A lawyer pleads for the life of his mother who is accused of killing the man blackmailing her husband.
Korean by birth, Bae Jeong-ja was adopted by a Japanese official and assisted in the annexation of Korea until she met freedom fighter Hong-jun who restored her sense of patriotism.
Two close friends arrive in Seoul from a small village to pursue their dreams, but the realities of life are too much for them to bear.
A young man working as a taxi driver with his best friend. The latter is involved in a hit-and-run and his friend must decide whether or not to turn him into the police
A man reviews the heartbreaks that he experienced in his lifetime including torture by the Japanese colonial police, the death of his son in the Korean War, his second son's emigration to ...
A man's ambition, drive and will to live gradually leave him as do the employees at his unproductive oil field.
The major shareholders of a large corporation on the verge of bankruptcy share joy, sorrow, romance, and tragedy.
A group of young women from the country arrive in Seoul to take jobs as drivers unaware just how difficult their jobs are and how dishonest men can be.
Out of disgust of the shabby treatment she received from men, a woman disguises herself as a man. Her plan is to behave like a perfect gentleman and set an example for other men.
A woman follows her ex-husband to France in the hope of reconciling. However, she learns her husband is involved with a French girlfriend and she herself encounters several men whom she finds attractive.
The family governess causes a scandal when she falls in love with her employer's eldest son.
After the Korean War, two boys are left to take care of themselves until the younger one, after a misunderstanding, sets the house on fire and runs away.
A woman refuses to give into her fiance's desire that she take a job as a secretary in his father's office. Instead she eventually decides to try to make a life for herself with fatal results.
A former professional baseball player becomes the coach of a highschool team. At first depressed with this turn of events, he becomes determined to lead his students to victory as he sees ...
A portion of a gang of organized criminals decides they want to abandon crime and live an honest life. However, their co-workers will not allow this without a fight.
A naive country girl accepts a position in Seoul unaware of how ill-prepared she is in the ways of the world and the free-thinking ways of the city.
When viewed in public, the Kim's seem to have the perfect marriage. In private, however, their married life is filled with turbulence, fighting, cheating, and accusations.
A psychiatrist and an artist develop a close friendship. Both women are raped one night and the trauma proves too much for the artist. she attempts suicide, but fails however that attempt ...
Mal-suk's father goes bankrupt and her family returns from overseas. She meets her ex-boyfriend again and finds that he has married, but his wife is dying and he is still interested in his old love.
A boy runs away from an orphanage to begin a search for his birth mother with the help of an elderly man.