A Thousand Kisses (Korean Drama)
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User Rating
Current user rating: 92/100 (217 votes)
Profile
- TV Show: A Thousand Kisses
- Revised romanization: Chunbunui Ipmatchoom
- Hangul: 천번의 입맞춤
- Director: Yoon Jae-Moon
- Writer: Park Jung-Ran
- Network: MBC
- Episodes: 50
- Release Date: August 20, 2011 -- February 5, 2012
- Runtime: Sat. & Sun. 20:40
- Language: Korean
- Country: South Korea
Plot
A divorced woman strives for success after experiencing several difficult ordeals.
Joo-Young (Seo Young-Hee) is an ordinary house wife who takes care of her mother-in-law, husband and son. For her hobby she takes cooking lessons. Her only complaint is that her husband Tae-Kyung (Shim Hyung-Tak) is so busy he can't spend enough time with their family, especially their son Chan-No. Tae-Kyung then promises to take his son to a soccer game. On the day of the soccer game, Tae-Kyung doesn't show up and they can't get in touch with him. While Joo-Young is taking her cooking lessons, Chan-No keeps calling asking her to take him to the soccer game. Joo-Young rushes out of the cooking lessons. While leaving, she bumps into Woo-Bin (Ji Hyun-Woo) who is just walking out of the elevator. Woo-Bin drops a chinaware dish. Later at the office, Woo-Bin, who works as a sports agent, discovers that the chinaware is broken.
Joo-Young is able to make it to the soccer game with her son Chan-No. After the game Joo-Young and her son happen to meet Woo-Bin again and he asks Joo-Young to pay for the broken chinaware from earlier in the day. They exchange phone numbers and go their separate ways.
During this time, Joo-Young's younger sister Joo-Mi (Kim So-Eun) sees her sister's husband Tae-Kyung hug and kiss another woman. Joo-Mi calls her sister and tells her what she saw. That evening Joo-Young confronts her husband about what her sister saw. Tae-Kyung replies that the woman in question is a crazy client and he can't do anything about it. In actuality, Tae-Kyung is having an affair with the woman who is named Joon-Hee (Lee Ja-Young).
One day, Joo-Young runs into Joon-Hee at a coffee shop. Joon-Hee confesses to her that she is having an affair with her husband. Joo-Young becomes numb. During this time, Woo-Bin calls Joo-Young to have a meeting about the broken chinaware and also an autograph of a famous soccer player he promised to give to her son. Woo-Bin senses something is wrong with Joo-Young.
Meanwhile, younger sister Joo-Mi bumps into a man named Woo-Jin (Ryu Jin) while jogging. Since that moment Joo-Mi can't forget Woo-Jin. One day, Joo-Mi meets Woo-Jin again at a coffee shop. Joo-Mi is thrilled to see him again and she goes up to him to say hi, but Woo-Jin is cold to her. Woo-Jin happens to be cousins with sports agent Woo-Bin.
Notes
- "A Thousand Kisses" takes over the MBC Sat. & Sun. 20:40 time slot previously occupied by "Twinkle Twinkle" and followed by "God of War" on February 11, 2012
Cast
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| Seo Young-Hee | Ji Hyun-Woo | Ryu Jin | Kim So-Eun |
| Woo Joo-Young | Jang Woo-Bin | Jang Woo-Jin | Woo Joo-Mi |
