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Winter Sonata
''Winter Sonata'' () is a 2002 South Korean television drama series, starring Bae Yong-joon and Choi Ji-woo. It is the second part of the season-themed tetralogy '' Endless Love'' drama series directed by Yoon Seok-ho. Filming primarily took place on the resort island of Namiseom and Seoul. It aired on KBS2 from January 14 to March 19, 2002, on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 ( KST) for 20 episodes. It has also been adapted into an anime series and a stage musical. Synopsis The story begins when Joon-sang ( Bae Yong-joon), 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 a result of the belief that his biological father is dead, and serious disagreements with his mother, Joon-sang believes that no one truly loves him. On his way to school one day, Joon-sang's classmate Yoo-jin ( Choi Ji-woo) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romance Film
Romance films involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion (emotion), passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their journey through dating, courtship or marriage, marriage is featured. These films focus on the search for romantic love as the main plot focus. Occasionally, romance lovers face obstacles such as finances, physical illness, various forms of discrimination, psychological restraints, or family resistance. As in all quite strong, deep, and close romantic relationships, the tensions of day-to-day life, temptations (of infidelity), and differences in compatibility enter into the plots of romantic films. Romantic films often explore the essential themes of love at first sight, young and mature love, unrequited love, obsession, sentimental love, Spirituality, spiritual love, forbidden love, platonic love, sexual and passionate love, sacrificial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korean Drama
Korean drama (), also known as K-drama or Koreanovela, refers to Korean language, Korean-language television shows made in South Korea. These shows began to be produced around the early 1960s, but were mostly consumed domestically until the rise of the Korean Wave in the 1990s. They have since achieved significant international popularity, with millions of viewers across the world. Beginning around the 1970s, more and more households in South Korea owned televisions. Programs were often produced on low budgets and were mostly consumed domestically. The industry significantly developed in the 1980s, after the spread of color television. Beginning in the early 1990s, several Korean dramas began achieving significant international popularity, primarily in China and Japan. In addition, South Korean popular music ("K-pop") and Cinema of South Korea, films began seeing similar successes, which gave rise to rapid international adoption of South Korean media in a phenomenon commonly calle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jang Hang-sun
Jang Hang-sun (born Kim Bong-soo on February 22, 1947) is a South Korean actor. Filmography Film Television series Awards and nominations References External links * * * * 1947 births Living people People from Yesan County Male actors from South Chungcheong Province 20th-century South Korean male actors 21st-century South Korean male actors South Korean male film actors South Korean male television actors Gwangsan Kim clan {{SouthKorea-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Hae-sook
Kim Hae-sook (; born December 30, 1955) is a South Korean actress. Career In 1974, she made her acting debut in MBC's ''Chief Inspector''. Over the past decade, she has won over 10 awards and appeared in over 30 films. Kim Hae-sook has published a book entitled ''Mother of Hallyu The Korean Wave, or ''hallyu'' (; ), is a cultural phenomenon in which the global popularity of South Korean popular culture has dramatically risen since the 1990s. Worldwide interest in Korean culture has been led primarily by the spread of K- ... Stars: Kim Hae-sook's Story''. Filmography Film Television series Web series Book Awards and nominations State honors Listicles Notes References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kim, Hae-sook 1955 births Kyung Hee University alumni Living people 20th-century South Korean actresses 21st-century South Korean actresses South Korean film actresses South Korean television actresses Actresses from Busan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jung Dong-hwan
Jung Dong-hwan (; born August 5, 1949) is a South Korean actor. Jung began his career in theater, then was most active in Korean cinema in the 1980s, with leading roles in ''Late Autumn'' (1982), ''Jung-kwang's Nonsense'' (1986), and ''A Top Knot on Montmartre'' (1987). As he grew older, Jung appeared more frequently in television, notably in ''The Last Station'' (1987), ''Three Kim Generation'' (1998), ''Winter Sonata'' (2002), ''Rustic Period'' (2002), ''Immortal Admiral Yi Sun-sin'' (2004) and '' Freedom Fighter, Lee Hoe-young'' (2010). Early years and education Jung was born in Gimje, as second and youngest son. He spent his childhood in Huam-dong, Seoul with his mother and his older brother. He proudly remember as being one of the first visitors to Namsan Library when it opened. Since he was young, Jung enjoyed watching plays. His first experience watching play was students performances from the theater department of Joongdong High School. At that time, there weren' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Song Ok-sook
Song Ok-sook (; born August 14, 1960) is a South Korean actress. She has appeared in supporting roles in numerous television dramas, including ''Winter Sonata'', '' Beethoven Virus'', ''More Charming by the Day'', and '' Missing You''. Song is also a full-time professor in the Department of Film Arts at the Dong-Ah Institute of Media and Arts since 2005. She is an advocate of adoption Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting of another, usually a child, from that person's biological or legal parent or parents. Legal adoptions permanently transfer all rights and responsibilities, along with filiation, fro .... Filmography Television series Film Theater Awards and nominations References External links Song Ok-sookat Bom Entertainment * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Song, Ok-sook South Korean television actresses South Korean film actresses South Korean stage actresses Chung-Ang University alumni Yonsei University alumni Living people 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korean Honorifics
