About Buried Hearts
Buried Hearts (Korean title Mojang Doen Maeum) is a 2025 South Korean revenge thriller that aired on SBS and streamed internationally on Disney+. The story follows Seo Dong-ju, a trusted aide who works deep inside the orbit of a powerful family and the wider web of chaebol money and political influence that surrounds them. When a betrayal and a near-fatal incident leave him cast aside and presumed finished, he survives, regroups, and sets out to dismantle the corrupt network that wronged him from the inside.
Across sixteen episodes the series builds a slick, layered game of money and power. Dong-ju trades on the access and knowledge he gained as an insider, turning the family's own secrets, debts, and rivalries against it. Standing opposite him is a ruthless power broker who treats people as assets and is unaccustomed to losing, and the two are drawn into an escalating contest of strategy, leverage, and nerve played out in boardrooms and back rooms rather than on the street.
Marketed as a twisty money-and-power thriller, Buried Hearts leans on shifting alliances, hidden motives, and reversals of fortune as its central engine. The drama frames its revenge story around control of capital, reputation, and political cover, and keeps its violence largely off the page in favor of psychological pressure and tactical maneuvering. (Flag for fact-check: confirm exact production credits, broadcast and streaming dates, and plot specifics against primary sources, as this is a recent release.)