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🌳 Terminal illness - life lessons
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People diagnosed with terminal illness and their struggle with mortality and stories of people dealing with end-of-life experience.


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TV Show: Breaking Bad ( 2008 )
Breaking Bad follows protagonist Walter White, a chemistry teacher who lives in New Mexico with his wife and teenage son who has cerebral palsy. White is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of two years left to live. With a new sense of fearlessness based on his medical prognosis, and a desire to secure his family's financial security, White chooses to enter a dangerous world of drugs and crime and ascends to power in this world. The series explores how a fatal diagnosis such as White's releases a typical man from the daily concerns and constraints of normal society and follows his transformation from mild family man to a kingpin of the drug trade.
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TV Show: Life Sentence ( 2018 )
Life Sentence centers on a young woman diagnosed with terminal cancer. When she finds out that she's not dying after all, she has to learn to live with the choices she made when she decided to "live like she was dying."
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TV Show: Polseres Vermelles ( 2011 )
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TV Show: It's a Sin ( 2021 )
Ritchie, Roscoe and Colin are young lads, strangers at first, leaving home at 18 and heading off to London in 1981 with hope and ambition and joy… and walking straight into a plague that most of the world ignores. Year by year, episode by episode, their lives change, as the mystery of a new virus starts as a rumour, then a threat, then a terror, and then something that binds them together in the fight.It's the story of their friends, lovers and families too, especially Jill, the girl who loves them and helps them, and galvanises them in the battles to come. Together they will endure the horror of the epidemic, the pain of rejection and the prejudices that gay men faced throughout the decade.
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TV Show: The Big C ( 2010 )
The Big C follows Minneapolis Westhill High School teacher Cathy Jamison – a reserved, suburban wife and mother – who is diagnosed with melanoma. The realization of this forces her to really begin to live for the first time in her adult life. At first she chooses to keep her diagnosis from her family, behaving in ways they find puzzling and increasingly bizarre. She finds new freedom to express herself. As the show progresses, Cathy allows her family and some new friends to support her as she copes with her terminal prognosis, and finds both humor and pathos in the many idiosyncratic relationships in her life.
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TV Show: Angels in America ( 2003 )
Al Pacino, Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson lead an all-star cast in an epic movie event directed Mike Nichols and screenplay by Tony Kushner based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning play: Angels in America.
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TV Show: Doom at Your Service ( 2021 )
Dong Kyung is an editor for a web novel company. Myul Mang, suddenly appears in her ordinary life. She makes a 100 day contract with Myul Mang, risking her life and her love.
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TV Show: Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist ( 2020 )
Innovative musical dramedy about a whip-smart but socially awkward girl in her late 20's who is suddenly able to hear the innermost thoughts of people around her as songs and even big musical numbers that they perform just for her. With this new ability at her disposal, she is able to use her ‘gift' to not only help herself understand people in her life, but also to help others around her.
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TV Show: Chasing Life ( 2014 )
April is a smart, charismatic and quick witted twenty-something aspiring journalist. When not pursuing the latest scoop, April tries to balance her ambitious career with her family, which includes her widowed mom Sara rebellious little sister Brenna and her grandmother We meet April at a pivotal moment in her life: she's landed a fantastic opportunity to impress her hard-nosed Boston newspaper editor and an office romance with her super-sexy co-worker Dominic is just beginning to blossom. In an unexpected twist of fate, April lands in the hospital where her estranged uncle, George works as an oncologist, and she learns the devastating news that she has cancer. The series follows April through her journey in the face of this daunting revelation, during a time in her life when the challenges of finding love and success would be enough to keep any girl occupied. But April is determined to fight and refuses to give up her dreams and goals. Along the way, she'll find new reserves of strength and passion within and discover that facing death may really be the only way to truly live.
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TV Show: Giri/Haji ( 2019 )
A Tokyo detective travels to London to look for his long lost younger brother, now involved with the Yakuza and wanted for the murder of a Japanese businessman. With the help of a young Japanese-British hustler who helps the detective navigate London, the mystery continues to unravel. His family's honour, and the fragile peace between the warring gangs back in Tokyo, is at stake.
