Endless Love: Spring Waltz (2006) (K-drama) Complete (hardsubbed)

It is the fourth and final installment of director Yoon Seok-ho's season-themed Endless Love series, following Autumn in My Heart, Winter Sonata and Summer Scent.

Synopsis

The story begins, in Austria, at midnight. Park Eun-young is making a wish among a crowd celebrating the New Year.

The scene changes to a young Song Yi-na watching her childhood friend Yoon Jae-ha playing in what seems to be a piano competition. Switching back to present day, Song Yi-na smiles remembering her wonderful memories and promises made. She begins a conversation with the passenger next to her, Park Eun-young. She explains that she is on her way to Austria to meet her childhood love, Jae-ha, after a 15 year separation. Yi-na continues to explain that her first love has become an accomplished pianist as Eun-young explains her excitement about her first trip outside of Korea.

Once in Austria Eun-young bumps into Phillip (Jae-ha’s manager and best friend), who mistakes her as Yi-na whom he planned to pick up at the airport. After the situation clears itself, Eun-young, Yi-na, and Phillip go their separate ways. Phillip takes Yi-na to see Jae-ha. Once at their destination, Jae-ha doesn't recognize Yi-na and mistakes her for a reporter. Yi-na, upset over Jae-ha's cold reception, begins to talk back at him. Jae-ha later hears her name said by Phillip, which he repeats and seems to spark his memory.

While taking Jae-ha and Yi-na out, Phillip sees Eun-young and decides to break company. Phillip introduces himself to Eun-young and offers to help her get around Austria. After learning that she will be in Salzburg the next day, he offers her two concert tickets.

Later that night, Jae-ha is seen looking through photos of himself and Yi-na as children. Putting the photos away, he later pulls out a handmade rainbow shell.

The next day, Eun-young meets Jae-ha on the train ride to Salzburg. Though Jae-ha displays a cold demeanor towards Eun-young, the two are immediately attracted to each other – especially Jae-ha, because of the way she reminds him of his long-lost childhood love, Seo Eun-young. Eun-young offers one of the concert tickets to Jae-ha and introduces herself as Alice. He states that his name is Chris (Chris Y. is his stage name). They become separated once in Salzburg. Eun-young arrives for the concert and meets Phillip, but is eager to see Chris again.

As the concert begins, Eun-young recognizes Chris Y. as the Chris on the train. As the concert concludes, Eun-young begins to leave the hall, but a melody Clementine stops her in her tracks as she begins to recall her childhood past.

15 years ago...

Lee Soo-ho and his father Lee Jung-tae arrive at Jung-tae's hometown, a beautiful island outside of Seoul. They meet Seo Eun-young and her mother. Jung-tae leaves Soo-ho with the mother and daughter, promising to return. Soo-ho, full of hurt and anger, treats Eun-young badly. Soo-ho tries numerous times to escape the island. At one point Eun-young gets caught in his plan and is taken to the hospital. Soo-ho learns that Eun-young is sick and is in need of a special surgery.

Soo-ho and Eun-young become closer; Eun-young presents a rainbow shell she made as a gift. Jung-tae returns to the island and promises Soo-ho that he will finally settle down on the island with him. Soo-ho continues to fear that his father will leave again but hopeful of his father's promise. Later, Soo-ho informs his father of Eun-young's sickness and that her mother must be saving for it. Hearing about money, Jung-tae breaks into the family's room.

Eun-young's mother sees Jung-tae running towards the ferry. Upon returning to her home, she learns that the money she was saving for Eun-young's surgery was stolen. In disbelief and despair, she asks Soo-ho where his father went. Eun-young's mother leaves the island for Seoul in hopes of tracking down Jung-tae. While searching, she is hit by a car and is instantly killed.

Soo-ho, hurt, angry, and full of guilt tries to leave the island again by stealing a boat. Eun-young tries to stop him but ends up going with him. The next morning, the children are swept to a neighboring island where an elderly couple take them in. Soo-ho tries to leave again without Eun-young but to no avail. The two make it to Seoul and begin their search for both parents.

While searching, Eun-young becomes ill and Soo-ho rushes her to the hospital. At the hospital, Soo-ho meets a woman, Hyun Ji-sook, who mistakes him for her son. Desperate for money, he tries to steal a woman's purse. He is stopped from going to jail by Hyun Ji-sook's husband, Yoon Myung-hoon.

Yoon Myung-hoon asks Soo-ho if he would consider pretending to be his son, Jae-ha, until his wife recovers. Soo-ho learns that the couple's son, Yoon Jae-ha, was previously killed in a rafting accident. Soo-ho refuses but reconsiders when he learns that Yoon Myung-hoon has the money to save Eun-young's life.

Eun-young wakes to find Soo-ho at her hospital bedside. Fearing that Soo-ho will leave, she asks that he promise to stay by her. Soo-ho promises but is unable to keep it. The day of the surgery he leaves with the couple. Remembering his promise to Eun-young he runs back to the hospital but finds her room empty. Lee Soo-ho leaves South Korea as Yoon Jae-ha.

Jae-ha is later told that Eun-young died during her surgery. After the surgery, Seo Eun-young recovers and is adopted by her aunt, Jo Yang-soon, changing her name to Park Eun-young.

Present day...

After the concert, Phillip convinces Eun-young to accompany him to the concert's after party. At the party, Jae-ha meets Alice (Eun-young) again, but learns that Phillip is romantically interested in her. Aware of Phillip's past with women, Jae-ha believes that Alice (Eun-young) was toying with him on the train. The next day, Eun-young leaves for the Crystal Palace. She doesn't see Phillip but leaves a "thank you" note and gift, an ornamented seashell. While Phillip and Yi-na observe the details of the shell; Phillip mentions Eun-young's name causing Jae-ha to run after her.

