While You Were Sleeping

While You Were Sleeping part 1

On a snowy night in Seoul, time seems to flow backwards. Cars and people move in reverse, and snow falls up into the sky.

A woman with a scratch on her face sees a man walking toward her, blood streaming down his face. She runs into his arms, dropping a hair-tie in the process, and says, "I believe you. Because I'm me, I can believe you."

As they embrace, time stands still... and then everything begins to move in reverse again.

The same young woman, Nam Hong-Joo, wakes up from what must have been a dream, looking very different with longer hair. She writes down what she remembers, muttering at how absurd it was, as Mom comes in and nags her about her pigsty of a room.

Hong-joo says she hugged a stranger in her dream, which is crazy because she's not the type to throw herself at men. Mom agrees that she shouldn't, not looking like that anyway.

Mom wants to know if the stranger was handsome, but Hong-joo reminds her that she has a boyfriend. Mom counters that she's been on two whole dates with him, and keeps prodding about Dream Guy since Hong-joo's dreams have a habit of coming true.

Hong-joo barks that this one will not... and then freezes at the sight of Dream Guy standing across the street from her house. Mom heard that they'd be getting new neighbors, and wonders if the two handsome boys are brothers.

They are brothers, in fact, and Little Bro shoves a rice cake into his hyung's hands. Hong-joo's Dream Guy, Jung Jae-chan, pouts at his little brother's insistence that they pass out rice cakes to their new neighbors, calling it old-fashioned.

Hong-joo panics when Jae-chan heads straight for their house, and tells Mom that he's the guy she hugged in her dream.

Jae-chan puts on his nicest smile for the intercom as he rings the doorbell, only to be met with Hong-joo's cold reply for him to leave and never come back. He's stunned at the rejection and yells over at his brother for making him do this. Little Bro just guesses that he didn't smile.

Jae-chan swears up and down that he smiled, and Little Bro decides that if the girl is that rude, Jae-chan should date her because they're a perfect match. Pff.

Sometime later, Hong-joo sits at the bus stop while complaining to Mom over the phone for taking the car, and then panics again to see Jae-chan walking in her direction. She's so engrossed in her plan to avoid him and appear disinterested that she ignores the schoolgirls who ask her to move aside so they can sit on the bench.

Jae-chan happens to sit in the seat right next to hers when there are plenty of others available, so she moves one seat over, and he follows suit. She does it one more time just to be sure, and he scoots over again to be next to her. So she's suddenly convinced that he's trying to seduce her.

She stands up to give him a piece of her mind and blurts, "I'm not interested in you!" at the exact same time that he stands up and tells the schoolgirls that they can sit together now. So embarrassing.

The schoolgirls snigger at her, and Hong-joo is so mortified that she gets on the wrong bus and just stays on—one that happens to be plastered with a giant ad for He's Just Not That Into You. LOL.

Jae-chan smiles at her, finding the whole thing amusing, but as the bus pulls away he connects Hong-joo's voice to the rude intercom girl across the street and yells after her.

Hong-joo tells Mom about it that night at their samgyupsal restaurant, convinced that Jae-chan has fallen for her. When a customer comes up to the counter to pay, Hong-joo is distracted by the sight of familiar objects—the man's lighter, the bandage on his finger, and even his face, which we see in a flashback to a dream.