winter sonata

Is first love really cannot be forgotten? Is first love really eternal?

It's really a sad drama. I even wept like ocean while watching it (though, in fact, I'm  a what-so-called "sobbed sister", where I'm easily to get weep or touched by stories, movies, or even comics) .Maybe it sounds absurd, I do hate soap operas yet I do love Korean dramas. I don't know why their stories have always catch me. Still, I consider almost the stories are too "drama" and rarely found in real world. But, sometimes they have similarities with my own stories of life. Perhaps, that's why I like them.

I've seen many Korean dramas that impress me. One of it is this one called Winter Sonata.   

This TV drama was originally run in 2002 by KBS 2 in Korea. It has other titles of "Winter Ballad / Winter Love Story". It's difficult to find this series nowadays, but fortunately and thankfully I could watched it recently. 

It is a story of first love that last forever. It is a story of a girl who falls in love twice to the same person, though ten years had separated them. And after the second meeting they should face the old truth that requires them to be apart, again.

The girl named Jung Yu-jin (played by Choi Ji Woo). She was fall in love with Kang Joon Sang (played by Bae Yong Joon), who came to her town in order to find his real father.

The story begins when Joon-sang, who is the son of an eminent musician who moves to Chuncheon; a rural city in South Korea. As an extraordinarily talented student, Joon-sang is welcomed by his fellow students as well as teachers, but remains a quiet, introverted young man. As a result of his belief that his father is dead and serious conflicts with his mother, Joon-sang believes that no one truly loves him.

On one fortuitous day on the ride to school, Joon-sang's classmate Yu-jin interrupts him on the bus. Joon-sang soon falls in love with Yu-jin, who opens herself to him with an innocent heart. Their love, however, is cut short after Joon-sang is involved in a serious auto-accident and, due to brain damage, is unable to recall his past life.

Joon-sang's mother, desiring Joon-sang's love and respect, has Joon-sang brainwashed by a psychologist, so that Joon-sang will not remember his painful memories of growing up as an illegitimate child. As a result, Joon-sang's memories prior to the accident are erased. Joon-sang's mother decides to move to the United States with Joon-sang, where he can start a new life under the identity of Lee Min-hyung. As such, both his friends and teachers are told that Joon-sang is dead.

Ten years later, Joon-sang is an award-winning architect in the United States. He does not remember anything about his life in Korea. He is completely different, an open-minded person who cares about other people, including his mother. He returns to Korea and Yu-jin sees him on the street, prompting her to put off her engagement to childhood friend Sang-hyuk. Little does she know that Joon-sang is dating her friend and sometime rival Che-lin. The story's plot intensifies when Yu-jin begins work at the firm where Joon-sang is employed, and tries to find out if he is her lost lover Joon-sang.