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TV Show: One Mississippi ( 2015 )
One Mississippi is a dark comedy inspired by comedian Tig Notaro's life. Tig returns to her hometown in Mississippi, where she contends with the death of her mother and her own mortality as she embarks on a painful yet hilarious journey that unearths uncomfortable truths about her family and her self.
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TV Show: Temple ( 2019 )
Daniel Milton is a surgeon who, driven by personal tragedy, operates an illegal clinic deep below London's Temple tube station for those who either wish to remain outside the system, or for those desperate enough to seek treatment unavailable through conventional means. Aided by disgruntled underground worker Lee and guilt-ridden medical researcher Anna, Daniel's dangerous and unpredictable clientele test his morality to the limit. But if it means he can save the person he loves, it will all be worth it.
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TV Show: Highway to Heaven ( 1984 )
Jonathan Smith is an angel sent down to earth "on probation". Jonathan and friend Mark Gordon are given "assignments" by "The Boss" (God) where they are required to use their humanity (and sometimes a little bit of "The Stuff") in order to help various troubled souls to overcome their problems. Examples of these problems include families dealing with sick loved ones; wealthy and greedy businessmen being encouraged to use their wealth for good; and discouraging prejudice in regards to people of different ethnicitys, appearances, or socioeconomic backgrounds or who have disabilities. While dealing with these situations with sensitivity, Highway to Heaven also used humor – particularly between Jonathan and Mark.
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TV Show: Clannad ( 2007 )
Okazaki Tomova is a third-year student at a high school somewhere in Japan, and does not take his studies seriously. Always late for class, he is seen as a delinquent by the rest of his classmates who are busy preparing for their college entrance examinations. Needless to say, he does not have too many close friends.

Tomoya does not seem to mind though — until one day he meets a girl, Furukawa Nagisa, who is left alone without friends at school because everybody she knew already graduated. "What a clumsy girl", he thinks at first. But talking to her feels natural and so, while helping her, he meets a few other girls from his school. Although he does not care much about them at first, he soon opens his heart as they get to know each other better.(Source AniDB)
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TV Show: Sick Note ( 2017 )
Sick Note is the story of Daniel Glass, a compulsive liar, who's stuck in a failing relationship and a dead-end job under the thumb of his irrepressible boss Kenny West. When he's diagnosed with cancer, everyone starts to treat him better, suddenly giving him a new lust for life. But then he finds out he was misdiagnosed by the most incompetent oncologist on Earth, Dr Ian Glennis. When he decides to keep the new information to himself, the lie spirals out of control and both Daniel and Dr Glennis must attempt to prevent the truth from getting out.
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TV Show: Atypical ( 2017 )
Atypical is a coming of age story that follows Sam, an 18-year-old on the autistic spectrum as he searches for love and independence. While Sam is on his funny yet emotional journey of self-discovery, the rest of his family must grapple with change in their own lives as they all struggle with the central theme: what does it really mean to be normal?
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TV Show: Six Feet Under ( 2001 )
When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as--and far less predictable than--the one inside on Six Feet Under.
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TV Show: Mary Kills People ( 2017 )
Set in the morally grey world of assisted suicide, Mary Kills People is an intense, controversial, and thought-provoking drama. The series follows Dr. Mary Harris, a single mother and emergency doctor by day, who also moonlights as an underground angel of death — helping terminally ill patients who want to die and slip away on their own terms. So far Mary has managed to stay under the radar; but business is booming, and her double life is getting complicated. When her world starts to unravel, Mary realizes she's going to have to fight dirty if she's going to stay in the killing game.
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TV Show: The Midnight Club ( 2022 )
Inside a hospice for terminally ill teens, members of an exclusive club make a chilling pact: The first to die must send a sign from beyond the grave.
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TV Show: Move to Heaven ( 2021 )
Finding life in all that's left behind, a trauma cleaner with Asperger's and his ex-con uncle deliver the untold stories of the departed to loved ones.
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TV Show: More than Blue: The Series ( 2021 )
A high-level manager of a record label and his assistant set out in search of the original writer of the hit song "The Saddest Thing of All". With the help of seasoned professionals in the field, they uncover the truth behind a heart-wrenching love story and rekindle an old flame between a kind-hearted dentist and photographer. 
