Based on a true story. When the heir to the throne is starved to death in a locked rice chest, his wife flees with her son to raise him in safety.
A woman has a child out of wedlock which destroys all the hopes that her father had pinned on her. Lacking a source of income after being thrown out of her parents house, she becomes the ...
At the end of the Choseon Dynasty, many cults appeared. One such cult in the Gyeryong Mountains told its believers that they must endure the suffering of this world to find happiness in the...
A young widow ignores her social position and produces a son by one of the farm hands. Both the farmhand and the baby are expelled from the house by her family who then re-educate her over ...
Three brothers seek to put an end to the pro-North Korean activities if the Japanese based group Jochongryeon which they blame for the deaths of their parents
Before killing herself, a woman sends a letter to her former next-door neighbor explaining how she had secretly been in love with him. He, however, has no idea who she was.
To broaden the mind of his studious son, Dong-wook, and to make a man out of him, a father hires a prostitute to sleep with the young man. But Dong-wook falls in love, shocking his father and bringing shame to his family name
Byeol Agi's plans to take revenge on the killer of her father hit a snag when she learns that the killer is the father of her boyfriend.
With his father's blessing, a wealthy young man decides he wants to experience life starting at the bottom rung of society.
Based on the life of Korean folk-hero, Hong Kil-dong. Born of a concubine and an outcast of society, Hong Kil-dong rages against the corruption and hypocrapsy he sees around him. He becomes...
Two landowners battle for the right to control the marketplace. Their sqabbling and fights harm the merchants and peasants who just want to conduct their businesses until a master of the sword appears to drive the two away.
An old man compares the children of yesterday who were devoted their elderly parents with his own children who rarely, if ever, visit him.
A college graduate returns to his rural hometown to educate the farmers on new agricultural techniques
A young Japanese girl is found alone in Korea following the end of WWII. She is taken in by a couple who help her locate her biological parents. The girl, however, decides that she wants to stay in Korea
Korean-born Bae Jeong-ja was raised as the adopted daughter of Ito Hirobumi and worked with him for the annexation of Korea by Japan. However her national pride and patriotism are restored through her love for Park Beom-jin
Two taekwondo schools are in the midst of a fierce rivalry over which one has the right to call itself the most authentic.
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
Mr Park has eight daughters, each married to a man from a different province in Korea. When it comes time for Park to draw up the will, his sons-in-law compete for the lion's share of his money
A college student is arrested and begins to study music in jail resulting in lifelong changes for the better.
Thrown into chaos by the changes in culture in modern Korea, one family that can trace its lineage back 300 years and that is steeped in tradition, faces the end of its line.