The story is set in the 1970s during the period of military dictatorship. Schools were freequently closed down nd society seemed to face bleak prospects on all fronts. Nonetheless, Byung ...
Yong-nyeo sacrifices her life for love, but is reincarnated as a snake with supernatural powers. She takes the form of a woman and seduces the man who spurned her. Her victim finds himself ...
A Korean man living in Japan attempts to overcome discrimination and enter the Japanese National Baseball League.
In Japanese occupied Korea, a morally conflicted Japanese officer is sent to the house of a Korean man who refuses to change his family name to a Japanese name.
Yu Jin drops out of college and returns to Korea from his studies in Japan. He brings with him a foreign sports car that his uncle had given him as a present. Mistakenly assumed to be rich ...
When his daughter comes to visit him, the chauffeur begs his boss, the president of a large firm, to exchange places for a few days.
A reporter finds himself torn between differing political beliefs after the Korean liberation from Japan.
Yu-hwa takes a stand against her forced wedding and runs away from the ceremony. She hides in a studio where she is mistaken for the expected model. She continues to hide there as her ...
A deaf woman boarding with an elderly laborer suffers many hardships upon the latter's death. The old man's son offers to care for her, but she feels she must leave in order to protect the young man's reputation.
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 ...
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.
Bae Tae-ok was a patriotic Korean who resisted Japanese occupation. After liberation, her husband brainwashes her into accepting the communist philosphy. During the Korean War, she was ...
Two young men with high ideals and unrealistic expectations of life quickly learn that they need to lower their standards.
A mute cleaner with six children enjoys a happy family life until money problems begin to put a strain on the family.
While on leave from the army as an award for his heroism, Sgt Jang organizes a special force made up of circus acrobats. Deploying them before sending in the marines, the acrobats destroy ...
A boarder comes to the guesthouse run by a widow, her mother-in-law, and young daughter. The widow and the guest become close through the efforts of the child, but when a housemaid becomes pregnant, suspicion falls on the lodger
Ji-hye, the daughter of an army captain, receives a treasure map from her father just hours before he is killed by communist guerillas in the mountains near their home. While the communists...
A woman breaks up with her fiance because of his chronic lying. She still loves him and waits for him, in the hope that he will change his ways. However, when she learns that he has made ...
A naive country girl accepts a position in Seoul unaware of how ill-prepared she is in the ways of the world and the free-thinking ways of the city.
Jin-suk escapes from North Korea and makes a new life for herself and her daughter in Seoul. Believing that she will never see her husband again, Jin-suk marries air-force pilot, Min-su, to...