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TV Show: The One and Only ( 2021 )
An emotional romance drama about three terminally ill women who meet at a hospice. They decide that before they die, they want to take down one bad guy before they go – but in their attempt to take down "just one person," they wind up meeting the most valuable person of their lives.
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TV Show: Surviving Death ( 2021 )
What happens after we die? This docuseries explores personal stories and research on near-death experiences, reincarnation and paranormal phenomena.
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TV Show: Time of Death ( 2013 )
People are mortal, which is a point driven home by this series that follows people who are facing their imminent mortality. The terminally ill people on Time of Death are supported by family, friends, health care professionals, and hospice workers. The stories told include those of a single mother with invasive breast cancer; a psychotherapist specializing in death and dying but who, herself, has pancreatic cancer; a veteran with a rare form of cancer; and a young woman who has metastatic melanoma.
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TV Show: Falling for Innocence ( 2015 )
After enduring both business and family upheavals, a ruthless investment director has a heart transplant and finds a new way to look at life and love.
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TV Show: Fantastic ( 2016 )
A cheerful-but-weighty romance story between Lee So Hye, a popular TV drama series writer who has only 6 months left to live and Ryu Hae Seong, a popular actor, but he is not good at acting.
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TV Show: Marriage Contract ( 2016 )
A widow has been forced to raise her daughter alone as her husband died by an accident, but unfortunately she discovers that she has a tumour in her brain. Now she is tasked to find a Guardian for her daughter.
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TV Show: Scent of a Woman ( 2011 )
A woman, Lee Yun Jae, is given the grim prognosis that she only has a short time left to live. She decides to quit her job at a travel agency and live her life to the fullest. During the time, she meets Kang Jin Wook and they both fall in love.
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TV Show: Boku no Ita Jikan ( 2014 )
Fourth year university student Sawada Takuto is having a tough time looking for a job. The eldest son of the director of a hospital, Takuto's parents had expected him to become a doctor, but they began to focus their hopes on his younger brother Rikuto instead, some time during his junior high school. Although Takuto is popular and good at befriending ladies, he has no confidence that he will be loved and thus avoids deep emotional involvement with anyone. One day, he is informed that he does not have long to live because he is suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), an incurable, progressive neurodegenerative disease. Takuto, who had given only vague thoughts to his goals in life, starts to explore what is left of his life and live with a positive attitude.
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TV Show: Ichi Rittoru no Namida ( 2005 )
This drama is based on the real-life struggles of a 15-year-old girl named Aya Kito who suffered from an incurable disease, but lived life to the fullest until her death at 25. The script is based on the diary Aya kept writing until she could no longer hold a pen. Aya Ikeuchi proved her courage and positive attitude towards an uncertain future when suffering such an illness, spinocerebellar ataxia. The drama spans a decade, during which she graduates from school while her conditions worsen.
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TV Show: Radiant Office ( 2017 )
Eun Ho Won faces repeat rejections in her job search until despair drives her to attempt suicide. At the hospital, she learns she might be terminally-ill, but then at the same time, she also finally succeeds in getting hired. Thinking she has nothing to lose, she tackles her job and life with new perspectives. Seo Woo Jin is her superior at work and considers her a pain in the neck. They become a bickering pair.
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TV Show: Kamisama Mou Sukoshi Dake ( 1998 )
A touching love story about a girl Kano Masaki who contracted HIV after selling her body in order to earn money for the concert of a famous composer Ishikawa Keigo. After the concert, Keigo saw Masaki chasing after his van. She was drenched, and thus Keigo took her to his apartment, where they spent the night.
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TV Show: Amanza ( 2020 )
A 26-year-old man's life is turned upside down when he is diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer. As he struggles with the pain of his treatment and the realization that he never truly lived, he retreats into his imagination, to a magical forest where answers and miracles can be found.
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TV Show: My Last Days ( 2016 )
My Last Days is an uplifting documentary series about living an extraordinary life, told from the perspective of those who are terminally ill.
