Gyeon-Woo

Gyeon-Woo is the male protagonist of the 2001 South Korean romantic comedy drama My Sassy Girl.
He was portrayed by Cha Tae-hyun.
== Biography ==
Gyeon-Woo is an engineering college student who just can't seem to catch a romantic break. One day, at dinner and drinks with his college friends, Gyeon-Woo is interrupted by a call from his mother, telling him to visit his aunt and meet a potential date. At the train station on his way to his aunt's, he observes a drunk girl, standing precariously close to the edge of the train platform as the train approaches he pulls her to safety just in time. Inside the train, Gyeon-Woo cannot help but stare at The Girl who is his type but is repulsed by her drunkenness. Finally, she throws up on a passenger and faints but not before she calls Gyeon-Woo "honey". The passenger aggressively tells Gyeon-Woo to take care of his "girlfriend" Gyeon-Woo, completely flustered, leaves her on a subway platform bench, but his conscience compels him to take her to the nearest hotel for safety. 
While The Girl is passed out on the bed, her phone rings and Gyeon-Woo picks up. He gives vague answers in regard to The Girl's whereabouts and through GPS tracking police raid the room and Gyeon-Woo gets maced and sent to jail. After a night in jail Gyeon-Woo suddenly gets a phone call from The Girl, and she demands that he meet her to find out what happened last night. They first have coffee and Gyeon-Woo explains that she was drunk and passed out on the train. They then go to a restaurant and The Girl tearfully admits that she had broken up with her boyfriend the day before and gets thoroughly drunk, resulting in a second trip to the same hotel.
After this second overnight stay at the hotel, she begins to become a more active part of his life. She visits Gyeon-Woo in college and pulls him out of class, telling the teacher that Gyeon-Woo is the father of her soon-to-be-aborted baby. The Girl's mood swings wildly from joyful to downright violent, but Gyeon-Woo puts up with it and lets her abuse him for her amusement.
The Girl has dreams of becoming a scriptwriter and gives Gyeon-Woo three different screenplays to review. The first is an action film called The Demolition Terminator. The second is an alternative version of the real life South Korean story Sonagi (Rain Shower). And the third is a samurai film all three feature the same common thread The Girl is from the future as she believes in time travel.
The Girl sends Gyeon-Woo a message that her birthday is coming up, and she demands it be the best birthday she ever had. He decides to surprise her and takes her on a nighttime trip to an amusement park which ends up quite differently from how he planned. The pair encounter an AWOL soldier who holds them hostage and rants about his misery after being jilted. Gyeon-Woo convinces him to release her, and she in turn convinces the soldier to free Gyeon-Woo and go on with his life and pursue another love.
The Girl and Gyeon-Woo's relationship takes a turn for the better her cruel treatment of Gyeon-Woo is her way of showing affection and the two grow closer. After a day of hanging out, he walks her home in the pouring rain, and she demands he meet her father, who is a habitual drinker. Her parents do not take to Gyeon-Woo and on leaving, he overhears an impassioned argument between The Girl and her mother over her relationship with him. He does not hear from her for quite some time and his life without her begins.
Awhile later The Girl calls Gyeon-Woo and tells him to bring her a rose during class to commemorate their 100th day anniversary together. He enters her college disguised as a food delivery person  and watches her playing piano he presents her the rose and the two stare at each other lovingly while the classmates applaud in approval at his romantic gesture. As part of their celebration, they hit the bars and clubs together dressed in high school uniforms. She gets drunk again and as Gyeon-Woo carries her on his back, a stranger slips him a condom. Gyeon-Woo drops her off inside and is confronted at her house by her parents again. The father interrogates him and forces him to empty his pockets, where he embarrassingly presents the condom. Her father demands that the two break up.
The Girl does not contact him again and Gyeon-Woo naturally thinks they have broken up, until one day seemingly out of the blue, she calls Gyeon-woo to meet her for dinner as she is on a blind date. The Girl introduces Gyeon-Woo to the date, who thinks Gyeon-Woo is a great friend of hers based on how highly she speaks of him. She is unusually soft and gentle as there is clear awkwardness between the two. She excuses herself to the washroom and appears to not be handling the break-up so well. The Girl returns to the table to see Gyeon-Woo gone. He left while she was in the bathroom, but not before offering the blind date ten rules to follow to ensure her happiness. While the blind date recites these rules to her, she realizes how well Gyeon-Woo understands her and realizes her love for him. She abruptly leaves her date and searches for Gyeon-Woo at the subway station.
They cross paths several times, but never run into each other, so she goes into the subway security office to see the security monitors. While an employee makes an announcement in the microphone, she yells his name he hears, and they reunite at the office. She slaps him in the face because she didn't consent to him hugging her. The Girl and Gyeon-Woo are then seen on a mountain top and The Girl wonders if someone would be able to hear her on the other side of the mountain. She asks Gyeon-Woo to run to the other mountain top and starts yelling to Gyeon-Woo if he can hear her, but he doesn't seem to be able to. The Girl then starts tearfully shouting to Gyeon-Woo that she is sorry for all the trouble she caused him.
The Girl decides that it's time for them to part. As a gesture to their happy times together, the two write letters to each other and bury them in a time capsule under a particular tree on another mountain. They agree to meet again at the tree after two years to read the letters together. After burying the time capsule they go their separate ways for good.
Two years have passed and on the agreed date, Gyeon-Woo travels to the tree on the mountain-top, but The Girl does not show up. He comes day after day without opening the time capsule in hopes that she would appear, but she never does. Eventually, he opens the time capsule and reads her letter and learns the truth of her behaviour. Her previous boyfriend who, rather than breaking up with her, actually died before she met Gyeon-Woo. On the day they met on the train platform, she was supposed to go on a blind date set up by the mother of her deceased boyfriend, with whom she kept a close bond. Because of her chance meeting with Gyeon-Woo, part of her feels that it was her ex that brought them two together, and she develops guilt for falling in love with him.
Some time later, The Girl is on a train and the door closes right before a man tries to board. She has her back turned to him, so she doesn't realize it is Gyeon-Woo, who realizes it is her and chases the train down the platform, to no avail. As it turns out, The Girl was on her way to lunch with her deceased boyfriend's mother, who has planned to introduce The Girl to her nephew for a blind date. The nephew arrives, and it turns out to be Gyeon-Woo. As it turns out, Gyeon-Woo is the boy that she had been trying to introduce to the Girl for years. The mother offers reasons as to why they'd be a great match for one another, but Gyeon-Woo and The Girl are too busy gazing into each other's eyes. The mother asks "Do you two know each other?" and the camera pans out to them holding hands under the table reunited for good.
== Gallery ==
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