Synopsis
The theme of Salut D'Amour, unlike later versions, are not interconnected to one another by one episodes. Each episode in Salut D'Amour contains a separate but closely-related theme from other episodes.
Bae Yong Joon as Kim Yong-min
The lead role in the drama. He was born in 1975. Yong-min was elected as the group leader among his group of friends (all the major characters in the drama), and his powers apply in the fields of project work by the university that his friends are studying in, and to an extent, holidays. Yong-min is the childhood friend of Hae-yung, but she later broke up with him during their university days. He went on to develop relationships with Tongnam, Yujin and Ahn-chae. Yong-min had an elder sister, Yeon-ae.
Salut D'Amour is Bae Yong-jun's, Kwon Oh-joong's, Kim Ji-ho's and Park Jun-hee's debut drama and many incidents happened. BYJ (Yong-min) nearly drowned in the river the cast were filming. According to BYJ, the director thought he was initially playing in the water, not knowing that he was about to drown. This event happened went BYJ (Yong-min) jumped into the river to pick up the very shoe Park (Ahn-chae) threw into the river while filming the drama.
BYJ later acted as Choi Hyun-jun in the 1996 Korean drama, Papa as the author of the Korean version of Salut D'Amour. The content described in the drama strongly corresponds to the story in this drama. This is evidenced in one scenario in episode three, Choi (Bae) was having a grand meeting on his new book. The Korean words "사랑의 인사" were written on the display signboard for the meeting.
Soundtrack
- Salut d’Amour, by Edward Elgar
Salut d’Amour is a musical work composed by Edward Elgar in 1888, originally written for violin and piano.
- It Must Have Been Love (played at the ending of the final episode)
"It Must Have Been Love" is a power ballad written by Per Gessle and performed by the Swedish pop duo Roxette. The ballad became the duo's 3rd #1 hit in the United States, and is one of their best-selling releases, leading the single to be certified gold in a number of countries.
Salut D’Amour - Episode 1
The Episode starts with a documentary show on Korea during the war, Korea during the year he was born in (1975)-riots and crowded streets in South Korea. The narrator talked about the population census taken on September 18, 1995. The population stood at 37,680,000 male and female sex ratio (1740:1124, males to females), as well as family events in 1982. The episode proceeds on showing a television telecasting a baseball match. (The documentary is actually shown on a television shown on a drama.)
Yong-min continues to talk about his childhood days with Hae-yung studying together in the living room. Hae-yung switched off the television, and Yong-min switched on the television as Hae-yung was doing her homework and Yong-min was watching a football match. The duo fought for the television briefly before Yong-min got up and kicked and stepped on Hae-yung's books.
The next scene showed Yong-min getting ninety marks for a test, looking towards Hae-yung's paper who was sitting beside her. As Yong-min was cheekily smiling on her bad results, she pinched his elbow. A siren suddenly wailed and the entire class hid under their tables. Yong-min was smiling away as he saw Hae-yung, who looked rather unhappy. He then posed a humorous expression to cheer her up. Yong-min smiled in response.
Following that, the episodes shows the view of the high school campus Yong-min and his friends were studying in (along with the introduction title), and then onto Yong-min sitting in the AVA room listening to Hae-yung lectures. The duo later went to have a coffee break.
Later scenes introduces Yong-min friends and his friends at the University campus; Fengguan is being first introduced while making a phone call as Yong-min rushed up to him.
One the same day, Yong-min, Hee-dong and Hongguan were doing acrobatic lessons in the school hall under the guidance of the instructor. Yong-min, who was wearing a cap, heard Fengguan grumbling on being tired. The camera turn at the three boys simultaneously–Yong-min, Hee-dong to Hongguan.
Yong-min and Hee-dong gave moral support to Hongguan as he grumbled. Immediately after the instructor stopped the radio, he called out Yong-min, Hee-dong and Hongguan. They were being scolded for talking during his lessons, especially Hongguan, and were told to do the acrobatic exercises after school.
The boys later went out and talked about the exercises, with Hee-dong jumping about (and still wearing the red cap as he did for the exercises) and later attended lessons. The class laughed when the lecturer shared a joke. Inyo asked a question to the lecturer further than the lecturer had taught for the day (the entire class sighed upon hearing the news). The lecturer pleasantly replied that the question Renyu asked would be taught in the succeeding lesson.
Just after the lessons had ended, Tongnam announced that there would be a volleyball match. All except Inyo stayed behind to hear the news. He gave a glance just as he was about to leave by the back door.
