Child-hood friends are seperated for fifteen years without many connections. The time comes when the two finally meet again, but the once beautiful Kim Hye-Jin has become unattractive, and the unattractive Ji Sung-Joon grows up to be a very attractive man. Will Kim Hye-Jin be able to face him? Love and vanity are put to the test in 'She Was Pretty'.

Kang Mi-Rae longed for a normal lifestyle. She had a timorous personality due to her so-called ugly appearance. She decided to undergo plastic surgery after being bullied because of her looks. A freshman at the university, people are still mean to her and call her "Gangnam plastic monster". Her hardships never seem to end. Meanwhile, Do Kyung-Seok attends the same university who does not judge people by their appearance.

Hye Jung is an uncivilized 16-year-old girl who finds her life miserable and nothing worth living (her mom died when she was little), so she never tries in school and always acts impolitely and violently towards others. Her father leaves her for her grandmother to take care of her. Until she accidentally bumps into a man (Ji Hong) while she steals a CD, and later he moves in her grandmother's house and becomes her teacher at school, her life has completely changed. He discovers that she is intelligent and he tries to keep her back on track. Her grandma wants her to have a good career, and she now believes in her successful future, so she tries to achieve her dream of being a doctor.

5 college students, from different walks of life end up living together in a fictional house share called Belle Epoque

On the first day of attending his new high school, Park Sae Ro Yi punches his classmate Jang Geun Won, who was bullying another classmate. The bully is the son of CEO Jang Dae Hee. The bully's father runs restaurant business Jagga where Sae Ro Yi's own father works. CEO Jang Dae Hee demands to Sae Ro Yi that he apologizes to his son, but Sae Ro Yi refuses. Because of his refusal, he gets expelled from school and his father gets fired from his job. Soon, an accident takes place. Sae Ro Yi's father dies in a motorcycle accident caused by his ex-classmate Jang Geun Won. Burning with anger, Sae Ro Yi viciously beats Jang Geun Won. He is soon arrested and receives prison time for violent assault. Sae Ro Yi decides to destroy the Jagga company and take revenge upon CEO Jang Dae Hee and his son Jang Geun Won. Once Sae Ro Yi is released from prison, he opens a restaurant in Itaewon, Seoul. Jo Yi Seo, who is popular on social media, joins Sae Ro Yi's restaurant and works there as a manager.

Everyone knows that most hospitals are boring, but this isn't the case. This hospital is calming but exciting. Why is this hospital exciting, you may ask. Well, it's because of 5 doctors who make the boring hospital halls into colorful mall-like halls! They've been friends ever since they were in med school, but thanks to their occupations as doctors, they're closer than ever! The friends decide to create a band, but this is a bit of a problem because the lead singer has little experience when it comes to singing. When she sings, she sounds like a dying goat! But even with her terrible singing, her friends still love her and they think that the band will work out!

Inspired by a classic Joseon legend from Korea's first collection of unofficial historical tales, about a fisherman who captured and kidnapped a mermaid, this drama tells the love story between the son of a Joseon noble family named Kim Dam Ryung (Lee Min Ho) and a mermaid he named Se Hwa (Jun Ji Hyun). Sometime during August, 1598, newly appointed governor Kim Dam Ryung stays for a night at an inn run by Lord Yang (Sung Dong Il). During that evening, Lord Yang shows Dam Ryung a captured mermaid named Se Hwa. Later that night, Dam Ryung releases her into the ocean and, before she swims away, Se Hwa reaches out her hand to Dam Ryung which he briefly holds. In the present day, Heo Joon Jae is a smooth talking conman with magician like abilities. He works with Jo Nam Doo and Tae Oh. For their next score, Joon Jae impersonates a prosecutor and swindles a large amount of money from a wealthy suspect's mother. Joon Jae then escapes to Spain and stays at an oceanside resort. Meanwhile, Shim Chung is a mermaid who gets caught in a tidal wave and is washed ashore near the oceanside resort. There she meets Joon Jae.

A love story develops between Captain Yoo Shi Jin, from South Korean Special Forces and Doctor Kang Mo Yeon, who works as a Surgeon at Haesung Hospital in Seoul. They will find themselves in the middle of great events and deadly dangers, both in their Motherland and in the fictitious, war-torn country of Urk.

