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Gift

기프트
Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Drama

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01 / A closer look

The story, without the spoilers.

Gift is a sports fantasy drama about a disgraced baseball coach who gains a strange ability, and the worst high school team in the country. Jung Min-yong was once the romanticised pitching coach of the professional Manders, until false accusations of verbal abuse ended his career, and then an unexpected accident changed his life. When he wakes up, he can see people's talent and potential — a gift that turns baseball into a cheat sheet, where the answer is already known before the game begins. He becomes head coach of Deokcheon High School's baseball team, ranked last in the entire country and threatened with disbandment. Opposite him is Yoon Seo-jin, the team's passionate head, a PE teacher who believes in hard work, process and her players. Together, they must answer one question: does a game get won by talent, or by effort? For sports-drama fans, it is a warm underdog story about second chances, teamwork and the question of what winning really means.

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02 / The watch guide

Make room for the story.

12
Episodes
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Episode-by-episode summaries are not yet available. This guide keeps the story spoiler-light.

04 / A closer look

The Oxfea take.

Oxfea Preview Score: 8.2/10 — Highly recommended

Verdict in one line: Preview: talent versus effort, Kim Woo-bin as a coach, and an underdog team — the most crowd-pleasing sports setup of the year.

Oxfea Score: 8.2/10 (preview — judged on the premise, source material and cast only; no finished series to rate yet).

Why you will get hooked

  • A disgraced pro coach gains the ability to see talent — and takes over the worst team in Korea.
  • Talent versus effort: a coach with a cheat sheet vs a teacher who believes in the process.
  • Kim Woo-bin returns to TV, in a webtoon adaptation from the Our Blues director.

Story, in plain words

The question at its centre is a great one for a sports drama, and Kim Woo-bin is ideal casting for a proud coach forced to rethink everything he believed. The underdog team, the disbandment threat and the clash with Seo-jin give every episode a clear emotional engine.

Sports fantasies can lean too hard on the magic and forget the game. If Gift keeps the baseball honest and lets the players grow rather than just be rated, it could be a warm, rousing hit.

Gift: at a glance

  • Original title: 기프트
  • Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Drama
  • Network / platform: tvN
  • Episodes: 12
  • First released: 5 December 2026 (announced; CMS date field blank)

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Sources: TMDB and the broadcaster official pages. Facts checked November 2026.

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