The Sound of Heart
| The Sound of Your Heart | |
|---|---|
|
Seok Jo in his own artstyle | |
| 마음의 소리 | |
| Genre | Comedy |
| Author | Jo Seok, Cho Seok |
| Publisher | Naver Webtoon |
| Original run | 2006 – present |
The Sound of Your Heart (Hangul: 마음의 소리; also known as The Sound of Your Mind, Sound of Heart) is a South Korean webtoon series written and illustrated by Jo Seok.[1] The webtoon was first released on the Naver internet portal in 2006. In 2007, the first print volume was released and The Sound of Your Heart was adapted into a TV series of the same name in 2015.[2][3]
Development
On December 17 2015, the 1000th episode of The Sound of Heart was posted on Naver. Since Jo started posting his webcomic on Naver, there have been 5 million views per update, leading to a total of over 5 billion views. The Sound of Heart is the longest running South Korean webcomic currently in existence.[4]
About 6 months ago, Jo got married, although he did not have a wedding ceremony or honeymoon trip because he did not want a lapse in his update schedule. In 2015, Jo earned about ₩78,000,000 per month (approximately ₩936,000,000 per year).[3]
Characters
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In The Sound of Heart, most characters are based on existing people in the author's life.[4]
- Jo Seok: The author himself in his comic.
- Ae-Bong-Yi: Jo's girlfriend, and, since June 2014, wife.
- Jun Jo: Jo's brother.
- Chulwhang Jo: Jo's father. He was a rugby player and owner of a chicken restaurant.
- Mother: Jo's unnamed mother.
- Yool-bong Jo: Jo's daughter.
- Joongoo Kim: General editor of Naver Comics.
- Sensation: Jo's dog
Television series
KBS has been planning to film a TV series of The Sound of Heart since 2015. Kwangsoo Lee has been cast to portray Seok Jo, and Jung So Min is cast to portray Ae-Bong Yi. KBS is attempting to cast Daemyung Kim, but there is no official confirmation as of yet.[2][5]
Mobile game
Korean mobile game company Neowiz Games produced a mobile video game adaption of The Sound of Heart, which will be launched on Google Play in April 2016.
References
- ↑ Ko, Dong-hwan (20 January 2014). "Webtoon Sound of Heart runs record-long in Naver". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2015-06-29.
- 1 2 Kwon, Ji-young (29 May 2015). 조석의 웹툰 '마음의 소리'가 시트콤으로 제작된다. Huffington Post (in Korean). Retrieved 2015-06-29.
- 1 2 "Over 500,000 views per episode, the most popular webcomic in Korea.". Topclass. Topclass. February 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
- 1 2 "마음의소리". comic.naver.com. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
- ↑ Ann, Jinyong (23 February 2016). "Kwang Soo Lee is considered to be casted as main character for TV series version of webcomic The Sound of Heart (translated)". newspaper.
External links
- Official website on Naver (Korean)