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| Kim Chang-Suk | Jung Ga-Eun | Lee Soon-Jae | Cha Hwa-Yeon | Shim Hyung-Tak |
| Min Ae-Ja | Jang Hye-Bin | Jang Byung-Doo | Yoo Ji-Sun | Park Tae-Kyung |
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| Jeong Jae-Sun | Goo Seung-Hyun | Lee Ja-Young | Ban Hyo-Jeong | Lee Mi-Young |
| Yum Jung-Soon | Park Chan-No | Yang Joon-Hee | Cha Kyung-Soon | Oh Bok-Joo |
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| Kim Chang-Wan | Nam Ji-Hyun | Lee Hwa-Sun |
| Jang Byung-Sik | Jang Soo-Ah | Cha Myung-Hee |
Additional Cast Members:
- Cha Soo-Yeon - Han Yoo-Kyung
- Yang Se-Hyung - Im Jin-Ho
- Yoon Doo-Joon - Yoon Gi-Joon (cameo)
- Lee Min-Ho - Moon Gi-Joon (cameo)
Trailers
Episode Ratings
| Date | Episode | Nationwide | Seoul |
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| 2011-08-20 | 1 | 7.9 (19th) | 9.2 (15th) |
| 2011-08-21 | 2 | 8.9 (18th) | 9.6 (17th) |
| 2011-08-27 | 3 | 8.0 (13th) | 9.5 (13th) |
| 2011-08-28 | 4 | NR | NR |
| 2011-09-03 | 5 | 8.4 (16th) | 9.6 (16th) |
| 2011-09-04 | 6 | 9.3 (16th) | 10.6 (15th) |
| 2011-09-10 | 7 | 8.2 (18th) | NR |
| 2011-09-11 | 8 | NR | NR |
| 2011-09-17 | 9 | 7.8 (20th) | 9.2 (14th) |
| 2011-09-18 | 10 | 9.3 (16th) | 11.5 (12th) |
| 2011-09-24 | 11 | 8.1 (15th) | 9.9 (12th) |
| 2011-09-25 | 12 | 9.5 (15th) | 11.7 (11th) |
| 2011-10-01 | 13 | 8.7 (15th) | 10.4 (11th) |
| 2011-10-02 | 14 | NR | 10.1 (15th) |
| 2011-10-08 | 15 | 7.9 (14th) | 8.2 (16th) |
| 2011-10-09 | 16 | NR | NR |
| 2011-10-15 | 17 | 7.9 (19th) | 8.7 (17th) |
| 2011-10-16 | 18 | NR | 9.1 (20th) |
| 2011-10-22 | 19 | 7.5 (20th) | 8.4 (18th) |
| 2011-10-23 | 20 | NR | 9.3 (19th) |
| 2011-10-29 | 21 | 10.4 (11th) | 13.4 (8th) |
| 2011-10-30 | 22 | 10.5 (13th) | 12.5 (11th) |
| 2011-11-05 | 23 | 9.3 (14th) | 11.6 (9th) |
| 2011-11-06 | 24 | 11.3 (10th) | 12.1 (12th) |
| 2011-11-12 | 25 | 10.2 (7th) | 11.8 (7th) |
| 2011-11-13 | 26 | 9.5 (14th) | 11.3 (10th) |
| 2011-11-19 | 27 | 8.8 (15th) | 9.1 (17th) |
| 2011-11-20 | 28 | 10.1 (13th) | 11.7 (10th) |
| 2011-11-26 | 29 | 11.1 (9th) | 12.8 (9th) |
| 2011-11-27 | 30 | 11.0 (9th) | 12.7 (9th) |
| 2011-12-03 | 31 | 12.6 (7th) | 14.4 (7th) |
| 2011-12-04 | 32 | 11.1 (9th) | 13.1 (8th) |
| 2011-12-10 | 33 | 10.5 (9th) | 12.1 (8th) |
| 2011-12-11 | 34 | 11.4 (9th) | 13.1 (8th) |
| 2011-12-17 | 35 | 12.1 (10th) | 12.1 (8th) |
| 2011-12-18 | 36 | 11.5 (10th) | 12.5 (11th) |
| 2011-12-24 | 37 | 9.8 (15th) | 10.4 (13th) |
| 2011-12-25 | 38 | 12.0 (9th) | 12.9 (8th) |
| 2011-12-31 | 39 | 11.6 (6th) | 13.0 (4th) |
| 2012-01-01 | 40 | 13.3 (6th) | 15.2 (6th) |
| 2012-01-07 | 41 | 11.6 (9th) | 13.2 (9th) |
| 2012-01-08 | 42 | 11.3 (11th) | 12.2 (10th) |
| 2012-01-14 | 43 | 12.1 (8th) | 13.1 (8th) |
| 2012-01-15 | 44 | 12.3 (10th) | 13.2 (9th) |
| 2012-01-21 | 45 | 10.1 (8th) | 10.8 (7th) |
| 2012-01-22 | 46 | 8.2 (11th) | 9.4 (9th) |
| 2012-01-28 | 47 | 10.3 (10th) | 10.9 (7th) |
| 2012-01-29 | 48 | 11.4 (10th) | 12.2 (8th) |
| 2012-02-04 | 49 | 10.0 (14th) | 11.0 (10th) |
| 2012-02-05 | 50 | 12.4 (9th) | 14.4 (8th) |
Source: TNS Media Korea / * NR denotes not ranked within the Top 20 daily shows according to TNS Media Korea.
