White: Melody of Death

The girl group Pink Dolls, which consists of Je-ni, A-rang, Shin-ji, and Eun-ju, made their debut on stage but failed to achieve popularity. They and the record company moved to a renovated studio that was burnt down in a fire 15 years ago. Eun-ju's sponsor (someone who funds an idol or group on the condition they receive sexual favors) was credited for making the move, and renovations happen. Eun-ju is bullied by the other three members for her involvement with the sponsor and considers quitting. Her vocal trainer and best friend, Soon-ye, encourages her to remain in the group as she believes they will find success and gain attention with their new song. While cleaning up in the dance rehearsal room, Eun-ju finds a VHS tape titled "WHITE" and plays it in her dorm room. The footage is of an old, unfinished music video. When the group's manager finds her watching the tape, she demands that the group be permitted to remake the song as their next single.

When Pink Dolls received overnight popularity with their debut of the song "White," which has become a viral hit, the manager sought to re-record the song but with the main vocalist as the focal point doing most of the singing. The tension begins to rise as Je-ni, A-rang, and Shin-ji become jealous and hostile against each other as they fight over the spot of the lead vocalist. During this time, a ghost attacks the three members on different occasions; Je-ni by strangling her with microphone cords, A-rang by causing her to fall off a music-video set, and Shin-ji by crushing her with camera equipment. Fearing the song is cursed and that she will be the next victim, Eun-ju examines hidden images within the video with Soon-ye and an editor, and from there comes to believe that a trainee named Jang Ye-bin, who died before the studio caught fire, wrote the song. Eun-ju meets up with her sponsor and asks about the circumstances surrounding Ye-bin, and he replies that she died by suicide. After returning to the rehearsal room in a fit of depression, Eun-Ju finds a suicide note beside power sockets that may have started the fire and she smashes the sockets with a hammer until she falls asleep in the morning.

After feeling confident that the curse has been broken, Eun-ju plans to reinvent herself as an idol. She decides to change her image by dressing in white, dying her hair, and using the stage name "White". However, she takes credit for the song as her solo performance, which causes conflict with those around her and distances herself from her friends Je-ni, A-rang, and Shin-ji who are still recovering from their injuries. While Soon-ye was destroying the evidence, she re-watched the video and noticed new details they had never seen. While doing so, Soon-ye and the editor received a phone call from the studio that the other three members of Pink Dolls, who had been hosts for a music television show, died from drinking bleach live on air. Soon-ye calls Eun-ju, who is on her way to a venue to perform "White," and warns her that the curse is not over, but Eun-ju ignores her. Soon-ye finally learns that the writer of the song was not Ye-bin, but a back-up dancer who was bullied by Ye-bin by disfiguring her face with acid, which caused the back-up dancer to commit suicide by drinking bleach. Her ghost then killed Ye-bin, who caused the fire when attempting to burn the suicide note.

Soon-ye rushes to the venue to rescue Eun-ju but is unable to enter the stage with all the doors locked. During Eun-ju's performance, all of the stage lights go out, and the electricity in the venue begins to malfunction. Eun-ju's sponsor and manager try to get her off the stage, but they are both killed by stage equipment, and the ghost attempts to attack her. Afterward, the doors all open, and the panicking crowd starts to rush out of the building, Soon-ye enters and she and Eun-ju attempt to reunite, but Eun-ju trips in the crowd and gets trampled to death. The electricity eventually sets the venue on fire. After the incident, Soon-ye destroys all of the remaining evidence of the song in the studio's karaoke room. However, the karaoke machine announces that the next song playing is "White," alluding to the possibility that the curse has not been broken.

• Ham Eun-jeong as Eun-ju, a de-facto leader of the Pink Dolls who is a former back-up dancer
• Hwang Woo-seul-hye as Soon-ye, a vocal trainer and Eun-ju's best friend
• Jin Se-yeon as Je-ni, a lead singer who is insecure about hitting high notes
• Choi Ah-ra as A-rang, a visual/singer who is addicted to plastic surgery
• May Doni Kim as Shin-ji, a rapper/dancer who cannot sing but is excellent at dancing
• After School as Pure
• Byun Jung-soo as Talent Agent
• Kim Young-min as Lee Tae-Yong
• Kim Ki-bang as Manager
• Yoo Mo-ri as Jang Ye-bin
• Kim Soo-hyun as White
• Lee Jun-ho as Music Fever host

The soundtrack contains 3 versions of the song "White," the original (the one featured on the VHS tape), another sung by Pink Dolls (Ham Eun-jeong, May Doni Kim, Choi Ah-ra and Jin Se-yeon), and a solo version with just Eun-jeong.

White was released in Japan as a DVD on March 02, 2012 by NBC Universal. A re-issue ws released in the same country on July 21, 2017.[18]

• White: Melody of Death at IMDb
• White: Melody of Death at HanCinema