A demon transforms a poisonous white snake into a sensuous woman. She seduces Seong-do, a Buddhist monk, and bears his child. However, she betrays the demon and refuses to kill her family ...
After Queen Shin is dethroned, a power struggle erupts among King Jung-jong's concubines who hope to take the queen's place. Song Min-dol, a eunuch who despises the way the court treats him...
Four short stories examing the lives of women in the last 18th and 19th century Story 1: 'Wives Should Be Submissive'--A father tries to marry his daughter into a wealthy family. Story 2: '...
The son of a mute couple succeeds in getting a good job, but is dismayed when he learns that he may have gotten the job, not based on his business skill, but on his ability to speak sign ...
Prince Yeongsangon lusts after Ya-hwa wo rebuffs his advances. As a result, Ya-hwa's husband, Pil-woo, is branded a traitor and executed. Ya-hwa commits suicide by slitting her own throat. ...
Jin-ho marries Sakiko, the daughter of a Japanese colonel. When his father-in-law learns that Jin-ho is Korean, he sends the young man to serve in the army in Manchuria where he hopes the ...
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.
When King Myeong-jong dies, his son takes the throne and the old king's concubines are expelled. One of the concubines becomes pregnant. Believing that only she knows the true father, she ...
Major Jo Jin-hyang is assigned to training the air force cadets for dangerous bombing runs to Pyeongyang. His sister, a communication officer, falls in love with one of the cadets despite Jin-hyang's warnings that her lover may not survive even his first mission
A man meets his wife every night--but only at night. Unknown to him, she was killed long before they were ever married. A servant discovers her secret and tries to arrange an exorcism before tragedy can strike
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 ...
A woman reaches from beyond the grave to claim the man she loves.
Lt Kang leads an attack on a village that has been occupied by the North Korean soldiers during the beginning of the Korean War. Kim Hong-kil, a teenager, at first fiercely resists Kang but...
Chun-ho lives a hard life under the strict rules and watchful eye of her mother-in-law. The older woman's temper is so great that it eventually causes Chun-ho's daughter to run away. ...
Mi-suk, Jin-suk and Seon-suk live happily with their widowed mother. They are perfomers waiting for their act to be discovered. However, they decide to take time out from their busy ...
When Chun-hie returns from a trip with Mr Min, she finds Jeong-hie, Min's daughter, waiting for her. Jeong-hie threatens Chun-hie whom she views as a gold-digger and forces her to break off...
Kang-hie recalls from her cell how she was used by Japanese detectives to track down and destroy the Korean Indpendence fighters. She manages to escape from prison during a break and ...
Japan conquers China just before WW2 starts. Chinese women are captured and placed in concentration camps, where they are tortured and humiliated. Some try to escape incurring enormous risks, and death if they fail.
Two North Korean terrorists posing as Japanese tourists under the names of Shin Icho and Ma Yumi, blow up a Korean Airline flight enroute to Baghdad. When investigators catch up with the ...
Former Minister of National Security, Park Jin-wook, is kidnapped from the US by South Korean agents because he was about to reveal secrets concerning the rise of the military dictatorship of the 1980's.