Mosaic portrait of people living in an impoverished neighborhood in Seoul.
A man from a shamanistic upbringing, tries to come to terms with the spirit of his mother who visits him in dreams.
Three brothers and their wives live together in the same house. However, one of them is actually a werefox capable of destroying them all.
Yun-hie suddenly finds that she must compete for her husband's affection. Her rival is a Vietnamese woman whom her husband met during the war.
Park Seung-hyeon is the object of scorn for his wife and daughter because he is unemployed, when he finally gets a job, it is as a laborer but his wife, a designer and artist, feels even more ashamed because of his low social position.
A father pulls his son from junior high so the boy can help him in his deepsea fishing operations. Unhappy, the boy runs away to Seoul and becomes a boxer, eventually returning home a hero ...
Su-man and his friends visit upscale bars to collect money from the patrons to use in the war against Japan. The Japanese colonial police get wind of their activities and begin to hunt down the fundraisers one-by-one.
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.
Ji-hyeon learns that his older sister is a prostitute when his wedding is suddenly called off by his fiance's father who had employed her services. His sister, Jeong-yeon, had found this ...
Mi-yeong informs her boyfriend that she is becoming a prostitute to help her poverty striken family. Although she tries not to, she ends up falling in love with wealthy Dae-seon and moves ...
A newlywed wife moves to her husband's village in a rural area called Sambatgol where it is customary to have glossy charades, incompetence is prolific, and thus poverty is endemic. She starts to endeavor to break down all these vices.
Two Korean college graduates arouse the suspicions of Japanese authorities after modernizing a rural community with a school and a youth hall.
A retired general, now running an electronics company, begins to wonder about what has become of the men who served under his command. He sets out a cross-country tour to find them.
Jum-sun is widowed after only three years of marriage. She now lives with her grandmother-in-law who has very strict, traditional views on how a widow should behave. Jum-sun finds that she ...
Seong-jun comes to live in the southern part of Korea before the nation is divided. Out of loyalty to his northern home, he refuses to take sides in political discussions and people begin ...
Popular singer, Hun, falls in love with Oh Su-mi. She is extremely jealous of other women and demands that Hun give up singing so she can have him for herself.
A man, searching for his mother and sister, takes up with a woman called Spider and becomes involved in a gang war
Mun-shik becomes a bitter young man, blaming the fact that his mother was expelled from the house on his father's second wife. The stepmother, Eun-ju, has tried to raise him as her own but ...
A family sells everything they own to ensure the eldest son finishes medical school while the younger son gets nothing and must find work in another country. The oldest son becomes ...
As soon as Hun becomes a success in the singing world, he forgets about the help and support he received from his best friend, Seok-bul and his lover Ji-ae. But he quickly learns that the popularity of a popstar is short and that true friendship is forever.