Everyone in the audience has experienced at least one or more of these different shades of love, where he or she could empathize with any of the characters at one time or another in this melodrama. The main reason for Winter Sonata's popularity could be attributed to its bold exposition of the various aspects of love: 1) puppy love 2) first love 3) possessive love 4) lost love 5) parental love and 6) true love. Furthermore, the excellent use of parallelism and repetition compounded the dramatic effects in scenes - whenever Yu Jin and Sang Hyuk were fighting, Min Yeong and Chae Lin were also arguing when Yu Jin and Min Yeong strolled through their high school, each taking a different path, unaware of one another's presence and when Yu Jin tried to tail whom she thought was Joon Sang in the crowd and later Sang Hyuk attempted to follow whom he thought was Yu Jin in the streets.Īlthough the drama is basically a love story, it tackled many contemporary themes: 1) character duality - Joon Sang personified the dark side and Ming Yeong, the bright side 2) identity problems - Joon Sang searched for the identity of his father and later Min Yeong questioned his own identity 3) different reactions to the loss of love - Yu Jin's sad disposition, Joon Sang's escapes to America, San Hyuk's suicide attempt, and Chae Lin's drinking binge 4) incestuous love remained a taboo in modern age and 5) fate prevailed no matter what others did to prevent the destined lovers from getting together. The main symbols in Winter Sonata - the star Polaris (representing Joon Sang), the missing puzzle piece (representing Yu Jin in Joon Sang's life), and the first snowfall of winter (representing the meeting of the two lovers) - appeared repetitively throughout the melodrama to hammer the point of their significance they contributed to the story.
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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.įollowing the success of directing the TV drama series, Autumn Tales, Yun Seok Ho demonstrated his supremacy in making melodramas using symbolism, parallelism, repetition, and timing, as provocative ways to stir emotions and draw tears from the audience. 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.
Oddly enough, he was courting Yu Jin's high school rival, Chae Lin, deftly played by Park Sol Mi. Ten years later, Yu Jin found herself working on a ski resort project with Min Yeong who looked exactly like Joon Sang. 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. 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. 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.
Moreover, it addressed the perennial theme of love in all its complexity in our ever-changing society.
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Under the crafty direction of Yun Seok Ho, the series presented a mastery of cinematic techniques tugging at one's heartstrings, like the sound and visual effects of a big screen effectively capturing one's imagination. What is it about Winter Sonata that touches so many women of all ages throughout Asia? Upon a closer scrutiny, this Korean TV drama series offers more than a complex love story, intriguing plot twists, good acting, memorable scenes and lines, not to mention, breathtaking winter scenery backed up by melancholic music tunes.
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