One Fine Spring Day

Sang-woo, a recording engineer, meets Eun-su, who works as a radio producer, when they are assigned to travel together and gather the sounds of the natural world for a broadcast. Working side by side in the field, they grow close and fall in love. Once the trip ends and everyday life resumes, the relationship runs into difficulty: Eun-su, who has been divorced, hesitates to take on a new love and turns Sang-woo away, and the two must deal with the pain of being apart. Time passes before their paths cross again.

The film is a Korean romance drama directed by Hur Jin-ho, who wrote the screenplay with Ryu Jang-ha and Lee Suk-yeon. It was released in 2001, following his 1998 debut Christmas in August and preceding April Snow (2005) in his filmography, and was produced by Kim Sun-ah, Lee Min-su and Peter Chan. Yoo Ji-tae plays Sang-woo and Lee Young-ae plays Han Eun-su, with supporting turns from Baek Seong-hui, Park In-hwan, Shin Shin-ae and Baek Jong-hak.

The film runs 115 minutes and was made as a co-production involving Hong Kong, Korea and Japan. It holds a rating of 7 out of 10 on IMDb, based on around 2,000 votes, and the same score on TMDB, where the vote count is much smaller.