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White Valentine
Promotional poster for White Valentine

Hangul	화이트 발렌타인
Revised Romanization	Hwaiteu ballenta-in
McCune–Reischauer	Hwait‘ŭ palrent‘ain

Directed by	Yang Yun-ho
Written by	Lee Eun-kyeong Lee Byeong-ryul
Produced by	Kim Yong-kuk
Starring	Park Shin-yang Jun Ji-hyun
Cinematography	Lee Seok-gi
Edited by	Kyung Min-ho
Music by	Park Ki-young
Release date	February 13, 1999 (1999-02-13)
Running time	101 min.
Language	Korean

White Valentine (Korean: 화이트 발렌타인; RR: Hwaiteu ballentain) is a 1999 Korean romantic film directed by Yang Yun-ho. It stars Park Shin-yang with Jun Ji-hyun in her movie debut.

It is the story of a young woman who re-discovers her childhood pen pal from military service when she happens upon an epistolary exchange he sent to his dead girlfriend by a carrier pigeon.

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Plot

As a young girl, Kim Jeong-min (Jun Ji-hyun) hated writing letters to soldiers because they never write her back once they learn her age. So instead, she pretends to be a teacher, and becomes pen pals with Park Hyun-jun (Park Shin-yang). They plan to meet in person at a train station, but Jeong-min never shows up, and thus their correspondence ends.

Later when Jeong-min reaches the age of twenty (though when this movie was shot Jun was only 17), Hyun-jun moves into her hometown. Since her parents died when she was little, Jeong-min has been living with her grandfather who owns the bookstore Somang Books. She also works at this bookstore but dreams of becoming a painter. Hyun-jun has become the owner of a pet shop for birds, and grieving over the death of his girlfriend in a car accident, he keeps sending her letters via carrier pigeon. While painting outdoors, Jeong-min sees Hyun-jun feeding some pigeons. As she watches him care for one wounded pigeon then give an apple to a child playing nearby, she falls in love with him at first sight. But the apple reminds her of the same apple painted on the envelopes from her yet unknown pen pal.