A newly discovered 36-foot gorilla escapes from a freighter off the coast of Korea. At the same time an American actress is filming a movie in the country. Chaos ensues as the ape kidnaps her and rampages through Seoul.
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 ring is sent from the myeong Kingdom as a present for the queen. It does not fit so her husband secretly attempts to have it altered to the right size. In the process, he meets Lady Kwon ...
A teacher commits manslaughter and flees the scene of the accident. He contacts a former student, hoping that her husband, a lawyer, will defend him. However, the lawyer begins to suspect ...
Beijing Kang was formerly a member of the Japanese secret police but, after the withdrawal of troops from mainland Asia at the end of WWII, he became a gangster. Kang kidnaps the daughter ...
Following traditions where a nobleman can take a second wife into his house if his wife cannot bear a son, a man marries again. The new wife gives him both a son and a daughter but she is ...
A young boxer is approached by a crime ring hoping to recruit him as an enforcer. When he refuses, they beat and blind him. The athlete sets out to seek revenge against those who hurt him
Wol, a hairdresser, agrees to marry her co-worker Man-bok. When she meets her friend Hyeob, he tells Wol that he has had a crush on her since childhood. They spend the entire day together ...
A man's affair during a weekend business conference returns to haunt him and his wife when the woman follows him home, demanding money and claiming that she is pregnant.
A woman living in poverty gives up her children to foster parents and attempts to break her pan-handling husband of his opium addiction.
A doctor's wife gives birth to a baby that resembles a cat-complete with small fangs. Horrified, he exchanges the child with another at the hospital and tries to forget the disfigured baby....
A man is fired from his job for moonlighting. He needed the extra money to buy his wife a pacemaker, but his company will accept no excuses until it is too late
A reporter rushes to Panmunjeom immediately following the massacre to report the brutality of the incident. He follows the South Korean and US militaries' response while offering his hope ...
A newspaper reporter explains events leading up to the infamous massacre at Panmunjeom.
An old man compares the children of yesterday who were devoted their elderly parents with his own children who rarely, if ever, visit him.
As a child, Hae-su lacked a father's affection and as an adult she craves the attention of older men. She falls in love with someone more than twice her age but, realizing the futility of ...
An elderly man's son, dissatisfied at living with his father's senility, forces his wife to abandon his father in the park. Another couple take pity on him and invite him to their home, but...