Dongsimcho

Lee Suk-hui (Choe Eun-hui) lost her husband to the Korean War eight years ago. She runs a dressmaking shop that has fallen into debt. When Kim Sang-gyu (Kim Jin-gyu), the executive director of a publishing company, helps her pay off debts, she falls in love with him. He, however, is engaged to the daughter of his boss, Ok-ju (Do Geum-bong). His sister (Ju Jeung-nyeo) pushes him to marry the boss's daughter, hoping that will bring him rapid success. Meanwhile, Suk-hui's grown-up daughter Gyeong-hui, wanting her mother to be happy, urges her mother to marry Sang-gyu, but Suk-hui vacillates between social mores and her own happiness. Even though she and Sang-gyu truly love each other, she decides to leave him and heads for her country home after selling her house in Seoul. Hearing the news, he who is ill in bed hurries to Seoul station, but it is too late. All he can do is just to stand on the platform and to watch her train pulling away.

4

126 min

Cast

Choi Eun-hee

as Lee Sook-hee

Um Aing-ran

as Oh Kyung-hee

Kim Jin-kyu

as Kim Sang-gyu

Ju Jeung-nyeo

as Mrs. Kim (Sister of Sang-gyu)

Kim Seok-hun

as Han Ki-cheol (Sang-gyu's friend)

Kim Dong-won

as Chairman (President of publishing company)

Han Eun-jin

as Mrs. Park (Mother of Okju)

Do Kum-bong

as Ok-joo Lee (Sang-gyu's fiancé)

Kim Seung-ho

as Busan President Kim (Trader)

Lee Min

as Shin Dong-il (President of a securities company)

Ju Seon-tae

as Bokdeokbang owner

Seo Wol-yeong

as Mrs. Lee

Yang Im

as Miss Song (Securities Company employee)

Jeong Yeon-ja

as Bogja (Shin Dong-il's old lover)

Choe Eun-yeon

as Mrs. Lee's housekeeper

Nam Yang-il

as Pharmacy clerk

Director

Shin Sang-ok