The brilliant King Sejong secures the northern border after driving off the Yeojin tribes and invents the Korean writing system to improve the literacy rate of his people.
Jang-su and Su-myeong go to live in Seoul, but Jang-su loses his hand in a street fight. He returns to his hometown alone and helps take care Sun-nyeo who is expecting Su-myeong's baby. ...
10 well-educated ladies of the royal court are charged with the care of the young prince. When a visiting minister falls in love with one of these women, the others agree to help smuggle the lovers out of the palace.
A student protester is injured when police break up a demonstration. He is aided by a prostitute and falls in love with her despite their age difference. His employer know the situation but...
Salsal, a clerk in a jewelry store, loves to pass the time by reading detective stories and thrillers. One day his store is cheated out of some valuable jewelry. Disguising himself as a ...
A merchant visits a town isolated deep in the forest and brings with him changes in the form of new machines and gizmos. However, the new technology brings other changes as well as ...
Bok-nyeo gets married to a poor Joseon's aristrocart and lives a hard life to survive. She pays her family's living by catching caterpillars in a forest reserve. But she loses her job in ...
While defending her chastity, an opera singer accidently kills her attacker. Now she faces manslaughter charges but her boyfriend, a lawyer, faces a crisis as to whether or not he should defend her
Branded as a murderer and imprisoned for 20 years, a man loses what little he had. He receives information in prison from a man called St Wu-weol regarding the location of a hidden treasure...
The elder brother in a family is failing to fulfill his duties as the oldest son. His younger brother takes care of their parents and tries to convice his sibling to change his ways.
An employee in a large company is treated like family by his co-workers, so they are shocked when he betrays them all in a dramatic bid to gain control of the business.
King Sejo regrets dethroning and subsequently executing his predecessor, Kin Danjong. To ease his guilty conscience, he constructs a temple in honor of those he killed in his drive to secure his position.
A man in his 60's marries off his pre-teen son to a young girl because he wants to live to see his grandchildren but he is infuriated when the young couple continue to act like kids
Man-seok, a cow-seller, receives the girl Ok-sun in lieu of payment for a cow. He abuses her horribly and disfigures her face during one of his rages before losing her to a gambler.
A soldier-on-leave commits fraud to get enough money to buy his sick mother's medicine. However, when the man he cheated turns up murdered, he finds himself the prime suspect and is forced ...
After being betrayed by a subordiante, crimelord Yong-pyo can only escape with his life by going abroad to live, not to return to Korea until many years later. His old associates become ...
Yeong-geol and his sister escape from the clutches of the Hong Kong gangsters who killed their parents. Now they are operating a night club in Seoul, but a villain from their past has just ...
Dr Yun is forced into cultivating germs for biological weapons. At first he resists, but finally gives in when his daughter's life is endangered. His daughter decides that the only way to ...
An investigation of a motorcycle gang gets sidetracked as the police unit uncovers a case of child abuse and kidnapping.
In the reign of King Sejo, at only 18 years old, General Nami puts down the Lee Shi-ae rebellion. Later he successfully drives back the Yeojin tribes which secures the northern borders. ...