SYNOPSIS:
“The Classic” begins with college student Ji-hae (Son Ye-jin) cleaning house and stumbling across a box containing an old diary and some love letters belonging to her mother. Though some of the letters are from her late father, Ji-hae’s interest is piqued when she sees some letters written by a man named Joon-ha (Jo Seung-woo). The then jumps back about four decades to detail the love triangle that between Ji-hae’s mother Joo-hee (also played by Son Ye-Jin), her future father Tae-su (Lee Ki-woo), and Tae-su’s best friend Joon-ha. Though Joo-hee fell in love with Joon-ha after a chance meeting in the countryside, she was already betrothed to Tae-su in an arranged marriage.
Meanwhile, in the present, Ji-hae has some romantic entanglements of her own to out. She is in love with Sang-min (Jo In-seong), the boyfriend of her narcissistic best friend Soo-kyeong (Lee Sang-in), yet finds herself unable to express her true feelings. As the story moves from past to present and back again, parallels are drawn between the heartbreak, lessons learned, and travails of mother and daughter, whose destinies are inextricably intertwined.
