Stairway to Heaven

Starring: Kwon Sang Woo, Choi Ji woo

Other known names such as Stairs of Heaven, Stairs to Heaven, Stairways of Heaven, Heaven's Stairs, Paradise

Synopsis: (summarized by Krystalheart)
A story about Jung Suh (Choi Ji Woo) and her best friend Song Joo (Kwon Sang Woo). As childhood friends, Jung Suh and Song Joo held a special bond within their friendship that blossomed into love. Song Joo leaves to America to study abroad, leaving a sad Jung Suh behind. Jung Suh is left alone to suffer in the silent cruelty of her step sister, Yuri, and new step mother. All the while, Jung Suh tries to be nice to her new step brother, Tae Hwa, who in returns mistakes this friendship for affection. Tae Hwa falls in love with young Jung Suh. The love that heaven forbids and a tragic love story that starts to unfold from here.

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SPOILER STARTS HERE!
Five years later, Song Joo returns home to Seoul, South Korea to bring Jung Suh with him to America to study. Song Joo captures a glimpse of Jung Suh waving at him from afar. For a brief moment, Song Joo can almost touch his heaven. However, he arrives to Jung Suh's side too late. She's been killed - or so Yuri wants everyone to believe. Song Joo never gets over her death. Jung Suh isn't dead though however, she's alive but loses her memory. Her step brother, Tae Hwa, has decided to run away and hide Jung Suh away. He loves her so much that he couldn't have asked for a better gift that she doesn't remember he is her step brother. He lies to Jung Suh that she is his girl friend.

Another five years later, Song Joo returns to Seoul from America with Yuri (Jung Suh's step sister). Yuri is determined to make Song Joo marry her and will do anything for it to happen (yes, that included attempting to kill Jung Suh). Song Joo captures a glimpse of a girl who looks like Jung Suh in the mall. He can't believe his eyes and runs to find her. In his relentless search for this girl, he wonders if it is a ghost or if he's simply gone crazy. Her name is Kim Ji Soo (name given to her by Tae Hwa). She looks exactly like Jung Suh down to the very last detail. Song Joo refuses to let her out of his sight because he believes that it is Jung Suh.

Song Joo will do anything to try to make Kim Ji Soo remember if she is Jung Suh. In the meantime, he realizes maybe it really isn't her and he can't force her to believe she is someone for the sake of his good. Song Joo starts to fall in love with Kim Ji Soo the more he spends time with her. However, Tae Hwa and Yuri are determined to not let that happen. As the story progresses, Jung Suh regains her memory and remembers her love for Song Joo. She also remembers that Tae Hwa is her step brother and is enraged at him for lying to her all this time. Tae Hwa feels guilty for all the suffering he caused Jung Suh and decides to go back to loving her from afar, letting her go to the one she truly loves.

Jung Suh finds out that she is going blind and that she has eye cancer. Saddened, she does not want Song Joo to know because he will be sad that she will die. So Jung Suh lies to Song Joo that she is going back to Tae Hwa because Tae Hwa needs her. She wants Song Joo to remain her friend. Jung Suh, blind now, pours her heart to who she thinks is Tae Hwa, her true feelings for Song Joo. But she doesn't know that the entire time, it was Song Joo who she was talking to. Song Joo, crying so loud, falls to the floor knowing that his true love is going to die. --OMG the one of the most saddest scenes in the entire drama.

Song Joo marries Jung Suh. A sad Tae Hwa escorts Jung Suh down the stairs to the wedding. But he is happy that she is happy with her true love. At the wedding, the truth is revealed about Yuri's attempt to kill Jung Suh and the suffering she caused everyone. The step mother goes crazy and Yuri is arrested.

Song Joo wants to donate his eyes to Jung Suh but the doctors say they cannot accept donors who are still alive. Tae Hwa, with all his love, kills himself so that he can give his eyes to Jung Suh as his last gift to her. To give her happiness as she gave to him when he was alive.

Jung Suh finds out it was Tae Hwa who died so she could live and see again. However, the cancer had spread to her brain that she would die eventually. Song Joo, who loves Jung Suh so much, can't bare the thought of losing her again. In the end, by the beach Song Joo and Jung Suh walk to the end of the road. Jung Suh walks step by step into Heaven and will wait to meet her true love Song Joo again.

Song Joo plays a song on the piano to send to Jung Suh in Heaven. He screams, "Jung Suh, are you well? Jung Suh...."

The End of Stairway to Heaven

KrystalHeart's Rating on "Stairway to Heaven"
9/10

01. Chopin, Piano Concerto No.1 Op.11 E Minor 2nd Mvt : Romanza
02. chun gook eh gi uk - Jang Jung Woo
03. lette - Kang Woo Jin
04. Ave Maria - Rebecca Luker
05. geu gut man eun - Jang Jung Woo
06. uhn je gga ji na
07. na man eh nuh - Kim Hyun Ah
08. Remember
09. seul peun sarang
10. ah reum da oon nuh eh ge - Moon Ji Hwan
11. nuh reul ji kil gge
12. bo go ship da - Kim Bum Soo
13. ggeut ee ah nim eul
14. chun gook eh gi uk - Park Mook Hwan
15. se sang ggeut eh suh it suh do
16. yak sok
17. geu gut man eun - Park Mook Hwan
18. Stairway To Heaven (taken from Led Zeppelin)