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- 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 claims the unborn child is the former kings and has a claim to the throne. The enemies of the new king, ignoring facts, decide to support her claim and threaten to start a civil war.
- 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.
- Jeon Ryo-gun is searching for Neung Se-ho in order to kill him for breaking up with her sister. She does not know that Neung is actually an honorable man involved in a battle against a dangerous gang that had threatened her sister's life.
- 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 soldier will be killed. Jin-ho deserts and tries to live a quiet life with his wife, but her father has decided to hunt him down and kill him.
- 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 confusion becomes more severe, Kim Ok-hyeon takes adavantage of the chaos to declare himself king.
- Bo-hyeon's spirit cannot ascend into the afterlife because she died unmarried. Her nanny, also deceased, tries to intercede and arranges a soul-marriage with a living man named Jeong. Jeong, however, is having serious problems with a corrupt village magistrate who is out to discredit Jeong's family.
- When King Danjong proves incompetant in dealing with the affairs of state, a power struggle erupts within his family to see who can dethrone him and sieze control of the kingdom.
- During the Japanese occupation of Korea, many Korean citizens were forced to relocate to work the land. Jong-guk, the head of a small village, leads a resistance against the move
- The matriarch of an upper-class family assumes that money can solve all problems. She forces her two eldest daughters to marry into money against their wills. She encourages her third daughter to divorce her husband when his business goes bankrupt. However her lust for riches is destroying her own marriage.
- 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
- While defecting to South Korea, an unmarried couple becomes separated. Seo-won lives a difficult life but maintains the hope of meeting her long lost lover. For his part, Dong-su is preparing to marry a very wealthy woman and has forgotten all about his former lover.
- Yeon-cheol arrives at his girlfriend's village only to discover that the citizens have been driven out by bandits who are using the town to ambush a truck full of gold that will be driving through
- Two strangers, victims of a mountain climbing accident, await rescue by getting to know one another and eventually making love. The woman becomes pregnant, but has no hope of contacting the father of her child. Seven years later, her sister introduces her fiance to the woman and it is the same man that she met earlier on the mountain.
- A kisaeng plots with other freedom fighters to destroy a train transporting high level Japanese officials.
- A case of mistaken identity that occurs while a childs attempt to locate his biological father causes nearly irreparable damage to one man's marriage.
- Ji-hyeon learns that his older sister is a prostitute when his wedding is suddenly called off by his fiance's father who had employed her services. His sister, Jeong-yeon, had found this employment necessary in order to raise her two younger siblings after their parents had died. Jeong-yeon's brother and sister are far from grateful and abandon their guardian while she struggles with cancer
- A girl becomes a prostitute in order to pay her mother's hospital bills.
- When the leader of a clan of thieves dies, his daughter takes over. She is approached by the Korean Independence Army which requests her aid in disrupting the overland supply routes of the Japanese.
- Based on the Chinese novel 'Journey To The West' in which the monk, Samjang goes to the mythical temple to study but finds that he must escort the Princess Cheol-seon safely through a variety of fantastic dangers.
- Local magistrate Yu Kwang-pil abuses his position of power and takes advantage of the peasants in his charge by imposing outrages taxes and demanding expenisive gifts as tribute. The legendary thief Iljamae breaks into Yu's compound to steal his wealth and return it to the peasantry.
- When King Cheol-jang dies, the throne passes to his son King Ko-jang but, because he is considered to be too inexperienced, his ambitious uncle rules as regent. The rightful king's wife, the politically brilliant Queen Min, refuses to accept this situation and brings about the uncle's exile in order to secure the throne.
- A man named Baek leaves his wife and rents a room at a house belonging to three widowed sisters. Each of the women are smitten with the strong, silent Baek and try to tempt him into a proposal of marriage
- Cheon Do-won and blind Seol Hie attempt to regain the mystic swords 'Earth' and 'Heaven' from the bandits who have stolen them.
- Freedom fighter Lee Jin-dong takes refuge in a Catholic church run by Fr Louis. The priest is captured by the Japanese police and tortured for aiding the insurgents. Jin-dong gathers a handful of his trusted men to rescue him
- Dae-seong is cruel to everyone he knows. His former best friend leaves the country to get away from him. Dae-seong marries Hie-ja, but soon after the marriage, he forces himself on his wife's cousin, So-ra. So-ra begins to make a long list of reasons why she should kill Dae-seong.
- A young man attempts to prove that he has given up a life of crime but he finds that society is not so forgiving of an ex-convict.
- A doctor secretly finds a way of reviving his dead wife by injecting her with large quantities of blood. However, the blood must be fresh and his wife requires frequent injections so when people start dying of mysterious blood losses, the doctor falls under suspicion.
- The king disguises himself as a peasant to wander among his people during the Harvest Moon Festival. He meets and falls in love with a poor girl and his feelings are returned...at least until he reveals himself to be king
- Upon their father's death, a set of twin princes argue over the throne. One has his brother clamped in an iron mask and forces him to be locked in the dungeon.