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The Sound of Your Heart
Seok Jo in his own artstyle
마음의 소리
GenreComedy
AuthorJo Seok, Cho Seok
PublisherNaver Webtoon
Original run2006 – present

The Sound of Your Heart (Korean마음의 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,[when?] 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

The Sound of Heart features author Jo Seok as the main character.

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.[when?]

References

  1. ^ Ko, Dong-hwan (20 January 2014). "Webtoon Sound of Heart runs record-long in Naver". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2015-06-29.
  2. ^ a b Kwon, Ji-young (29 May 2015). 조석의 웹툰 '마음의 소리'가 시트콤으로 제작된다. Huffington Post (in Korean). Retrieved 2015-06-29.
  3. ^ a b "Over 500,000 views per episode, the most popular webcomic in Korea". Topclass. Topclass. February 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
  4. ^ a b "마음의소리". comic.naver.com. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
  5. ^ 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. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)