Eun-hie Choi

The story centers on the family that resides in the "widows house", where mother-in-law resides with her late son's wife and daughter, along with their housemaid, also a widow. Their day to day existence is shaken up by the arrival of a man, friend of the mother's brother, who takes up residence in their guest room. However, due to the cultural traditions of the time, it was considered unfaithful to the late spouses if widowers and especially widows were to see other people. (imdb)

A man from the countryside, Dong-shik, goes to Seoul in order to bring his older brother back home. However he soon finds out that his brother has become a petty crook who refuses to return home. The brother's girlfriend, a prostitute who is servicing American GIs, starts to make a move on Dong-shik. (imdb)

The daughter of a kisaeng in Namwon falls in love with Lee, a noble's son. Her lover leaves to complete his studies in Seoul and Chunhyang awaits his return. Soon, a new magistrate, Byeon, appears in the region. Byeon is dertermined to have the beautiful Chunhyang for himself, but when she refuses him, Byeon has her locked in a cell and tortured (imdb)

A young monk longs to see his mother in a new light, by suppressing his emotions. (asianwiki.com)

A middle-aged man is laid off from work but is too proud to tell his family. His children, however, learn of the situation and take jobs of their own to help him save face.

The Money is about a poor farmer whose bid for a better life ends up bringing calamity to his family (letterboxd.com)

Two college grads go to the country to modernize a small, rustic community. The woman establishes a school and the man organizes a youth hall. However, their activities arouse the suspicions of the colonial government which targets them for elimination... (imdb)

A medical doctor, Ko, has three daughters. The first daughter, Suk-hee, confesses her past when her husband asks her to forgive his past, on the first night of their honeymoon. When he breaks off the marriage and goes to America, Suk-hee confines herself to her home for three years. The second daughter falls in love with a poor, literary man Jun-cheol, a private tutor, but leaves home when her parents oppose him. (Korean Classic Film)

The poor farmers of Muju in Cheonbuk Province cannot get enough water to irrigate their rice. They attempt many times to build a canal to the Geum River, but fail each time. After the military coup of 1962 however, the government gives its full support and helps the villagers succeed... (imdb)

A poisonous white snake is transformed into a beautiful woman by a demon in order to destroy a particularly pure monk who works in the service of the goddess of mercy. (imdb)

A woman supports a young student who was a pupil of her late husband. She soon falls in love with him and sacrifices everything for his success and happiness, knowing that it is impossible for him to love her in return. (imdb)

"To the Last Day" is a 1960 South Korean drama film directed by Shin Sang Ok. It was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize. (mydramalist)

The children of the ministers slain by Queen Min in her bid for power struggle against the corrupt despot as they seek to avenge their parents' deaths... (imdb)

When King Heon-kong falls ill, a power struggle erupts over who will inherit the throne. Tired of all the infighting, the ministers arrange for a branch of the king's family, which had lost all its wealth and was living on remote Ganghwa Island, to inherit. But the heir to the throne is reluctant to leave his island home. (imdb)

The film is a melodrama about a man who falls in love with a woman while traveling to Seoraksan. The man becomes infatuated with the woman's hair. The woman, who has a terminal illness, promises to leave her hair to the manafter she has died. Later the man finds that the woman has died, and her hair has been sold to someone else. He then has a romantic relationship with another woman who turns out to be... (mydramalist)

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. (mydramalist)

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. (imdb)

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 language. This rumor comes about because the boss has a deaf daughter whom he wants to marry off as soon as possible... (imdb)

AKA A College Woman's Confession; At the idea of and with the assistance of her drama-loving detective-novel reading friend, penniless and desperate So-yeong cons a congressman into believing she is his lost daughter. As So-yeong completes her studies in law school, the suspicious congressman's wife does a little detective work of her own. So-yeong, racked with guilt, is determined to become a lawyer who helps women in similar situations as hers, but will she succeed? (imdb)

Widow Lee falls in love with a married man and her daughters are forced to confront them before their ruinous scandal destroys all their lives. (imdb)

Dr. Nam, in his will, requests that his eldest daughter, Jeong-hui, marry a painter named Dong-su. Jeong-hui is at risk of losing her house due to her father's debt, and a young physician Sun-cheol who received his college education with the financial support of Dr. Nam, helps her by selling his own house. Despite his love for her, Sun-cheol cannot express his feelings because he knows of the request in her father's will. (Korean Classic Film)

