A sixty-something woman, faced with the discovery of a heinous family crime and in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, finds strength and purpose when she enrolls in a poetry class.
Kim Tae-won remains loyal to Queen Min after the ursper Jang Hie-bin takes the throne. Queen Hie-bin's chief magistrate tyrranizes those who remain sympathetic to the old queen and attempts...
The administrator of Kanghwa province makes a secret alliance with the monk Yu Kwang-pil to betray the nation with the aid of the hostile Cheong Kingdom. The king's court learns of the ...
On her way home, kisaeng Kang Myeong-hwa is nearly raped by some soldiers. She is rescued, however, by a reich student, Jang Byeong-cheon. They begin an affair, but the difference between their social status is too great for her to bear.
Bong-seo stays at an inn run by ambitious Ji Tae-bu. He pretends to be courting the innkeepers daughter, but all the while he is planning a way to cheat Ji out of everything she owns
At the end of WWII, Hanako, a Japanese woman, becomes separated from her daughter while going from Manchuria to Japan. She adopts a boy that she finds wandering on the streets of Seoul. ...
A man is sent to a mental institution after his girlfriend is raped.
A group of young men join the resistance movement to help free Kore from Japanese rule prior to World War II while their lovers struggle to keep their daily lives intact.
A mother accidently kills her son while trying to prevent him from dating a woman whom, unknown to him, is his sister.
Bok-nyeo gets married to a poor Joseon's aristrocart and lives a hard life to survive. She pays her family's living by catching caterpillars in a forest reserve. But she loses her job in ...
A nobleman sends his daughter to the king as a concubine in order to gain personal power and favors from the monarch. Her lover follows her into the palace disguised as a eunuch. They ...
The king orders Park Hae-cheon to travel across Korea and gather the most talented and beautiful kisaengs to prepare for an important state banquet.
Yeong-il finds himself on the verge on an arranged marriage despite the fact that he has a girlfriend whom he wishes to marry.
A woman carries on a love affair with a married man with tragic results.
Although she doesn't love the man she weds, Jeong-eun follows her parents wishes and tries to make the marriage work. However, she soon comes to learn that her husband has a quick temper ...
Cheon-ju wanders the countryside searching for Yong-geun, the man who slaughtered his wife and parents and left him without an arm
A woman dying of stomach cancer takes comfort from the man who has promised to stay by her side while he prays for a miracle
Kyeong-su, a child living in an orphanage, learns that his mother is alive and living in Japan. He tries to find a way to cross the see and winds up stowing away on a cargo ship.
A woman with a crippling disease deceives her husband into thinking that she has died so that she will not become a burden to him. Seven years later, a journalist learns the truth an sets ...
A doctor raises her three adopted daughter by giving them all the love she can. However, what she wants more than anything is to be allowed to see her real son who is being raised by the boy's father.