oh i had to buy this drama at yesasia and although it was expensive i don't regret purchasing this drama at all. one of my all time favorite kdrama.

as for fivemagic's question to why it's called saved the last dance. if i can recall correctly, at the very end of the drama, when they finally meet after yet another year apart, he sees her in a wheelchair and he asked her why she left? and they cried and stuff. he mentioned to her about how no matter what he will always be by her side, and he will "save the last dance" for her her. basically it's him telling her she will be the last and only person he wants to dance with for the rest of his life. she is the girl he loves the most in this entire world and besides her he doesn't want to "dance" or "hold" another person. it's sorta like in life u tend to walk and go through the tough times with the one u love, and then dance and rejoice during the happy times. well that's just my interpretation of the title. there's i'm sure a lot of reasons why it was title like that.

i just finished watching it...........its so goooooooooooood!!!!!!!!1 argh i have been obssessing over the drama for months now sicne it started airing here...and i waited impatiently everyweeek for satuurday to come jsut to watch an hour of the drama, it drove me crazy, and now that alllt eh waiting and anticipating is over.....i wish there were more eposodes for me to be obsessed over!!!
i loveee the ending and everything~!!

i think the director was really cool to come up with this title, and somemore taking it from one of the dialogue in the last episode ...
I am also so in love with this drama that i wen to buy their promise necklace from YesAsia ..
Its nevertheless one of the best dramas of eugene n ji sung, and i agree that eugene def pairs up with ji sung the best as compared to the other male leads like in loving you and wonderful life ..

This series is currently airing in Spore and it was SOO good
I didn't really want to watch it at first because some say that PTF actually copied some parts of this series and I watch before so..
But I can't help myself but watching it because Ji Sung and Eugene were just so good-looking. This series is good, very detailed and very sweet, I got addicted to it and it was really a good view to see those 2 onscreens, they simply suit each other!! and Ji Sung is so handsome and Eugene acting improved
Can't wait to see teh ending ^^

A really enjoyable one......that makes your head and heart spins with its storyline
for weeks. I watched it last year but I have not got tired over it because it is good......very, very good. I hate weepy movie but to me, this one is not; I was able to hold back my tears. I guess that is why I really like it....I do not wish to be depressed after watching a drama. On top of that, it has a HAPPY ENDING. THE LAST PART IS SOOOOOOOOO ROMANTIC WITH BOTH OF THEM IN EACH OTHER'S ARMS TIGHT and JI-SUNG'S GENTLE TOUCH ON HER FOREHEAD! WHAT MORE CAN WE ASK! IT SPEAKS TONS OF MESSAGE THAT LOVE CAN REALLY OVERCOMES....I mean real love!

for me this series is the best!!!! eugene is very pretty in this series!!! and this series also iw where she got her award, BEST NEW RISING FEMALE STAR....

Well, I got to say Eugene really deserves to be get the award, she really improve from the last series which I watched, she is so cute and pretty in this series!!
I just read a news that before this series is airing, many had commented on it and said that it will be a bad ending but well, for me I really enjoy it and it is SSOO good, even far more better than Lover OF paris, I don't know why so many people like tha series?!
Really like the love between the 2 of them, how i wish they can be dating?!!

TO ALL ARDENT FANS OF 'SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR ME' VIEWING VOLUME HAS

HIT AND CROSS THE 100 000 MARK!!!!!

Hoorayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy all the

way!

Congratulations to Ji-Sung and Eugene and All the wonderful cast in making and

superbly producing it!



IT'S SIMPLY THE BEST! SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL! SIMPLY PAR EXCELLENCE!

i totally agree! this drama has the most touching, inspiring, happy ending!

it is a happy ending yet i cried so much out of joy knowing that after all the sufferings eunsoo went through, changwoo/hyunwoo waited and looked for her. they are meant to share life together forever.

i watched this drama a year ago but i can't seem to overcome my addiction with this drama until now!

eugene + jisung =

I really like this NG and I have watched it over and over and over again....both of them are as naughty as their parts or roles in the drama. On-screen and off-screen wonderful pair! KUDOS TO JI-SUNG AND EUGENE! Omedato!

