Min-ae, who sets up a home in a military camp town with Seong-ho, a young man from the neighborhood, thanks to his stepmother's help, has her dream of newlyweds shattered by Seong-ho's abandonment of work and a debauched lifestyle. After seeing her meeting with Jakbu, Min-ae goes to Seoul with her daughter Gyeong-ae, and although they have a hard time, she settles down. Then Seong-ho appeared and apologized for her mistakes and asked for funds for her business. She took out a loan to provide the money, but it was a lie. Now Min-ae becomes a hostess at a salon named Miss Kim. There she meets an architect named Hyun-seok. Min-ae, who found out that Seong-ho took Gyeong-ae away from her but is in her orphanage, brings her back to live with Hyun-seok, but Seong-ho appears and tries to take Gyeong-ae away, but Seong-ho, seeing her happy family, goes back alone.
With the introduction of Catholicism to Korea in 1784 came social upheaval. People who practiced the new religion were tortured into renouncing it or executed. However, these conditions do not deter Seung-hun and her brother from attempting to spread the religion.
Jang, a North Korean general, surrenders to Captain Lee of the South. Lee presses him for information which Jang agrees to supply on the condition that Lee helps him locate his wife who had defected to South Korea many years earlier. Coincidently, Jang's wife is now married to Captain Lee who must decide whether or not to re-unite them for the sake of his country.
A young boy mourns the death of his father, and begins a quest to find his mother. He encounters many people on the way who quote Buddhist precepts: an eccentric monk, a girl who grows up into a young woman, a prison inmate, a foul-mouthed doctor and the young son of a hard drinking astronomer. Each of them tell the boy to seek someone to help him find the truth and his mother.
Taking a year off from wokr to study for the bar exam, Cheong-chan finds his life interrupted by his sister and her turbulant marriage. He also finds himself falling in love with his childhood friend, Da-hye.
A 1990 Korean film about a woman who gets involved in a court case after retaliating against her attackers.
The matriarch of a highly respected family orders one of her daughter-in-laws to kill herself unless she can produce a child within a year.
In order to find his wife who had been toyed with by gigolos, one man is left with no other choice than to become a gigolo himself.
Na-young is a Korean-American college student. Staying with her uncle in Korea, Na-young is forced to learn Korean dances, Korean traditional songs, and sewing from her aunt. Unable to bear it any longer, Na-young leaves her uncle's home. In a music salon, she meets Hyung-rok and his band. Hyung-rok is a singer and a college student. Na-young learns of love and friendship from them. When the music salon is closed down, Hyung-rok and his band decide to enter the college song contest to reopen the salon. Despite old instruments and hunger, the band wins the contest with Na-young's help. Na-young learns of how precious her home country is through Hyung-rok and his band. She asks her uncle to build a fancy music salon. Leaving behind love and friendship, Na-young returns to America.
A young and beautiful woman born in the Korean countryside has to go through the many hardships arising from jealousy, lust and overbearing social control.
College boxer Jin-kyu falls in love with a college girl Min-hye while chatting on the phone. Min-hye gives him her virginity but her family forces her to get engaged to In-myung and get rid of the baby with Jin-kyu. Broken hearted, Jin-kyu fights as a professional boxer while seeing Yeon-hi who runs a salon. He loses the match on the verge of championship and suffers failure. Min-hye feels sympathy for him who struggles and embraces life.
Yeon-ha is charged with adultery by her husband, but as events of her unhappy and violent marriage are revealed, the court comes to sympathize with her.
Kang-soe and his wife Ong-nyeo settle down in a new village but tragedy strikes when Kang-soe dies while chopping wood. Ong-nyeo announces that she will marry any man who can successfully bury her husband. Many men try to accomplish the task, but die in the process. Ong-nyeo is in despair over not being able to complete the funeral preparations when her husband appears before her apparently alive again
Byeon Kang-soe proves to be too powerful and endowed for most women to bear so he begins a quest to locate Ong-nyeo, a woman whose sexual stamina matches his own
High school baseball star Chang Ho dropped out of baseball and applied to law school because of his father's strong opposition, but he failed twice and became frustrated. Captivated by frustration and anxiety, he considered suicide because he is paralyzed by a traumatic mental disorder.
Having been a college student for the past seven years, there are not many people who take Kim Su-hwan seriously. That, combined with personal issues of his sexual prowess, drives his girlfriend into the arms of a man who is more confident and unafraid of life.
When one of his charges at the orphange dies, Jang Cheong-chan decides to search for the boy's mother who had given him up due to finacial problems. His search leads him to help many women forced to work on the streets to earn enough money to live.
Two souls collide: a Korean American woman struggling with family expectations and her own aspirations, and an ex-wrestler haunted by his past. Their paths unexpectedly cross, leading to a transformative journey.
Kim, Du-han earns the wrath of the Yakuza boss, Konoe, when he saves the life of Korean freedom fighter Hwang Ryong. Konoe hopes to hire the assassin Shirasoni to kill his enemies but Shirsoni, opposing Japan's colonial stance in Korea, is driven into Kim Du-han's camp instead and they, together with Hwang Ryong, unite to drive the Yakuza from Seoul.
Shock nearly kills the overworked Shin-ja when she learns that her boyfriend, whom she supported through medical school, is engaged to an heiress.
Chang-gu fights and kills a leader of Seoul's organized crime and he takes the reigns of power as a result. Rival gangs from other regions in the country band together to oppose Chang-gu. Overwhelmed, Chang-gu seeks the assistance of the police.
A man nicknamed 'Magpie' kills his former best friend Geun-ho. As Geun-ho dies, he begs Magpie to care for his younger brother which the murderer agrees to do.
Jang-suk learns that his sister, Jang-mi, has met a horrible fate at the hands of an American soldier. He sets up the Jang-mi Foundation in order to better the lives of women living off foreign soldiers by teaching them job skills.
A young woman, suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, develops an obsession with two men.
Kyeong-il and his sister, Kyeong-a, run a store together, but Kyeong-il is hospitalized when competitors beat him up. In the hospital, he falls in love with a nurse. She is already engaged so the only way he can continue seeing her is to manufacture reasons to stay in the hospital.
Seung-pyo is blinded by his ambition--so much so that he neglects his wife and family. Meeting the director of his company, Seung-pyo realizes that he needs to win him over if he wants to succeed in that business. He arranges for his wife to spend as much private time as possible with the director in the hopes that this will win him favor from the boss.