Winter Sonata
| Winter Sonata | |
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Promotional poster
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| Also known as | Winter Love Story Winter Love Song Winter Ballad Endless Love: Winter Sonata |
| Genre |
Romance Melodrama |
| Written by | Kim Eun-hee Yoon Eun-kyung Oh Soo-yeon |
| Directed by | Yoon Seok-ho |
| Starring |
Bae Yong-joon Choi Ji-woo |
| Opening theme | From the Beginning to End by Ryu |
| Ending theme | From the Beginning to End by Ryu |
| Country of origin | South Korea |
| Original language(s) | Korean |
| No. of episodes | 20 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Lee Hyung-min |
| Location(s) | Seoul, Namiseom |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 60 minutes Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 (KST) |
| Release | |
| Original network | KBS2 |
| Picture format |
SDTV (480i 4:3) PAL (576i 4:3) DVB-T (UHF) |
| Audio format |
Dolby Digital 5.1 Datasat Digital 5.1 Sony Digital 5.1 |
| Original release | January 14 – March 19, 2002 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Mina |
| Followed by | Sunshine Hunting |
| Related shows |
Autumn in My Heart Summer Scent Spring Waltz |
| External links | |
| Website | |
| Winter Sonata | |
| Hangul | |
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| Hanja | 겨울 |
| Revised Romanization | Gyeoul yeonga |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kyŏul yŏn'ga |
Winter Sonata (Hangul: 겨울연가; RR: Gyeoul Yeonga; also known as Winter Love Story, Winter Love Song or Winter Ballad) is a South Korean television drama series that aired on KBS2 in 2002. Starring Bae Yong-joon and Choi Ji-woo, it is the second part of the season-themed Endless Love series directed by Yoon Seok-ho. Filming primarily took place on the resort island of Namiseom and Seoul.
It is widely considered to be the Korean drama that launched the Korean Wave throughout Asia and worldwide. It has also been adapted into an anime series and a stage musical.
The story begins when Joon-sang, the son of an eminent musician, 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 his teachers, but remains a quiet, introverted teenager. As he intends to find out about his biological father, whom his mother claims has died, he decided to move to the province. Having an identity crisis in adolescence because of the father he has never met, and blaming his mother for this, Joon-sang believes that no one truly loves him.
On his way to school one day, Joon-sang's classmate Yoo-jin, while sitting next to him on the bus, falls asleep on his shoulder. Joon-sang soon falls in love with Yoo-jin, who opens her innocent heart to him. Their love, however, is cut short after Joon-sang is seriously injured in a car accident and, due to brain damage, suffers from amnesia, unable to remember anything prior to his accident.
Joon-sang's mother, yearning for Joon-sang's love and respect, has Joon-sang brainwashed by a psychologist, so that Joon-sang will not remember his painful childhood 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-hyeong. His friends and teachers are told that Joon-sang is dead.
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