Summer Scent
(67 Comments)
Title: 여름향기 / Summer Scent
Chinese Title : 夏日香气
Also known as: Summer Breeze / Endless Love 3
Genre: Romance
Episodes: 20
Broadcast network: KBS2
Broadcast period: 2003-Jul-07 to 2003-Sep-09
Air time: Monday & Tuesday 21:55
Related Series: Endless Love
Synopsis
Yoo Min Woo’s first love was So Eun Hye who gets into a car accident. Eun Hye dies, leaving him behind. Shim Hye Won has suffered from a terrible heart disease ever since childhood. Miraculously, she finds that she will be obtaining a heart from a donor, Soh Eun Hye.
Suffering from the pain of a heartache, Min-woo goes to Paris to study, the memories of Eun Hye still hunts his heart. When he returns to Korea, fate takes a turn and brings Hye Won and Min-woo together. When the two first meet, Hye Won’s heart (Eun Hye’s heart), oddly beats faster when she is around Min Woo.
Park Jung Jae is Hye Won’s boyfriend. Park Jung Ah is Jung Jae’s sister, she meets Min Woo in Italy and falls for him.
Cast
Song Seung Hun as Yoo Min Woo
Son Ye Jin as Shim Hye Won
Ryu Jin as Park Jung Jae
Han Ji Hye as Park Jung Ah
Shin Ae as So Eun Hye
Jo Eun Sook as Oh Jang Mi
Ahn Jung Hoon as Ji Dae Poong
Kim Hae Sook as Min Woo’s mother
Kang Ji Hwan as Jung Ah’s husband
Production Credits
Producer: Kim Chul Kyu
Director: Yoon Suk Ho
Screenwriter: Choi Ho Yun
Cinematography: Kim Yong Su
Lighting: Kim Gwang Su
January 19th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
I just can understand about the ending about this drama…
So anyone can explain me?
Did they are together or not?
January 21st, 2007 at 3:06 pm
The ending is pretty much up to the viewer’s conclusion. Eventhough Hye-won had another heart transplant (a man’s heart this time), her heart was still beating fast when she was near Min-woo and he said (in narration type) that this time it was not fate but love.
I agree with other critics of this drama that it is the weakest story compared to the other season series. The flow of the story was a bit slow. All the casts were pretty good, did their parts well.
I hope I have helped you with this.
Cheers,
Bless (NT, Australia)
March 17th, 2007 at 12:19 am
i’ve only seen part of it…where can i buy this drama??????????
March 31st, 2007 at 9:20 pm
Song Seung Hun is so good mannnnn!!!!!!!! i love his filmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and in this film he’s a very good person!! it’s rigth about the ending !!the ending is not the ending !!for me !!! the peopol who wathed this film must try to created the ending in self in their heart!!!!!because it’s like a new storie who begin !!! so you anderstand !!!!!!bye kiss and in french i say : bise!!
April 22nd, 2007 at 12:27 pm
well…this is also another good drama…What i love most is the setting…where they shoot this drama…I like the dresses of the characters..kkk…Abby and Carlo,Jeorge and Johanna…
November 29th, 2007 at 10:35 am
I haven’t seen all the episodes yet. I have a pretty good idea where it’s gonna lead because all Korean dramas have bad endings. Somehow they just don’t know how to end a story. It’s not like a tragic hero story
as in Greek philosophy.
December 7th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
so sweet ending….
December 28th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
AWESOME..!!!!!
a Lot of Romantic scene..
i Like d sound of heart beating,,
i Think it’s very Touching..
March 1st, 2008 at 5:01 pm
the ending is the ending BUT you can continue the story. Hae Won did not marry Jang Jae. 3 years past since Hae Won’s artificial heart transplant her heart beats again when she got near Min Woo who still loves her. So, for a happy ending they have to be together. I really love this story. Unique OST and great location.
March 1st, 2008 at 6:18 pm
since SSh can really sing I hope he will make an album, a compilation of songs from his past tv shows and movies. I love his voice in two of the OST of Sad Love Song. I really love his acting.
May 22nd, 2008 at 4:05 am
The conclusion to this series was dissappointing. They didnt devote the last episode to Min-woo and Hye-won being together, rather they ended with a glimpse of them seeing eachother again. That kind of scene is only good for saying, “the second series is next,” but there is no sequel. Since it was the last episode (series finaly) why couldnt they show more of them together? Why did Hye-won stayed (not married) with Jung jae rathered than Min-woo.. that was an unrealistic choice.. she is too unaturally-selfless.. doesn’t make sense why they had to end it like that.. it wasn’t great.. Hye-won never found out that Jung-jae blackmailed Min-woo before the plegde ceromony.. kinda bad to not relapse that plot.. yet i felt this series was good and satisfying for the first 15 episodes until Min-woo and Hye-won seperated.. the conclusion/ending was just unsatisfying..
May 30th, 2008 at 12:36 am
Storyline was slow. It just didn’t work out well despite the casts were all good
June 18th, 2008 at 12:44 am
i really love this drama its romantic love story, seong seung heon he’s really sweet and handsome..
July 6th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
I just want to comment on the technical aspect of the TV drama. The DP (director of photography) is horrible. All through the series, the outdoor images were all washed out (over-exposed). It’s such an amature problem that can be simply avoided by using auto-exposure.
The problem is so distracting that I keep thinking the DP must be wearing a thick sun-glass while shooting.
Also once in a while you can see the boom mic dipping into the picture from above. It happens since the audio guy gets tired holding the pole. But the director or DP needs to reshoot the take or crop the picture in post-production, rather than leave the problem be.
Overall, the technical aspect of this drama is the worst I’ve ever seen in any movie or TV.
July 11th, 2008 at 4:11 am
nice story!!
very touching!!
