A furnace repairman lives only for his children's happiness. But while his daughter is grateful and obedient, his son is constantly getting into trouble
A war widow attempts to follow traditions and continues to live alone after her husband dies. She relies on her husband's friend to help with some difficulties and the two begin to grow closer treatening the woman's values
A young teacher is placed in a highschool for underpriviledged students. Although she faces initial hostility, she devotes herself to becoming a true educator and mentor for her pupils.
A man tries to raise his two sons and two daughters under some of the most adverse conditions known to man. The father operates a horse-drawn cart, but in a city that is modernizing after ...
When his wife sees him helping his boss' lover, a low-level manager finds his marriage in shambles
An old man saves every penny he earns in the hopes of moving to Seoul and getting an operation. However, his adult children are unaware o fhis illness and insist that he starts helping them to live better lives
During the Korean War, a man takes a job as a war correspondant. His girlfriend hears nothing from him and is shocked when, years later, she learns that he is alive.
A naive girl from the country marries into a large, well-to-do family in Seoul. She experiences many trials as well as a lot of joy in her new life as she adapts to the city and her new inlaws
An illegitimate child works on his father's apple orchard, all the while suffering abuses from his half-brother. When his father is killed in a storm, he decides that it is time to leave his misery behind.
A man is punished by the gods for his unforgiving nature
The lives of a wealthy, childless couple are sharply contrasted against the lives of a couple who are poor because they are raising many children
When the Ki Kingdom falls to the invading Wimen tribes, the second prince flees the realm to a nearby kingdom. There he falls in love with a princess and attempts to set up an independant city-state
An independant student marries against the wishes of his parents with disastrous results
A woman is blackmailed by her former lover by whom she had borne a child prior to meeting her current husband
A man with ten daughters loses all his money on stock that his second child recommended and is forced to retire from his job.
At an ocean side village, many fishing boats never return from the high sea, and many of the women in the village assume they are widows when their husbands never return. One of them, Seongku, begins an affair with a coal worker.
A woman finds that she has no money to feed her son who is visiting during his leave from military service. She decides to cut off her hair and sell it in order to buy food
A battle rages between a modern young bride and her old-fashioned mother-in-law.
A man fathered a child with a Japanese woman while Korea was under Japanese control. When Korea becomes liberated in 1945, the lovers were forced to seperate and the man was unable to meet ...
An unemployed man is forced to live with his wife's parents while he struggles to find work. However, he cannot be happy in that house as his mother-in-law is extremely hostile toward him, regarding him as lazy and unmotivated