Will It Snow for Christmas? ~ Love, Loss, Longing, and Maybe Snow

By cmoneyspinner - December 1, 2025

“Will It Snow for Christmas?” is a 2009 Korean drama, 16 episodes, categorized as Soap Opera, Melodrama, Revenge, Romance, Family, and Thriller; and it is streaming on KOCOWA+ and The Roku Channel.

Memorable Quote: “Even if we lose everything, as long as we still have each other, snow will come.”

SUMMARY: A young boy grows up in poverty, but strives for a better life. His first love flees from her own painful memories, leaving him behind with unresolved feelings. Years later, fate brings them together again. Will It Snow for Christmas? Will they be able to recapture their pure and beautiful love despite their misunderstandings and hardships?

♦ Love and Happiness?

“Will It Snow for Christmas?” follows the turbulent, years-spanning love between Cha Kang-Jin and Han Ji-Won, two teenagers whose bond forms in a small rural town and is later shattered by tragedy.

Cha Kang-Jin grows up in poverty with his hardworking mother, who runs a modest coffee bar and endures constant humiliation from customers. Forced to protect her from an early age, Cha Kang-Jin becomes resilient, sharp-witted, and fiercely principled, determined to rise above his circumstances. When the mother relocates the family to her hometown, Cha Kang-Jin meets Han Ji-Won, the warm but emotionally fragile daughter of a respected oriental medicine practitioner. Despite class differences and town gossip, the two develop a deep, innocent love that offers each of them comfort and hope.

Their happiness ends abruptly when Cha Kang-Jin’s treasured pendant, his only link to his absent father, is lost during a scuffle. Hoping to help, Han Ji-Won asks her older brother to retrieve it from the river. Sadly, he drowns, and the tragedy devastates both families. Consumed by guilt and grief, Han Ji-Won lashes out at Cha Kang-Jin, denies ever loving him, and runs away, leaving him abandoned and heartbroken.

♦ We Meet Again. Maybe We’ll Have a White Christmas.

Eight years later, Cha Kang-Jin has become a successful architect, though the emotional wounds of his youth remain. Fate reunites the former lovers at her engagement celebration. Cha Kang-Jin is engaged to Min Tae-Jun. He’s late for the ceremony because he was with his prior lover, Lee Woo-Jeong. Han Ji-Won is terrified of reopening the wounds of the past. Cha Kang-Jin tries to keep her anger and longing buried, but their meeting sets off a painful struggle to confront what tore them apart years ago.

Their early wounds distorted their romantic feelings for each love, although their tie is not completely severed. Is their love strong enough to survive grief, resentment, and years of silence? Like the rare hope of snow on Christmas, the possibility of Cha Kang-Jin and Han Ji-Won finding love and peace feels fragile, uncertain, and yet achingly beautiful.

Main Characters:

Cha Kang-Jin (played by Ko Soo, “Parole Examiner Lee”, “Lucid Dream” , “The Royal Tailor”, “Haunters”, “Missing: The Other Side”, “Heart Surgeons”, “The Flower in Prison”)
Han Ji-Won (played by Han Ye-Seul, “Birth of a Beauty”)
Lee Woo-Jeong (played by Sun Woo-Sun, “Trigger”)
Min Tae-Jun (played by Song Jong-Ho, “The Grand Heist”, “The Princess’ Man” )

Where to Watch

Viewership and Rating:

IMDb: 6 out of 10 stars
My Drama List: 6.8 out of 10 stars
Dramabeans: 7.8 out of 10 stars
Viki viewers rated this series 7.9 out of 10 stars

My personal rating is the same as Dramabeans.

The Christmas theme in Korean dramas differs from traditional Western customs. The holiday often serves as a backdrop for emotional turning points. The beauty of the holiday highlights romance, reconciliation, and the longing for warmth in cold seasons. K-dramas don’t focus on religious rituals or festive celebrations. The warmth of the Christmas holiday season might contrast with the loneliness or struggles of characters who might feel excluded from joy, or enhance the happiness of characters who are joyful.

In case you don’t get the metaphor or understand the meaning of the title, “Will It Snow for Christmas?”, here is an explanation

Snow as purity: Snow often symbolizes innocence, cleansing, and a fresh start. The drama’s characters, scarred by poverty and tragedy, yearn for that kind of renewal.
Christmas as hope: Christmas represents warmth, family, and miracles. Asking if it will snow on Christmas is like asking if happiness and love will finally arrive.
Uncertainty of fate: The question mark in the title reflects the characters’ doubts, will their love survive, will their wounds heal, will they ever find peace?
Emotional metaphor: Just as snow on Christmas is rare and unpredictable, so is the chance for the two star-crossed lovers to overcome their painful past (and their present) and finally be together.