A Thousand Kisses (TV series)

A Thousand Kisses (Korean: 천 번의 입맞춤) is a 2011 South Korean television series, starring Seo Young-hee, Ji Hyun-woo, Ryu Jin and Kim So-eun. It explores the question of age differences in romance. It aired on MBC from August 20, 2011 to February 5, 2012 on Saturdays and Sundays at 20:40 for 50 episodes.

A Thousand Kisses
Promotional poster for A Thousand Kisses
천 번의 입맞춤
Genre	Romance Melodrama
Written by	Park Jung-ran
Directed by	Yoon Jae-moon
Starring	Seo Young-hee Ji Hyun-woo Ryu Jin Kim So-eun
Country of origin	South Korea
Original language	Korean
No. of episodes	50
Production
Executive producer	Lee Chang-sup
Producer	Oh Sung-min
Running time	60 minutes
Production company	GnG Production
Original release
Network	Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation
Release	August 20, 2011 (2011-08-20) – February 5, 2012 (2012-02-05)

A Thousand Kisses
Hangul	천 번의 입맞춤
RR	Cheon beonui immatchum
MR	Ch'ŏn pŏnŭi immatch'um

Plot

Woo Joo-young (Seo Young-hee) is the eldest daughter in the family and have come through hardships in life thanks to her bright and caring personality. Her husband Tae-kyung has an affair which ends in their divorce. One day, Joo-young takes her son Chan-noh to a soccer game and meets Jang Woo-bin (Ji Hyun-woo), a former national soccer player who's now a sports agent. Chan-noh warms to Woo-bin and this leads to a close friendship between Joo-young and Woo-bin. Woo-bin romances the divorced single mom, but their differences in age, social status and life experience create obstacles to their relationship.

Jang Byung-doo (Lee Soon-jae) is the chaebol head of a resort group who falls in love with his caregiver Yoo Ji-sun (Cha Hwa-yeon), and they marry.)

Meanwhile, the chaebol's son Jang Woo-jin (Ryu Jin) is the cold and haughty planning manager at his father's resort, who has a strained relationship with his father marked by lingering resentment — he feels Dad showed little kindness to his mother, who died of a hereditary illness. Woo Joo-mi (Kim So-eun) is a freelance reporter for a magazine who doesn't remember her own mother's face, having been raised by her older sister Joo-young and grandmother. She falls for Woo-jin at first sight despite their 9-year age difference, and thanks to her proactive personality, tackles her crush head-on. Rather than suffering from lovesickness on her own, she goes after him assertively, and wins him over by melting his icy exterior with her optimistic, affectionate nature.

Cast

Main characters

• Seo Young-hee as Woo Joo-young^[1]
• Ji Hyun-woo as Jang Woo-bin
• Ryu Jin as Jang Woo-jin (Woo-bin's cousin)
• Kim So-eun as Woo Joo-mi (Joo-young's younger sister)^[2][3]

Supporting characters

• Cha Soo-yeon as Han Yoo-kyung (Woo-bin's first love)
• Shim Hyung-tak as Park Tae-kyung
• Lee Soon-jae as Jang Byung-doo
• Cha Hwa-yeon as Yoo Ji-sun
• Goo Seung-hyun as Park Chan-noh
• Kim Chang-sook as Min Ae-ja
• Jung Ga-eun as Jang Hye-bin
• Jung Jae-soon as Yum Jung-soon
• Nam Ji-hyun^[a] as Jang Soo-ah
• Ban Hyo-jung as Cha Kyung-soon
• Lee Mi-young as Oh Bok-joo
• Lee Ja-young as Yang Joon-hee
• Kim Chang-wan as Jang Byung-shik
• Yoon Doo-joon as Yoon Ki-joon (cameo)
• Lee Tae-ri^[b] as Moon Gi-joon (cameo)
• Yoo Yeon-seok as Hyung-soo, soccer player

Notes

1. Credited as Son Ji-hyun.
2. Credited as Lee Min-ho.

International broadcast

• It aired in Vietnam on Let's Viet VTC9 on October 2, 2015 under the title Tình yêu không tuổi.
• In Singapore and Malaysia, it aired on Oh!K from November 26, 2020 to early February 2021.^[4]