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During the Japanese control of Korea during WWII and before, they used Korea women as prostitutes for their Military Officers and Korean men as grunt soldiers to fight in the trenches during the war with the USA.
The first season of the Women of Legend Series tells the story of a young lady-in-waiting whose beauty catches the eye of the King and becomes his concubine. Quickly rising in the ranks and eventually giving birth to a son, her hunger for power drives her not only to maintain her position, but to become Queen.
Former Minister of National Security, Park Jin-wook, is kidnapped from the US by South Korean agents because he was about to reveal secrets concerning the rise of the military dictatorship of the 1980's.
Ji-woong is a loser who can't find a job so he lies to his mother for money, but one day she abruptly cuts him off and he becomes homeless. That same day, salvation arrives in the form of Hong-sil who's extremely stingy. Her hobby is visiting the bank to make savings deposits, and her specialty is selling empty glass bottles and old newspapers for cash.
An action-filled martial arts film in which guerilla fighters and foreign spies clash in kung fu combat when important military secrets are at stake.
In a farm, there live a master Dae-Hyeon, Ji-Ae, and a mute Ka-Ya whom they love like a daughter. Also, there is Hyeop who teaches them how to ride a horse once every week. One day, Ka-Ya comes to realize what is sex on the moment of witnessing the scene in which Hyeop is raping Ji-Ae, and she warns Hyeop to don't do that. Surprised, Hyeop runs after and rapes her, and since then, Ka-Ya falls in love with him. Hyeop is move up by Ka-Ya's sincerity and by the time he comes to feel love for her, their relations is disclosed and Hyeop and Dae-Hyeon fight a duel because of it. Shocked at it, Ka-Ya is recovered to speak again. Later, Hyeop and Ka-Ya leave the house as companions of life.
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Yeong-ho tries to keep his heart disease a secret from his wife but he becomes so depressed over his condition that he can no longer function at work and loses his job. To earn money, his wife takes a job with a family friend but Yeong-ho misinterprets his friend's act of kindness. He leaves home in a fury leaving his wife to discover the cause of his behavior and to begin a frantic search for him.
A woman and a man she claims to be her brother convince a naive employee of a prosperous company to help them steal the company funds, promising to divide the money three ways.
A woman is kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend and kept prisoner in his basement.
Released from prison following the bombing of Hiroshima, Kang Dae-sun tries to return to Korea but, because of the chaos at the end of the war, fails to secure passage. He and his former cellmate Ok Man-sul become gangsters but spend a good deal of their time fighting communist sympathizers. When the Korean War breaks out, Dae-sun gives up the idea of ever returning home and concentrates on rising in rank to become the most powerful gangster in Japan.
A woman, 8 months pregnant, attempts suicide but is stopped by the police. She is sent to a home for unwed mothers, run by nuns. She is less than grateful to the nuns for their care and makes trouble whenever possible. She also plans to destroy the life of the man who put her in this situation.
Two friends fall in love with the same woman, but when she chooses one over the other, the spurned lover decides to blackmail her.
While on his way to the local temple to ring an ancient bell which will grant his dying mother safe passage to the afterlife, Jong-du's father is killed by a Japanese soldier who was looting the temple. Out of respect for his father and grandmother and to help their spirits rest in peace, Jong-du tries to join the temple and cast a new bell to replace the one that was stolen however his obsessive behavior gets him kicked out of the temple. He marries Suk-hie who helps him scrounge for copper so he can make a new bell on his own.
Oh Ka-hi is a popular madam in a nightclub in Mu-gyo-dong street. She supported her widowed mother and sister by working in a factory. Ka-hi and Tae-su, an honest boy, were in love. Then Dal-su, an animal of a man, raped her. With that, Ka-hi went from working at a bar to becoming a hostess at a cabaret. Ka-hi meets Hyun-wu and gets pregnant by him. She gives birth to Suk but learns too late that Hyun-wu is a married man. Dal-su persistently hounds her. He steals her bank account and takes the money she had earned with her tears and blood. To be worse, Suk dies from gas intoxication. Ka-hi falls into despair. Duk-sam, a driver, takes care of her. Ka-hi slowly rises from her nightmarish reality. In the end, she accepts Duk-sam's marriage proposal.
Kyeong-il and his sister, Kyeong-a, run a store together, but Kyeong-il is hospitalized when competitors beat him up. In the hospital, he falls in love with a nurse. She is already engaged so the only way he can continue seeing her is to manufacture reasons to stay in the hospital.