The Korean language has a system of Honorifics (linguistics), linguistic honorifics that reflects the social status of participants. Speakers use honorifics to indicate their social relationship with the addressee and/or subject of the conversation, concerning their age, social status, gender, degree of intimacy, and situational context. One basic rule of Korean honorifics is "making oneself lower"; i.e., the speaker uses honorific forms and also humble forms to make themselves lower. The honorific system is reflected in honorific particles, verbs with special honorific forms or honorific markers and special honorific forms of nouns that includes terms of address. Impact of social relationships Age The age difference between two speakers affects whether or not to use honorifics. Korean speakers in South Korea and North Korea—except in very intimate situations—use different honorifics depending on whether the other person's year of birth is one year or more older, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwon Hae-hyo
Kwon Hae-hyo (; born November 6, 1965) is a South Korean actor and activist. In addition to his acting career, he is also known for his activism. Kwon has been involved with a number of organizations advocating for political and social justice Social justice is justice in relation to the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society where individuals' rights are recognized and protected. In Western and Asian cultures, the concept of social justice has of ... causes, including the Unite Our People Movement Headquarters, the Abolish the Family Registry and Create Family Equality Organization, the Cultural Alliance for Peace at Daechuri, and the Minkahyup Human Rights Group. Filmography Film Television series Variety shows Hosting Theater Awards and nominations References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kwon, Hae-hyo 1965 births Living people South Korean male television actors South Korean male film actors South Korea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryu Seung-soo
Ryu Seung-soo (born August 12, 1971) is a South Korean actor. Ryu made his acting debut in 1997 with a minor role in Park Chan-wook's film ''Trio'', and has been active as a supporting actor on film and television since. Among his notable films are the monks-versus-gangsters comedy '' Hi! Dharma!'' (2001), "kimchi" western '' The Good, the Bad, the Weird'' (2008), and Korean War movie '' The Front Line'' (2011). He also appeared on TV in the quirky series ''Evasive Inquiry Agency'' (also known as ''Four Gold Chasers'', 2007), revenge drama '' The Chaser'' (2012), and power-struggle saga '' Empire of Gold'' (2013). Despite being one of his earliest projects, the 2002 melodrama ''Winter Sonata'' is among Ryu's better known roles outside Korea, given the series' popularity throughout Asia. In 2009, he reprised his character via voice acting in the animated adaptation '' Winter Sonata Anime''. Ryu wrote his memoir ''Don't Be an Actor Like Me'', which was published in 2009. Filmo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park Sol-mi
Park Sol-mi (; born January 3, 1978), birth name Park Hye-jeong, is a South Korean actress. Acting career Park had a minor role in the 1996 series '' Papa'', then made her official debut in MBC's amateur talent contest in 1998."Park Sol-mi, same company as Oh Ji-ho, 'Ignite Korea-Japan activities'" . ''''. 1 May 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-03. Her breakthrough came in 2002 when she starred in several television dramas, including ''Bad Girls'' and the popular '' |
Park Yong-ha
Park Yong-ha (, August 12, 1977 – June 30, 2010) was a South Korean actor and singer. Career At seventeen, Park was noted for his acting and musical skills, as well as his good looks which earned him popularity with fans. After his debut in MBC drama ''Theme Theater'' (1994), Park appeared in a range of TV dramas and films. In 2002, Park co-starred in ''Winter Sonata'' with Bae Yong-joon and Choi Ji-woo, which brought him fame in Japan. Music As a singer, Park was the "mysterious" voice behind ''Just For Yesterday'', the hit theme song of SBS drama ''All In (TV series), All In'', which starred Lee Byung-hun and Song Hye-kyo. Park released various Japanese albums in Japan and held successful concerts both in Japan and Korea. Park sang the theme songs of SBS drama ''On Air'' in 2008. The Japanese version of the theme songs was his 6th single album ''Behind Love''. ''Behind Love'', released on July 23, 2008, was ranked as the third top single album on Oricon, Japan's premier d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuncheon
Chuncheon (; ; literally ''spring river''), formerly romanized as Ch'unch'ŏn, is the capital of Gangwon Province, South Korea. The city lies in the north of the country, located in a basin formed by the Soyang River and Han River (Korea), Han River. There are some large lakes around the city, most notably Soyang Lake and Uiam Lake (or Uiam Dam). The area has small river islands, such as Sangjungdo, Ha-Jungdo, Bungeodo, and Wido. It is a popular destination among East Asian tourists as it was featured in the popular Korean drama ''Winter Sonata''. It is where the resort island of Namiseom is located. Also, Gangwon Provincial Office is located in the city. History The area now occupied by the city was first settled several thousands of years ago, in prehistoric times, as demonstrated by stone-age archaeological evidence in the collections of Chuncheon National Museum and Hallym University Museum. In 637 AD the city was called ''Usooju''. In 757 AD it was renamed ''Saku'' and ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
