Winter Sonata's Live-action and Alternate Ending

The Nikkan Sports newspaper is reporting on Saturday
that the ending scene for the ongoing Winter Sonata
anime television series will be filmed in live-action.
Yong Joon Bae and Ji Woo Choi, the stars of the 2002
live-action Korean television drama that inspired the anime
will appear in the new live-action footage when it runs on April 24.
The new ending in the 26th episode will cover a
part of the story that was not in original Korean drama.

Both the original drama and the 26-episode anime follow a girl
named Yu Jin Jung (Choi) and her male classmate
Joon Sang Kang (Bae) as tragedy and angst befalls them
and those around them in the years between high school and young adulthood.
The 2004 Japanese broadcast of the drama triggered the ongoing
"Korean wave" of pop culture in Japan and turned Bae into a
superstar among Japanese female viewers. The Japanese publisher
Ohzora Publishing Co. eventually imported and translated the
drama's manhwa adaptation under the title Winter Love Song.

Bae had already agreed to reprise his role for the anime's
voice cast, as part of the 2007-2008 deal that gave his
Key East company's production credit for the anime.
Choi agreed to join the voice cast shortly thereafter.


Source: Anime News Network