I think Yoo Jin is so sweet. I saw her in Wonderful life (many episodes) and it had a happy ending... yeahh.. Save the last dance has a happy ending too .. perfect. Is there an episode guide ? I read the last episode guide but I'd really like to read about episode when the Ji Sung character fell in love with her again after he left dream forest.

hi all.. does anyone know if this is all uploaded on youtube. they started showing this at the chinese satellite, but i already missed tons of it. jsut seeing if i can catch up somewhere

I have to really count heavily on my memories to retrieve clips of the drama for u. Eugene was lost becos' she was madly in love with Ji-Sung and still waiting for him to make a safe passage home to dreaming forest but it was in vain. She even consulted her doctor friend to diagnose her 'sickness'. Glad she had a good lady friend who made arrangement for her to go to Seoul....the rest of the events just fall into place when her lost love resurfaced in the workplace that she had applied for a job. He interviewed her, and also ridiculed and mocked her for telling lies in her application form. That part was so heartbreaking! A good man came to her rescue,Tae Min who turned evil later because of a love triangle. I do not hate him in the role he played because he acted that way due to a bad experience in the past. It became tense when Eugene was recruited in the company very much to the surprise and dismay of Ji-Sung who had completely forgotten about her. Adding injury to her bad wounds, her co-workers in the workplace were the least nice and kind to her. Constant meeting in the workplace brings the two into some forms of link and connection. The rest of the story is up to you now cos. I can write on and on and may bore you to death with my eye for details in each episode because I read and appreciate Literature, of course English Lit. in my studies many moons ago! I really like the dancing episode where they dance to the tune of the evergreen popular song 'Changing Partner' ....it was so romantic with all the terms of endearment spoken by of course dear Ji-Sung who was also madly in love with her despite the protest, detest and distaste of his mum. He defies her cos. he knew that Eugene is worth it all! It is a common storyline; any director can churn it out but what makes it really OUTSTANDING is the director's skill in inserting details, extraordinary ones to enrich and enchant the storyline.....purely to sustain interest. I remember when I first watched it....the waiting time was hard going; every cliff hanger means I had to wait for the next day before it was aired. All my night programmes came to an abrupt stop, that is, how some of us can be so addicted but it is worth it all too in true honesty!

i like the chian that both of them wearing.I really a nice love story.

anyone got a photo of it?

The OST of this drama is my favorite!

I loved "Save The Last Dance For Me". There were so many parts that got to me. I am hoping to watch it once more before my summer vacation is up.

all the songs used in this drama really suits every scene.. my best best drama OST too.

everytime i hear GIVE MY LOVE, even just the intro... makes my heart flutter thinking all the sweet scenes of eunsoo and hyunwoo/changwoo

icpeace62 ( can't quote you, exceedingly slow connection)

here you are again bailing me out we must like the same Kdramas... I must buy or download this series. Eugene's character can be spunky and feisty without being gross like the Sam Soon character...eeekkk can't stand her. Thanks for the synopsis.

It's a must see 4 U. I will recommend it to the whole world....just kidding but it is true. Some of my friends were sitting on the fence about it when they caught a tip of the drama in the first episode but were totally converted after the second, third, fourth and the subsequent episodes. YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT! I mean in having more or less the same taste for the kind of K-dramas....maybe it is the Ji-Sung factor, right or not? I can hear a yeppp at the end of the line! Correct me if I'm wrong, okay? Oyasuminasi!

Absolutely agree!! .^^
Even my friends are asking me whether did I have the dics for this series =p
Eugene and Ji Sung have so much chemistry, and it is such a romantic series, I wanna see Ji Sung regains his memory and be with Eugene even though she was handicapped!! (:
And now, I fet that the leads in the TW drama can't be compared with this Kdrama even though I still like Ming En

Nope, we don't like the same men . I think Ji Sung's OK but I prefer them to be like the Fashion 70's and Min Hyuk in Full House heros. I like Eugene. She was sweet in Wonderful life. I like the one man-one love characters. In memories of Bali and a few others, you could see that the director was trying to make them mysterious, one only finds out their choice at the end...like Sunshine upon me... oo .

