Plot Summary: Unlike most tragedies with a sad ending, Winter
Sonata reached a bittersweet conclusion even though everyone who
had intimate connection with the two main characters paid the heavy
price of emotional and mental agony. The story opened with Joon
Sang portrayed by Bae Yong Jun in his finest performance and Yu
Jin, played by the talented Choi Ji Woo, as two high school
students who fell in love for the first time. Unfortunately, their
ill-fated love suffered a cruel blow as our hero soon died in a car
accident, leaving our heroine heart-broken and dispirited. Ten
years later, Yu Jin found herself working on a ski resort project
with Min Yeong who looked exactly like Joon Sang. Oddly enough, he
was courting Yu Jin's high school rival, Chae Lin, deftly played by
Park Sol Mi. Consequently, Yu Jin's uncontrollable attraction to
Min Yeong jeopardized her engagement to her childhood admirer, Sang
Hyuk, played by Park Yong Ha, who in conspiracy with Chae Lin,
tried everything to separate the two destined lovers. When the
truth came out that Min Yeong and Joon Sang were the same person
and worse still, the suspicion that Joon Sang and Yu Jin were
half-brother and sister, everyone involved was thrown into utter
confusion, resulting in grief and detrimental pain.
