Ji-hun takes a break from his art studies in Paris to return to Korea and visit with his family. While there, he falls in love with a young widow. However, their future happiness seems doomed as she is already engaged to be remarried
Seon-deok is forced by her stepmother to sleep with a wealthy patron of their humble tavern. Consequently, she is thrown out of the house for shaming the family. Having nowhere else to go, ...
A jealous man spreads rumors about a woman who spurned him which results in her being expelled from her house, but her stepchildren believe she is innocent and fight to learn the truth.
An earnest young man succeeds at business through honesty, loyalty, and hardwork despite being criticized and alienated by his co-workers.
In-su's discovers a young woman who has grown up without human contact deep in the mountains. Once bought back to civilization, the girl makes quick progress with language and adapting to ...
When Su-mi receives a one-way ticket out of town from her boyfriend, Kyeong-min, she is crushed. She attempts suicide, but is rescued by Dong-won. Dong-won thinks he can help her by ...
A peasant exchanges 200 bags of rice to purchase the title of a nobleman. However, he finds that life as a noble is more difficult than life as a farmer
Jin and Min, experts at fighting, get involved with a gang of smugglers. Min recognizes the nature of their activities and makes a break from the group, eventually establishing an orphanage...
When Heo Sang-won fails to force Jeong-nam's mother into marriage as a way of securing her land, he punishes the family by confiscating their calf to balance their debt to him. The young ...
When a squall kills most of the men of a fishing village, the women turn to a young manservant who finds that he can have his choice of wives.
King Yeon-san meets a simple peasant girl named Dal-nim while he was on a hunting trip. Struck by her beauty, he orders her to the palace as a concubine
Chong-a convices her boyfriend, Min, to quit wokring for a drug dealer. Min follows her advice and turns himself into the police. While serving time, Min writes his memoirs which become a ...
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.
A married man carries on a secret, incestuous relationship with his half-sister.
The composer of the resistance song "Gagopa" is forced into military service by the occupying government. There he is ill-treated by the Japanese soldiers as punishment until he finally sees a chance to escape
Surgeon Dong=jin is ordered by a criminal, under threat of death, to remove a diamond from the corpse of a woman. Unable to forget his harrowing experience, Dong-jin resigns from his position in the hospital to track down the killer.
During the reign of King In-ko, two princes clash over who will inherit the throne. Their discourse spreads to the ministers and nobles who hire mercenaries to kill off their rivals
King Taejong disinherits his son, crown prince Yang-nyeong, for falling in love with a peasant. His brother succeeds to the throne. Taking the name King Sejong, he reverses their father's ...
The ladies of the court enjoy of life of luxury, but boredom and loneliness cause them to scheme against one another.
Dong-ju meets his future in-laws for the first time at his engagement party where he is horrified to learn that his fiance's sister is Eun-ju, his ex-girlfriend. What's worse, she arrives ...