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
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.
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 ...
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
Based on the life of Son Ryang-won who spent six years in prison during the period of Japanese occupation. He was released at the end of the war. He, his wife and two children devoted their...
Choi Seok, the principal of a girl's high school, adopts Jeong-nim, a Japanese student there. However, they develop a disturbing relationship that scandalizes the local region. His family ...
A man and his family struggle with poverty. His wife, unable to bear such a life, deserts her husband and their three children. The man next loses his house as he cannot afford the rent. ...
Yun Bong-chun is despised by his stepmother and mistreated by his half-brother. Finally, he is thrown out of the house. He makes a plan to return home one final time, and kill his stepmother
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
At the end of WWII, Hanako, a Japanese woman, becomes separated from her daughter while going from Manchuria to Japan. She adopts a boy that she finds wandering on the streets of Seoul. ...
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.
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 ...
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.
A girl becomes a prostitute in order to pay her mother's hospital bills.
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 ...
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...
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 young widow closes down her successful cafe because her mother-in-law suspects that she may be using it to meet a new husband
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