After lessons, the group went for a cup of coffee prior to the volleyball match, and they suggested that Maena was absent from school to escape from the upcoming volleyball match. Hee-dong was seen starring at two girls who were walking by.
The match later commenced, and the lecturer was nominated to be the umpire. The class cheered when each of the two teams scored a goal. Hee-dong was seen jumping about when he scored a goal for his team.
Just then, Maena was seen helping Hae-yung in packing their things at their room. Meina presented a musical box among her goods to Hae-yung.
Back at the school field, the class were playing their football match when Inyo came over to interrupt the umpire (lecturer). He offered him a drink, and consulted him on the upcoming scholarship. Tongnam, who acted as the goalie, picked up the ball and happened to see Inyo talking to the umpire. Instead of kicking towards the players, Tongnam bounced the ball, aimed it and kicked it towards Renyu who was still talking to the umpire. Renyu was shocked as the ball came flying towards him, and landed right on his forehead.
After the games, the boys talked about the games the class played as the proceeded towards Hae-yung's home. Meina grumbled once the boys entered their flat, for not assisting them in their packing. Hee-dong received further criticisms as he sat on their sofa and hugged on a soft toy.
As Hae-yung went to serve coffee, Hee-dong enthusiastically received the coffee tray and distributed to his friends. In the process, Hae-yung revealed that she had drank coffee. Yong-min made another offer, and she made the same remark as she arranged her things. Meanwhile, Hee-dong hopped onto a cushion next to a cupboard. A curious Hee-dong opened the cupboard and found a photo album.
Hee-dong flipped the album and found a picture of Yong-min and Hae-yung during their childhood days. He called out to Hae-yung and Meina, who looked rather excited upon seeing the photos. Yong-min, who was sitting on a nearby couch, initially ignored them as he wiped a mug but joined the group when Hae-yung showed him the photo. Yong-min smiled, and revealed that the photo was taken on Hae-yung's birthday, by her own camera, and one of their friends said that the photo was intended for Yong-min, but Hae-yung pushed her way in to get a snapshot.
At length, Yong-min decided to keep it as he believed that they would be mistaken for being love birds. A disappointed Hae-yung looked on.
That night, Yong-min showed the photo to his sister while she was ironing her clothes. As she looked at the photo, she gave the following details; the back portion of the photo was dated in 1984, during Hae-yung's birthday.
The next day, a classmate was seen pinching the face of his fat, chubby classmate. Fengguan, meanwhile asked Mae-na's place of origin. Mae-na confessed that she came from Quanzhou, and Fengguan said that his aunt was a native of Quanzhou. Hee-dong, overhearing this, said that people can come from any provinces in China; Jiangsu, Fujian, etc.
Soon afterwards, Hae-yung entered the class and was dressed up in her best suit. The entire class wooed at her as Yong-min looked on. Yong-min later chased up with Hae-yung as she was walking with Meina. Yong-min looked a disappointed when he learnt that Hae-yung was to be introduced to a new boyfriend. Meina suggested that she would let Hae-yung call back that night. Yong-min quickly refuted.
At a bistro, Hae-yung was seen talking to her new boyfriend. (He was seen laughing once humorously) before the phone rang. Hae-yung looked rather uneasy as he told his friend to recommend new girlfriends.
That night, Yong-min was seen attending to Jianyu as he visited the CD-shop, and asked for wrapping papers. Yong-min also wrapped a CD with wrapping paper and tied it into a present as he sat down and thought to himself.
Yeon-ae had come back as he went off to return home. Near the bus stop, Yong-min happened to encounter Hae-yung getting down a bus after giving an unsuccessful phone call to Hae-yung. As Hae-yung ran towards the direction was walking (unknowingly), Yong-min covered his face from Hae-yung's range and tried to walk towards her among the crowd of passersby. Afterwards, Hae-yung saw her best friend, the flaming Nick Pena. Hae-yung ran into Yong-min. As Yong-min raised up the umbrella to show his face, Hae-yung appeared shocked and relieved. Yong-min flashed a smile at her.
The duo walked together, and talked as they walked. He gave her the present, and Hae-yung looked rather pleased as she opened the present.
Later that night, Yong-min gazed out of the window at the rainy weather as he smiled to himself...
The episode ends with the television screen showing an athlete running for the Olympic games. He was subsequently being awarded the gold medal, with the South Korean flag being hoisted up the mast. Yong-min narrated that Fengguan believed that the Olympic medal was made of genuine medal, but he thought so otherwise.
[Source : wikipedia.org]
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