K-Cinema Screening & Social: The Classic (클래식)
Ji-hye (Son Ye-jin) and Soo-kyoung (Lee Tae-kyung) are college friends, and both have a crush on the charming boy in their drama club, Sang-Min (Jo In-Sung). The more outgoing of the two, Soo-kyoung, asks Ji-hye to write her a love letter to Sang-Min as a favor. When Ji-hye pours her own feelings into the letter, she realizes that she has sealed her own heartbreak when Sang-Min falls for Soo-Kyoung. As Ji-hye wiles away her solitude, she discovers a secret box in the attic containing the story of her mother's own first love from decades past. Yet somehow, fate keeps bringing Ji-hye and Sang-min together...
Director Kwak Jae-Young's 2003 film The Classic become a classic itself of modern Korean romance. Along with other early romantic films at the outset of the global Korean Wave,The Classic helped establish a potent Korean formula for touching, powerful storytelling in the decades to come.