A story

Winter Sonata Storyline

...The story starts with a very tardy girl named Jung Yoojin, who comes from Chuncheon, and is a junior in her high school. Her childhood friend, Kim Sang Hyuk, is always there to help her on her problems, especially her tardiness. On a bus that stops near her school, she falls asleep and misses her stop. There she meets the dark and mysterious Kang Joon Sang, a transfer student from Seoul. The two happen to go to the same school and share a cab back to the school.

The two are complete opposites. Joon Sang is quiet and he likes to keep things to himself. Yoojin is sometimes too loud and she's known to draw people out of their shells. Yoojin and Joon Sang play hooky and skip school to be with each other. Yoojin finds out on this day that Joon Sang came to Chuncheon because he is looking for his father, who his mother says is dead. This is the point where Yoojin and Joon Sang start falling for each other. When the next day arrives, Oh Chelin, a friend of Yoojin and Sang Hyuk, becomes very jealous. Joon Sang starts courting Yoojin, until Sang Hyuk has had enough and follows Joon Sang, finding out that he is taking private lessons with his father. He makes Joon Sang spill out his secrets. Yoojin hears that he is only using her, which leads them to stop dating each other.

Joon Sang and Yoojin are supposed to have a date on Saturday, but the gang, Chelin, Jin Suk, Yong Kuk and Sang Hyuk have plans and invite the two to a cabin in the forest for a getaway. The two come along, but what they don't know is that this outing only brings them back together. Soon after, they start dating again, and fall for each other even more. Yoojin gives Joon Sang her gloves and asks that he return them on New Years Eve. This day is also the day that Yoojin and Joon Sang tell each other a secret. For some reason, Joon Sang doesn't show up. When Yoojin finds out the next day that Joon Sang died in a car accident, she breaks down in tears.

Ten years later, Yoojin is engaged to Sang Hyuk and the two have an engagement ceremony. On that day, Yoojin gets her hair done and sees Joon Sang. She spends much time looking for him but loses him in the crowd. She then misses the engagement ceremony but the two eventually get engaged. After the engagement, she is assigned to work at a firm, where she sees the Joon Sang look-alike. She then finds out that he isn't Joon Sang and that he is Lee Min Hyung, an architect from the United States. He says he has never been to Korea and he was born and raised in the U.S. She also finds out he is dating Chelin, who also happens to have loved Joon Sang.

Things get complicated for Yoojin as she tries to keep the memory of Joon Sang alive in Min Hyung. Min Hyung falls in love with Yoojin and breaks up with Chelin. Chelin gets very angry and feels that this is happening all over again. Sang Hyuk also feels uncomfortable because Yoojin can only see Joon Sang in Min Hyung. Yoojin falls for Min Hyung and dumps Sang Hyuk, who goes crazy and doesn't eat or drink for days. Yoojin leaves Min Hyung and goes back to Sang Hyuk, even though she still loves Min Hyung.

Time passes and nothing much changes. Min Hyung is often mistaken for Joon Sang and suddenly gets much information about him, finally finding out that he is Joon Sang. He tries to tell Yoojin this, but Yoojin says he is only trying to fool around with her feelings. Min Hyung gives up and decides to move back to the States. On the day of his departure, Yoojin finds out that he really is Joon Sang and stops him from going. Min Hyung doesn't remember anything and then leaves her the next day when she's asleep, knowing this wasn't meant to be. Yoojin wakes up shortly and reads his message. She looks for him and sees him across the street. She runs between the cars and as soon as she gets almost hit by a car, he pushes her out of the way and gets into a car accident again, which helps him remember memories of Yoojin. The two fall in love again and decide to get married. Trying to get blessings from their parents, they see that both of their mothers disagree. The two investigate and find out the real reason, which is because Joon Sang's mother loved Yoojin's father, and she can't come to this decision for that.

Joon Sang investigates more, knowing this isn't the real reason. Then the real reason is revealed, and he finds out Yoojin is his half sisters from Yoojin's dad and Joon Sang's mom. This breaks Joon Sang's heart and he tries not to tell Yoojin but she finds out anyway and sees that they cannot be together. Joon Sang decides to really go back to the States and Yoojin decides to study abroad. Yoojin gives Joon Sang a design she made for a house. Joon Sang finds out that he is dying from some severe damage done to his head. He is told to get an operation. After the operation, he will either be blind or he will die. Before he goes back to the States, he finds that Sang Hyuk's dad is his real father, and not Yoojin's, meaning Sang Hyuk and Joon Sang are half brothers. Joon Sang did not tell Yoojin the truth that they are not half brother and half sister because Sang Hyuk asked him to let Yoojin go. However, Sang Hyuk told Yoojin the truth that he and Joon Sang are half brothers and Joon Sang is not her half brother out of sympathy for Joon Sang as Sang Hyuk found out that Joon Sang is either going blind or will die. However, Joon Sang and Yoojin still separate apart as Joon Sang is having surgery in the States and Yoojin is studying in France. The two split apart for three years.

After three years, Jin Suk and Yong Kuk have a baby girl and Yoojin comes back from France where she studied. The gang have a reunion and Yoojin goes back to work. Her boss, Jung Ah, shows her a house that looks exactly like the design she gave Joon Sang. Yoojin visits this house, where she meets Joon-Sang, who built the house. She discovers that Joon Sang is blind from the operation and the two are finally together in the end.