I thought the title was about a very old song.. save the last dance for me. Someone hummed a few bars for me, it was nice. It was about a man who took his girl (maybe wife) to a party. She was having fun dancing with other men, so he asked her to save the last dance for him because she'll be going home with him and will be in his arms. I thought that's a bit like this show,. Ji Sung swung from the old girl friend to Eugene and back and forth till finally.... a happy ending....

TQ 4 value-added info. GOMENASAI for the slight misleading in my assumption. Min Hyuk in Full House was a likeable character but a bit wimpy; he was not very persistent and lacks fight-to-the-end material, that's how I perceive it. I emphatise with him a lot in that drama. I like character portrayal that emerges a winner at the end of it all......a winner takes it all kinda stuff despite the world turning upside down against U becos' of your personal choice/decision. Thanks once again for hearing me out! It's time to chiao!

jisung and eugene has the best chemistry!




Eugene as Eun-soo:

I passed watching 'Loving You' because I was not too interested, so I have never seen Eugene act before. However, in this drama, she was quite good. In the scenes where she is to show great depths of emotions, she delivers very well. It will be safe to say that when she smiles and laughs, the audience shares her happiness. The same thing goes when she cries. When her tears fall, it is almost heartbreaking to see her weep so much. She makes the audience feel.

Love changes a person. Maybe we could accept that at face value. Eugene's Eun-soo starts out as a spunky and caring girl, who was against the idea of taking in a stranger into their lives. She was that cautious, but in the middle of the story, she throws all caution to the wind and stays close to her Jan-ho. While it is a romantic notion to do something drastic as that, one cannot help but be cynical about it. But hey, welcome to the world of dramas.

Ji Sung as Hyun-woo/Jan-ho:

Ji Sung was impressive in 'All In', but he was not exactly the lead there. Here, he takes on the lead role, and he starts it with such zest when we first see him at the airport, gamely trying to run away from his guards. He is quite a looker, and in this series, he takes on three distinct looks. We first see him as the typical artist: hippie outfit, capped, unshaven, quite grungy as he toted his camera case around. In his amnesiac state, he is a boyish country boy in simple jeans and sleeve-shirts. When he goes back as Hyun-woo, he turns into quite a dresser, the type you would see in the cover of GQ or, if not, Forbes.

His portrayal of a man who has to appear strong in spite of insecurities brought about by a memory with holes in it was just right. The confusion why he was drawn to Eun-soo, the resolve that he wants no one but her, and the tenderness brought about by that love were a potent mix when he played them off against each other.




Review

Rich guy engaged to another rich girl, a simple girl falling for a rich guy, amnesia, sacrifices for love. Geez-where have I seen these before?

Well, virtually in almost every other Korean drama.

Not that it's wrong; in truth, I liked this drama, and how they treated what would seem to be an old and used formula. After all, the underlying theme is still as basic as the air one breathes: Love endures.

The concept is pretty much typical when it started out, but along the way one feels involved with the story and the characters because of the honesty of their performance. In a world of skepticism, especially about Love, they make the viewer believe that Love truly endures and eventually conquers, no matter what storms they have to weather.

The two main leads Ji Sung and Eugene, while not having chemistry as explosive as that of Song Hye-kyo and Bi, register well together on the screen. When they are together, one could feel the love they have for each other.

Conclusion

Everyone should watch this, if only to see four people with seemingly different motivations come full circle because of LOVE. In this serial, I cried with Eun-soo, laughed with Hyun-woo and shared in the darkness of Tae-min.

credits: jeffer's review/spcnet/http://www.spcnet.tv/reviews/review.php?rID=900

Hopefully the visit will pave way for greater things for Eugene beyond her wildest thinking and imagination. KUDOS TO EUGENE! She owes it, I guess, to the staging of 'SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR ME!' Yepp...yepp Hoooooooooray!

To all my friends in this forum

This is one of the best korean series that I've watched. There is no lull moment in this series. In fact this have been aired last year at ABS CBN (Phils), but I still bought DVD so that I can watch again all scenes that I like and even this time. Please give me update to Eugene and Ji Soo. Do they have movie which both of them are featured just like Marrying Mafia starring Kim Jung Eun and Jeong Jun Ho of Princess Lulu. Please share with me.
Thanks to everybody who love this series.

