Yun Bong-chun is despised by his stepmother and mistreated by his half-brother. Finally, he is thrown out of the house. He makes a plan to return home one final time, and kill his stepmother
A furnace repairman lives only for his children's happiness. But while his daughter is grateful and obedient, his son is constantly getting into trouble
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 ...
Mrs Oh finds herself driven to having an affair because of her husband's neglect. When her husband's business fails, he commits suicide. Despite being free to love again, the strict rules of society prevent her from meeting another man
Orphaned during the Korean War, a young woman lives with a man who desires nothing but her happiness. When her former boyfriend shows up, he also promises to make her happy and the woman is forced to choose between the two
A medical student, upon graduation, decides he want to be a country doctor but struggles with the lack of medical equipment and drugs in the rural areas
A young woman becomes the stepmother of four grown children. One daughter is jealous of the young interloper while one of the sons falls in love with her, but with patience she sets about winning their respect
A sailor's girlfriend runs away with the local tough guy. However, her marriage is not happy and her husband abuses her. She disappears from her house one day, and both her husband and ex-lover search frantically for her.
A man prevents his younger half-brother from finding happiness with the woman he loves in part because of his own unhappy relationship
A businessman falls in love with a single mother. He breaks up with his fiance and marries her. However, her former lover appears and begs to have his child returned to him
A millionaire's son survives his stepmother's attempted poisoning. She serves time in prison, but upon her release, she sets out to finish what she started
A young widow closes down her successful cafe because her mother-in-law suspects that she may be using it to meet a new husband
A composer loses his wife when he cannot afford to buy her medicine. He adapts himself to physical labor so his daughter will not suffer as well.
A woman finds that she has no money to feed her son who is visiting during his leave from military service. She decides to cut off her hair and sell it in order to buy food
A man and his family struggle with poverty. His wife, unable to bear such a life, deserts her husband and their three children. The man next loses his house as he cannot afford the rent. ...
On her way home, kisaeng Kang Myeong-hwa is nearly raped by some soldiers. She is rescued, however, by a reich student, Jang Byeong-cheon. They begin an affair, but the difference between their social status is too great for her to bear.
At the end of WWII, Hanako, a Japanese woman, becomes separated from her daughter while going from Manchuria to Japan. She adopts a boy that she finds wandering on the streets of Seoul. ...
A young man decides to develop his rural hometown by improving the lives of the farms and introducing new agricultural techniques
A group of young men join the resistance movement to help free Kore from Japanese rule prior to World War II while their lovers struggle to keep their daily lives intact.
The composer of the resistance song "Gagopa" is forced into military service by the occupying government. There he is ill-treated by the Japanese soldiers as punishment until he finally sees a chance to escape