her failure. She decides, somewhat impulsively, to train as a haenyeo — a traditional female deep-sea diver — as a way of forcing herself to breathe again.

Yoon Deok-hyeon (Kang Sang-joon) has been stuck for longer than An-na ever has. A former special forces soldier swept into murder accusations he didn’t commit, he came to Haenam to disappear — and has been disappearing, quietly, ever since. Two people who can’t move forward, learning to dive into the sea. And into something neither of them was looking for. Based on the webtoon of the same name by Jang Deok-hyun.

Kang Dan-shim (Lim Ji-yeon) is the most feared woman in Joseon — a first-rank concubine who clawed her way to power using nothing but her sharp wit and sharper tongue. Her reputation as the court’s most ruthless villainess earns her a death sentence by poison. But when she opens her eyes, she’s no longer in Joseon. She’s in 2026, inhabiting the body of Shin Seo-ri — a nobody actress who can barely book a historical drama cameo.

Cha Se-gye (Heo Nam-jun) is the sole heir to one of Korea’s most powerful conglomerates — rich, ruthless, and utterly convinced the world should bend to his will. When this Joseon villainess, dressed like a shaman and speaking like she’s from another century, crashes into his carefully controlled life, Se-gye has no framework for what he’s dealing with. Neither does she. But Dan-shim has survived worse odds than this.

Kang Seong-jae (Park Ji-hoon) enlists in the military after his father’s death — carrying debt, no prospects, and a trainee record that should have secured him a decent posting. His family background brands him a “problem soldier” the moment he arrives at Gangrim Base. Then, inexplicably, a glowing holographic quest system appears before him: a game-like interface that wants him to become a legendary army cook. He’s not entirely sure he’s sane. He picks up the ladle anyway.

Yoon Dong-hyeon (Lee Hong-nae), the base’s notoriously terrible cook, is supposed to be mentoring him. Except he can’t cook and doesn’t care. First Sergeant Park Jae-yeong (Yoon Kyung-ho) runs a tight unit with zero tolerance for nonsense, while Captain Hwang Seok-ho (Lee Sang-yi) adds an entirely different kind of chaos. As Seong-jae completes each culinary quest and levels up his skills, he uncovers something darker beneath the base — a web of military corruption tied directly to his father’s death.

Jung Ho-myeong (Shin Ha-kyun) was South Korea’s most elite NIS black-ops agent — until the “Black Pearl” mission went catastrophically wrong ten years ago. He’s spent the decade since cooking delivery food at a Chinese restaurant on Yeongseon Island, married to a woman who has no idea who he really is. Bong Je-soon (Oh Jung-se) woke up on that same island with no memory whatsoever — no idea that he was once North Korea’s most feared human weapon, nicknamed Fire Dog. Kang Beom-ryong (Heo Sung-tae) gave up his position as the Volcano Gang’s number-two man for a convenience store and a quiet life.

Three men who were once absolute legends in their respective worlds, now neighbors on a remote island, pretending to be ordinary. When the threads connecting all three to the Black Pearl case start pulling — and pulling hard — their rusty professional instincts kick in whether they want them to or not. The timing is terrible. The chemistry is very much not.