The film is based on the Sampoong Department Store collapse, which took place in 1995.

Law student Choi Hyun-woo and television director Seo Min-joo are a young couple in love, and engaged to be married.

Tragedy strikes, however, and Min-joo is killed in the Sampoong Department Store collapse.

Several years later, Hyun-woo is given a journal that was written by his former fiancée, which details the journey they would have taken on their honeymoon.

2006 Blue Dragon Film Awards[2] 2007 Chunsa Film Art Awards 2007 Grand Bell Awards Beijing Hairun Pictures is set to make a Chinese remake in 2016, co-produced with Korean company Dhuta Co. Ltd. Victoria Hon, deputy president of Hairun Pictures said, "Traces of Love has an enormous potential to be loved by the Chinese audience.