Snow Is on the Sea (2015)

Profile

• Movie: Snow Is on the Sea (English title) / Snow Sea (literal title)
• Revised romanization: Seolhae
• Hangul: 설해
• Director: Kim Jeong-Kwon
• Writer: Kim Goon-Young, Kim Jeong-Kwon
• Producer: Choi Jung-Rak
• Cinematographer: Choi Duk-Gyu
• Release Date: January 8, 2015
• Runtime: 108 min.
• Genre: Romance
• Distributor: Mines Entertainment
• Language: Korean
• Country: South Korea

Synopsis

When Sun-Mi (Lee Young-Ah) was young, she was often sick and hospitalized frequently. She enjoyed encountering various scents and the snow. Sun-Mi was then diagnosed with the blood disease Myelodysplastic syndrome.

Now, as an adult, Sun-Mi works as a perfumer, creating perfume compositions. She travels often to collect various scents of flowers and spices. During one of those trips, she visits an aquarium and meets an employee, Sang-Woo (Park Hae-Jin), there. Sang-Woo cares about animals a lot and enjoys his job there. Sun-Mi and Sang-Woo fall in love. Sang-Woo eventually proposes to Sun-Mi, but is unaware of the difficulties they will soon face.