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.
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 woman leads a miserable life after her husband leaves her, taking the children with him.
A man accused of assaulting and murdering a prostitute is able to clear his name, however the facts of the trial become public knowledge and everyone now knows that he is impotent.
Yong-cheol's plans to mary Ok-rim are destroyed by her parents who marry her off to Cheol-ju. Yong-cheol becomes powerful in the business world during the following years and he does his best to make life miserable for Cheol-ju and Ok-rim.
A mother accidently kills her son while trying to prevent him from dating a woman whom, unknown to him, is his sister.
Eun-ji was forced to give up her fiance and marry an cold, older man. Twenty years later, she meets her fiance again, but he as eloped with her daughter in order to torment Eun-ji whom he believes deserted him.
Kachusa, a high official in the communist regime of North Korea, falls in love with a young man attending Kim Il-sung University. He, however, makes love to a co-ed in his department. ...
A lonely old potter saves the life of a young woman. She is grateful to him, but does not return the love he feels for her. However she feels obligated to marry him. In time, her former ...
Jae-seon falls in love with Ki-seok unaware that he is her sister's ex.
Based on the folktale of Shim Cheong, a young girl who lives with her blind father. To provide for her father, she sells herself for 300 bags of rice to a Chinese merchant but she regrets her action and attempts suicide by jumping into the sea. She is rescued by the sea king who falls in love with her and enables Shim Cheong to restore her father's vision.
A couple marry but then become separated during the Korean War. Each remarries only to meet again years later.
A woman raised by her cruel aunt runs away from home. She gets a job in a bar run by her mother, although at first they do not realize their connection.
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 ...
The Special Investigation Unit enlists the reluctant aid of Kim Su-san, the mistress of Lim Chang-shik who is the head of the illegal communist party is South Korea. First she is convinced ...
Han-shik's mind is poisoned against women by the cynical people around him. He begins to suspect that his wife is cheating on him and he sets out to catch her in the act
An omnibus of three stories all taking place in the Myeongdong district of Seoul.
Eun-yeong waits four years for her husband to finish his study in the USA. When he returns, she finds that he has married again. Apparently he had misunderstood a letter Eun-yeong had sent ...
Gab-sun follows her boyfriend to Seoul, getting a job in the same company as he in order to convince him to fulfill his promise and marry her.
Two sisters flee in the face of the communist advance in January of 1951. The younger sister kills herself after being raped by a North Korean soldier. The elder sister is saved from the ...