Description: Jang Seung-Up (Choi Min-sik) is a Korean peasant and a gifted artist. Upper-class Kim Byung-Moon (Ahn Sung-ki) discovers Jang and, recognizing his talent for painting, agrees to become his patron. As a result, Jang's skills continue to develop and his profile rises. He falls in love with Mae-Hyang (You Ho-Jeong), but class differences keep them apart. When Jang learns Mae-Hyang has married, he succumbs to a self-destructive downward spiral of alcoholism and womanizing.

Description: A terminally ill photographer befriends a meter maid after she walks into his studio in Seoul, South Korea.

Description: In 13th-century Korea, Noble-born Mongryong (Seung-woo Cho) and commoner Chunhyang (Hyo Jeong Yi) fall in love when they first meet, but the difference in their social classes prevents them from pursuing a public relationship. They elope, but immediately after their nuptials, Mongryong is forced to follow his father to Seoul and finish school. When he returns, he discovers that Chunhyang has been sentenced to death by despotic ruler Gov. Byun Hakdo (Jung Hun Lee), whom she refused to marry.

Description: A college student (Son Ye-jin) finds a diary detailing a long-ago love triangle involving her mother, her future father, and his best friend (Jo Seung-woo).

Description: A male radio presenter and a TV home shopping phone operator get together in a special way.

Description: A story of a filmmaker who falls in love with the woman he interviews for his film. Interview presents the evolution of a relationship which shifts from the objective to the subjective, from lies to truth. Film director, Eun-Sok gradually discovers his feelings for Young-Hee. Young-Hee resists to sustain the lies began from the first interview with Eun-Sok.

Description: Four childhood friends go their separate ways, two go off to college while the others become rival gangsters.

Description: Su-Hyun, a 30-year-old art lecturer and his girlfriend, Sun-Young have lived a peaceful life until he comes across an antique wooden bed made from gingko tree and gets pursued by the ghost of General Hwang. Resurrected General Hwang roves modern Seoul ripping the hearts out of people to maintain human form. Su-Hyun does not know why General Hwang seeks to kill him but soon finds out that in their previous lives they were enemies.

Description: Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. Sgt. Lee Soo-hyeok (Lee Byung-Hun) is the shooter, but lead investigator Maj. Sophie E. Jean (Lee Yeong-ae), a Swiss-Korean woman, receives differing accounts from the two sides. Lee claims he fired in self-defense after getting wounded, while a North Korean survivor says it was a premeditated attack -- leaving Jean with her work cut out for her.

Description: Five distinctive short films from the new Korean cinema, which is emerging as one of the most compelling of the contemporary international film scenes. These films present a variety of styles and thematic concerns, and stand together as a refreshing sign of good things to come from some of the most talented of today's Korean directors. Includes Eraser Wrestling (Min Dong-hyun, 1999, 18 mins.), For the Peace of All Mankind (Lee Seok-hoon, 1999, 7 mins.), Lachrymal (Lim Chang-jae, 1998, 20 mins.), The Goggles (Lee Su-yeon, 2000, 34 mins.), and Uncle Bar at the Barbershop (Kwon Jung-gwan, 2000, 22 mins.).