1970 film by Kim Su-yong

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.

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.

The life of Lee Seung-man, a freedom fighter who struggled to liberate Korea from Japanese rule

解放前，庆南的统治营区范围中，和开港一起家族生意没落的钱药铺（金东远饰）一家生活窘迫，钱药铺打算把排行第三的女儿永兰（崔智慧饰）嫁给单身的渔夫（朴罗锡饰）可永兰已经和原先在药铺的长工（黄海饰）私订终身，一天夜里，她无意中发现父亲和下人容冰（严莺兰饰）偷情的事情，这被她作为反对和渔夫婚事的把柄。为掩饰自己的错误，钱药铺把容冰赶出家门，追容冰的途中，永兰遇见了佛教反对政治暴行的活动……变得发疯似的永兰见人就说自己亲手杀死了母亲，接受了大学教育的二女儿从国外归来，信奉基督教的她心身巨变，开始走上了振兴中落的家道，支持独立政治运动的旅途。

Prior to the adoption of Confucianism, it was the tradition to abandon one's parents on a mountainside if they were over 70 years of age. In the ancient kingdom of Goryeo, now modern Korea, a nobleman defies this tradition when he refuses to leave his mother to starve to death.

描述朝鲜战争后南韩妇女的地位。对争取独立，选择外出工作的女性似带有怀疑态度。 A college professor’s wife OH Sun-young discovers a new world since she started working at a boutique. She begins to enjoy wearing dresses that accentuate her features, achieve high sales profits, and dances in the arms of men other than her husband. However, the story takes a turn when she is caught in the hotel with the owner of the boutique who has been seducing her. Madame Freedom was already a famous story since the novelist JUNG Bee-suk wrote the series in The Seoul Shinmun. Despite the controversy on the moral issues between the writer and the critics, the book was published and produced as a play by the theater group Shinhyup. The film also set a new box office record of 130,000 and its success brought the boom of melodrama. Its cultural influence is proven to be powerful enough to shake the foundation of Korean film since there have been 5 sequels and remakes since the original.