A woman finds that she is having a very difficult time with her father-in-law who stronly disapproves of her past as a kisaeng. After her husbnd's untimely death, she is thrown out of the ...
An old bank guard pretends that he is the bank manager in order to save face in front of his daughter's new inlaws. When his employers find out, however, he is fired
When King Heon-kong falls ill, a power struggle erupts over who will inherit the throne. Tired of all the infighting, the ministers arrange for a branch of the king's family, which had lost...
Admist a rebellion during the Ching Dynasty in ancient China, a nurse flees the palace with a young prince. As an adult, he convinces the daughter of the usurper to betray her father and to assist in restoring him as the rightful monarch.
A farmhand falls in love with the daughter of his employer. When the employer dies, his daughter scorns him and goes to live with her drug-addict uncle while the farmhand goes on to become a wealthy man
A woman is deserted by her boyfriend when he learns her father is a rickshaw driver. Having nowhere to go, she turns to prostitution. Luckily, her boyfriend soon feels guilty about the way ...
An independant student marries against the wishes of his parents with disastrous results
A platoon of South Korean soldiers find themselves cut off from their squad without communication. They are aided by an old man in a nearby village who did not evacuate his home.
A battle rages between a modern young bride and her old-fashioned mother-in-law.
A man's family violently opposes his plan to marry a poor girl. The girl's mother is so disappointed and humiliated that she dies. His parents arrange for him to marry a politician's ...
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 ...
Upon their father's death, a set of twin princes argue over the throne. One has his brother clamped in an iron mask and forces him to be locked in the dungeon.
A doctor loses his wife in a traffic accident. Shortly after, he rescues a woman from a similar fate. She resembles his dead wife and they fall in love. However, the doctor finds that he ...
Hyeon In-ho, a ship's captain on leave, becomes acquainted with Kwang-su, a small boy whom he meets at the playground. In-ho is delighted to learn that Kwang-su's mother is a pretty young widow
When two wives realize that their wealthy and otherwise upstanding husbands have mistresses, they invite the 'other women' to stay in their houses for awhile. Realizing that they are ...
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 ...
A mother regrets having forced her son to marry the woman she chose because of the bride's sour dispostion. She encourages her son to meet his former girlfriend and cheat on his wife
Yeong-yi makes her way south at the outbreak of the Korean War. She joins up with a doomed group of refugees who have the same idea. However, they soon find themselves caught in the ...
The elder brother in a family is failing to fulfill his duties as the oldest son. His younger brother takes care of their parents and tries to convice his sibling to change his ways.
The villagers of Dolmuji in Hwanghae Province suffer terribly under the cruelty of their oppressors in North Korea. Armed with crude farming implements, they rise up against the heavily ...