Yeong-gyun Shin

A man tries to raise his two sons and two daughters under some of the most adverse conditions known to man. The father operates a horse-drawn cart, but in a city that is modernizing after the destruction of the Korean War, automobiles are making carts obsolete. The children are experiencing difficulties as well. The eldest son has flunked the bar exam twice and is not hopeful of passing it a third time to become a lawyer. The eldest daughter is mute and married to an abusive husband... (imdb)

Hye-yeong had no idea that her lover, Shin-ho, was a married man until Shin-ho's wife and children arrive in town. She leaves him but reappears 8 years later asking him to take responsibilty for their child. (imdb)

Once upon a time, under the reign of the three kingdoms, there was a woman who tempts a Buddhist priest named Cho. She is a one-thousand-year-old fox who intends to reincarnate as a human being. Not knowing this, Cho lives with the fox. But in the end, they get separated harboring sadness of unfulfilled love in this world. (imdb)

Admist a rebellion during the Ching Dynasty in ancient China, a nurse flees the palace with a young prince. As an adult, he convinces the daughter of the usurper to betray her father and to assist in restoring him as the rightful monarch. (imdb)

At an ocean side village, many fishing boats never return from the high sea, and many of the women in the village assume they are widows when their husbands never return. One of them, Seongku, begins an affair with a coal worker.

A nameless drifter meets an enigmatic woman at the watermill during Chosun times. What follows is a tale full of most of the deadly sins

A man in a village in Jirisan hides a communist soldier who has sneaked into the area. (en.wikipedia.org)

A brigade of 5 marines are sent on a dangerous mission to capture an enemy stronghold during the Korean War. (imdb)

A historical drama about Yeonsangun of Joseon as a prince trying to restore the status of his mother, the deposed and executed Queen Yun. (themoviedb)

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)

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)

Mi-ji discovers that being married to a doctor is not all its cracked up to be because of the long work hours. Bored and feeling neglected, she begins an affair with a handsome stranger... (imdb)

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)

A Korean crime film from 1964 starring Sung-il Shin.

A general's wife is kidnapped and sold into slavery to a nearby kingdom. She gives birth to his son there. Decades later, the general and son meet on the battlefield on opposite sides in a war... (imdb)

In 1950, my brother directed guerrillas in the vicinity of the Maekeling Mountains. The younger brother of a senior cadre serving in the defense department will put his biological father to death as a reactionary. Feel guilty brother after intense mental struggle decided to brother command guerrillas surrendered. On the way to surrender, my brother was accidentally shot dead by the guerrillas. (mtime.com)

Lawyer Woo Yeong-ho divorces his wife to marry the much younger Kyeong-suk. However his daughter, who spends time at both of her parents houses, drives a wedge between Yeong-ho and Kyeong-suk and has the lawyer looking to his ex-wife for comfort and advice... (imdb)

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)

Parentless, the oldest of five takes a job in a mill to support his younger siblings. He works hard but is stingy with the money he earns as he hopes to save it for his brothers and sister. However, his girlfriend is not so accepting of this situation... (imdb)

A Korean drama

Chae-Hwa, daughter of Chinese mother and Korean father, comes to Korea for the first time in 13 years to be a teacher. While she is teaching English, she falls in love with a handsome teacher Ho-Cheol. Chae-Hwa finds that her father already remarried and advises her mother in Hong Kong to divorce. Her mother agrees on that. A student who loves Ho-Cheol makes Chae-Hwa be in trouble several times, but later Chae-Hwa finds that she is her half sister... (koreanfilm.or.kr)

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. (imdb)

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)

A platoon of South Korean soldiers find themselves cut off from their squad without communication. They are aided by an old man in a nearby village who did not evacuate his home. (imdb)

Korean historic drama by director Kwon-taek Im

AKA King and the Servant Boy

Gaya's wife, Gabriel Gadow's wife, was taken away by Baekje's opponent. After Kao Dao, he fled to Silla, where he became a general and sent his troops to Baekje to eradicate his wife. However, after seeing his wife who was thinking about his dreams, Gao Wudao could not help but be frustrated - his wife had already given birth to a woman of hatred. In order to fulfill the happiness of his wife, Gao Wudao will no longer pursue it... (movie.mtime)

The nickname "Qingyun", which was born in Dongbai Village, is one of the worst young people in the town. However, under the good advice of the pastor of the town church, he became a solid Christian. The hometown of Dongbai Village was frequently harassed by the Communists. "Qingyun" cooperated with the police of the Communist Party of China to sweep the Communists out of the village and rebuilt Dongbai Village. (movie.mtime.com)

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)

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)

His parents captured by the Baekje armies, prince Eo-jin infiltrates the enemy castle alone to seek revenge. His plot is ruined when he falls in love with a princess there and is forced to choose between betraying his parents and nation or the woman he loves. (imdb)

A man assists a woman in danger, but through her actions, she unintentionally causes his death. Everyone in the village knows that she visits his tomb every spring, but no one knows the details of her story. (imdb)

AKA The Violator; Cinematized version of Lee Kwang-su's novel, which tells the story of the dream Josin had, a Buddhist monk at Naksan temple in the era of the Three Kingdoms. In his dream, Josin lives in anxiety and agonizes over a woman. In the process, he lives his whole life and becomes enlightened. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

Bok-nyeo, a mentally handicapped woman, supports her lazy husband by selling apples at the public marketplace. When her husband abandons her for another woman, another man who sympathizes with Bok-nyeo, kills him. (wikipedia.org)

This drama tells the story of a group of men in a hospital waiting room. A dentist and a wounded war veteran are among the group. Their disgruntled conversation of their lot in life includes discussions of past love affairs and patriotism. (wikipedia.org)

This family melodrama tells the story of Lee Yun-bok, a fourth-grader in a poor family. Unable to tolerate his father's gambling and cruelty, his mother leaves home. Yun-bok helps support the family by shining shoes, and keeps a journal. When his journal is made public in school, Yun-bok's father repents of his bad behavior, and his mother returns home. (wikipedia.org)

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.

Hye-yeong reclaims her son from the boy's father and moves back to Seoul where she starts a business with money that she believes came from her brother. It is, in fact, from Shin-ho--her ex-lover. Shin-ho is driven to bankruptcy because of his generosity and his wife pleads with Hye-yeong to leave Seoul for the sake of her husband's piece of mind.

Yeong-shin, the son of Shin-ho and Hye-yeong, cannot stop thinking about his mother who left him in his father's care while she went to work in Japan. Meanwhile, his father's business is failing and he finds it increasingly difficult to support his family.

Hye-kyeong, now a financial success, returns from Germany to visit Shin-ho and his wife. She finds them in anguish over their son, Yeong-gyu, who was crippled in a recent fall. Hye-kyeong pleads with the stubborn parents to allow her to take the boy to Germany for surgery.

Based on a radio drama, this wartime melodrama revolves around a woman caught between two men: her husband, a South Korean lieutenant, and her former lover, a North Korean officer who defects to come find her. The film portrays not only their tragic love triangle but also the empathetic bond that develops between the two men.

A young bride becomes the prime suspect in a series of grisly murders. However, her dashing young lawyer decides to come to her rescue and begins his own investigation into the crimes in an effort to clear his client's name.