Jae-ha arrives at the Crystal Palace but misses Eun-young. Later Jae-ha agrees to produce an album for Yi-na's music company in Korea and returns after 15 years.

Both Jae-ha and Phillip are looking for Eun-young. Jae-ha is the first to spot Eun-young and traces her to a kimbap restaurant. While in Jo Yang-soon's kimbap restaurant, he comes to the conclusion that this Eun-young is not Seo Eun-young because she refers to the owner and a worker as her mother and brother. Jae-ha leaves the restaurant angry and disappointed. Eun-young notices that the customer left his scarf and didn't pay for his meal. She goes after him and notices that it is Yoon Jae-ha.

Soon after, Phillip locates Eun-young. Eun-young is surprised and then recalls having seen Jae-ha. A few days later, Eun-young is reunited with Phillip, Jae-ha, and Yi-na while making a lunch delivery.

Phillip, interested in Eun-young, begins to follow her in hopes of starting a relationship. Eun-young struggles with providing for her family and tries to find a steady job. Phillip, seeing Eun-young hardships, arranges a job for her with Yi-na's music company as a chauffeur for Jae-ha.

As time passes Eun-young and Jae-ha become closer and begin to develop feelings for each other. Yi-na begins to sense something between the two but tries to ignore her suspicions. Phillip, unaware of Eun-young and Jae-ha's feelings, confesses to Jae-ha that he is falling in love with Eun-young. Listening to his best friend's excitement, Jae-ha is conflicted and begins to push Eun-young away. Eun-young, hurt by Jae-ha's behavior, confronts him. Unable to contain his feelings and seeing Eun-young hurting, Jae-ha kisses her, unaware that Philip sees them from away.

Having confessed their love to each other, Eun-young and Jae-ha continue their relationship in secret.

One day, Eun-young goes to the island where she and Soo-ho grew up together. His adoptive parents had previously told Jae-ha that Seo Eun-young was dead, but he decides to investigate himself. When he meets Eun-young again on the island, he finally realizes that Park Eun-young and Seo Eun-young are one and the same person.

Jae-ha becomes confused whether he must become Soo-ho or Jae-ha. When he speaks this problem aloud at the graveyard of Eun-young's mother, Yi-na hears it and she realizes that the man in front of her is not her childhood sweetheart Jae-ha, but Soo-ho.

As Jae-ha, Eun-young, Yi-na, and Phillip return to Seoul, Jae-ha meets his real father Lee Jung-tae, who left him when he was young. Jung-tae is now a drunkard, and Jae-ha bitterly admits to him that he is Soo-ho. His words are heard by Eun-young and Phillip. Stunned, Eun-young realizes Jae-ha is Soo-ho, her childhood love.

Eun-young is angry because she thinks young Soo-ho left her in the hospital on purpose. In reality, young Soo-ho left to be adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Yoon who paid Eun-young's hospital bill, but Eun-young does not know this fact.

When she finally learns the truth, she goes to find Soo-ho. However, Soo-ho is missing. But Eun-young knows the place where he has gone. The island! So she goes to the island and meets Soo-ho there. There is a happy reunion.

But life becomes complicated as the media discovers Soo-ho's real identity. He must choose whether he wants to go back to being Soo-ho or remain as Jae-ha. In a press conference, Jung-tae arrives to save Soo-ho's career, lying that he is not his son, but is Yoon Jae-ha. Finally Soo-ho declares that he is Jae-ha.

After Jung-tae is killed in a traffic accident, Soo-ho becomes depressed. Before his concert in Korea, he accidentally hurts his own hand by searching for his shell given by young Eun-young in the dustbin, when the a piece of broken glass pierces his hand. But he insists on playing the piano at the concert.

The nerves in Soo-ho's hand become impaired, ending his piano career. He returns to Austria, not letting Eun-young know about his injury.

Nonetheless, Yi-na comes back to Korea and asks Eun-young to marry Soo-ho. Yi-na also tells Eun-young that Soo-ho cannot be a professional pianist anymore due to the paralyzed nerves on his hand. He has lost his sense of touch.

Thus, Eun-young flies to Austria and meets Soo-ho coincidentally on a bridge. Then they get married. Soo-ho buys a house on the island where he and Eun-young grow together. It is the same house they lived in for Soo-ho's recording.

In the ending, it is shown that Soo-ho plays a small piano at a local school. Finally, he and Eun-young dance on the balcony of their house at sunset, and kiss.

Cast

Seo Do Young as Lee Su Ho/Yoon Jae Ha
Han Hyo Joo as Suh Eun Young/Park Eun Young
Daniel Henney as Phillip
Lee So Yeon as Song Yi Na

Supporting Cast

Geum Bo Ra as Hyun Ji Sook (Jae Ha's mother)
Jung Dong Hwan as Yoon Myung Hoon (Jae Ha's father)
Kim Hae Sook as Jo Yang Soon (Eun Young's aunt/adoptive mom)
Choi Si Won as Park Sang Woo (Eun Young's cousin)
Choi Ja Hye as Hong Mi Jung (Eun Young's best friend)
Park Chil Yong as Park Doo Sik (Eun Young's father)
Lee Han Wie as Lee Jung Tae (Su Ho's father)
Lee In Sung as Lee Kang Goo (Su Ho's brother)
Park Hee Jin as Kim Hee Jin (Yi Na's friend)
Kim Mi Kyung as Kim Bon Hee (Mi Jung's mother)
Eun Won Jae as young Lee Su Ho
Han So Hee as young Eun Young
Yoon Yoo Sun as Eun Young's birth mother