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.
A popular businessman in middle management is framed by a jealous colleague so it looks as if he has been embezzling money. He is fired and experiences family problems as a result. However,...
A teacher commits manslaughter and flees the scene of the accident. He contacts a former student, hoping that her husband, a lawyer, will defend him. However, the lawyer begins to suspect ...
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
A girl becomes a prostitute in order to pay her mother's hospital bills.
Charged with political activism, a man and his girlfriend are imprisoned. The man convinces his girlfriend to sleep with the warden in order to win favor so they can escape. She does as he ...
The story of the Jeungsan-do religion. Born in 1870, Jeung-san was opposed to the annexation of Korea by Japan. He helped the people overcome their suffering by creating a cult which ...
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
Yi-suk, a teacher at a girl's middle school, refuses to worship in the traditional Japanese way. She goes to the national assembly to plead for her right to worship Christianity, but is ...
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
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
A woman with a crippling disease deceives her husband into thinking that she has died so that she will not become a burden to him. Seven years later, a journalist learns the truth an sets ...
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 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