Mu-song Jeon

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. (imdb)

Ki-rye, from a respectable but poor family, is married off to the deceased son of a powerful government official. Her father-in-law takes pity on her miserable and lonely condition and helps her to run away. She becomes a servant in Minister Choi's house. She marries again to a low-level noble, but finds herself in dire straits when it appears that she is unable to produce a male child to carry on the bloodline. (imdb)

One late night, Chung-Hee, a housewife, is raped by two young men on her way home. While resisting their attack, she bites off one man's tongue. Ironically, he charges her with assault and she is arrested. (BIFF)

Seon-Jae, a teenage boy mourns the death of his father and begins a quest to find his mother who abandoned him as a baby. 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 tells the boy to seek someone to help him find the truth and his mother. (peter07)

Psychology professor and writer Eun Soo Hyun's world shatters when her son suffers an unpunished injustice. Seeking vengeance, she unexpectedly discovers solace helping others embroiled in comparable cryptic cases. (imdb)