Sumpaan sa ilalim ng pinetree

"Kahit na ang mga alaala ko ay tuluyan ng maglaho o magbalik pa ito at makilala ko na ang pamilya ko... pangako na lagi kitang mamahalin at hindi kita iiwan HABANG BUHAY…”



translations:

promise under the pinetree

even if i'll lost my memory...or if my memory comes back and i remember my real family... i promise i will never leave you and i promise i will love you... FOREVER"

Thanks jan_girl for sharing the translation above.........I always wanted to know what it meant......gosh, the sound of that is so touching, real and I loved it.....the words are so expressive.

Hi jilmine, I like this drama, too. This is where I started to be addicted about Korean dramas & movies & needless to say, Korean actors. Ji Sung was my first crush. I know the latest drama of Eugene is I Really Really Like You. Just not sure if this is still airing in Korea. About Ji Sung, we can't hear from him not until next year since he's in the army right now. He'll be out next year. STLDFM was his last drama before he entered the military.

waaah... it is very shocking that even though this is not airing in the primetime, this series is still been loved by those who had watch this... this is just a proof that this is really a nice series....


i don't care of the number of post but i care for the number of views.... hehehe

Willenette,
Thank you very much, I missed Ji Sung very much. I hope he will be paired again with Eugene.
As for me my first crush is Park Shin Yang of Lovers in Paris and I still admire him up to present. My latest crush is Lee Dong Wook of My Girl. I love this guy.. and he is a perfect match with Lee Dae Hee.
Hope to hear from you again.

SAVE THE LAST DANCE QUOTES


"Even though things are difficult for everyone right now, It'll be alright in no time. We've gotten over harder times. This is nothing."
-Eun Soo, Save Your Last Dance For Me

"You foolish girl. You think I'd leave you? You think I'd let you go as you please? You think I'd let you hurt alone?"
-Hyun Woo, Save Your Last Dance For Me

"I'll hold your hand for life. I'll save the last dance for you. I won't let go of your hand again… Forever…"
-Hyun Woo, Save Your Last Dance For Me

"I have many things to tell you, and if I don't say them now, I'm scared I will forget. But when I see you, I don't know where to start."
-Hyun Woo, Save Your Last Dance For Me

"It doesn't matter what his reason is, I'm scared that I will not be able to forgive him"
-Hyun Woo, Save Your Last Dance For Me

"You should be smiling like this... and lose all forgotten memories. That's the way you should live."
-Ji Eun Soo, Save Your Last Dance For Me

"There are those people who love only once in their lives. Maybe I am one of them."
-Ji Eun Soo, Save Your Last Dance For Me

"Now I understand how lonely and cold it must have felt for Eun Soo when I was missing. "
- Hyun Woo, Save Your Last Dance For Me

"Stupid. I will always love you no matter what even if you are in a wheelchair."
- Hyun Woo

eunsoo: I’m fine now as long as you’re here with me. I’ll protect you.

changwoo: and I’ll listen to everything to tell me

“life is short but is is long enough to love someone for a lifetime”

those were some beautiful quotes..
sniff, just reading them is like WOOSH!
awwh, I really want to see this now!!
I have episodes 10-18 at the library right now,
and I like want to get it, but then if I watch it then
it's like I won't get it because hello? i skipped 1-9.
so i don't know, i'll buy it or something! -.-
but yeah, lovelovelove eugene & that ji sung, looks pertay cute to mee. heeheh


happy friday `all<33333333333

Ohayo! Jan-girl! You kept such a perfect track of what they have spoken to each other and among themselves......you must have internalised the whole drama in your system....just joking, JODANDESO, JODANDESO okay! But the words they have uttered are a hell of a package of life values that we, humans who fall in and out of love (love in a wider sense inclusive of one's love for self, family, country, people etc) sometimes and many times, must learn up and say them at the right time and at the right place! KUDOS TO JI-SUNG AND EUGENE!

Name: KIM EUGENE
Also : Kim Yoo-Jin/ Kim Yu-jin
Nickname: Panda/Leopard
Birthday: March 3, 1981, Seoul Korea
Height: 160 cm or 5'3"
Weight: 47 kg or 104
Fact: Grew up in Guam, her family move there when she was 5 yrs old
School: Koryo University
Blood Type: A
Religion: Christian

please visit eugene's thread
http://www.soompi.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=226
http://asianfanatics.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=643

waaah its so exciting. this drama will be shown again in the philippine for the 3rd time!

