Based on the folktale of Shim Cheong, a young girl who lives with her blind father. To provide for her father, she sells herself for 300 bags of rice to a Chinese merchant but she regrets her action and attempts suicide by jumping into the sea. She is rescued by the sea king who falls in love with her and enables Shim Cheong to restore her father's vision.
During the war, 2 brothers are forced to work for the Japanese in the mines of Sakhalin. At the conclusion of the war however, they find that the Soviet Union, now in control of the area, has no intention of letting them go
An illegitimate child works on his father's apple orchard, all the while suffering abuses from his half-brother. When his father is killed in a storm, he decides that it is time to leave his misery behind.
Hyeon-woo finds himself a widower when his wife accidently kills herself with natural gas. A year later, he becomes acquainted with a young woman who wants to be a singer. He helps her, but...
A popular television announcer juggles several relationships at the same time in his active lifestyle. But when he is involved in a traffic accident, the women in his life find themselves confronting each other as rivals for his love.
Master Kim is an immigrant who runs a Tae-kwon-do gym where he teaches American kids martial arts. Disguised as a businessman, Alex is secretly trafficking drugs. Federal agent Harvard Pak ...
A man aids the North Korean army during the Korean War and then tries to flee to the north upon its conclusion.
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 man marries a college student over the objections of his parents. She resists their demands that she give up her education while she tries to be as dutiful daughter-in-law as otherwise possible.
Following the Japanese invasion and colonization of Korea, the Korean government, led by freedom fighter Kim Ku, relocates to Shanghai to continue fighting for their country.
A woman is forced into marriage by her family to a wealthy man who is already married. As the second wife, her life is very difficult and to make matters worse, her ex-lover is her husband's secretary
A woman afflicted with paralysis all her life gains the use of her limbs little-by-little as a result of romance.
A nobleman sends his daughter to the king as a concubine in order to gain personal power and favors from the monarch. Her lover follows her into the palace disguised as a eunuch. They ...
So-hie and Hye-ri have a fierce competition over the man of their dreams and eventually Ji-hun asks So-hie to marry him. Hye-ri is forced to enter into a marriage arranged by her family. ...
Gab-sun follows her boyfriend to Seoul, getting a job in the same company as he in order to convince him to fulfill his promise and marry her.
In 1884, conflicts arose between two factions in the king's court. One group wanted to maintain the trade treaties with China while the other wanted Korea to ally with Japan. As the ...
Because he has gotten himself involved in too many things at the same time, a man asks his unemployed friend to take a job that he has been offered in his stead. That simple act of kindness changes the friend's life forever
Two sisters flee in the face of the communist advance in January of 1951. The younger sister kills herself after being raped by a North Korean soldier. The elder sister is saved from the ...
A middle-aged widow falls in love, however her grown children take it upon themselves to remind her of the poor impression of her character this creates and to remember traditional values.
After receiving a proposal of marriage from a rich woman, a man sends his girlfriend and son to live in a convent.