South Korean television series
Autumn in My Heart
(
Korean
:
가을동화
) is a 2000 South Korean romantic television drama starring
Song Seung-heon
,
Song Hye-kyo
, and
Won Bin
.
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The series is the first installment of season-themed
tetralogy
Endless 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 been developed following its success.
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Synopsis
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The story begins with toddler Yoon Joon-suh, accidentally causing the switch of his sister and another baby when 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 then jumps forward to the teenage 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 attention she craves from the teacher and her classmates.
When 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 end, the two daughters return to their original birth parents. 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.
Ten years later, Joon-suh (
Song Seung-heon
) returns to South Korea as a successful artist. He goes back to his hometown. He encounters his old friend, 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 fiancee Yumi (
Han Na-na
) and Tae-seok. The two "siblings" finally meet again after ten years.
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 parents are against the union. Yumi hurts herself and blackmails Joon-suh with suicide to hold on to him.
As a fight between 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 treatment. When her health deteriorates, the others begin finding out the extent 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. Eventually, Eun-suh wakes up, but is too weak to follow the treatment. When it is clear that there is no hope, Joon-suh takes her home so she can spend 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 spent her birthday as teenagers.
Before Eun-suh dies, she tells Joon-suh to move on and continue living. However, Joon-suh, dazed and grief-stricken by the death of his love, is struck by a truck in the same place as Eun-suh's accident during her teenage years.
Cast
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Main
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Supporting
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Others
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- Kim Na-woon
as Housekeeping supervisor Kim
- Kim Hyung-jong as Ji-han
- Seo Yoon-jae as Kang-hee
Soundtrack
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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.
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"Romance", also known as "Forbidden Love" is a classic piece used for this soundtrack. It comes from a famous work of unknown authorship "
Spanish Romance
".
- Main Title (Flute ver.)
- Reason ? Jung Il-young
(Yoo Seung-bum/Lyrics by Kim Won-hee)
- Romance ? Choi Tae-won
- Gido
(Prayer) ? Jung Il-young
(Jung Jin Soo/Lyrics by Choi Hee Jin)
- Remember ? Park Jung-Won
- Eolmana Naega
(Sincerely) ? Yoon Chang-gun
- Reason (Instrumental ver.)
- Romance (Piano ver.) ? Lee Hong-rae
- Nunmul
(Tears) ? Lee Hong-rae
- Eolmana Naega
(Sincerely) (Guitar ver.) ? Guitar by Ham Choon-ho
- Kkum Sogeseo
(In My Dream) ? Jung Il-young
- Eolmana Naega
(Sincerely) (Piano ver.) ? Piano by Yoo Jung-young
- Gido
(Prayer) (Piano ver.)
A song played during emotional scenes, but excluded from the soundtrack, was "Return to Love" by
Kevin Kern
.
Awards
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- 37th
Baeksang Arts Awards
- 2001
- KBS Drama Awards
? 2000
Remake
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- Demi Cinta
[
id
]
, a 2005 Indonesian
remake
starring
Rionaldo Stockhorst
[
id
]
and
Leony Vitria Hartanti
[
id
]
[4]
- Endless Love
, a 2010 Philippine remake starring
Dingdong Dantes
,
Marian Rivera
, and
Dennis Trillo
[4]
- Autumn in My Heart
, a 2013 Thai remake starring
Jesdaporn Pholdee
and
Sucharat Manaying
, and produced by
Ananda Everingham
[4]
- Paramparca
, a 2014 Turkish drama remake starring
Erkan Petekkaya
and
Nurgul Ye?ilcay
[4]
- Autumn Fairy Tale
, a 2019 Chinese web drama remake starring
Zhao Lusi
and
Xu Kai
[4]
[5]
- Luruhnya Bunga Cinta
, a 2023 Malay drama remake starring Redza Rosli and Tracie Sindol directed by Riza Baharudin aired by
TV3 Malaysia
- Oskolki, a 2018 Russian remake.
References
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"Korean TV Drama: Autumn in My Heart"
.
Korea Tourism Organization
. Archived from
the original
on September 21, 2016
. Retrieved
December 16,
2012
.
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Cecilia Hae-Jin Lee (May 6, 2010).
Frommer's South Korea
. John Wiley & Sons. p. 44.
ISBN
978-0-470-64426-3
.
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"YESASIA: Autumn in My Heart OST (KBS TV Drama) CD - Song Hye Kyo, Song Seung Heon, Pony Canyon (KR) - Korean Music"
.
Archived
from the original on February 2, 2017
. Retrieved
June 16,
2015
.
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a
b
c
d
e
"Korean TV formats: a new Korean wave?"
.
Daehan Drama
. Archived from
the original
on July 20, 2014
. Retrieved
March 16,
2015
.
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"Autumn Fairy Tale 2019"
.
IMDB
.
Archived
from the original on June 8, 2019
. Retrieved
October 8,
2019
.
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