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Hyun-jae, a 16-year-old escaping her abusive father, manipulates Hae-in, a woman searching for her missing daughter, into taking her in as a replacement. Over the summer, Hyun-jae bonds with Hae-in, finding peace through her love for singing, but becomes obsessed with becoming Hae-in's new daughter. When Hae-in learns her missing daughter may have been found, Hyun-jae, despite her fears, makes a selfless decision to accompany her, realizing she can't replace Yun-seul.
Jun 2026
High school hurdler Seo-yeon dreams of going pro, but when her father suffers a sudden stroke, she becomes his sole caregiver, confronting harsh realities that threaten her future.
Dec 2025
In a world where every eighteen-year-old must spend a year on Earth, some pilgrims never return. Leaving behind a utopia free of sorrow and pain, they choose an imperfect world—where suffering awaits, but so does a greater happiness.
The story of Jinhwa, an indie musician at a crossroads of life, agonizing between ideals and reality as he meets seven close people around him for seven days.
Apr 2026
With their father in a coma, nurse Seon-young urges her brother Il-hoe, who cannot afford his son's tuition and risks seeing him miss college, to stage a fake funeral. They forge a death certificate and deceive the hospital, but as pressure builds, their plan begins to unravel in unexpected ways.
One day, a beautiful but cursed Yeoksin — the god of plague — asks the monk-painter Dohwaseung to paint his likeness. Dohwaseung refuses and instead depicts him as a hideous demon. Enraged, Yeoksin lays a curse upon Dohwaseung on the spot. To lift the curse etched into his body, Dohwaseung wanders from place to place and eventually arrives at a remote temple. There a monk tells him the only way to break the curse is to confront Yeoksin himself. At the temple Dohwaseung meets Ran, a girl whose parents were taken by Yeoksin. Bound by their separate vows of revenge and redemption, the two set out together to find the god. Time passes. In a gambling hall in a passing town, Ran sweeps every pot — until a merchant slams down gold he claims came from Basila, the land of riches. Dohwaseung and Ran sense the aura of Yeoksin clinging to the coins. The room hums with rumor of Basila's holy maiden, said to be impossibly beautiful. Could the holy maiden of Basila be tied to Yeoksin?
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