AKA The Memorial Gate for Virtuous Women; The widow of a nobleman bears a son after having an affair with her servant. The servant and the baby are driven from the home by the woman's irate in-laws when the truth is discovered. Even after the child is grown, no contact is allowed between he and his mother who now denies the events of her past. (imdb)

Continuing the story of the film, Prince Yeonsan, Yeonsan's grief and dissipated life leads him to become a cruel tyrant, ordering the decapitation of the court members who advised the deposition of his mother. Plans are made for his deposition. (imdb)

After the man who nearly killed her is brought to trial, Eun-hie finds that she must take the stand to give evidence. However, the defense attempts to turn the tables on her by revealing her sordid past and trying to make it seem as if she deserved what happened to her. (imdb)

Jin-sa's happiness at making a constract to marry his daughter to a nobleman's son is dashed when he hears that the nobleman's son is lame. Thinking that he can salvage the situation, Jin-sa arranges for his maid to take his daughter's place... (imdb)

During the Korean War, pilots of the 10th Fighter Wing of the South Korean Air Force fly their majestic Saber jets in daily dangerous missions against Communist North Korean targets. (imdb)

AKA Love Affiar; When two wives realize that their wealthy and otherwise upstanding husbands have mistresses, they invite the 'other women' to stay in their houses for awhile. Realizing that they are breaking up happy families, the girls eventually agree to give up the married men. (imdb)

AKA Women of Yi-Dynasty; Ijo Yeoin Janhogsa; 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: 'A Daughter-In-Law Is No Better Than A Stranger'--A woman thinks that her daughter-in-law has turned her son against her so she tries to kill the younger woman. (imdb)

In the period of Unified Shilla, the daughter of Yu-jong arrives at Bulguk temple to watch the construction of the stone pagodas. When the chief artisan falls ill due to missing his wife, the girl nurses him until he recovers, but develops complicated feelings for the man. (imdb)

On the eighth of April of King Gyoeng-deok's 10th year of the reign of the Unified Silla Period, Guseulagi, a daughter of Yu Jong, joins the king's parade to Bulguksa Temple, where she meets a stonemason named Asadal from Buyeo. Having a crush on him, she visits Sakyamuni Pagoda, a masonic site; only to find that Asadal had broken down from exhaustion. While she takes care of him, her love for him grows. But Asadal misses his wife who is waiting for him in Buyeo...

Deaf Samryong works as a farmhand. He loves the landlord's daughter-in-law. This film describes his true love and humanity to resist old customs. (imdb)

Choi Eun-hie disguises herself as a man so she can join a group of young men determined to overthrow the colonial government

A romantic melodrama about a young Buddhist monk, Jo-sin, in love with a girl, Dal-lye. But the girl is getting married. The monk suffers and dreams that Dally leaves her husband and runs away with him.

Iljimae's parents were killed due to a conspiracy when he was young. Many years later he became a chivalrous robber, robbing corrupt officials and helping the poor. He eventually manages in taking revenge for his parents' deaths. But the police start to chase him, and he hides himself at a gisaeng's house. The gisaeng was his ex-fiancee. She also lost her parents to a conspiracy. She begs Iljimae to stay with her, but he leaves to do what he has to.

The Girl Raised as a Future Daughter-In-Law is the story of ups and downs of a future daughter-in-law who, due to poverty, married an infant rich groom. A ruined widow's daughter Jum-soon has no time to rest, as her mother-in-law treats her like a maid, leaving her with all the kitchen chores, house cleaning, grinding grain, and sewing, while the mother-in-law smokes a pipe and nitpicks on her. What allows Jum-soon to endure is her 'duty as a woman' taught to her since young and her child husban

Park Nam-ho works at a Japanese pharmaceutical company and lives happily with his wife, Gyeong-hui, in a house filled with beautiful white roses. Not long after hearing the wonderful news that his wife is pregnant, Park Nam-ho is drafted into the war in the Pacific. Posted in the Gwandong army, he survives the battle, though his face is burned. Back home, Gyeong-hui receives a telegram stating that her husband is dead. When she gives birth to their son, Cheol-soo, she goes to live in Seoul.