Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Endless Love ( Autumn in my Heart)


I love, love this drama. It's heartwarming and it made me cry. This was the first time I saw Song Hye Gyo and she really captured my heart. She's one of my favorite Korean actress.

Story:
The story begins during the teenage years of the two main characters: Yoon Joon Suh (played by Choi Woo Hyuk and Yun Eun Suh (played by Moon Geun Young). They are the children of a rich professor and believed they are biologically brother and sister until Eun Suh gets in an accident. At the beginning, Eun Suh is very popular in school whereas Shin Ae is smart but does not get the attention she craves from the teacher and their classmates. Later, their situations were reversed when the switch was discovered.

After the blood tests were carried out by the doctor on Mr. and Mrs. Yun for Eun Suh's tranfusion, the Yun found out that Eun Suh belongs to a Mrs. Choi and Choi Shin Ae (played by Lee Ae Jeong), is the Yun's biological daughter. At first, only the parents of Shin Ae and Eun Suh knew about this, but eventually, Shin Ae discovered the truth after she got into a fierece argument with her non biological mother over a teddy bear she received from her biological father. Eun Suh only discovered the truth after Shin Ae wanted her biological parents to take her in.

In the end, the two daughters were returned to their rightful parents. Eun Suh now lives with the Choi family where her biological father is dead and her widowed mother operates a small restaurant living in poverty.

Years went by, and in the duration, the Yun family went to the United States. where Joon Suh(now played by Song Seung Heon) returns to South Korea as a successful artist. He went back to the town where he lived in, where he encountered his old friend, Han Tae seok (played by Won Bin). They both stay at the hotel where Eun Suh(now played by Song Hye Gyo) works as a telephone receptionist. Tae seok fell in love with Eun Suh and played many games with her until she was fired from her job. One day Eun Suh saw Joon Suh and followed him to the beach where he was with Yumi(his fiancee) and Tae Sook and the two "siblings" finally meet after 10 years.

Both Eun Suh and Joon Suh pretended to have a sibling relationship in front of others at first but Shin Ae(now played by Han Chae Young) angry at Eun Suh for taking away Tae Seok, exposed the two after she found a love letter Eun Suh had written to Joon Suh.

As a fight between Joon Suh and Tae Seok grows over their professed love for Eun Suh, She discovers she has leukemia(same illness that took her biological father's life). She didn't tell anyone until the disease was at a terminal stage. All hope was lost by now, and Eun Suh died as Joon Suh was carrying her around the beach where they spent her birthday as teenagers.

Before Eun Suh died, she told Joon Suh not to follow her in death and to continue living. However, Joon Suh's grief striken by the death of his lover and "sister", allowed himself to be struck by a truck(ironically the story starts with EUn Suh being struck by a truck), and he died after.

Cast:
Song Seung Heon as Yun Joon Suh
Song Hye Gyo as Yun/Choi Eun Suh
Won Bin as Tae Seok
Han Chae Young as Yun/Choi Shin Ae
Han Na Na as Shin Yumi
Moon Geun Young as teenage Eun Suh
Choi Woo Hyuk as teenage Joon Suh
Lee Ae Jung as teenage Shin Ae


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