Who would ever forget these classic love stories that made everyone fall in love, feel the butterflies, and basically take the viewers on an emotional rollercoaster? Each started a plot depicting the couple's romance until they go through trials and tribulations that will test their love. Soon enough, these stories became famous not only in South Korea but across Asian countries.
Endless Love is the classic Korean drama tetralogy by KBS from 2000 to 2006. Director Yoon Seok Ho launched four titles: Autumn in My Heart, Winter Sonata, Summer Scent, and Spring Waltz. And indeed, these dramas produced or became the breakthrough of the Korean actors and actresses who we now recognize as the most prominent stars.
If you're new to the K-drama, who just started to take an interest in the Korean series, you should get to know the veteran stars who made the Endless love tetralogy a hit with their outstanding performances. They are ageless, and their acting prowess is more perfected over time.
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The timeless Korean beauty - who doesn't know her? Her success started in Autumn in My Heart (2000), where she played the role of Yoon Eun-Suh. During birth, she lost her biological mother. As she was switched as a baby, she was returned to her mother's care when she reached her teenage years. This series became a global hit, and her face was all around the web every second.
Many roles have followed after, such as in All In (2003), Full House (2004), That Winter, the Wind Blows (2013), and many more. The drama followed from one after the other brought her international fame in the early 2000s.
Song Hye Kyo's recent works include Descendant of the Sun (2016) and Encounter (2018). She made a mark as one of the
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Song Seung Heon, in character as Yoon Joon-Suh, partnered with Eun-Suh (Song Hye Kyo). They starred in Autumn in My Heart that gained sky-high ratings. He also starred in Summer Scent, one of the parts of the Endless Love series. He appeared twice and made a name for his acting performance.
Even today, he is still one of the original K-drama actors who is still sought-after leading man today. He currently appears in MBC's Dinner Mate with actress Seo Ji Hye.
Choi Ji Woo is one of the most popular characters in the Endless Love for starring in Winter Sonata. It launched the
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Choi Ji Woo played the role of Yoo-jin, whose first love (Bae Young Joon) suffered from amnesia after a car accident. He cannot remember anything until they meet again after a decade.
In the latest 2020 top-rated K-drama Crash Landing On You, Choi Ji Woo made a cameo as herself and met up with North Korean soldier Kim Ju-Meok. In the early 2000s, she is popular in her role as Stairway to Heaven (2003) and Temptation (2014). Last month, Ji Woo, at the age of 44, gave birth to a healthy baby girl.
Won Bin is one of the original actors who gave us second lead syndrome in Autumn in My Heart. He played the character as the old friend of Joon-Suh and fell in love with Eun-Suh. He appeared in movies Mother (2009) and The Man from Nowhere (2010). No drama series of films he plans to join at the moment.
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In character as Yoon Se Ri in Crash Landing on You, the fashionable heiress who fell in love with Captain Ri, Son Ye Jin starred as Shim Hye-won in Endless Love third installment, Summer Scent. Her blockbuster films, such as The Classic (2003), and A Moment to Remember (2004). The success of her latest drama series, Crash Landing On You, gained record-breaking ratings in cable television history.Autumn in My Heart (Korean: 가을동화 ) is a 2000 South Korean romantic television drama starring Song Seung-heon, Song Hye-kyo, and Won Bin.
The series is the first installmt of season-themed tetralogy dless Love drama series directed by Yoon Seok-ho. It aired on KBS2 from September 18 to November 7, 2000, on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 (KST) for 16 episodes.
The series was very successful in South Korea, averaging viewership ratings of 38.6% and reaching a peak viewership of 46.1%. It is considered a pioneer in Korean melodramatic series, launching a worldwide fever that is commonly referred to as the Korean Wave. Tours of sites in Korea related to the show have be developed following its success.
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The story begins with toddler Yoon Joon-suh, accidtally causing the switch of his sister and another baby wh he drops the name cards on the two babies' cribs in the hospital's baby room. A nurse who comes in puts the name cards back incorrectly. The story th jumps forward to the teage years of the two main characters: Yoon Eun-suh (Moon Geun-young) and Yoon Joon-suh (Choi Woo-hyuk). Eun-suh is the most popular girl in class, which incites the jealousy of her rival, Choi Shin-ae (Lee Ae-jung). Shin-ae is smart but does not get the atttion she craves from the teacher and her classmates.
Wh Eun-suh gets hit by a truck and needs a blood transfusion, it is found out that she is not the Yoons' biological daughter. She instead belongs to the Chois. Choi Shin-ae is also discovered to not be the Choi's biological daughter, but the Yoons'. In the d, the two daughters return to their original birth parts. Shin-ae moves in with the Yoon family, and Eun-suh moves in with Mrs. Choi, (her biological father is dead) who operates a small restaurant living in abject poverty. Their situations are now reversed. Shin-ae is the more popular girl in class and Eun-suh is the one ignored. Shortly after the switch, the Yoon family moves to the United States and Eun-suh loses touch with them.
T years later, Joon-suh (Song Seung-heon) returns to South Korea as a successful artist. He goes back to his hometown. He counters his old frid, Han Tae-seok (Won Bin), who stays at the hotel where Eun-suh (Song Hye-kyo) works as a telephone receptionist. Tae-seok, (who doesn't know about the brother and sister mix-up) falls in love with Eun-suh and manipulates her until she is fired from her job. One day Eun-suh sees Joon-suh and follows him to the beach where he is with his fiancée Yumi (Han Na-na) and Tae-seok. The two siblings finally meet again after t years.
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Eun-suh and Joon-suh appears to have a sibling relationship in front of the others, but they meet each other secretly and fall in love. Shin-ae (Han Chae-young) finds out about their relationship and exposes the two after she finds a love letter Eun-suh wrote to Joon-suh. The two decide to stay together, but are soon forced apart again because their parts are against the union. Yumi hurts herself and blackmails Joon-suh with suicide to hold on to him.
As a fight betwe Joon-suh and Tae-seok erupts over their love for Eun-suh, she discovers she has leukemia (the same fatal condition that killed her biological father). She doesn't tell anyone except Tae-seok, who offers to pay for her treatmt. Wh her health deteriorates, the others begin finding out the extt of her condition. Eun-suh soon falls into a coma. Joon-suh finds out about Eun-suh's health and reacts with shock and fear, while Tae-seok forces Joon-suh to try to wake up Eun-suh. Evtually, Eun-suh wakes up, but is too weak to follow the treatmt. Wh it is clear that there is no hope, Joon-suh takes her home so she can spd her last days with him. At this point, Yumi finally lets go of Joon-suh. Joon-suh proposes to Eun-suh and they get married. Eun-suh dies as Joon-suh carries her around the beach where they spt her birthday as teagers.
Before Eun-suh dies, she tells Joon-suh to move on and continue living. However, Joon-suh, dazed and grief-strick by the death of his love, is struck by a truck in the same place as Eun-suh's accidt during her teage years.
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The 13-track soundtrack for Autumn in My Heart includes Jung Il-young's heartfelt ballads Reason, Prayer and In My Dream as well as the main flute theme and the guitar and piano versions of some of the songs.
Romance, also known as Forbidd Love is a classic piece used for this soundtrack. It comes from a famous work of unknown authorship Spanish Romance.