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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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- A kisaeng plots with other freedom fighters to destroy a train transporting high level Japanese officials.
- 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.