Won-byu, a Buddhist monk in the ancient kingdom of Shilla, attempts to spread his faith. He falls in love with Princess Yeon-suk and fathers a child who is destined to grow up to become one of the 10 great sages of Shilla.
A barber is injured during the Korean War. He is ashamed to tell his wife the nature of his injury which has left him impotent. His wife, in turn, thinks that he is trying to drive her away...
The stress and shame of learning that his son is living with a woman without being married sends a millionaire to the hospital with high blood pressure. The son's girlfriend begins to take care of him there and tries to win him over
Trapped in an unhappy marriage, Lim Jin-woo falls in love with naive Sun-ah. Knowing that Sun-ah has become pregnant, Jin-woo's wife steps in and drives the girl away. Leaving the city, ...
A man is sent to a mental institution after his girlfriend is raped.
A noblewoman falls in love with a lower class man in the nidst of a dangerous peasant uprising
A North Korean agent is promised to be reunited with his father if he kills a selected target in the South. Little does he suspect that the target is his father.
A jealous man spreads rumors about a woman who spurned him which results in her being expelled from her house, but her stepchildren believe she is innocent and fight to learn the truth.
An illegitimate son turns up at a happy home and throws it into chaos.
Jang-hwa dies due to the abuse and neglect of her stepmother but the girl returns as a ghost and convinces the local magistrate to seek justice in her name.
Ji-suk is so bothered by two rivals for her love that she packs up and moves to another city. The men follow her. The three of them get into a fight which leaves one of them dead and the other two in the hospital.
Kil-nyeo goes to Seoul to find work but it proves to be more difficult than she imagined and she is forced to earn money as a prostitute. Sang-hyeon also goes to Seoul but winds up among ...
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.
Knowing that his father prefers his younger brother to himself, crown prince Yang-nyeong pretends to become an alcoholic and womanizer to get himself thrown out of the palace and leave the ...
Eun-yeong is unable to bear children so she pays a girl from an orphanage to act as surrogate. At first, her husband is opposed to this plan, but is eventually forced to go along with it because his father wants a grandchild
Invited from Japan to work in a corporation making processed foods, an engineer finds himself torn between his boss' secretary and his boss' daughter
On her way home, kisaeng Kang Myeong-hwa is nearly raped by some soldiers. She is rescued, however, by a reich student, Jang Byeong-cheon. They begin an affair, but the difference between their social status is too great for her to bear.
An impoverished university student is inspired to open a bar specifically for other students as a way of earning some quick cash. He starts making money hand over fist but his lack morals ...
The lives of three childhood friends take very different routes. One becomes a gangster, one a policeman, and the last must choose which one to marry.
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 ...