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 middle-aged widow falls in love, however her grown children take it upon themselves to remind her of the poor impression of her character this creates and to remember traditional values.
A blacksmith cherishes the hankerchief his ex-girlfriend dropped on her wedding day when she married a wealthy man. But her husband's wealth diminishes, the blacksmith buys up the ...
When the Ki Kingdom falls to the invading Wimen tribes, the second prince flees the realm to a nearby kingdom. There he falls in love with a princess and attempts to set up an independant city-state
Jeong-su and Cheol-ho desert from forced service in the Japanese military and hide in Manchuria, taking jobs in a gold mine. Cheol-ho is accused of stealing and makes his way to the safety ...
Han-shin and Ok-seo's marriage is strained when Han-shin's father refuses to bless it. Instead he kicks them out of the house. The couple live together for a while, but slowly drift apart. ...
A young woman runs away from her cruel stepmother to avoid an arranged marriage. She becomes involved with a doctor but faces a crisis when the daughter of the chief of staff at the hospital tries to steal him away
Fleeing from the advancing North Korean forces during the Korean War, a group of civilians take refuge in the deep forests of Mt Guwol. Overtaken, they remain in hiding and assign ...
A woman, deserted by her husband, gets a job in the city. Her mother takes care of her son in the country. She often sends the boy presents which his grandmother claim come from a fictitious fairy-godmother type character named Mrs Seoul.
A woman fails to meet her fiance to explain why she is forced to break off their engagement. Not learning what happened to her, he is struck by a car and is inflicted with amnesia which enables him to move past the pain of rejection.
Cheol-san and his ten friends oppose first Japanese colonialism and then, following WWII, they resist the communist take-over. However the US forces mistake their allegiance and they meet tragic ends at Namrodang.
An undercover narcotics agent tries to break up a drug ring and rescue a young woman from her addiction.
Jung-hie, blindly devoted to her husband, ignores all evidence of his cheating until she witnesses him with Mi-na. At first, full of contempt for the other woman, she decides to get to know her better and to try to understand the situation
Mild-mannered and modest Sook-young looks like your usual middle-aged woman, but happens to be a man-killing murderess. On a train trip to Mokpo, she remembers an earlier trip as a prisoner...
A ring is sent from the myeong Kingdom as a present for the queen. It does not fit so her husband secretly attempts to have it altered to the right size. In the process, he meets Lady Kwon ...
Jang Rok-su's parents are executed by the tyrant king Yeon-san. Taking a different name, she enters the palace as a concubine to exact a bloody revenge.
Cho-seon, tired of being bothered by the unwanted attentions of magistrate Kim Sa and annoyed with her lazy husband Kwan Ryang, goes back to work as a kisaeng. Little does she realize that ...
A farmhand falls in love with the daughter of his employer. When the employer dies, his daughter scorns him and goes to live with her drug-addict uncle while the farmhand goes on to become a wealthy man
Two lovers escape from North Korea but become seperated in the south. The man becomes a newspaper reporter and the woman, a pickpocket. When they meet again, she is unable to be truthful ...
A case of mistaken identity that occurs while a childs attempt to locate his biological father causes nearly irreparable damage to one man's marriage.