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.
Park Seung-hyeon is the object of scorn for his wife and daughter because he is unemployed, when he finally gets a job, it is as a laborer but his wife, a designer and artist, feels even more ashamed because of his low social position.
Seung-ho struggles to understand why his wife kept the fact that she had a daughter in Korea a secret from him all these years. Now the girl unexpectedly has shown up on their doorstep in ...
A North Korean agent falls in love with the South Korean Minister of Information. The agent begins to submit false reports to her superiors, paving the way for the UN forces landing safely ...
Before being drafted into war, a young, sensative botanist gives his collection of seeds to his mother. He fights bravely in the war while his mother tends to his plants. Finally he is sent...
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.
Three generations of women run a successful orchard together. When a handsome young sculpture wanders onto their property in the hopes of finding lodgings and set up a studio, the harmony of the household is destroyed.
A young widow ignores her social position and produces a son by one of the farm hands. Both the farmhand and the baby are expelled from the house by her family who then re-educate her over ...
When the leader of a clan of thieves dies, his daughter takes over. She is approached by the Korean Independence Army which requests her aid in disrupting the overland supply routes of the Japanese.
An omnibus of stories centered on the lives and emotions of people who ride on the same bus daily.
During the Korean War, pilots of the 10th Fighter Wing of the South Korean Air Force fly their majestic Saber jets in daily dangerous missions against Communist North Korean targets.
A once famous stage actress struggles to regain her footing in the aftermath of the Korean War which left her a widow and without a career. As her unhappiness grows, she finds herself ...
Min-gyu and his wife Sang-hie have been raising their friend's son as their own for years, never imagining that the friend would one day turn up on their doorstep to claim his child.
Hye-kyeong, now a financial success, returns from Germany to visit Shin-ho and his wife. She finds them in anguish over their son, Yeong-gyu, who was crippled in a recent fall. Hye-kyeong ...
An illegitimate son turns up at a happy home and throws it into chaos.
A woman becomes a South Korean agent in order to take revenge on North Koreans for the death of her husband during the Korean War.
In order to seek revenge on her parents enemies, a woman becomes a kisaeng, seduces and kills them after making love. She finds herself arrested and on trial, facing the death penalty
Unable to make a living at singing, a man is forced to take a job as a window washer to support his family. His wife, meanwhile, continues to contact recording companies and eventually ...
Mi-ji discovers that being married to a doctor is not all its cracked up to be because of the long work hours. Bored and feeling neglected, she begins an affair with a handsome stranger
A woman commits suicide after being raped while her sister unknowingly becomes romantically involved with the man responsible.