The ambitious wife of a lawyer is unsatisfied with her husband's small practice which aids a rural community
When King Cheol-jang dies, the throne passes to his son King Ko-jang but, because he is considered to be too inexperienced, his ambitious uncle rules as regent. The rightful king's wife, ...
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 lighthouse keeper and his daughter rescue a group of six people from certain death in the sea but, upon learning that they are North Korean spies, they try to report them to the ...
While trying to escape from North Korea during the division of the Korean Peninsula, a woman is captured by northern soldiers and seperated from her family. They train her as a spy using ...
A young woman is forced to give up her lover and forced to marry into a wealthy family. However her parents, who arranged the match, did not realize that her new husband had already ...
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.
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
With his father's blessing, a wealthy young man decides he wants to experience life starting at the bottom rung of society.
A wealthy man pretends to have been raised as a penniless orphan to gain life experience and find someone to love him for who he is rather than what he has.
A barber is injured during the Korean War. He is ashamed to tell his wife the nature of his injury which has left him impotent. His wife, in turn, thinks that he is trying to drive her away...
Ji-suk is so bothered by two rivals for her love that she packs up and moves to another city. The men follow her. The three of them get into a fight which leaves one of them dead and the other two in the hospital.
Eun-yeong is unable to bear children so she pays a girl from an orphanage to act as surrogate. At first, her husband is opposed to this plan, but is eventually forced to go along with it because his father wants a grandchild
Eun-yeong waits four years for her husband to finish his study in the USA. When he returns, she finds that he has married again. Apparently he had misunderstood a letter Eun-yeong had sent ...
Trapped in an unhappy marriage, Lim Jin-woo falls in love with naive Sun-ah. Knowing that Sun-ah has become pregnant, Jin-woo's wife steps in and drives the girl away. Leaving the city, ...
Although they are products of a new generation, Chan-ho and Sun-nyeo are forced to seperate by their parents and their marriages are arranged for them. Sun-nyeo's inlaws begin to mistreat ...
A newlywed wife moves to her husband's village in a rural area called Sambatgol where it is customary to have glossy charades, incompetence is prolific, and thus poverty is endemic. She starts to endeavor to break down all these vices.
Yeong and Hyeob are young underground musicians and very much in love until the day wehn Yeong witnesses Hyeob kissing a wealthy fan. She leaves him effectively breaking up their singing ...
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 ...