Episode 1

On a snow mountain in Lapland, Finland, Han Deuk-gu has arrived in search of The Snow Queen's palace and his lost love... During autumn in 1998, Han Tae-woong enters a renowned science college. There, he meets the gifted Kim Jeong-kyu who sees him as a competitor. Tae-woong saves high school girl Bora from some delinquent girls and Bora gives him a pager. The college plans to submit Tae-woong and Jeong-kyu's thesis papers for a competition. Tae-woong walks out in anger after Jeong-kyu accuses him of plagiarism. He rushes to the airport when he receives Bora's message for help. It turns out that Bora has left home to visit a palace in Lapland described in the fairy tale ‘The Snow Queen'. Tae-woong is proven innocent and Jeong-kyu apologises to him. But their friendship turns sour when Tae-woong wins a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad. Tae-woong feels sorry and buys a pair of boxer gloves for Jeong-kyu, only to receive a letter from him and news of his death?