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 ...
Two college grads go to the country to modernize a small, rustic community. The woman establishes a school and the man organizes a youth hall. However, their activities arouse the ...
When the conflict between two rival labor unions turns violent, Hwang Geon kills a man of the opposing faction. Full of guilt, he decides to raise the son of the slain man.
After Queen Shin is dethroned, a power struggle erupts among King Jung-jong's concubines who hope to take the queen's place. Song Min-dol, a eunuch who despises the way the court treats him...
Su-joeng allows herself to be seduced by handsome Seong-wook while her husband is working overseas, but then finds herself in a difficult position when it is revealed that she is pregnant.
Already having 6 daughters, the king is disappointed when yet another girl is born to his wife. The child is removed from the palace, but a minister close to the king takes the child and raises her as his own
Seok-bong falls in love with Ok-nyeo but, do to a case of mistaken identity while her parents are drawing up the marriage contract, Ok-nyeo winds up marrying a different man named Seok-bong...
A man tries to raise his two sons and two daughters under some of the most adverse conditions known to man. The father operates a horse-drawn cart, but in a city that is modernizing after ...
Hyeon-ae spends six years raising her daughter alone while she waits for her husband to return from overseas. On the day he is to return, Hyeon-ae is raped at the airport. Filled with ...
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 ...
In a hospital waiting room, a group of men arrive and meet one another. Choe, is the upbeat fellow who always thinks of the nation and its people. Cheon was wounded in the war and has ...
A nobleman is so poor that his wife secretly finds work as a seemstress. When he discovers this fact, the nobleman leaves his home in shame to seek his fortune so he can better support his family
A millionaire's son survives his stepmother's attempted poisoning. She serves time in prison, but upon her release, she sets out to finish what she started
Lawyer Woo Yeong-ho divorces his wife to marry the much younger Kyeong-suk. However his daughter, who spends time at both of her parents houses, drives a wedge between Yeong-ho and ...
King Sejo regrets dethroning and subsequently executing his predecessor, Kin Danjong. To ease his guilty conscience, he constructs a temple in honor of those he killed in his drive to secure his position.
Admiral Jang Bogo clears the sea of pirates and establishes safe trade routes between China, Japan and the ancient Korean kingdom of Shilla. Eventually however, his ambitions lead him to ...
Shin Dong-seok is ordered into a Japanese POW camp in Malaysia to rescue the prisoners still being held despite the war's conclusion
The collapse of the Shiila Dynasty causes the region to fall into chaos due to the ambitions of the local nobles, now lording over their charges as kings. Shin Su-kyeong, a former retainer ...
Disguised as a leper, a man counters threats to his family and treasure.
Young-suk runs a mountain resort with her husband. One autumn she is seduced by a man nicknamed 'the Bear'. Her husband contracts pneumonia but Young-suk is so wrapped up in her love affair...