A man seperated from his wife during the Korean War eventually remarries. However, when his first wife manages to locate him, he attempts to keep two households--an arrangement that makes no one happy
Hye-yeong had no idea that her lover, Shin-ho, was a married man until Shin-ho's wife and children arrive in town. She leaves him but reappears 8 years later asking him to take responsibilty for their child
Hyeon-ae spends six years raising her daughter alone while she waits for her husband to return from overseas. On the day he is to return, Hyeon-ae is raped at the airport. Filled with ...
When a woman contracts lung cancer and a long, costly death looms in the future, her mother-in-law schemes to drive the dying woman out of her family and back to her own parents.
Hye-yeong reclaims her son from the boy's father and moves back to Seoul where she starts a business with money that she believes came from her brother. It is, in fact, from Shin-ho--her ...
Twice widowed Pil-nyeo vows to become self-sufficient. To this end, she takes a job at a coal mine. There she is tricked by the supervisor and raped. Feeling that she has no one to turn to ...
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 ...
Knowing that she will bring nothing to her marriage to Gyu-hyeon, Myeong-hye breaks off their engagement, leaving the way free for wealthy Yu-mi to marry Myeong-hye's true love.
So-wan feels bored and lonely as the stay-at-home wife of a workaholic. When the opportunity for adventure and the attention she desires arrives in the form of a handsome younger man, ...
Seon-hyeok and his new bride, Su-jeong have a difficult time dealing with a middle-aged woman who makes outrageous claims of being Seon-hyeok's mother, always loitering outside their apartment.
Su-hie's father devoted himself to fighting for Korean independence, but is betrayed and killed by his friend. Su-hie is adopted by a British couple and raised overseas. She becomes an ...
Ji-suk plays hard-to-get with fellow college student Min-woo. However, when it appears that she will lose him to a rival, Ji-suk gives into his request and the two sleep together. Min-woo, ...
Min-su's family troubles begin when a boy shows up on his doorstep claiming to be his son.
Ji-suk marries Ji-hun and lives happily until her new husband is called away to Indonesia because of work. Shortly thereafter, Ji-suk receives news that Ji-hun is dead and she struggles to ...
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 ...
Guk-hie is thrown out of her house and divorced after she confesses to her husband that she had an abortion before they were married.
Mi-ra's final semester in college is thrown into turmoil when her father arranges for her to get married and a strange couple show up insisting that Mi-ra is their child.
Hyeon-ae goes to the airport to meet her husband who is returning from 6 years of overseas study. However, he is not on the expected flight. Instead, she meets a friend of her uncle's and the two begin a passionate relationship.
Patriotism swells in the hearts of various Koreans returning to the land of their ancestors after living or growing up in different parts of the world such as Seon-yeong who goes to Korea ...
Jeong-ae is a poor girl who lives with her aunt. Despite her financial status, she is self-confident and proud. She finds herself falling out of love with her childhood sweetheart and in ...