The princess and her husband are unable to publically show their affection for each other due to the strict rules governing their society. Their one attempt at breaking these rules results ...
The lives of a composer and his wife, who live on a chicken farm, are thrown into turmoil when a femme fatale joins their household.
Trapped in an unhappy marriage, Lim Jin-woo falls in love with naive Sun-ah. Knowing that Sun-ah has become pregnant, Jin-woo's wife steps in and drives the girl away. Leaving the city, ...
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 ...
One of the few surviving members of the royal family joins the army to fight Chinese invaders while his wife and child try to evade the Mandarin in Seoul.
A nurse discovers that a pair of infants had been accidently switched during their stay at the hospital but, because they have already checked out, she opts not to say anything to cover up ...
A wealthy, retired man worries about the futures of his five daughters. Meanwhile, the daughters are plotting to marry their father off to a kind widow.
Seok-min accidently strikes a young boy with his taxi. The boy dies on the way to the hospital and Seok-min attempts to cover up his crime. His wife, however, learns what happened and ...
An omnibus of stories centered on the lives and emotions of people who ride on the same bus daily.
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 ...
When a man tries to break off his adulterous affair, his mistress refuses to give him up so he makes up his mind to kill her. However, after he fails in his attempt, the woman convinces him that he should try to kill his wife instead
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.
A woman has a child out of wedlock which destroys all the hopes that her father had pinned on her. Lacking a source of income after being thrown out of her parents house, she becomes the ...
The widowed Mrs Lee lives with her father-in-law, daughter, and two married sons. Her father-in-law opposes his granddaughter's college education and refuses to assist with the tuition. Mrs...
Yeong-il finds himself on the verge on an arranged marriage despite the fact that he has a girlfriend whom he wishes to marry.
Eun-ah, a barmaid, has a child by a customer whom she has fallen in love with. However the customer's wife soon arrives and claims the right to raise Eun-ah's child as her own. Shortly after, Eun-ah learns that she is dying from TB
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
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 ...
The ladies of the court enjoy of life of luxury, but boredom and loneliness cause them to scheme against one another.
A psychologist becomes involved in an unprofessional relationship with a schizophrenic patient.