This was a fantastic movie, in my opinion...

I saw this years ago, but didn't know that you could rate movies on sites like MDL...

The cinematograhy was very good for this time period; music and shot angles greatly supported the scenes in which they were played (I am getting to where I notice the music more in films now!) and the support characters greatly enhanced the main cast's roles and made the film more believable.

I especially want to mention the performance of Yoon Joo Sang, who played Kim Soon Goo, the father of Kim Ji Won (Park Hee Bon, main female lead). He put 'emotion' into his lecture to his future [character] son-in-law, Han Seung Wook ( Song Jong Ho).

The father could have given him a long list of do's and don't's to his future son-in-law but his advice was so touching that I felt as if he was giving his advice from his heart, rather than a script (you know an actor/actress is GREAT is he/she can make you forget that you are watching a scripted movie!)...

Smoking has been big in SE Asia ever since American tobacco companies started targeting the people in the developing SE Asian countires (Thailand, S Korea, Hong Kong/China, Vietnams, et al) in the mid-1970s. her father is about the age of a man who could have been initially hooked in Big Tobaccos' push in the region using bikini-clad models, free give-aways, glitzy advertisement, etc., to hook the unsuspecting Asians into what started in this time period as an epic anti-smoking movement in America.

Seung Wook knew that his future father-in-law would not make it out of the hospital, so he to the initiative to go see him while he was still alive. Father Soon Goo told his future son-in-law to feed her, live at least one day longer than his daughter, and to quit smoking so that he could keep the other two promises to her.

Also, since her father died earlier in the film, the mother Yoon Hye Ja (Sung Byung Sook) expressed to her daughter that if she had know he would die in such a short time, she would have loved him more...this and other memories have an effect on Ji Won; but the most important info about her late dad was flashbacks, all thanks to a winter snow scene crystal ball, presented by her fiance Seung Wook to her dad while visiting her father on his death bed. The magic crystal ball starts working its magic on Ji Won as she is looking through her late father's stuff saved by his wife/her mother.

Most couples marry for the wrong reasons today, and it is sad that we have left behind people dating long enough to really get to know each other. However, divorces are so cheap and lawyers so over-abundant today that many ignore getting to know each other the way they used to.

Seung Wook is a BORING man, in many ways, but his love for Ji Won cannot be disputed if you watch the film closely. Ji Won realizes this at the end and makes the right decision.

Every couple thinking about getting marreid should watch this film; I beleive this would be seconded by the KBS Drama Special team!

I would rate this "a half of a box of Kleenex" movie.

RE-WATCH: yes!