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TV Show: Valkyrien ( 2016 )
Doctor Ravn is a surgeon desperate to find a cure for his dying wife Vilma. The hospital had given up on her, so Ravn enters into an alliance with Oslo's underworld and opens a clinic in a disused underground station for those in need, who either have no GP or cannot use public hospitals. Ravn's endeavours both to build a clinic and get patients is made possible by the corrupt Leif. Convinced that the end of the world is nigh, Leif has widespread access and knowledge of the city's underground shelters and secret passages, as well as a significant network in the Oslo underworld and its black economy.
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TV Show: Most Dangerous Game ( 2020 )
Most Dangerous Game follows the story of a terminally ill man named Dodge Tynes who will do anything to provide for his pregnant wife before he dies. In the throes of desperation, he accepts an offer to participate in a deadly hunt, only to discover that he's not the hunter, but the prey.
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TV Show: Etterglød ( 2022 )
When Ester finds out that she is seriously ill, she and her friends decide to make the most of life - because it can end at any moment.
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TV Show: Jealousy Incarnate ( 2016 )
The drama depicts romance as well as intense competitive rivalry between an anchor and a weather forecaster working together for a television news show.
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TV Show: A Pledge to God ( 2018 )
A Pledge to God is about how two married couples will do whatever it takes to save their children. That's without taking into account that they'll leave ethics and morals to one side in order to do it.Seo Ji Young is an anchorwoman and talk show host who is also fiercely devoted to her children. Meanwhile, Kim Jae Wook is the heir to a large architecture firm who is willing to lay everything on the line and stand up against his family in order to protect his children.
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TV Show: Koizora ( 2008 )
Tahara Mika is an ordinary high school girl. One day, out of the blue, one of her classmates kisses her. His name is Sakurai Hiroki also known as Hiro. Hiro stands out because of his bleached hair and piercing. Apparently he is also dating someone. Mika is shocked and hurt that her first kiss had to happen this way. She desperately tries to forget about it. Then, her friend tells her that she should find somebody else and suggests Tatsuya, another boy in their class. However, before she even realizes it, Mika is already in love...
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TV Show: To Love ( 2020 )
A story that follows people whose lives are entangled due to a complicated case. While investigating a drug cartel as an undercover cop, Yan Jin falls in love with the beautiful coffee shop owner Ji Xiao'ou.
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TV Show: Nine: Nine Times Time Travel ( 2013 )
Park Sun Woo works as an anchorman at a TV broadcasting station. He is in love with newsreporter Joo Min Young, who is bright and honest. Park Sun Woo then obtains 9 incense items, which allows him to go back 20 years in time. Park Sun Woo travels to the past.
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TV Show: My Love, Enlighten Me ( 2020 )
A young, 22-year-old hopeful and a kind-hearted, pop star named Nuan Nuan is forced to reinvent herself after the girl group she is a member of disbands on the night of its debut. Overnight, her dreams come to a halt as she's hit with the harsh reality of her situation. While she struggles in her search for a post-pop career, her life gets intertwined with a man named Han Che. Han Che is a successful sound and light engineer who also happens to have an impeccable memory and a cold personality. However, despite his amazing memory, Han Che misremembers something very important which can later threaten to jeopardize his relationship with Naun Naun. Meanwhile, Nuan Nuan, who has always had a keen eye for fashion, begins to explore her love of clothes - hoping to secure a permanent spot at a clothing store's headquarters.
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TV Show: Choose ( 2017 )
Ton and Tawan love each other deeply but their love is tested by Ton's new secretary who seems to be the perfect match for him. Then Tawan starts acting distant and cold towards Ton, pushing him away.
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TV Show: Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol ( 2020 )
A romantic drama that tells the story of the pianist Goo Ra Ra whose life fell to the bottom when her family was ruined. She got to meet and to fall in love with the mysterious Sun Woo Joon.
