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- Two orphaned friends are adopted into two very different families. One becomes a prosecuting attorney, the other grows up to be a gangster. It is not long before they are at odds with each other.
- 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 secret agent, Starberry Kim, is sent to Hong Kong to infiltrate an international gang consisting of Soviets, Chinese, and North Koreans.
- An elderly couple, proud of their sons-in-law, are shocked to hear that they might be cheating on their wives. The couple are determined to get to the bottom of the rumors
- A ring is sent from the myeong Kingdom as a present for the queen. It does not fit so her husband secretly attempts to have it altered to the right size. In the process, he meets Lady Kwon and, struck by her beauty, gives the ring to her. He makes her a member of his concubine causing deadly jealousy to erupt in his court.
- Unable to make a living at singing, a man is forced to take a job as a window washer to support his family. His wife, meanwhile, continues to contact recording companies and eventually succeeds in securing a singing contract for her husband. When she rushes to tell him the good news, she startles him and causes him to fall 15 stories. Although he survives, his wife has to come up with a way to get money for his hospital bills.
- A man's ambition, drive and will to live gradually leave him as do the employees at his unproductive oil field.
- When his wife runs away with her lover and leaves their sick daughter to die alone, her husband sets out to seek revenge.
- A man allows his illegititmate daughter to live with him and his family by passing her off as the daughter of a dead friend and hiring her as a tutor for his children
- Kyeong-su, a child living in an orphanage, learns that his mother is alive and living in Japan. He tries to find a way to cross the see and winds up stowing away on a cargo ship.
- 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. Twenty years later, she learns that her daughter is alive and was raised by the parents of her adopted son
- Based on the hijacking of a Korean Airline flight in February 1958. North Korean spies hijacked a passenger jet, but the passengers resist and attempt to turn the plane around and return to Seoul
- A truck driver tries to raise his children with the best things in life, but marital problems begin affecting his work and his relationship with his children.
- A rich blind man enters into what he believes to be a happy marriage. He undergoes an operation to restore his sight, but an unhappy fate awaits him when he sees his wife for the first time and she issues a devastating confession
- 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. While living homeless in the streets, his youngest daughter dies. Vowing to end his children's suffering, the man kills his oldest daughter and intends to kill himself and his son. His son, however, refuses to cooperate.
- The stress and shame of learning that his son is living with a woman without being married sends a millionaire to the hospital with high blood pressure. The son's girlfriend begins to take care of him there and tries to win him over
- King Gae-ro, the 21st king of the Baekje Kingdom--one of the three ancient kingdoms that comprise modern Korea, attempts to seduce the wife of a carpenter. When she refuses, he tortures her to death. Based on actual events
- During the Korean War, a village chief commits himself to blindly following communism. A group of people from the same village, opposed to his views, take to the caves above the town and live in nature, slowly shedding the norms of polite society
- After their crops fail, a family receives a letter from their grandfather inviting them up to Seoul to live with him. He sets them up as real estate agents, but their business soon fails. In spring, the family decides to return to the farm where they belong.
- A powerful and corrupt businessman ignores his wife and children and lives with his mistress, but is arrested for his activities following the military coup of May 1962. After being released from prison, he finds his wife waiting for him in front of the jail. Ignoring her, he goes to the home of his mistress, only to find that she is no longer there. He returns to his home where his wife accepts him with open arms
- Two childhood friends look for suitable marriage partners but make money a prime consideration and never consider that they may be destined for each other
- Based on the life of Lee Kwang-su who was exiled to China during the Japanese occupation of Korea. After liberation, he was kidnapped by northern soldiers to become a mouthpiece of propaganda before he finally escapes to the south
- A man accused of assaulting and murdering a prostitute is able to clear his name, however the facts of the trial become public knowledge and everyone now knows that he is impotent.
- A woman dying of stomach cancer takes comfort from the man who has promised to stay by her side while he prays for a miracle
- Seon-deok is forced by her stepmother to sleep with a wealthy patron of their humble tavern. Consequently, she is thrown out of the house for shaming the family. Having nowhere else to go, Seon-deok tracks down the patron she slept with and begs to live with him.
- A dramatization of the life of Na Woon-gyu, one of the founders of the Korean film industry, as he struggled against the forces occupying his nation in the early 1900's.