October 21st, 2008 at 2:51 pm
I really like the story, it’s truly amazing, touching. The lead actor is so good and handsome. I think all the cast, the director and more the writer had excellently done all their best for the movie, it’s a unforgettable.
November 19th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Basically it’s up to the viewer to decide what happens to them in the end. I think the end suggests that they did meet again and that they will end up together.
Or if you prefer to decided that they remain just friends.
December 28th, 2008 at 9:25 am
I love this cinema…………..
March 2nd, 2009 at 4:26 pm
i like the soundtrack in this drama..
March 28th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
I really really love tihs korean drama.
March 28th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
I love Korean and Korean
June 30th, 2009 at 4:49 am
I love Summer Scent. For me it is neither slow nor is the ending ambiguous. Far from being ambiguous, the ending is so romantic given the uncertainties felt by both Minwoo and Hyewon whether their love for each other is true or not. At the beginning they were brought together through Eunhye’s heart inside of Hyewon: the feelings of familiarity that Hyewon has of places that she has never been to before or that Minwoo hearing his lost love calling out his name at the tea garden.
The simplicity of the ending brings out what I as a viewer wishes to see. Yes the love Hyewon has for Minwoo expresses itself through her heart irratic beating but her feeling of connection to him originates from the deep of her soul ; her earlier heart may have quickened for Minwoo because it was still carrying Eunhye’s memories but the throbbings she feels on the stairs at the end comes from the depths of her own being.
The set up of the last scene is simply superb: simple and superb. The little details are there if you care to notice. Hyewon is carrying a bouquet of yellow roses, Minwoo’s favorite; they were in a huge crowd in the rain making it nigh impossible for them to recognize each other. And then, the sea of open umbrellas keeping them apart just magically melted away leaving them breathlessly looking at each other while their hearts beat in unison to the whispering admission of Hyewon that she has absolutely no control over her heart whenever her true love is close.
Although the story line denies them much physical intimacy and contact, one can feel the tenderness they share for each other: when she got on her toes to blow the dust speck in his eye, one can imagine they are kissing like Jungah did, but they are not. Or when they danced barefooted in the grass at night and she gently got on his toes. Physically it is not much contact but symbolically and metaphorically it speaks volume.
Personally the two most romantic moments for me is when Hyewon shyly gave Minwoo a soft peck on the cheek on the beach. The expression of her thoughts as she kissed him are precious and the scene where her bare foot drew circles in the wet sand before she told him to close his eyes killed me. The indecision betrayed by the slow movements of her foot in the sand revealed she is coming to grasp with a nascent feeling of love buried deep inside her below layers of morality and obligations.
The second moment is when Hyewon asked Minwoo how she can repay what he has done for her and he replied: “with your whole life”. The tender look on Hyewon’s face on hearing it tells me that she understands it is no demand but an explicit declaration and a promise on his part to love her for the rest of his life from this moment on.
Both characters are burdened by the implications of their respective pasts: Hyewon feels guilty for all the things that Jungjae has done for her. She is confused between her feelings of familiarity overweighed by her sense of obligation toward her fiancé and her new uncontrollable feelings for a complete stranger. As the story unfold, this uncontrolled heart feeling becomes something much more deeply connected: when she lays sick in the hospital, his soothing words and his loving touch so completely healed her that even the doctor was surprised. Every fiber in her body already knows what is the true path for her even as her mind still burdened by her sense of obligation, refuses to recognize. Before “”The I think, there is the I am”.
For his part, Minwoo has not completely let Eunhye go yet and is confused himself in the beginning about his feeling for Hyewon. Both parties are wracked and tortured by their own respective guilt feelings: one for the dead and the other for the living. The slow speed of their resolution and revelation of their true feelings for each other come about in my opinion due to a common aspect of their character : they are considerate people. Their irresolution reflects the behavior of kind people caught in a web of obligations while yearning and reaching for something seemingly unreachable. We all can imagine what not so considerate and unkind people would do in their place and quick too.
The casting is excellent : SSH is handsome and Son Yejin is just simply lovely as in looking like Love itself : demure, pure and innocent.
I realize I am in the minority who love Summer Scent but it does not bother me one bit. I know what my heart tells me: this is great romantic drama in the old fashion way of hopeless predestined love except that it is not so hopeless after all. Hyewon and Minwoo are meant for each other, their fates tied by that proverbial red string that no trial nor tribulation can ever render them apart.
July 17th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Good movie
July 21st, 2009 at 8:21 am
Hello,
I started watching Summer Scent last night and it;s the first time this drama is shown here on island (American Samoa) where I live. I am a fan of Korean Drama so, I just watch whatever is on. Well, I am a great fan of Mr. Song and I loved him on Baby Switch…….He’s more handsomer than ever I just love his eyes. Well, I have read a lot about this Drams and I think it’s going to be a great watch even though I reach so much about it even to the last episode but, I do not care I will watch it anyway. Boy, the scenery is just beautiful and I hope to enjoy this show like I am enjoying The Slingshot. Thank you so much for clean dramas. I completely quit watching Hollywood DRama and Movies and I am concentrating on Korean Shows at least they leave a lot to the imagination when it comes to the love scenes….way to go….love you all…
July 24th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
hi… last nite is the 4th episode of SummerScent at my country, malaysia. i haven’t miss & do not want to miss a single episode of dis series also! though i’m a minority who juz love this drama – yet for me i like the way they unfold the love story between those two – minwoo & hyewon. no doubt SSH & Son Yejin has done a wonderful job and both of them are very lovely in their own ways. SSH is so good looking… i juz love the way he stared at hyewon. love the scenery very much, especially at the location where they first met… the mountain breeze… wow! it looks so damn romantic! does korea always look this greatttt? come what may… yet i am so addicted to korean drama – especially those of pure & naive love story like this!