Ernest Schaal <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message news:<BCCF3F3D.1A78E%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp>...
> in article 5b5263db.0405171027.13ab30a2@posting.google.com, Travers Naran at
> tnaran@direct.ca wrote on 5/18/04 3:27 AM:
> 
> > Thank you.  I wasn't sure what it was called in Japanese other than
> > "Winter Sonata".  It was a big hit in Japan, but I still don't
> > understand why it's such a big hit.
> 
> It was a big hit because it had great music, 

Good music, lousy sound editing.

> a tear-jerking love story, and

American soap opera fans used to refer to storylines like Winter Love
Song as sci-fi plots.  If anything, I kept thinking Dr. Laura would
have a field day with these characters.

> the novelty of being a "Korean" drama that was very Japanese in tone. Notice

A friend was telling me the story may have been liberally cribbed from
a Japanese anime.

> that there is an auto accident, an industrial accident, and at the end the
> hero goes blind.

I'm not up to the final episodes yet, but there were two traffic
accidents (same guy oddly enough).  But what industrial accident are
you referring to?  The time at the ski resort when the young dashing
amnesiac hero saves the fickle, self-absorbed heroine?