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Winter Sonata (Korean Drama)

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Description: Joon-sang (Bae Yong Jun) moves to a new high school in search for his biological father. Yu-jin (Choi Ji Woo) and Sang-hyuk (Park Yong Ha) are close childhood friends, although Sang-hyuk wants to be more than a friend, Yu-jin sees him as a brother. On a trip together with other high school mates, Oh Chelin (Park Sol Mi), Jin-suk (Lee Hye Eun) and Yong-kuk (Ryu Seung Soo), Yu-jin is saved after an accident by Joon-sang. They become close and she opens up his cold heart. However, circumstances and fate dictate that their love will never be. He abruptly disappears from their lives. Ten years later, the old High School buddies gather to celebrate Yu-jin and Sang-hyuk's soon-to-be wedding. Yu-jin, who was deeply in love with Joon-sang, still has a fire in her heart for him. But at the party, Oh Chelin's new boyfriend arrives, who appears the same as Joon-sang.

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The Cycles of Life - By Tamotsu

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Winter Sonata Reviewed by Tamotsu

It has an Asian philosophy and outlook on life. I like the symbolism of Karma and the yin and the yang. The yin and the yang represents the positive and negative forces battling within the characters in the drama.  Karma or action is affected by positive or negative forces and can result in consequences beyond our control. The drama weaves this underlying theme delicately in the music, lighting, storyline, and character development. The blending of abstract symbolism of negative and positive Karma is excellent throughout the drama.  We are linked together in this endless cycle of life, binding our future to our past. The link to our ancestors and to our descendants can not be broken.  The sins of the parents are inherited and passed down to the children.  The four main characters was confronted with the same conflicts and choices their parents had faced when they were the young. 

Do they make the same mistake their parents had made when they were young and never repeat it, or do they keep making those same mistakes their parents had made, knowing that it?s wrong?.

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