In the present day, Jang Bong Hwan is a chef who works for the country's top politicians at the Blue House. He has a free spirit, but his spirit somehow finds its way into the body of Queen Cheorin (Shin Hye-sun) in the Joseon period. King Cheoljong (Kim Jung-hyun), the reigning monarch, is a gentle and easy-going person. However, he is only king in name. Queen Sunwon (Bae Jong-ok), the late King Sunjo's wife, wields true power in the country and has relegated King Cheoljong to a figurehead. Her ambitious younger brother, Kim Jwa Geun (Kim Tae-woo), also desires power. Queen Cheorin soon discovers that King Cheoljong is not what he seems, and that he has a dark and suspicious side to him.

Kim Shin, a decorated military general from the Goryeo Dynasty, is framed as a traitor and killed by his master, the young King. Years after his death, he is cursed by the almighty to stay immortal forever and endure the pain of seeing his loved ones die as a punishment for the beastly killings he committed in the wars to protect his country. He becomes an immortal goblin, helping people with his powers and being a kind man in spite of his grieving past. The only way to put an end to his immortality is the Goblin's bride, who can see and remove the sword in his chest and end his painful life. Closer to the present day, Kim Shin has waited 900 years for a human bride to end his immortal life. One night, he saves a dying pregnant woman who is destined to die. The woman gives birth to a baby girl named Ji Eun Tak. 19 years later, Ji Eun Tak is a bubbly high school student who remains cheerful and hopeful despite her tragic life. She summons the goblin by chance and their fates begin to entwine. Kim Shin's nephew Yoo Deok Hwa leases Shin's house to a Grim Reaper and the two end up living under the same roof. Sunny is a charismatic young lady who runs a chicken shop in which Ji Eun Tak works as a part timer. As the lives of Kim Shin, Grim Reaper, Ji Eun Tak and Sunny interweave, a deeper story unfolds as they are not just strangers who met-by chance but people with deep-rooted relations.

Han Ji-Eun lives alone in the house that she inherits from her parents, who named it 'Full House.' She has two friends who end up selling the house behind her back to Lee Young-Jae, a famous actor. Through a series of incidents, the two make a contract to marry so that Ji-Eun can stay in the house that her parents built. Although not in love with each other when they marry, love develops between them slowly over time and through constant interruptions like Young-Jae's long-time love interest Gang Hye-Won and Yu Min-Hyeok, a man Han Ji-Eun likes.

This drama is about the Love story of two sisters and two men. The older sister has everything, including a beautiful appearance, and the younger sister only has a warm heart. One of the men lives on a rooftop apartment and the other man comes from a wealthy family.

Sometimes fate sends you down a different path. Kim Mi-young is crushing on a lawyer at the firm where she works, unfortunately everyone in her office call her post it, useful, but not really needed. Lee Gun is company CEO whose girlfriend is a professional ballerina. She always puts her career before their relationship. One weekend their world's crumble and they collide. Shortly after they try and put the pieces together again and find a new path they can travel together.

Overweight, kind-hearted Sa Geum-ran (Ha Jae-sook) married into a well-to-do family, but her husband Lee Kang-joon (Jung Gyu-woon) has spent the past seven years in the United States for his business, and she lives with his mother and sisters who treat her badly. Geum-ran learns that Kang-joon has been having an affair with sophisticated broadcast announcer Gyo Chae-yeon (Wang Ji-hye), and he asks for a divorce. When she sees her in-laws welcoming Chae-yeon with open arms, the distraught Geum-ran threatens her husband, who follows her and causes her to drive her car off a cliff. Everyone assumes that Geum-ran committed suicide and attends her funeral, not knowing that she's still alive. To get revenge against those who've wronged and betrayed her, Geum-ran begs Han Tae-hee (Joo Sang-wook), whom she thought was the plastic surgeon of extreme-makeover television show Change, to transform her, and he reluctantly agrees because of his own ulterior motives. After weight loss and surgery, Geum-ran emerges from the full-body makeover as a stunningly beautiful woman, and she begins calling herself the new name Sara (Han Ye-seul), albeit retaining her coarse ajumma personality. With Tae-hee as her life coach, they scheme to ruin Kang-joon and Chae-yeon's upcoming wedding in three weeks. But as Sara interacts with Kang-joon in their staged run-ins, old feelings resurface, and she decides that instead of destroying him, she wants her husband back. They adjust their plan accordingly, though Tae-hee soon finds himself falling for Sara.

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