Heart to Heart (South Korean TV series)
| Heart to Heart | |
|---|---|
 Promotional poster | |
| Genre | Romance Comedy Medical drama |
| Written by | Lee Jung-ah |
| Directed by | Lee Yoon-jung |
| Starring | Choi Kang-hee Chun Jung-myung Lee Jae-yoon |
| Country of origin | South Korea |
| Original language | Korean |
| No. of episodes | 16 |
| Production | |
| Production companies | Chorokbaem Media Story Plant[a] |
| Original release | |
| Network | tvN |
| Release | January 9 – March 7, 2015 |
Heart to Heart (Korean: 하트 투 하트; RR: Hateu tu Hateu) is a 2015 South Korean television series starring Choi Kang-hee and Chun Jung-myung.[1][2][3] It is directed by Lee Yoon-jung, and written by Lee Jung-ah, the writer-director duo of the famous The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince.[2] It aired on tvN from January 9 to March 7, 2015 on Fridays at 20:30 for 16 episodes.
Plot
[edit]Go Yi-seok (Chun Jung-myung) is a successful psychiatrist with a best-selling book and talk show appearances under his belt. Though loving, sensitive and caring towards his family, he is also insecure, egocentric and suffers from an inferiority complex, caused by his childhood experiences. The resulting juvenile behaviour renders him incapable of forming meaningful relationships with women. To make matters worse, he's gradually developing a phobia of his patients, being unable to empathise with their whining — which drives him to drink while on duty.
Cha Hong-do (Choi Kang-hee) is a bright, confident and opinionated woman, whose uncontrollable blushing has left her with crippling sociophobia and caused her to drop out from high school. She ventures outside her home only when shielded by a helmet, and works under the guise as an old grandmother. She nurses a crush of seven years on the kind detective Jang Doo-soo (Lee Jae-yoon), and expresses her feelings by secretly delivering food with notes to his doorstep.
A chance hearing of Doo-soo's blind-date arrangements and upon reading Yi-seok's book, Hong-do is spurred and encouraged to approach Yi-seok's clinic for treatment so that she can speak to Doo-soo freely face-to-face. A disastrous first encounter leads to Hong-do mistakenly accusing Yi-seok of murder, and ends with Yi-seok discovering that his phobia disappears when Hong-do is around, while she uncovers his vulnerable side hidden underneath the swagger.
Mutual dependency forces the two to work together, and both slowly realise how beneficial their companionship is to each other. His skill as a psychiatrist allows her real self to blossom into the open, while her inner strength and steadfastness helps him overcome his hidden insecurities.
Entanglements arise when Doo-soo belatedly realises his own feelings for Hong-do, and begins to pursue her actively, throwing a spanner into the budding relationship. To complicate things further, Yi-seok's sister, Go Se-ro, (Ahn So-hee) falls for Doo-soo. Things come to a head for the couple when the Go family's dark past begins to unravel and threatens to drive a nail into the coffin of their bond.
Cast
[edit]- Choi Kang-hee as Cha Hong-do/Oh Young-rae
- Heo Jung-eun as young Hong-do
- Chun Jung-myung as Go Yi-seok
- Nam Da-reum as young Yi-seok
- Lee Jae-yoon as Jang Doo-soo
- Ahn So-hee as Go Se-ro, Yi-seok's sister[4][5]
- Joo Hyun as Go Sang-gyu, Yi-seok's grandfather
- Kim Ki-bang as Detective Yang[6]
- Um Hyo-sup as Go Jae-woong, Yi-seok's father
- Jin Hee-kyung as Hwang Moon-sun, Yi-seok's mother
- Park Hee-jin as Talk show host
- Choi Su-rin as Doctor Uhm's friend
- Hwang Seung-eon as Woo Yeon-woo, Yi-seok's girlfriend
- Seo Yi-sook as Psychiatrist Uhm Ki-choon
- Choi Moo-sung as Butler Ahn Byung-yeol
- Kim Ae-kyung as Housekeeper Hwang Geum-shim
- Lee Moon-jung as Curator (cameo)
- Lee Bit-na as teenage Cha Hong-do (cameo Ep.1)
- Choi Daniel as Bakery owner (cameo appearance)
- Ryu Hye-young as Lee Eun-ho/Lee Jin-ho
Ratings
[edit]In this table, the blue numbers represent the lowest ratings and the red numbers represent the highest ratings.
| Ep. | Original broadcast date | Average audience share |
|---|---|---|
| AGB Nielsen[7] | ||
| Nationwide | ||
| 1 | January 9, 2015 | 1.26% |
| 2 | January 10, 2015 | 0.95% |
| 3 | January 16, 2015 | 1.45% |
| 4 | January 17, 2015 | 1.34% |
| 5 | January 23, 2015 | 1.94% |
| 6 | January 24, 2015 | 1.59% |
| 7 | January 30, 2015 | 2.45% |
| 8 | January 31, 2015 | 1.64% |
| 9 | February 6, 2015 | 1.52% |
| 10 | February 7, 2015 | 1.20% |
| 11 | February 13, 2015 | 2.08% |
| 12 | February 14, 2015 | 1.50% |
| 13 | February 27, 2015 | 1.37% |
| 14 | February 28, 2015 | 1.20% |
| 15 | March 6, 2015 | 1.39% |
| 16 | March 7, 2015 | 1.42% |
| Average | 1.52% | |
- This drama airs on a cable channel/pay TV which normally has a relatively smaller audience compared to free-to-air TV/public broadcasters (KBS, SBS, MBC and EBS).
Notes
[edit]- ^ Now Mega Monster, a joint venture of kakao M and Studio Dragon
References
[edit]- ^ Jung, Jin-young (October 22, 2014). "Chun Jung Myung Currently Contemplating on Joining Heart to Heart". enewsWorld. Archived from the original on October 25, 2014. Retrieved February 8, 2015.
- ^ a b Park, Ah-reum (November 3, 2014). "Choi Kang Hee Returns to TV After 2 Years with Heart to Heart". enewsWorld. Archived from the original on November 7, 2014. Retrieved November 6, 2014.
- ^ Lee, Ji-young (November 4, 2014). "Chun Jung Myung Confirms Role in Heart to Heart". enewsWorld. Archived from the original on February 8, 2015. Retrieved February 8, 2015.
- ^ Jung, Jin-young (October 20, 2014). "Sohee Considers Role in tvN's New Drama Heart to Heart". enewsWorld. Archived from the original on October 20, 2014. Retrieved February 8, 2015.
- ^ Sung, So-young (October 21, 2014). "Wonder Girls' An will appear in drama". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved November 8, 2014.
- ^ Kim, Yeon-ji (April 10, 2015). "Kim is back to acting with Heart". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
- ^ "Nielsen Korea". AGB Nielsen Media Research (in Korean). Archived from the original on June 1, 2016. Retrieved January 10, 2015.
External links
[edit]- Official website (in Korean)
- Heart to Heart at Studio Dragon (in Korean)
- Heart to Heart at Chorokbaem Media (in Korean)
- Heart to Heart at Mega Monster (in Korean)
- Heart to Heart at HanCinema
- Heart to Heart at IMDb