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Hyŏn-su was once a popular idol star among teens and worshiped liked a god. Although he's in his mid-thirties now, he's still a sought-after celebrity and the host of a popular radio show. One day, a very young single mom named Chŏng-nam sends her stories to his radio show. Her stories about her longing to meet her father whom she's never seen before grips the nation and catapults the ratings to make it the most popular program. But to his surprise, Hyŏn-su later confronts none other than Chŏng-nam and her 7 year-old boy, Ki-dong. They invade Hyŏn-su's home and his radio station, claiming that Hyŏn-su is her father.

"Summoned by an unexpected phone call, an elderly woman visits a cottage the way she used to when she was a young girl. She remembers a boy she knew half a century before. Moving to a peaceful village when she was a girl she discovered a wolf boy, hiding his large, contorted body in the darkness. The girl, now a woman, has never been able to purge the images of his wild eyes and animal-like behavior from her mind. She recalls teaching the boy how to wait patiently before a meal, how to wear clothes, how to speak, how to write and other human behaviors so that he could one day live like a normal man. She opened her heart to the innocent boy and he fell in love with the girl, the only person to ever show him affection. However when threatened, he let loose his bestial instincts and became the subject of the villagers' fears. In order to save the life of the boy who risked his to be by her side, she left him with a promise: "Wait for me. I'll come back for you.""--Korean Movie Database (KMDb).

Mystery film about school girls who disappear one by one at a boarding school in Korea during Japanese occupation.

Scandal makers: "Nam Hyeon-su, who was once an pop idol, is now not that popular, but is still doing well as a radio DJ. He is enjoying the perfect single life. One day, Hwang Jeong-nam, who has sent her stories to his radio program, goes to see him and insists that she is his daughter from his first time having sex, when he was in the ninth grade. Moreover, she has a son, Gi-dong, whom she gave birth to at the age of seventeen. Hyeon-su does not accept Jeong-nam and Gi-dong at first, but eventually he adjusts to living with them. However, Hyeon-su's career is in crisis as he becomes involved in a rumor that he is dating Jeong-nam. Hyeon-su blames this scandal on Jeong-nam with harsh words, which makes her leave him. Hyeon-su, left alone, soon regrets his actions and conveys his true feelings for her on his radio program. His message makes Jeong-nam return to him, but she loses Gi-dong for the moment. After a mess of a time looking for Gi-dong, they finally come together and accept themselves as a family."--Container.
"Modernization has been an important subject for Korea in the last century. Modernization was exchangeable with economic development and industrialization, and people took part on the road to achieve the so-called "Miracle on the Han River." Consequently, Korea was accredited as one of the rare countries that accomplished rapid economic growth. The shadow, however, was cast deeply along with the fast track of the development, and Korean society is now facing all problems great and small. It is meaningful to look back at the process of Korean modernization and to view various aspects of the modern represented in the films. These endeavors bring us beyond the mere appreciation of the past in a retrospective fashion and provide us a chance to make a rendezvous of the past with the present and that of the present with the past. The films selected from each period reveal the problems, values, and subconsciousness of the time, and they function as referential frameworks for each other, which bring you the joy of new discoveries."--Commentary book.

In the 1940s under the Japan's colonial rule, a swindler named Bong-gu and Chun-ja, a jazz singer, are both after 'the Light of the East, '' a diamond on the Buddhist statue in Seokguram cave. However, a Japanese general beats them to it. When he holds a party to celebrate and move it to Japan, Bong-gu and Chun-ja plan to steal 'the Light of the East'.