Winter Sonata

Winter Sonata adalah cerita korean drama yang pertama saya beli dan until today its still my fave all time drama. Really loves this story esp the hero n heroinnya yang memang sesuai Bae Yong Joon and Choi Ji-woo. Jalan cerita yg menarik walaupun agak meleret (tapi takpe sbb heronya hencem so tak jemu mata memandang) menambahkan lagi keseronokan drama ni.  Let's read the sypnosis...

Yujin and Sang Hyuk are childhood friends.  Yujin is lively, spontaneous, warm n friendly.  She loves to sleep on the bus and is always late for school.  Sang Hyuk is the model student and the class monitor.  Together with Oh Chelin, Kong Jinsuk n Kwon Yongkuk, they form the broadcast team in school.

The lives of this group of friends are disrupted and changed forever with the arrival of a new student, Kang Joon Sang, who has transferred from Seoul. Joon Sang is cool, aloof n a loner.  But he is good looking n extremely smart.  Chelin, being the most confident and go-getter of the bunch, declares that shes got Joon Sang zeroed in and no one is to compete with her for him.  However, Joon Sang does not reciprocate Chelins advances.

Joon Sang has his reason for transferring to Namiseom Island.  He is the illegitimate son of a famous pianist mother, and he wants to seek out his biological father.  Joon Sang believes that his father is in Namiseom Island, where his mother attended high school, and he has a reasons to believe that his father is his mothers high school sweetheart.  And because of an old burnt picture, Joon Sang thought that his father is Sang Hyuks father.  He makes life difficult for Sang Hyuk in school, constantly provoking him and perhaps trying to get close to Yujin to spike Sang Hyuk.

However, through the process, he finds himself falling for Yujin.  Her lively n warm personality ignites a change in the cool Jong Sang.  He starts to smile and open himself up to her.  Together, the two spend unforgettable moments e.g. playing truant, detention, piano recitals, getting lost in the mountain, playing with snow n making snowman, etc, that will seal each other as the others first love.

But though a chanced encounter, Joon Sang finds out that Yujins father was also a close friend of his mother during high school, and suspects that they may be related.  Joon Sang then agrees to his mothers arrangement to study in the US.  As he is heading to the airport, he remembers his promise to Yujin to return her gloves.  Ignoring his mothers protest, he gets off the car for his rendezvous with Yujin, but meets an accident on his way there.  Everyone in school is told that Joon Sang died in the car accident.  The group is shocked with the news.  Having been stood up the night before, Yujing is dumbfounded and overwhelmed with sorrow.

10 years later, Yujin and Sang Hyuk are planning their engagement party.  But on the day of the engagement ceremony, while making her way to the hotel, Yujing meets a man (Lee Min Hyung) who looks just like Joon Sang.  She spends the entire evening searching for him, wondering aimlessly on the streets and ends up missing her engagement party alttogether.

As the model nice guy, Sang Hyuk forgives Yujin.  To make up for the unsuccessful engagement party, Jin Suk n Yon Kuk help Sang Hyuk and Yujin to organise a private engagement party.  But at the party, Chelin shows up with her boyfriend, Lee Min Hyung, who looks exactly like Joon Sang.  Everyone at the party is shaken by the meeting. But as destiny has lay out the path for the 2 leads.  Yujin meets Min Hyung face to face for the first time because of work.  As an interior designer, Yujins company undertakes the project to redevelop the ski resort which Min Hyungs company owns.  At their first meeting, Yujin is shocked to Min Hyung, and leaves in tears before she can present her companys proposal.  Min Hyung is obviously surprised by her unusual reaction, and is immediately attracted to Yujin.  Through interactions at work and resolved misunderstanding (thanks to Chelin), Min Hyung finds himself uncontrollably attracted to Yujin.  Yujin is torn as well.  Min Hyung is a constant reminder of her lost first love; but she cannot leave Sang Hyuk after all these years together.  Sang Hyuk is also tortured with suspicion as he feels Yujing slipping away from his fingers.

Against all odds, Yujin breaks up with Sang Hyuk and gets together with Min Hyung.  The union is short lived as Sang Hyuk goes into depression and almost kills himself.  Overcome by guilt, Yujin and Min Hyung part. althought they know that they've fallen hopelessly for each other.  As they struggle to rebuild their lives, Min Hyung accidentally finds out that he is actually Kang Joon Sang, and that he had amnesia after the car accident.  His mother, out of desperation to reconcile with her son, with the help of her psychiatrist friend, gave Joon Sang a new identity, in the form of the much happier Min Hyung.  The plot thickens.

With a car accident, Yujin confirms Joon Sangs identity, and affirms her affection for Joon Sang.  Sang Hyuk throws in the white towel when he realises that Min Hyung is Joon Sang, the love rival that he can never beat.  After discovering his new identity, Joon Sang is once again wrapped up in the quest to find out who his father is.  With Joon Sangs mother opposing their marriage, it leads Joon Sang to believe that Yujin is actually his half-sister and he is a product of Joon Sangs mothers brief engagement to Yujins father.

Yujin and Joon Sang part for the 2nd time, both in utter disbelief and devastation with the realisation that they can never be together.  But the story takes a twist, and it is eventually revealed that Joon Sang is not Yujins half-brother and that Sang Hyuks father is Joon Sangs biological father.  However, before Joon Sang can reunite with Yujin with the good news, he finds out that he has a life threatening blood clot in his head as a result of his car accident.  And in effort to win Yujin back, Sang Hyuk begs Joon Sang to give him his life back.

Joon Sang does something against what he has always believed, by helping his half brother and asks Yujin to accept Sang Hyuk.  Yujin refuses and parts with Joon Sang.  Joon Sang eventually leaves for the US to seek treatment, and Yujin escapes to France even after learning the truth from Sang Hyuk about Joon Sangs relationship with her and his health condition.

3 year later, Yujin returns to Korea after completing her studies in France.  She meets up with her friends and spends time catching up.  She returns to work at the Polaris and discovers a villa built in the same design as a house model which she gave Joon Sang 3 years ago.  Coincidentally, Joon Sang is also visiting in Korea.  But he is blind from the surgery.  Destiny finally puts the 2 star-crossed leads in the house of love that Joon Sang built for Yujin.  They embrace in the sunset and seal their meeting with a gentle kiss.