Mrs Yun has been raising her daughter alone since she was divorced from her husband 17 years ago. They had broken up over her husbands one-night stand. When her ex-husband reappears in her ...
Eun-yeong waits four years for her husband to finish his study in the USA. When he returns, she finds that he has married again. Apparently he had misunderstood a letter Eun-yeong had sent ...
When King Myeong-jong dies, his son takes the throne and the old king's concubines are expelled. One of the concubines becomes pregnant. Believing that only she knows the true father, she ...
Jin and Min, experts at fighting, get involved with a gang of smugglers. Min recognizes the nature of their activities and makes a break from the group, eventually establishing an orphanage...
A nobleman sends his daughter to the king as a concubine in order to gain personal power and favors from the monarch. Her lover follows her into the palace disguised as a eunuch. They ...
Kachusa, a high official in the communist regime of North Korea, falls in love with a young man attending Kim Il-sung University. He, however, makes love to a co-ed in his department. ...
The king orders Park Hae-cheon to travel across Korea and gather the most talented and beautiful kisaengs to prepare for an important state banquet.
A couple marry but then become separated during the Korean War. Each remarries only to meet again years later.
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 ...
Based on the folktale of Shim Cheong, a young girl who lives with her blind father. To provide for her father, she sells herself for 300 bags of rice to a Chinese merchant but she regrets her action and attempts suicide by jumping into the sea. She is rescued by the sea king who falls in love with her and enables Shim Cheong to restore her father's vision.
Based on the life of Kim Won-shik who was a judge in ancient Korea. Travelling around the country, he tried cases involving human sacrifices, peasant uprisings, and revenge
Ho grows up with a keen sense of honor and justice. Looking at life around him under colonialism, he decides to right the wrongs he sees. Gathering a group of seven others like himself from...
A man accused of assaulting and murdering a prostitute is able to clear his name, however the facts of the trial become public knowledge and everyone now knows that he is impotent.
A man returns to a fog enshrouded village where he had recovered from a lung infection many years before. He meets an innocent young girl there and the two fall in love. Their happiness is ...
A woman leads a miserable life after her husband leaves her, taking the children with him.
A woman raised by her cruel aunt runs away from home. She gets a job in a bar run by her mother, although at first they do not realize their connection.
A lonely old potter saves the life of a young woman. She is grateful to him, but does not return the love he feels for her. However she feels obligated to marry him. In time, her former ...
Eun-ji was forced to give up her fiance and marry an cold, older man. Twenty years later, she meets her fiance again, but he as eloped with her daughter in order to torment Eun-ji whom he believes deserted him.
The Special Investigation Unit enlists the reluctant aid of Kim Su-san, the mistress of Lim Chang-shik who is the head of the illegal communist party is South Korea. First she is convinced ...
An omnibus of three stories all taking place in the Myeongdong district of Seoul.