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
A woman finds that she has no money to feed her son who is visiting during his leave from military service. She decides to cut off her hair and sell it in order to buy food
A woman with a crippling disease deceives her husband into thinking that she has died so that she will not become a burden to him. Seven years later, a journalist learns the truth an sets ...
Orphaned during the Korean War, a young woman lives with a man who desires nothing but her happiness. When her former boyfriend shows up, he also promises to make her happy and the woman is forced to choose between the two
A teacher commits manslaughter and flees the scene of the accident. He contacts a former student, hoping that her husband, a lawyer, will defend him. However, the lawyer begins to suspect ...
A girl becomes a prostitute in order to pay her mother's hospital bills.
A young woman becomes the stepmother of four grown children. One daughter is jealous of the young interloper while one of the sons falls in love with her, but with patience she sets about winning their respect
Using the excuse that she wants to help with the household finances, a housewife takes a job as a pianist. She actually has two other purposes. One is to spend time away from her cheating ...
Sang-wook borrows money from his strugling family so he can marry a kisaeng. His family helps him but are forced to take out a second mortage on their home. Sang-wook happily returns to Seoul, but along the way the money is stolen.
A sailor's girlfriend runs away with the local tough guy. However, her marriage is not happy and her husband abuses her. She disappears from her house one day, and both her husband and ex-lover search frantically for her.
Dal-rae sets out to locate her true love who had gone to Seoul to participate in the independance movement. Along the way, she assaults and adulterer who is dallying with her friend. By the...
A man prevents his younger half-brother from finding happiness with the woman he loves in part because of his own unhappy relationship
A composer loses his wife when he cannot afford to buy her medicine. He adapts himself to physical labor so his daughter will not suffer as well.
A popular businessman in middle management is framed by a jealous colleague so it looks as if he has been embezzling money. He is fired and experiences family problems as a result. However,...
A medical student, upon graduation, decides he want to be a country doctor but struggles with the lack of medical equipment and drugs in the rural areas
Charged with political activism, a man and his girlfriend are imprisoned. The man convinces his girlfriend to sleep with the warden in order to win favor so they can escape. She does as he ...
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 ...
Ae-bun feels pity for Seong-shin who is dying from a rare blood disease. She tries to make him enjoy his last days only to have her efforts rebuffed by his overly-protective father
A businessman falls in love with a single mother. He breaks up with his fiance and marries her. However, her former lover appears and begs to have his child returned to him
A young widow closes down her successful cafe because her mother-in-law suspects that she may be using it to meet a new husband