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TV Show: Remembering Lichuan ( 2016 )
By chance, college student Xie Xiaoqiu (played by Jiao Junyan) met a young architect named Wang Lichuan (played by Gao Yixiang). flame. However, one day, Wang Lichuan found out that he was seriously ill. In order not to drag Xie Xiaoqiu down, he pretended to leave coldly, so that Xie Xiaoqiu could taste the pain. In a blink of an eye, four years have passed. Xie Xiaoqiu, who has graduated, entered the company as a professional translator. Who knew that he had reunited with Wang Lichuan in an accident. Xie Xiaoqiu found that she still had feelings for Wang Lichuan in her heart, but the indifference of the other party made her feel cold. Xiao Guan (played by Lin Youwei) is Xie Xiaoqiu's boss. He loves this girl madly and passionately. On the one hand, he is pursued by his boss, and on the other hand, he is coldly rejected by his lover. What choice should Xie Xiaoqiu make?
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TV Show: The Third Charm ( 2018 )
The 12-year love story of two people with completely opposite personalities, who unexpectedly meet on a blind date.
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TV Show: Work Later, Drink Now ( 2021 )
A full-fledged authentic drama depicting the daily lives of three women who believe every day should end with a drink.
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TV Show: Silence ( 2006 )
Zhou Shen Shen loses her voice after a bus accident and gets taken to the hospital by her friend Zuo Jun (who blames himself for making her mute) there she meets Qi Wei Yi a boy who leg got broken by jealous peers. He finds a letter she had put in a bomb shelter wall. They leave each other letters and promise to come back in the Christmas of 2006. They become good friends and fall in love but Wei Yi is unaware that Shen Shen is mute. When he has to leave before her, He gives her his phone number and tells her to call him. Years pass and in the year of 2006 they met again but is unaware of who each other is until Wei Yi finds out he has liver cancer and is dying So he decides to go back to the hospital he went to as a child and he finds out that Shen Shen is his childhood love but not wanting to hurt her when he dies he hides his identity and eventually pushes her away.
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TV Show: Revenge of Others ( 2022 )
The story of Ok Chan Mi who is finding the murderer of her twin brother.
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TV Show: Duel ( 2017 )
Jang Deuk Chun is the chief of a crime squad. At home, he is a kind and friendly father to his daughter. He meets a human clone and gets involved in a shocking case. A battle takes place between human clones
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TV Show: If You Wish Upon Me ( 2022 )
The story of patients and the caregivers of a hospice department. It is the story of people who dream of 'well-dying'.
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TV Show: Smile to Life ( 2022 )
Xu Duo Cheng is a young girl full of joy and life. No one knows that there is a shadow behind her smile: she actually suffers from ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS), which means that she does not have long to live and in the end she will be slowly but surely paralyzed. Because of this, Duo Cheng is doing his best to fully enjoy the rest of his days. But things get more complicated when she meets a handsome young musician, Jiang Nan, who falls in love with her. Will she surrender to her heart or leave it to protect it from pain?
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Jiu Sui He.
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TV Show: Uncontrollably Fond ( 2016 )
When Shin Joon Young and No Eul were younger, they were separated and became heartbroken. As adults, they meet again. Shin Joon Young is now a top actor and singer. He is intelligent and attractive. No Eul is the PD of documentaries. She values money over justice and kisses up to those with more power than her.
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TV Show: Winter Sonata ( 2002 )
Joon-sang moves to a new high school in search for his biological father. Yu-jin and Sang-hyuk are close childhood friends, although Sang-hyuk wants to be more than a friend, Yu-jin sees him as a brother. On a trip together with other high school mates, Oh Chelin, Jin-suk and Yong-kuk, Yu-jin is saved after an accident by Joon-sang. They become close and she opens up his cold heart. However, circumstances and fate dictate that their love will never be. He abruptly disappears from their lives.Ten years later, the old High School buddies gather to celebrate Yu-jin and Sang-hyuk's soon-to-be wedding. Yu-jin, who was deeply in love with Joon-sang, still has a fire in her heart for him. But at the party, Oh Chelin's new boyfriend arrives, who appears the same as Joon-sang.
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TV Show: Winter Sonata ( 2009 )
Winter Sonata is a romantic drama about Yoo Jin, a young girl who falls in love with Joon Sang. After losing him in an accident, Yoo Jin decides to marry her childhood friend. However, she soon faces a dilema as she meets someone that looks exactly like her lost love.