Jang-ho Byeon

Four friends struggle with life, philosophy and love during the Sino-Japanese War. (imdb)

Mrs Seo tries to save her widowed daughter-in-law's honor while waging a grudge war against the laborers whose job it is to deliver water from door to door. (imdb)

Eun-hie takes advantage of Mr Choi, squeezing as much money as she can from the wealthy man. However, she starts craving true love and turns her attentions to gentle, but married, Mr Ahn... (imdb)

Seol becomes impatient waiting for her husband who has gone to Pusan, leaving her behind in Seoul to care for her father-in-law. She decides to go to Pusan to find him and demand that he comes home, but what she finds instead is love. (imdb)

Yeong-ah falls in love with Hyeong-jun after picking his pocket and the two have a child together. However, his justifiably suspicious wife in Hong Kong begins having Hyeong-jun followed. Yeong-ah kills the private eye but not before her secrets are revealed... (imdb)

An omnibus of three stories all taking place in the Myeongdong district of Seoul. (imdb)

Kwang-Shik misunderstands his wife's motherly attention for mute Sam-Yong, a servant on his land, leading to Sam-Yong being fired. Kwang-shik is having an affair of his own and when his mistress' husband finds out, he plans to take revenge on all of Kwang-shik's household. (imdb)

Innocent Bok-nyeo is sold at 18 years old to an elderly widower who sends her to work in the salt mines. There she is raped by the supervisor. Becoming very cynical about life, Bok-also becomes the mistress of a couple of rich men, Choi and Wang. In this way, she becomes accustomed to the high life. However, she panics and takes desperate steps when one of her sources ...

Kindergarten teacher Jeon Hye-yeong brings her son to the child's father, Shin-ho, to be raised. However, the child is unhappy with his father's family and dreams about living with his mother causing Shin-ho's growing frustration with the boy to turn to violence.

Shin-ho wants to visit his son but Hye-yeong refuses to allow them to meet due to his past treatment of the boy. Hye-yeong feels that it is time to put the past behind her and. leaving her son in the care of a friend, she leaves Korea with a new lover.