Title: 빠담빠담… 그와 그녀의 심장박동소리 / Padam Padam… The Sound of His and Her Heartbeats
Chinese Title: 吧嗒吧嗒~他和她的心跳聲
Also known as: Padam Padam
Genre: Romance
Episodes: 20
Broadcast network: jTBC
Broadcast period: 2011-Dec-05 to 2012-Feb-07
Air time: Monday & Tuesday 20:45
Synopsis
“Padam” which means ‘to thump’ in French is a mellow drama about a man who lived life according to its own course but meets a woman he shouldn’t love and about his breahtaking love for her.
Yang Kang Chil just came out from prison after 16 years. He was jailed because of a murder he never did. After released from prison, he goes to Seoul accompanied by his guardian angel, Lee Gook Soo. Meanwhile, Han Ji Min will play Jung Ji Na , a cheerful veterinarian who loves Kang Chil.
Cast Main Cast
Jung Woo Sung as Yang Kang Chil
Han Ji Min as Jung Ji Na
Kim Bum as Lee Gook Soo
Supporting Cast
Na Moon as Mi Ja
Lee Jae Woo as Kim Young Cheol
Jang Han Sun as Detective Jung (Ji-Na’s dad)
Yoon Joo Sang as Prison officer Kim
Kim Hyung Bum as Yong Hak
Jung Woo-sung’s image transformation in Padam Padam
Yet more stills are out from Padam Padam: The Sound of His and Her Heartbeats, the upcoming cable drama starring Jung Woo-sung, who is the focus of this batch of images.
Jung plays Kang-chil, a man wrongly accused of murder who serves 16 years in prison, whose innocent nature is protected in part by his younger buddy and “guardian angel” Kook-soo (Kim Bum). Kang-chil at one point experiences a near-death experience, surviving thanks to a miracle. He falls in a “fateful love” with a woman described primarily as “selfish,” played by Han Ji-min. Due to his past, he’s awkward in the romance arena and turns shy around her, bringing out his innocent, cute nature, while also contrasting with his tough side. (See: tattoos and skill with mechanics.)
So that explains Jung’s clean-cut, aw-shucks appearance in the show. Yet I can’t help feeling that Jung’s character is starting to veer past “pure” and “good-hearted” and into simpleton territory, based on the way he’s depicted here. He’s supposed to be a good boy, not Forrest Gump. And the Dumb and Dumber hair certainly doesn’t help.
I feel like we’ve been hearing about this drama forever, with photo dumps occurring on a regular basis, and yet we don’t actually know any more about it. With a respected writer like Noh Hee-kyung (The World They Live In, Goodbye Solo, More Beautiful Than a Flower) penning scripts, you’d think they’d put a bit more emphasis on the story, but other than “fateful love between an innocent man, a selfish woman, protected by a guardian angel,” we’re not getting much. It’s all the same old. How ’bout some story with that story, hmm?
Padam Padam premieres on jTBC on December 5, and will run as a Monday-Tuesday drama.
I know Padam Padam is all about Jung Woo-sung (Athena) and Han Ji-min (Cain & Abel)…but can we talk about how much Kim Bum has grown up the the past year? Yowsa.
I know all boys have to age sometime, and Kim Bum has been gradually growing out of his boyish looks with every role he takes, but still…I feel like he’s turned into an adult overnight, and it’s both amazing (those cheekbones! those eyes!) and sad (bye-bye, pinchy-cheeks).
Now he actually looks like he might suit the role of Padam Padam’s street-smart prison inmate who watches over the pure-hearted and wrongly convicted Jung Woo-sung while they’re serving time in the clink together. Jung’s character spends 16 years in prison, gets out and meets the self-centered Han Ji-min, leading to romance. Kim Bum is his buddy’s guardian angel who watches his back in and out of prison, while new face Lee Jae-woo takes a role in the supporting cast.
Some pictures in which Jung Woo Sung, Han Ji Min, and Kim Beom are going over the script reading forPadam Padam are revealed.
On the 21st of November, some pictures of the cast of JTBC’s drama series Padam Padam reading their scripts are uploaded.
