Guk-hie is thrown out of her house and divorced after she confesses to her husband that she had an abortion before they were married.
The matriarch of a highly respected family orders one of her daughter-in-laws to kill herself unless she can produce a child within a year.
Forced to leave their home because of the construction of a new dam which will flood their village, the eldest son in the family prepares land and money to construct a new house in Seoul ...
Four friends struggle with life, philosophy and love during the Sino-Japanese War.
With a fragment of a map showing the location of a hidden treasure of gold, a motley group sets out to locate it. They will be rich, if they don't kill each other first
Two Korean college graduates arouse the suspicions of Japanese authorities after modernizing a rural community with a school and a youth hall.
Jum-sun is widowed after only three years of marriage. She now lives with her grandmother-in-law who has very strict, traditional views on how a widow should behave. Jum-sun finds that she ...
Mun-shik becomes a bitter young man, blaming the fact that his mother was expelled from the house on his father's second wife. The stepmother, Eun-ju, has tried to raise him as her own but ...
Kama village is overrun by the North Korean army during the Korean war and the villagers are forced to surrender. Man-bok, the village idiot, adopts the ways of his conquerors with glee, ...
Now living in South Korea, Choi cannot forget his wife and children that he was separated from in the north. Seeing that the separation of Korea appears permanent, he remarries and starts a...
An ungrateful son ignores the needs and love of his parents after he graduates from college. This causes hard feelings and his parents give up their house and take to a wandering existance.
Immediately following the Korean War, a group of idealistic college students cross the DMZ. Their dreams of reunification are quickly shattered when the men are immediately drafted into the...
Yun-hie suddenly finds that she must compete for her husband's affection. Her rival is a Vietnamese woman whom her husband met during the war.
A father pulls his son from junior high so the boy can help him in his deepsea fishing operations. Unhappy, the boy runs away to Seoul and becomes a boxer, eventually returning home a hero ...
A retired general, now running an electronics company, begins to wonder about what has become of the men who served under his command. He sets out a cross-country tour to find them.
Cows take over the world and place in a new world order.
Seong-jun comes to live in the southern part of Korea before the nation is divided. Out of loyalty to his northern home, he refuses to take sides in political discussions and people begin ...
A man from a shamanistic upbringing, tries to come to terms with the spirit of his mother who visits him in dreams.
A law student's boyfriend deserts her to marry her step-sister. Years later she must defend her sister who is on trial for murdering him.
Su-man and his friends visit upscale bars to collect money from the patrons to use in the war against Japan. The Japanese colonial police get wind of their activities and begin to hunt down the fundraisers one-by-one.