Wisdom Quarterly (Valentine's Day)
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Windstruck" utilizes classic American music and a supermodel Korean starlet (
Jeon Ji Hyeon) to tell a story of love gained, lost, and perhaps gained again. Whether that is happening in the afterlife is unclear. The story is told in the present reflecting on a great romance between a very tough beauty and a very sensitive man set in metropolitan Seoul. The completely ordinary and recognizable situations make Asia as
American as San Francisco or New York with massive skyscrapers, street thugs, and the respite of nature just a drive away. It is funny, full of gunfire and action, but bring a box of tissues for the heartbreak. She does it all -- beats people up with martial arts, breaks rules at the department, dives off a building in an opening suicide bid, and falls in love as if it were an inescapable temptation. A decade later, it is
out of print.
