Overview: Ha Dong, Kyung Nam Province in 1890. Choi Chi-Su's family is a grand land lord of the region from generation to generation. His mother Mrs. Yoon gives birth to another son Hwan after she was raped by Kim Gae-Ju when he is 10 years old. Later Hwan becomes a servant of Choi family but he falls in love with Chi-Su's wife and they flee by night. Meanwhile after a reign of 40 years of King Ko Jong, cholera prevails all over the country and years of famine follows it. While people suffer from natural disasters and diseases, one of Chi-Su's maternal relative Cho Jun-Ku and his wife make a plot to take Choi family's enormous wealth and strengthen the foundation for his status. In this chaos some villagers and Seo-Hee, Chi-Su's daughter leave their village for Buk Kan Do.
Overview: In preparation for Children's Day, Jeongnam's school has decided to perform the story of Mr. Bang Jeong-hwan as a children's play as a school event, and is busy preparing for it. Jeongnam, who plays Mr. Bang Jeong-hwan, lives happily with his poor but single mother, Mrs. Park. The Japanese detective is played by Tae-hwan, the son of a wealthy family, and the wife of Mr. Bang Jeong-hwan is played by Young-hee, the daughter of a working couple, Jeong-suk and Hyung-tae. Tae-hwan's mother, Mrs. Yoo, is dissatisfied with Tae-hwan's role as a Japanese detective, and tries to get him to play Mr. Bang Jeong-hwan by any means necessary.