Winter Sonata 2 Goes into Pre-Production with 2021 Release Date to Celebrate 20th Anniversary of Original

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• OMG. I see So Hyun and Bo Gum as potential leads for this. But it is impossible because So Hyun is busy next year and Bo Gum is in MS.

• the actress who acted this might have potential to be crowned as a 1st love

  • nation 1st love

  • The ML has the biggest to fill. BYJ’s popularity, if not more than, is equal to the popularity of the drama.

    • It's not going to be a remake. It's going to be a continuation of the previous story and we follow their grown children and their lives. BYJ and CJW might do cameos as the parents but the drama will have an original story.

• People were harsh to WS??? I don’t think so. If there were criticisms, it was because it was so successful that everyone who watched it had to have an ‘opinion’ on the drama. It broke boundaries for sure and I will always remember the hordes of female fans chasing BYJ when he arrived at HK airport. He was the first Hallyu king.

• I don know how anyone could be harsh on Winter Sonata. I love WS, esp the first 7 episodes. I am not looking fwd to a remake because tbh, it would be extremely hard to do justice to something this successful for whatever magic the show has. Without WS, there's no kpop and no South Korean drama madness as it is today.

  • Wow I'm looking forward to watch season 2. Way back when we're watching in TV after-dinner..

  • Today's new K-drama fans think anything made over five years ago is "old". That's what children do. :)

• Well. It all depends on the success of the drama. My bet for the female lead is also So Hyun. She is one of the few actresses who can a play in a melodrama so well. She also have a first love vibe. Hence, no wonder why she is the ideal type of a lot of Koreean guys.

• I prefer Kim.SO Hyun to be the FL, she would be perfect for the ROLE. she has the talent, charisma and this "classy" beauty.

  • She may be too young for the role though. If i remember correctly, the FL was around 29-30 for most of the drama

    • Choi Ji Woo was 26 when the drama was filmed - it's hardly a huge gap. Let's be real, stupid Kdrama producers are far more likely to cast someone who is far too old for the role than the other way around. There's a lot of reasons for why there are almost no young Kdrama actresses of note but insisting that Kim Yoo Jung or Kim So Hyun be cast for all suitable roles is definitely one of them.

• WS was my very first encounter with Kdramas. I remember coming across it while flicking channels on TV. There were no streaming giants like Netflix or even the Internet or Web as it is now. At least, not in my neck of the woods.

  I don't remember the story but I definitely remember finding it so boring. The family wasn't crazy about it either so we didn't bother with it. In later years, when I heard it was a huge hit, I was like, “WHA-AT??”

  My opinion on it hasn't changed but I respect its impact. Not a fan of remakes since they don't always get it right but here's hoping this one will pay proper tribute to the original.

  • Yes I find WS boring too. That was the time I find Kdrama super slow, and I was into HK drama. I don’t even understand why people even watch Kdrama at that time.

    After many years, Kdrama has overtaken HK drama with all the young and beautiful/handsome leads, while HK drama lacks new blood. WS has definitely made an impact and contributed to taking Kdrama to today’s status, but the plot was just not my cup of tea. I hope future kdrama to have less webtoon and remake, but have good stories/plot like in the 2009-2015 period. I like many of their shows during those days.

    • I totally agree with you @Minikfan. I was teaching Korean students English when WS came out and it was such a monster hit in Asia. However, the young ones shunned it saying it was super boring and almost an embarrassment to them as the Japanese aunties went gaga over the male lead. Lol. Such good times the golden period between 2002-2016 with well written original storylines being churned out like All About Eve, Goong, Slave Hunter, Fugitive Plan B, Damo, Memories Of Bali, etc even though some of them were so cheesy and endings mucked up but so addictive.

• I wonder why it is called Winter Sonata 2? Is the story going to be related with the characters in the original?

  If not, I feel they should choose a different title. Because people are just going to compare it with the original.

  It reminds me of Love Rain which was also from the same PD if I'm not mistaken. Too much expectations were on that one, too. I can't even imagine who they are going to cast since nowadays it's always an Idol who gets cast as female lead. If not there is just no one with the right visual and enough star power to pull another monster hit.

• Lolz, yup I’m the one that belong to the minor. And I was the one who criticized the stupid story line, especially the toward ending the most. The story makes the supporting male character totally a weak wreak who can’t do anything without the female lead and even committed suicide? For real????
  Toward the end, there was nothing creative left except walking around the circle of male and female lead relationship: are they siblings? Are they not??
  Yup, yup, ...

• It has to be the original cast BYJ and CJW and the rest of the original cast if possible. Looking forward to WS 2.