A doctor decides to raise the infant daughter of the insane man who killed his child, but the doctor's wife resents and mistreats the girl.
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 ...
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 ...
Myeong-ja has dreams of becoming a wealthy woman and she'll achieve them in any way that she can. She gets her opportunity when she meets Woo-shik. Myeong-ja seduces him, then goes to meet ...
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 ...
Jewel thief Cheol-woo evades the police by escaping to a remote island which he discovers to be populated entirely by widows.
Going to Seoul with dreams of opening her own beauty salon, but with no money to start out with, a young woman is befriended by an old madam who plans to make her a prostitute. Escaping ...
Jun-yeol and Cheon-deok attempt to regain the money taken from the Korean Independence Army by Ishara. They also need to rescue Ui-ryeong who has been kidnapped and faces a fate worse than death.
Based on the history of King Taejeong who, before he was king, killed his elder brother thus clearing the way to the throne. His father, King Taejo, was upset and concerned for his own ...
A young man attempts to prove that he has given up a life of crime but he finds that society is not so forgiving of an ex-convict.
A doctor and his son both fall in love with a blind, deaf mute who is one of the father's patients.
Yeong and Hyeob are young underground musicians and very much in love until the day wehn Yeong witnesses Hyeob kissing a wealthy fan. She leaves him effectively breaking up their singing ...
Seong-min, the eldest son of village chief Kang, becomes sick and a shaman is called. The shaman, while attempting a cure, finds that the cause of the illness is the vengeful spirit of her ...
The villagers of Dolmuji in Hwanghae Province suffer terribly under the cruelty of their oppressors in North Korea. Armed with crude farming implements, they rise up against the heavily ...
Infighting breaks out between factions of the Communist Party over whether to back the U.N. Trusteeship under which the Korean Peninsula is to be divided between U.S. and Soviet control. ...
Jin-ho marries Sakiko, the daughter of a Japanese colonel. When his father-in-law learns that Jin-ho is Korean, he sends the young man to serve in the army in Manchuria where he hopes the ...
The wife of a man suffering from a spinal disorder starts to look around at her options for a man who can satisfy her lonliness and frustration.
Dr Han rapes his lab assistant one night. Rather than go to the police, the victim keeps quiet only bringing up the subject months later to inform the doctor that she is pregnant. Her ...
Three underworld leaders search for lost gold in Hong Kong.
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 ...