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- The traditional Korean story of a Cinderella-like little girl. Kongjwi is a good, hard working girl who lives together with her cruel stepmother and the lazy Patjwi. Eventually kindly spirits arrive and assist Kongjwi escape her miserable home life.
- 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.
- Orders go out from North Korea to kidnap South Korean tourists at the Tokyo Expo and bring them to the north.
- Sickly Yeon-ah is befriended by her popular, athletic classmate Cheol-yi. Her new friend makes up his mind to help her but to do so means that he must confront her over-protective parents.
- Ok-hwa dies of a broken heart after she is forbidden to marry above her class. Her ghost haunts her former lover making his life, and the life of his new bride, unbearable.
- 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.
- In order to seek revenge on her parents enemies, a woman becomes a kisaeng, seduces and kills them after making love. She finds herself arrested and on trial, facing the death penalty
- Based on the short life of Lee Byeok who was born the son of a general in 1754. He converted to Catholicism and attempted to spread the faith with the help of missionaries from China. King Yong-jo brought an end to this with the extermination of Catholics in Korea, martyring Lee Byeok in 1785
- Ju Yeong-nbok volunteers to work for the North Korean army as a Russian translator. As the political climate in the North deteriorates, his sister flees south. Yeong-bok is worried that her defection will prevent his being promoted in the ranks of the communist party. He breaks up with his girlfriend because she is catholic in order to prove his party loyalty, but Yeong-bok still finds himself blacklisted.
- A gangster called 'The Lion' gets involved in a labor dispute while trying to bring Kang Hyeok, the man who made off with the dockworker's wages, to justice.
- Out of disgust of the shabby treatment she received from men, a woman disguises herself as a man. Her plan is to behave like a perfect gentleman and set an example for other men.
- An omnibus of three short stories connected by the theme of women who are betrayed by their husbands.
- Misery slowly builds in Hak-jun's house after his wife suggests to his mistress that the three of them can get along better by sharing the same house.
- 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 backruptcy because of his generousity 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.
- Two traditional Korean ghost stories interweave in a rural period setting featuring an old well.
- Based on the life of Kim Won-shik who was a judge in ancient Korea. Travelling around the country, he tried cases involving human sacrifices, peasant uprisings, and revenge
- Yong-pal loses all his money to a pretty swindler so he takes a day job while leading his street gang at night. His sister, meanwhile, has fallen in love with a dangerous con artist.
- The head of a happy family becomes infatuated with a poor, homeless woman. He sheds himself of his home, family and friends to join her in a wandering group of beggars.
- Secret agent Nam-kung infiltrates a North Korean operation in Japan that is responsible for kidnapping travelling South Korean and taking them to Pyeongyang
- A man flies to Taiwan to learn his deceased mother's tragic past. He discovers that she was a comfort woman. Comfort women were sex slaves of the Japanese army prior to during World War II.
- The son of a freedom fighter endures 20 years of hardships before he has the opportunity to avenge the death of his father.
- The villagers of Dolmuji in Hwanghae Province suffer terribly under the cruelty of their oppressors in North Korea. Armed with crude farming implements, they rise up against the heavily armed soldiers. All of the villagers are killed except for an elderly man and a young boy who remain in the empty village to tell the tale.
- When a woman contracts lung cancer and a long, costly death looms in the future, her mother-in-law schemes to drive the dying woman out of her family and back to her own parents.
- Shin Dong-seok is ordered into a Japanese POW camp in Malaysia to rescue the prisoners still being held despite the war's conclusion
- Ex-convict, Jeep--who earned his nickname by stealing a jeep--goes to the aid of his old mentor who is now running an orphanage. His orphanage is in danger of being sold out from under him to make way for a casino to be built on its site
- A man studies law to help his brother and his family who have been falsely accused of murder in Japan.
- Yong-pal's street gang is infiltrated by an undercover cop who wants to use their fighting skills to break up a drug ring
- A woman raising her younger sister must drive a taxi for a living.
- Old Mr and Mrs Kim host a family reunion to celebrate the promotion of one of their children. They decide to visit each of their children's homes scattered across the nation and as they do, they come to realize how much Korea has developed since the end of the war.
- Witnessing a car accident, Yong-pal takes the injured driver to a nearby hospital, but the victim's shoes get left behind in Yong-pal's car. Inside the shoes are smuggled gems. Gangsters who are trying to steal the jewels for themselves, kidnap Yong-pal sister and hold her hostage until Yong-pal tells them where the gems are hidden.