SAVE THE LAST DANCE.. definitely the lovestory you will remember forever!!!



credits: ujean/soompi

when will it be shown?haven't seen any commercial in abs-cbn..

but if it's true,then this is definitely great news..

it will be replayed at studio23 starting august 21 @ 12noon. its gonna be shown daily!

definitely a great news indeed. the magic of this drama's lovestory continues...

Hi, everybody.....I've joined last month but I am addicted to this forum. God, help me! I LIKE THIS SHOT VERY MUCH! Thank you for enriching this website for STLD4M! It looks like an evergreen, all-time favourite in the Philippines playing three times on national TV. Eugene has such great sea of supporters in the Philippines...that's absolutely great! WELL DONE, EUGENE! My country's TV station plays it once, which means that a replay is very unlikely to happen cos' there might be a long line of Korean movies/dramas in queue to be aired on national TV. CHIAO!

Glad you guys get to see it again in the Phils......here in the USA, I have not seen it, but maybe they will air it hopefully very, very soon. I hope.

12noon...awww c'mon (can't watch it on that time!!)... they should have put it in 7 or 8 pm timeslot... that should have been better!!!or better yet,air it twice a day (12 noon and in the evening)...so i'll be able to catch it..

YES, here in the US, they air korean series....and I think you need to have satellite, dish or standard cable in order to see it. I don't have satellite or dish, but I have standard cable, and they air it on the AZN channel. Currently on the AZN channel, they are airing the AZN Wave - Summer of Hallyu. For August and September, the AZN channel just finished airing Winter Sonata for two weekends. The next weekend will be Jewel in the Palace, starting 8/19/06 that will be aired for over 6 weekends. AZN started airing My Lovely Samsoon yesterday, 8/14/06 and will continue tonight, Spring, Summer, Fall & Winter will be aired on 8/17/06, and Shiri will be aired on 8/24/06, and everybody's favorite All About Eve will be aired on-line starting 9/5/06 only on the AZNtv.com. (Credits to AZN Television)

So, if you live in the US and you are interested, please look for these dates.

Hey does anyone know if they have this series already translated into Mandarin? It's pretty difficult to find it in the U.S. Thanks!!

OMG!!!! really?!!!! OMG!!! but why 12 noon?? darn!!!@@$%*^!!!!! i agree with you.. they should air it twice a day.. or air it on weekends... that would be the best timeslot!!

Do keep me update of her maiden visit to your country, Philippines...I mean the pre, while and post visit [size=2]of Eugene's....would be glad to know abt it. I presume she will never come to the country I'm working and living in now cos' it is an obscure place eventhough it is indeed an oil-rich kingdom where no beggars are seen loitering in the streets!

bye,bye 4 now! SAYONARA!

Aww! Too bad I can't see Eugene here in the Philippines. After making it to the show in ABS, she'll surely start roaming around the Philippines!

Well, I hope she's like our country! =D

i really love the eugene and ji sung pairing...does any of them have any new series out? Anyways i was just browsing and youtube.com and eugene happens to speak pretty decent english. Does anyone know what is the model and brand of phone that ji sung uses in this series? It's so cool

QUESTION???????

Any fans of Korean descent staying put in Korea whether DREAMING FOREST is

available as a

tourist spot.... any possibility of paying it a visit in the near future let's say at the

end of this

year 2006 while I'm enroute to Korea by way of

Japan? May include it in my

itineary, if possible. Thanks a zillion!

i luved this series, just hope tht they'll continue on with a second series even tho i know tht the possibilities are small

The series was good. I liked that there was a somewhat tragic ending but still there was still hope for Eugene's character to be able to walk.

me too, i cried becoz its a happy ending!
i dont consisder the ending tragic because somehow eugene was able to start walking again with crutches and of course with jisung by her side.

Yeppp . Exactly what I was thinking . OMG I love it . Eugene made me cried in Save the Last Dance For Me , and made me laughed so hard in Wonderful Life . Love her so much