Just having recently wrapped up one of the most talked about dramas of the season, Song Hye Gyo sat down for an interview at a cafe where she shared about her involvement in “That Winter, The Wind Blows.”
Song Hye Gyo: It’s been awhile since I received praises from people, so it felt really good to hear and I was excited. Because I was acting a blind person, I dreaded the drama’s premiere, but I was so relieved and happy that the public’s reaction was good. Whenever I monitor myself, I always feel like I lack many things. The good result this time was a mystery-like feeling that came out from me, which I never showed beforel.
Q: This is your second time participating in writer Noh Hee Kyung’s work. Did she have a big part in your decision to take this project?
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Song Hye Gyo: To be honest, when I heard that teacher [Noh Hee Kyung] was going to do a remake, I didn’t know why she would. She has her own color.. however, Noh Hee Kyung said that she will give a completely different feeling and that she will reach out to the public. That’s why I decided to trust her and director Kim Kyu Tae and go with the project. Teacher said that she drew Young’s character from the character Jun Young’s cynical expressions from the drama ‘The World They Lived In.’ I researched and studied every scene to make up for the parts that were missing from the original. Teacher wanted to fix the parts that weren’t perfect from the original so I think she wanted to recast the characters in the drama.
Q: I think it would have been emotionally difficult to act out the character of a blind person loving her older brother.
Song Hye Gyo: “It was a really difficult project. I don’t have such an up-and-down personality, but I experienced some of that during this project. Seeing myself acting that way was new and there were times when tears wanted to come out when I’m just talking. It was always bittersweet whenever a project ends, but it was different for “That Winter, The Wind Blows.” I wanted to continue feeling the torment from that time and it was hard saying goodbye to this project. I think that the writer, director and all the actors felt that way.
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Song Hye Gyo: Even I saw the screen and thought that we look good together. Since he’s tall and I’m short, it feels like a romance comic and Young seems loveable. The only reason why I was “Oh Soo lovesick” because I didn’t see the other actor in person, but watched them through broadcast. When I saw Oh Soo’s acting, I thought “so his gaze is like that.” I thought “there’s no guy like that in the world” and became like other female viewers who watched the show. In Sung had to carry me and pick me up in many scenes, but I heard from staff that his hands were shaking when he ate his food that day. I’m sorry. (Laugh)That Winter, the Wind Blows (Korean: 그 겨울, 바람이 분다 ; RR: Geu Gyeo-ul, Baram-i Bunda) is a 2013 South Korean romantic melodrama television series starring Jo In-sung and Song Hye-kyo. A gambler and con man (Jo) pretds to be the long-lost brother of a blind heiress (Song), but these two damaged people come to find the true meaning of love after getting to know each other.
The series is based on the Japanese drama Forget Love (愛なんていらねえよ、夏 , Ai nante Irane yo, Natsu ) that aired on TBS in 2002
A melodrama about a man and a blind woman who doesn’t believe in love. Oh Soo is an orphan who is left heartbrok after his first love dies. He leads a life as a high-stakes gambler. Oh Young is a lonely visually-impaired heiress whose parts are dead. She has a younger estranged brother. She inherited her parts’ wealth. Oh Soo pretds to be Oh Young’s brother in order to inherit her wealth wh she dies. However, the two soon learn the true meaning of love.
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An orphan who doesn’t care about anything after the death of his first love, he becomes a high-class gambler and playboy. Desperate to find money to repay a debt or forfeit his own life, he becomes a con artist who sets sights on a new target: Oh Young, pretding to be her long-lost brother.
A legally blind heiress of a conglomerate. Oh Young lives alone, estranged from her mother and older brother since she was a child.
Soo’s best frid and right-hand man. Loyal and hot-headed, Jin-sung dreams of scraping up ough money to buy his father an organic cattle farm.
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Younger sister of Soo’s first love, Hee-joo. Hee-sun is a quirky, tomboyish girl with a deep fondness for flowers. Though Hee-sun tries to despise Soo after he leaves Hee-joo, she finds that she cannot, and instead helps him in his scheme.
Kim Bum had also worked with Noh and Kim on the 2011 series Padam Padam… The Sound of His and Her Heartbeats.
Jo said, Wh I first decided to do it, I saw the script and felt it was worth a go. But the more I read it, the more I felt that if I didn’t do it right, it would be a total disaster, further explaining that there was a huge gap betwe reading the script and acting it out.
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Song said about her role as a blind woman, Because my character cannot see, I am unable to make eye contact with In-sung and can only see how it plays out wh I monitor the sces afterwards. I must rely on his voice and his voice carries ough emotional weight for it to work.
Regarding criticism about her characterization, she said, Many asked why blind people would wear high heels and makeup, ev eyeliner. But wh I visited facilities for the blind and asked them, they told me that they also wear makeup and colorful clothing.
On February 4, 2013, Jo cut his hand while filming a sce in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province, where he had to punch a wall in anger, after the glass frame broke on impact. He received 13 stitches for his wound at a nearby hospital, th returned to the set and finished shooting.
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Wh the production filmed on location at Yongpyong Ski Resort in Daegwallyeong-myeon, Pyeongchang, Gangwon Province, fashion magazine High Cut was invited along the shoot for three days and two nights. The feature appeared on the cover of High Cut's March 2013 edition (or Issue 97).
Director Kim Kyu-tae utilized a lot of ultra close-up shots, to highlight the characters’ emotions and acctuate the smallest movemt in the actors’ faces or expression in their eyes. Cinematographer and visual director Kim Cheon-seok said such visual techniques differtiated the show from the standard set by existing Korean dramas, which usually resort to medium shots or bust shots. To produce such detailed shots, the crew used expsive high-definition ALEXA Plus cameras, known for their rich color and high-speed cinematography. Lighting director Park Hwan also employed twice as much lighting equipmt as do other dramas. Another technique the crew used was post-production correction, which was possible because wh the first episode aired, eight were already taped. Park said, It’s both my and Kim’s philosophy that the actress should look beautiful ev wh she is wailing.
Among the product placemts (PPL) in the series were Laneige cosmetics (featured in episode 4 wh the character Oh Young gets a makeover at a Laneige store before her high school reunion; Song has be the brand’s dorser for six years), tuxedo maker Parkland, and Hyundai Motor Company. Viewers have complained on the drama’s website about the overuse of PPL.
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Oh Young’s mansion was filmed at the arboretum Jade Gard in Gangwon Province (Full House Take 2 and Love Rain were also shot there), and her flower gard was filmed at the Hantaek Botanical Gard in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province. The various sces set in a coffee shop were shot at the Nonhyeon-dong and Cheongdam-dong branches of coffee shop franchise De Chocolate Coffee in Gangnam District, Seoul.
According to AGB Niels Media Research, the premiere episode achieved a nationwide rating of 11.3 perct in viewership, ranked third behind Iris II on KBS and 7th Grade Civil Servant on MBC. The second back-to-back episode rose 1.5 perct to 12.8 perct.
In its third week, That Winter, the Wind Blows remained on top, while its two rival series competed for second place with small differces in viewership rating.
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According to TNmS, the series continued to rank number one in its timeslot for the remainder of its broadcast, though quoting slightly differt figures.
The series finale maintained its first-place ranking and recorded its highest rating with a viewership of 15.4 and 15.8 perct nationwide, and an average of 19.1 and 18.2 perct in the Seoul National Capital Area, according to TNmS and AGB Niels respectively.
Sces from the drama were parodied by sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live Korea on cable channel tvN. On the episode broadcast on March 9,
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