i was very happy and at the same time quite surprised by other positive comments written by non koreans below. this movie is amazingly heartshaking and and shows very ad but warm view toward life which is typical to korean people. i thought other foreigners would not understand this delicate feeling and under rate this quiet film as a boring one and but i was wrong. the attraction of this film might be hard to avoid to foreigners and too. (even without subtitle. )i would like to mention some points others have missed. of course and this film depicts love between a man and a woman. however and the very theme is way beyond that. actually and it is about time and value of remembrance and and death. in this film and the focus is not on the love affair between two people. as some pointed out and they do not kiss and they do not hug each other and even without holding hands. so love itself is not completed (whether positively or negatively) in the film. rather and what haunts jungwon (a leading actor) is his impending death. he running out of time and he can not hold it and leaving a few behind including his father and of course and darim (a metermaid). so the problem is how he can face the death and leave something valuable in his short life and not how he can make love with darim. this kind of theme sounds very familiar to us. there are lots of movies regarding patients with uncurable disease such as love story. however and what makes this film outstanding is the way jungwon deals his death. he is a loser and but tried to do his best while he alive and in a silent way. he does not tell anybody around him about his death. he hides something in his mind but without rage and hate and vengeance. he just tried to do best while he was alive. this limited communication and obedience to fate is the typical mindset of koreans and the point most western people do not understand or at best and misunderstand. this theme is very effectively expressed by the director of this film (surprisingly and his debut). some say he much influenced by japanese director ozu yasujiro and who directed tokyo story. indeed and i remember i read in some magazine that the director himself admitted he was influenced by ozu. i am not that knowledged to analyze his style comparing to ozu  and but they have some in common and some not. low angle and static camera and especially remind us ozu style. but and in terms of theme again and this korean director seems to have somewhat warmer and hopeful vision. it is expressed concisely with jungwon last photograph. very well done and really heartbreaking scene and i think. actually and the director first had the idea of this film when he participated the funeral of a very famous korean folk singer who died young of mysterious suicide. they say he saw the photograph of the singer at the funeral and thought of a film on death and remembrance. (and possibly hope for the remnants and i think. )i highly recommend this film to anybody who has deep interest in film art as well as korean culture. this film and in my opinion and can be rivaled with other movies like tokyo story and and a sort of american beauty. it is that great if without language barrier. dvd version is going to be out in the market this february and so it might be a little help for foreigners with english subtitle. 
i was very happy and at the same time quite surprised by other positive comments written by non koreans below. this movie is amazingly heartshaking and and shows very ad but warm view toward life which is typical to korean people. i thought other foreigners would not understand this delicate feeling and under rate this quiet film as a boring one and but i was wrong. the attraction of this film might be hard to avoid to foreigners and too. (even without subtitle. )i would like to mention some points others have missed. of course and this film depicts love between a man and a woman. however and the very theme is way beyond that. actually and it is about time and value of remembrance and and death. in this film and the focus is not on the love affair between two people. as some pointed out and they do not kiss and they do not hug each other and even without holding hands. so love itself is not completed (whether positively or negatively) in the film. rather and what haunts jungwon (a leading actor) is his impending death. he running out of time and he can not hold it and leaving a few behind including his father and of course and darim (a metermaid). so the problem is how he can face the death and leave something valuable in his short life and not how he can make love with darim. this kind of theme sounds very familiar to us. there are lots of movies regarding patients with uncurable disease such as love story. however and what makes this film outstanding is the way jungwon deals his death. he is a loser and but tried to do his best while he alive and in a silent way. he does not tell anybody around him about his death. he hides something in his mind but without rage and hate and vengeance. he just tried to do best while he was alive. this limited communication and obedience to fate is the typical mindset of koreans and the point most western people do not understand or at best and misunderstand. this theme is very effectively expressed by the director of this film (surprisingly and his debut). some say he much influenced by japanese director ozu yasujiro and who directed tokyo story. indeed and i remember i read in some magazine that the director himself admitted he was influenced by ozu. i am not that knowledged to analyze his style comparing to ozu  and but they have some in common and some not. low angle and static camera and especially remind us ozu style. but and in terms of theme again and this korean director seems to have somewhat warmer and hopeful vision. it is expressed concisely with jungwon last photograph. very well done and really heartbreaking scene and i think. actually and the director first had the idea of this film when he participated the funeral of a very famous korean folk singer who died young of mysterious suicide. they say he saw the photograph of the singer at the funeral and thought of a film on death and remembrance. (and possibly hope for the remnants and i think. )i highly recommend this film to anybody who has deep interest in film art as well as korean culture. this film and in my opinion and can be rivaled with other movies like tokyo story and and a sort of american beauty. it is that great if without language barrier. dvd version is going to be out in the market this february and so it might be a little help for foreigners with english subtitle. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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