The pictures were taken at an office of the producing company on the 19th of November when actors were going over their script. A scene in which a love relationship between Kang Chil (played by Jung Woo Sung) and Gina (played by Han Ji Min) develops emerges, a nervous atmosphere was created.
According to the production company, the nervous atmosphere soon changed into a friendly one, where people laughed and shared their ideas in between the lines. Since actors and staff have been together for a long time, it is said that they had a more comfortable time together compared to the first time of script reading.
Padam Padam tells a love story between Yang Kang Chil who comes out of prison after sixteen years, falsely accused for murder, and a realistic, selfish woman Jung Gina. In addition, an angel-like character who tries to protect their love, Lee Kook Soo, appears in the series. Padam Padam premieres on December 5.
Padam Padam Hits the Highest Rating for General Programming Channels
The JTDC launch special drama “Padam Padam… The Sound of His and Her Heartbeats” debuted with rating exceeding 1% for its first episode, crowing champion for ratings among all general programming variety channels broadcast at the same time slot.
According to AGB Nielsen Media Research, episode 1 of “Padam Padam… The Sound of His and Her Heartbeats” rated 1.601%. The rating is 2 to 4 times higher than drama series broadcast at the same time, including Channel A’s Color of Woman and MBC’s Come, Come, Absolutely Come, which scored 0.757% and 0.396% respectively.
Padam Padam had attracted a lot of attention before its premiere with the startling casting lineup of Jung Woo Sung, Han Ji Min and Kim Bum. In the first episode, Jung Ji Na (played by Han Ji Min) is showing coldness and rude behavior to her lover Kim Young Cheol (played by Lee Jae Woo) and Yang Kang Chil (played by Jung Woo Sung) whom she met out of misunderstanding. The transformed of Han Ji Min’s acting has won critical acclaim. Jung Woo Sung was also praised as “rediscovery of a top star.”
The viewership ratings of Padam Padam… The Sound of His and Her Heartbeats eventually exceeds 2%.
According to AGB Nielsen Media Research on December 20th, 2011, the nationwide rating of episode 5 of Padam Padam broadcast on December 19th, 2011 is 2.151%. The rating is 0.655% higher than 1.496% from the fourth episode.
The ratings of Padam Padam have been easily rated over 1% since debut. Even the rerun of the Padam Padam on the weekend has rated over 1%. The drama has received much attention due to excellent project and acting of actors.
Jung Woo Sung and Kim Beom Show Best Tacit Understanding in Padam Padam
The roles of Jung Woo Sung and Kim Beom in JTBC’s launch drama Padam Padam has became a discussion topic.
Yang Kang Chil (played by Jung Woo Sung) and Lee Gook Soo (played by Kim Beom) lives together because of forging a bond during prison life, and is suspected to be “male-male couple” (homosexual). They established a deep friendship regardless of going home while on leave or after leaving from prison.
Lee Gook Soo lives in the house of Kang Chil after leaving prison because he convinces that he is the guardian angel of Kang Chil.
And then Gook Soo always stays beside Kang Chil to help him, and this also indicates that Cupid’s love is getting closer and closer.
Kang Chil harassed by Gook Soo at the side, looks like do not like it, but actually Kang Chil also does not hope that he suffers from misfortune together with him. The future plot development has gripping the viewers’ heart.
Thunder (Cheon Dung) of MBLAQ Shows Body When Cameo in Padam Padam
Thunder Cheondung of South Korea quintet boy band MBLAQ made a surprise cameo appearance in the premiere episode 1 of the new JTBC Monday and Tuesday drama series Padam Padam… The Sound of His and Her Heartbeats broadcast of December 5th, 2011.
The special appearance of Thunder is his debut in acting career. Thunder (Cheon Dung) is playing the role of Yang Kang Woo, the brother of Yang Kang Chil (played by Jung Woo Sung). Yang Kang Woo is a very responsible person who had to take care of the household and protect his mother and younger brother at young age been the eldest brother, as their father was an abusive and violent alcoholic.