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 ...
A woman is deserted by her boyfriend when he learns her father is a rickshaw driver. Having nowhere to go, she turns to prostitution. Luckily, her boyfriend soon feels guilty about the way ...
An uneducated orphan girl lives in an old train car. She earns money by seducing men and then blackmailing them for money, threatening to reveal their infidelity to their wives, unitl one ...
When King Heon-kong falls ill, a power struggle erupts over who will inherit the throne. Tired of all the infighting, the ministers arrange for a branch of the king's family, which had lost...
Seon-hie is forced to choose between her wealthy biological parents who gave her up at birth but now want her to live with them, or her crippled poverty-stricken foster parents who can offer her nothing but a future of hardships
Admist a rebellion during the Ching Dynasty in ancient China, a nurse flees the palace with a young prince. As an adult, he convinces the daughter of the usurper to betray her father and to assist in restoring him as the rightful monarch.
During the evacuation of Seoul, a family is separated. The son and daughter meet again after decades, but are unaware that they are siblings and become romantically involved
A doctor loses his wife in a traffic accident. Shortly after, he rescues a woman from a similar fate. She resembles his dead wife and they fall in love. However, the doctor finds that he ...
A battle rages between a modern young bride and her old-fashioned mother-in-law.
The youngest daughter of a brutal king is sent into exile after openly criticizing the cruel treatment heaped on the peasants.
A woman finds that she is having a very difficult time with her father-in-law who stronly disapproves of her past as a kisaeng. After her husbnd's untimely death, she is thrown out of the ...
Upon their father's death, a set of twin princes argue over the throne. One has his brother clamped in an iron mask and forces him to be locked in the dungeon.
A man abandons his daughter because of poverty, but seeks her out again 20 years later when he has made his fortune. Now rich, his daughter becomes the target of kidnappers.
Hyeon In-ho, a ship's captain on leave, becomes acquainted with Kwang-su, a small boy whom he meets at the playground. In-ho is delighted to learn that Kwang-su's mother is a pretty young widow
When two wives realize that their wealthy and otherwise upstanding husbands have mistresses, they invite the 'other women' to stay in their houses for awhile. Realizing that they are ...
A mother regrets having forced her son to marry the woman she chose because of the bride's sour dispostion. She encourages her son to meet his former girlfriend and cheat on his wife
A man fathered a child with a Japanese woman while Korea was under Japanese control. When Korea becomes liberated in 1945, the lovers were forced to seperate and the man was unable to meet ...
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.
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
Yeong-yi makes her way south at the outbreak of the Korean War. She joins up with a doomed group of refugees who have the same idea. However, they soon find themselves caught in the ...