Sad Love Story/Sad Sonata/Sad Love Song
슬픈연가 (Seulpeun Yeonga)
Genre	Drama
Produced by	Yoo Chul Yong
Network	MBC
Original run	2005-01-05 – 2005-03-17
No. of episodes	20
Original time slots	Wednesday & Thursday 9:55 PM
Sad Love Story
Hangul	슬픈연가
Hanja	슬픈戀歌
Revised Romanization	Seulpeun Yeonga
McCune-Reischauer	Sǔlpǔn Yǒnga

Sad Love Story, romanized as Seulpeun Yeonga, and also known as Sad Sonata (its literal translation and the alternate official title) is a Korean romantic drama, which ran from January 05 to March 17, 2005. It was distributed by MBC, which ran episodes on Wednesdays and Thursdays every week until the show's completion. It consist of 20 episodes and has been a major part of the Korean Wave both in Asia and throughout the United States.

Contents 1 Details 2 Production 3 See also 4 Notes 5 External links

[edit] Details

• Title: 슬픈연가 / Seul-peun Yeon-ga
• Also known as: Sad Love Story (KBFD-TV) / Sad Sonata
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Episodes: 20
• Broadcast network: MBC
• Broadcast period: 2005-01-05 to 2005-03-17
• Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 9:55 PM

In elementary school, a young boy, Suh Joon-young (played by Kwon Sang-woo), meets a pretty little blind girl named Park Hae-in (played by Kim Hee Sun). Joon-young is constantly teased because his mum is the owner of a nightclub, and he first meets Hae-in when her aunt is hired as a singer at the club. In the beginning, Joon-young despises Hae-in, but as they grow closer they fall in love. Their childhood goes on and finishes in the first episode.

Hae-in and Joon-young are always together, but they face problems with Joon-young's mother who won't stop trying to tear the two apart because she thinks her son deserves better than a blind girl. Furthermore, Hwa-Jung, Joon-young's childhood friend, grows jealous of Hae-in because she likes Joon-young who ignores her for Hae-in. Meanwhile Min-ho, the school bully, likes Hwa-jung, and thus hates Joon-young. Now seniors in high school, Joon-young and Hae-in are even more in love. But one day, Min-ho finds Hae-in alone, and with his friends, takes her to a secluded place and tries to rape her. Joon-young upon hearing her screams rushes over and badly injures Min-ho and his friends as he defends both himself and Hae-in. Joon-young’s mum, upon learning of the incident when she picks Joon-young up from the police station, kicks Hae-in and her aunt out of their home to prevent further trouble.

Joon-young tries to find Hae-in but learns she has moved to a different town. On Christmas Eve when they both return to their old hideout, they miss seeing each other by hours. Finally after a few months, they manage to reunite for a night, but the next day, Hae-in moves to New York with her aunt and new uncle. Also, although they write letters to each other, Hwa-jung intercepts any messages between the two, sending Hae-in's letters back to Hae-in. Hwa-jung also writes to Hae-in saying Joon-young is dead. Becoming suicidal, Hae-in meets and finally accepts love from Lee Gun-woo, who she doesn’t know is actually Joon-young's best friend. Gun-woo also doesn’t realize that Hae-in is the girl Joon-young has loved since childhood. Gun-woo pays for the operation to bring Hae-in's eyesight back, and one day, composer Joon-young, singer Hae-In, and music producer Gun-woo all meet again.

Everything leads to shock, realization, heartbreak, and in some ways, betrayal.

[edit] Production

This drama was originally supposed to have actor Song Seung Hun play Gun-woo. However, a draft-dodging scandal involving Song Seung Hun broke out, causing him to enlist in the military service. On short notice, Yun Jung Hoon was selected as Song Seung Hun's replacement to play Gun-woo. ^[1]

[edit] See also

• List of Korea-related topics
• List of Korean television shows
• Contemporary culture of South Korea

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• (Korean) Official Website
• U.S. Publisher
• DVD Talk Review
• WWCast Website (Korean)
• KoreanWiz
• Review by minny1104