An Old Potter

A man's jealousy of his friend's pure love for his girlfriend makes his friend sleep with a prostitute. But the friend agonizes over the depraved conduct and at last kills himself. He also feels guilty of his friend's death. However one day he meets the dead friend's girlfriend, and meeting her makes him convinced that it is not he, but she who leads the friend to death. He violates her chastity, kills a man who beat the friend before he died and turns himself to the police.

Mo-Hwa is a famous shaman. When the Christianity is introduced to this small fishing village, Mo-Hwa's divine power is declining. Mo-Hwa is furious when she happened to know that her own son Wuk has studied theology. She performs an exorcism to throw away evil spirits from her son and tears up the bible. The conflict between mother and son breaks up the family. Mo-Hwa decides to show which spirit is stronger when she is asked to perform an exorcism for a drowned lady. Even though she performs shaman, the body doesn't come up to the surface. Mo-Hwa doesn't stop to perform and gradually she is going down into the water and never comes back.

Seong-min went to Japan to study ceramics even though his father war skilled a making Korean-style ceramic art and statues. He learns that his father was accidently killed while firing his kiln and Seong-min decides to return to Korea and learn the traditional ways.

With the introduction of Catholicism to Korea in 1784 came social upheaval. People who practiced the new religion were tortured into renouncing it or executed. However, these conditions do not deter Seung-hun and her brother from attempting to spread the religion.

Going to a gallery to sell her pictures, Yun-Hye meets Seong-Jin, whose father is rich. Seong-Jin introduces Yun-Hye to his family on his father's birthday. Knowing that she is a child of not communicated to leprosy, his brother forces her to give up Seong-Jin. She tries to avoid meeting Seong-Jin but finally, accepts his proposal of marriage. On the wedding day, she runs away with the help Yun-Hyeok, who is not communicated to leprosy and a singer now. By a car accident, Yun-Hyeok dies and so does Yun-Hye after giving a birth without consciousness. Seong-Jin cries and yells with the baby in his arm.

A North Korean female spy, Jeong-sook, is apprehended and hospitalized after a traffic accident during her mission. As she receives compassionate care, she re-evaluates her beliefs and humanity. Amid this transformative experience, she develops feelings for fellow patient, footballer Lee-chan.

Ji-hun is confused about his relationship with Da-hye. He wanders off to run into Young-ah working on the street. His relationship with Da-hye started out of sympathy about her experience of abuse. Da-hye refuses to be pitied by him and becomes engaged to another man. He seeks comforts in Young-ah and Da-hye commits suicide due to the trauma in her past. Ji-hun comes to Busan to see pregnant Young-ah but she refuses his proposal.