THE SERIES THAT HOOKED THE ASIA
Winter Sonata 2002 *Reviewed by TKLSend this reviewer an email
(Endless Love II or Winter Love Song)
Yu Jin is running towards the bus stop. She sees her best friend walking in front of her and calls out joyfully, "Sang Hyuk!" Sang Hyuk turns back and catches her as she runs into him. She chats happily as he buttons up her coat for her, smiling. The bus comes but there are already too many students on the bus. Sang Hyuk pushes her onto the bus while he waits for the next one.
Yu Jin finds a seat at the back of the bus. Feeling tired, she falls asleep. Her head rests on something really comfortable until someone pushes her head away. She wakes up, staring at the boy sitting next to her, who is also staring back at her, showing obvious annoyance. She looks around and realizes that she has missed her stop. She calls out frantically for the driver to let her get off. That boy gets off as well. She glances around, unaware of where she is. She looks at him, and he glances back, uninterested. She realizes that he is wearing the uniform of her school. She asks which year he is in and he replies curtly. Yu Jin is annoyed at his attitude. She walks away but turn back, saying, "Why are you still standing there?" He looks at her, as if not to understand what she means. She continues, "Let's split the taxi fare!" And that is the beginning of one beautiful but heart-breaking love story.
Joon Sang is a new student in Yu Jin’s school. He is aloof, and cold. The reason for why Joon Sang leaves Seoul and ends up in Yu Jin’s school is because he wants to search for his biological father. He thinks that person is Sang Hyuk’s father. Envious of everything Sang Hyuk has, Joon Sang always picks fights with Sang Hyuk, Yu Jin’s best friend, who has been secretly in love with her. He gets close to Yu Jin just because he wants to annoy Sang Hyuk yet unknowingly, he also falls in love with the sweet Yu Jin. What Joon Sang does not know was that his mother was good friends with Sang Hyuk’s father and was in love with Yu Jin’s father. One fateful night, Joon Sang discovers this relationship so he assumes that Yu Jin is his sister. He decides to leave for America with his mother but suddenly remembers that he has asked Yu Jin to meet him. As he runs to their meeting place, a tragic accident happens and everyone thinks that he has passed away.
Ten years later, as Yu Jin is happily arranging her engagement party to Sang Hyuk, she encounters Lee Min Hyung, who looks exactly like Joon Sang. Yet Lee Min Hyung is also different to Joon Sang as he is more outgoing and happy. The appearance of Lee Min Hyung causes problems in Yu Jin and Sang Hyuk’s relationship as Sang Hyuk is always jealous of Yu Jin’s love for Joon Sang. As fate would have it, Lee Min Hyung falls in love with Yu Jin. What if Lee Min Hyung is Joon Sang? What would Yu Jin do if her first love has come back? Did she really bury the memory of Joon Sang and move on with Sang Hyuk?
THE CHARACTERS:
BAE YONG JOON - JOON SANG AND MIN HYUNG
CHOI JI WOO - YU JIN
PARK YONG HA - SANG HYUK
PARK SOL MI - CHAE LIN
