When Heo Du-su, a leader of the labor movement is killed, hard-drinking Seong Deok-ho resolves to bring the murderer to justice.
One father finds life nearly impossible to live as he attempts to raise his nine children on a pitifully small salary.
Taken in by an elderly woman and raised as her own, a boy spends all his days dreaming of the time when he can be reunited with his lost parents.
A cruel young miser mentally abuses his sick wife and forbids her to have any contact with her relatives and friends.
On the advice of his girlfriend, an ex-con becomes a boxer. He hopes to become a well-recognized champion and use his fame to locate his long-lost mother.
A lonely widow finds herself spurned by the community when a neighbor publicly accuses her of trying to steal her husband.
A college graduate returns to his rural hometown to educate the farmers on new agricultural techniques
An impoverished university student is inspired to open a bar specifically for other students as a way of earning some quick cash. He starts making money hand over fist but his lack morals ...
A deliveryman for a door-to-door laundry service is fired after his bicycle is stolen. This leads him on a citywide search for his bike.
Two childhood sweethearts who grew up together along the banks of the meandering Cheonggye River meet again after a twenty year seperation. The man, still carrying a torch for the woman, ...
Because he has gotten himself involved in too many things at the same time, a man asks his unemployed friend to take a job that he has been offered in his stead. That simple act of kindness changes the friend's life forever
Kyeong-rim falls in love with an older man who works in her office. They have what the man understands to be a one night stand, but Kyeong-hie is unable to accept his decision to not become involved with her.
The wife of a man suffering from a spinal disorder starts to look around at her options for a man who can satisfy her lonliness and frustration.
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.
A spurned woman hatches a plot to destroy the happiness of the man who rejected her.
Hyeon In-ho, a ship's captain on leave, becomes acquainted with Kwang-su, a small boy whom he meets at the playground. In-ho is delighted to learn that Kwang-su's mother is a pretty young widow
A man commits murder so he can afford to send his girlfriend overseas for an operation that will restore her sight.
A man marries a college student over the objections of his parents. She resists their demands that she give up her education while she tries to be as dutiful daughter-in-law as otherwise possible.
A kisaeng plots with other freedom fighters to destroy a train transporting high level Japanese officials.
The matriarch of an upper-class family assumes that money can solve all problems. She forces her two eldest daughters to marry into money against their wills. She encourages her third ...