35-year-old architect Seung-Min (Uhm Tae-Woong) receives a visit at his office from a woman. Seung-Min doesn't recognize the woman at first, but then realizes the woman is Seo-Yeon (Han Ga-In). Seo-Yeon is his first love, but he hasn't seen her since his freshman year in college. Seo-Yeon now has a request. She wants to hire Seung-Min to rebuild her home on Jeju Island. 15 years ago, Seung-Min (Lee Je-Hoon) is a naive young man beginning his architecture studies in college. He first meets Seo-Yeon (Bae Suzy) in his Architecture 101 class. As they work on a class project together, Seung-Min and Seo-Yeon begin to fall in love. Back to the present day, Seung-Min is hesitant to take Seo-Yeon's job offer. Seo-Yeon persists and even goes to his boss with her wish. Seung-Min now has no choice, but to take on Seo-Yeon's home project. Old memories of love and heartbreak will soon resurface, as they find themselves at different junctions in their lives ...
V**K
Very well made Touching Korean Love Story
Note this DVD is in Korean DVD format. Most US DVD player can't play it. Computer DVD drive can play this movie from this DVD.I am not Korean and I watched this movie in SIngapore Airlines couple of years ago. It is very touchy and realistic movie. The actors portraying younger version of the hero and heroine does better job. The movie bring tears in your eyes. The script is also well written. Many places movie moves back and forth between current and past. Movie captures first love meets after 15+ years and their emotional struggles.Wonderful movie making!
D**O
Bad Packaging
Perhaps there was a mix-up somewhere but the DVD in the box WAS NOT the one titled on the box
A**Y
Very disappointing
I love the film. I watched it on a transatlantic flight over a year ago.This DVD however does not work on my multi-region DVD player so I am terribly disappointed with the product.
K**N
Excellent movie
Really good story, acting, and romance. I'm a big fan of 배수지 so anything with her is always good to me.
J**M
Very good but could have been so much better.
This movie could have been special. Instead, it is merely very good.For a low-budget movie, this movie was a smash hit in Korea.In my view, the theme of the movie is almost universal. What happened to your first love? How did it end? What prevented it from becoming more of an ideal relationship?Have you ever had first love that never became consummated and resulted in eternal longing?To really understand the nuance of this film, one needs to understand the Korean's cultural view on first love. Koreans tend to view the first love as the most precious and memorable. The theme of eternal first love is often the subject of many Korean dramas and films. There are many commonalities of first love. People are almost always young when they meet their first love. And because of that, people often make crucial young people's mistakes which they would have never made as a more mature adult. Only as a full-grown mature adult, people understand how great their first love would have been only if they had known better, but by then, of course, it is often too late. Time stops for no one.What bothered me about this film was the overall petulance and impatience of the main adult male character. His quick conclusions and tempestuousness makes him a poor candidate for meaningful dialogue with the main adult female character. The result is they have meaningless arguments when they could have had real heart-to-heart talk of emotionally mature adults. That's too bad because this movie could have really touched the hearts and minds even more than it did. Instead, it only strikes a shallow emotional chord with the audience.Pros:1)Engaging story of the first love of youth and its profound meaning to the now mature adults.2)Universal appeal of the first love and how the first love is often ruined by the mistakes of the youth.3)Awesome theme song (first released in 1994 as a single which never became a hit for some reason).Cons:1)Why is the main adult male character so impatient and emotionally tone deaf? The movie could have been so much better if the two main characters had more meaningful heart-to-heart discussions as adults which never they had as youths. Instead, they have many meaningless arguments which is mercifully mixed with some meaningful dialogue.
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