During the last days of the Yi dynasty, conflict arises between the China-leaning conservatives, and the Western-learning and Japan-leaning reformers over how to rule Korea in the future. The reformer Kim Okgyun helps persuade the king to announce Korea's independence, breaking with China. When a conservative agent informs China, Chinese troops enter Korea and end the reign of independence after three days.
Major Jo Jin-hyang is assigned to training the air force cadets for dangerous bombing runs to Pyeongyang. His sister, a communication officer, falls in love with one of the cadets despite Jin-hyang's warnings that her lover may not survive even his first mission.
Sook-kyung, the youngest tomboy princess, loves playing hide and seek with her same-aged court ladies and is extremely curious about the life outside the palace. An opportunity comes for her on queen mother’s birthday celebration. Princess Sook-kyung gets to explore the outside world with the help of her older sister princesses and falls in love with a Seonggyungwan scholar she meets coincidentally. The variety of character twists in this film which is reminiscent of romantic comedies such as Roman Holiday and Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. The queen mother with a fancy royal costume but wears glasses because of her poor vision, and the court ladies who protect the princess day and night are usually slow and doze off but have the strength to push against male henchmen. The princes outside the palace walls seem like that of a naïve country girl who eats a rice cake at the marketplace because she thinks it’s free.
King Kong-min tried to govern the country wisely but, after the death of his wife, he neglects hs state duties. Most of the important decisions to be made fall to the king's retainer Shin Dong, who is more interested in women than politics and the kingdom soon falls into chaos.
When King Myeong-jong dies, his son takes the throne and the old king's concubines are expelled. One of the concubines becomes pregnant. Believing that only she knows the true father, she claims the unborn child is the former kings and has a claim to the throne. The enemies of the new king, ignoring facts, decide to support her claim and threaten to start a civil war.
When a doctor's beloved wife passes away, he puts her in a glass tub and revives her by injecting fresh blood to her every night. In return, he has to kill a number of other lives, including one of his friends. The victim's daughter suspects the death of her father and gets a job as a nurse at the doctor's office. She discovers the terrible secret and takes revenge for her father.
Bo-Young's spirit can't go to heaven because she died as an unmarried girl. Her nanny who died before her feels sorry for Bo-Young and tries to arrange a soul marriage to Jeong junior who sends private supplies in private for his jailed father due to false charge to ascend Bo-Young to heaven. Meanwhile Jeong junior can not control the chief of village who false charged on Jeong senior and deprived his properties, and even he requests for hidden fortune. Thus Bo-Young and her nanny makes Jeong junior pass the civil service examination and beat the greedy and wicked chief of village to save innocent Jeong senior. Finally nanny and Bo-Young who loves Jeong junior ascend to heaven.
When King Cheol-jang dies, the throne passes to his son King Ko-jang but, because he is considered to be too inexperienced, his ambitious uncle rules as regent. The rightful king's wife, the politically brilliant Queen Min, refuses to accept this situation and brings about the uncle's exile in order to secure the throne.
Cheon Do-won and blind Seol Hie attempt to regain the mystic swords 'Earth' and 'Heaven' from the bandits who have stolen them.
