General Kwak, despite having retired from military service, organizes a small army to resist the onslaught of an invasion from Japan in the early Chosun Dynasty
A man and his family struggle with poverty. His wife, unable to bear such a life, deserts her husband and their three children. The man next loses his house as he cannot afford the rent. ...
Because he was away studying in a temple, Do-won is unaware that his sister, Dal-rae, and their father have been murdered by their father's concubine, Seo Mo. While Seo Mo plots to kill Do-won, the ghost of Dal-rae tries to protect him
A retired soldier opens a Chinese restaurant and competes agains a neighboring establishment for customers however neither place is exactly what it seems to be.
Yong-ho, a Korean boy raised in Japan, is a member of a pro-North Korea organization but he goes to South Korea to learn about his family. He is given his father's diary and discovers that ...
A retired general finds it difficult to hold down a job in civilian life.
When King Heon-kong falls ill, a power struggle erupts over who will inherit the throne. Tired of all the infighting, the ministers arrange for a branch of the king's family, which had lost...
A naive girl from the country marries into a large, well-to-do family in Seoul. She experiences many trials as well as a lot of joy in her new life as she adapts to the city and her new inlaws
A melodramatic look at the lives of twelve residents of Mrs Nam-gung's Boarding House.
After liberation from Japanese rule, Oh Yun-geun learns of where Japanese soldiers hid a cache of gold bricks. He kills many of his former friends in his quest to possess the gold but finds...
Two poor fishermen compete for the attentions of the same woman even as the three of them struggle to eke out a meager existence in their tiny village.
Based on the traditional story of a girl who makes her blind father see by donating 300 bags of rice to Bongwon Temple.
An uneducated orphan girl lives in an old train car. She earns money by seducing men and then blackmailing them for money, threatening to reveal their infidelity to their wives, unitl one ...
As the power of the Kingdom of Goguryo grows, the Hwangryong Kingdom of China sends Princess Mo-ran to live in the palace as a concubine as part of a treaty. However, the princess has been ...
Mr Hwang, a wealthy but miserly man, loses the opportunities for himself and his daughters, to get married to their respective lovers because he does not want to waste money on a wedding banquet
A child's poem wins a competition and helps improve the life of herself and her brothers in a small mining town.
Twice widowed Pil-nyeo vows to become self-sufficient. To this end, she takes a job at a coal mine. There she is tricked by the supervisor and raped. Feeling that she has no one to turn to ...
One snowy night, Deok-dol finds a woman collapsed on his doorstep. He brings her into his house and cares for her, not realizing that she has a secret hidden in a nearby abandoned mill.
When his father's business fails, a young architect borrows money from his friends and gets his father a job aiding in the construction of a building he designed.
Ttosun, a young hard-working woman with a good heart, falls in love with A driver but her father disapproves of the match.