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The Sound of Heart

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Genre
  
Comedy

Publisher
  
Naver Webtoon

Author
  
Jo Seok

Original run
  
2006 – present

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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. 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.

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Development

On December 17 2015, the 1,000th episode of The Sound of Heart was posted on Naver. Since Jo started posting his webcomic on Naver, views averaged 5 million per update, a total of over 5 billion views. The Sound of Heart is the longest running South Korean webcomic.

When Jo got married in 2014, 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).

Characters

In The Sound of Heart, most characters are based on people in the author's life.

  • Jo Seok: The author himself in his comic.
  • Lee Ae-bong: Jo's girlfriend, and, since June 2014, wife.
  • Jo Jun: Jo's brother.
  • Jo Chulwhang: Jo's father. He was a rugby player and owner of a chicken restaurant.
  • Mother: Jo's unnamed mother.
  • Jo Yool-bong: Jo's daughter.
  • Kim Joongoo: General editor of Naver Comics.
  • Sensation: Jo's dog
  • Television series

    KBS had been planning a TV series involving The Sound of Heart since 2015. Lee Kwang-soo was cast to portray Jo Seok, and Jung So-min is cast to portray Lee Ae-bong. The series has also been picked up by Netflix and is planned to be broadcast on both channels simultaneously on February 24, 2017.

    Mobile game

    Korean mobile game company Neowiz Games produced a mobile video game adaption of The Sound of Heart, launched on Google Play in April 2016.

    References

    The Sound of Heart Wikipedia