Awards
- 2011 MBC Drama Awards - December 30, 2011
- Excellent Actor (drama) (Ji Hyun-Woo)
- Golden Acting Award (drama) (Cha Hwa-Yeon)
Leela Says:
Mar 16 2012 5:17 am
I loved this drama and I had hoped that it would've stayed on the couples more and less on the mama. The ending could've been better too. Still love this drama and Woo bin is my numero uno!!
Sally Says:
Mar 13 2012 10:23 pm
Anyone else feel completely and utter ripped off? (some spoilers from here on)
I watched the whole last 10 episode waiting for SOME sort of resolution between Woo Bin and Joo Young, and *poof*, here we are at the last episode. I'm still cursing the b*tch of an ex-girlfriend (honestly? She DIDN'T know that Woo Bin WASN'T in love with her? Shocker...), we get no conclusions from the ex-husband's family (not that I needed that; their entire story bored me), everyone else is off in lala-happy-forgiveness-land, and all I get for my Woo Bin/Joo Young love is a 30 second shot of them smiling at each other through a window. Granted, I appreciated the glimpse of the rings on the chain (the romantic in me was waiting for it), but seriously! The show was supposed to be made up of their's (as well as Woo Jin and Joo Mi's) relationship. And yet, here we are, a marked difference after the warning, and 10-20 episodes to the ending arc with nothing. Yet another example of a series that started off so very strong, and ended with marked disappointment.
James Says:
Mar 03 2012 4:20 pm
I loved this drama at the start, but halfway through as Consus stated, they changed the focus to the mother (Cha Hwa-Yeon, a wonderful actress with a thankless part) and it became episode after episode of how much can she be tortured, and how slowly can she die. And stupid new characters added in such as the con man in the ex husbands house. the increased focus on the evil ex girlfriend, and the short suitor of the sister did nothing but waste time and bring down the show, giving extreme short shrift to the main characters who virtually did not connect for the last half of the series and came together at the end almost as a not believable afterthought. Was the writer forced to change the focus due to lower than expected ratings? If she did, then it didn't work. The two leads should be given a follow up series just to resolve all the unanswered issues from the first half of this one. Extremely disappointing.
Consus Says:
Feb 09 2012 12:25 am
I liked the beginning of this drama. I was hoping they would stick with the two main couples to keep the story surrounding them. Then in the middle of the drama, the story line went into a totally different direction and it wasn't very good one. The only thing that kept it going for me in the second half were the talented actors that carried it along. I always like Lee Mi Young and Kim Chang Won in dramas they are so fun to watch.
Sunna Says:
Jan 07 2012 6:31 am
This drama got boring along the way, the more they dragged it out, the more fustrating it gets. You would think to NOT be like other drama's and drag it on, i mean, how many of use have seen this in other drama's??? Seriously wrap this up and get with the happy ending's already! Lol
jena Says:
Dec 31 2011 7:59 am
This drama is getting tiresome. I really want to see Woo Bin's mom run over by a mack truck over and over and over again. I really really want to see Woo Bin's Fugly psycho stalker ex get eaten by the monster that lives in the river that runs around Seoul that I saw in that one movie where it somersaults underneath bridges and into the sewer systems. I'd dearly loved to see the most spoiled rotten youngest half sister get the serious smack down that she needs so she stops whining so my ears stop bleeding. And I want that cold fish shriveled old fart to keel over and die. And I'd really like to see the mom STOP ACTING LIKE A VICTIM. It's insulting to the intelligence of women globally.
aicy Says:
Nov 04 2011 11:49 am
when it comes to this drama's rating,i don'tknow which channel gives the correct or accurate ratings per episode.other website ranked it first among the top 25 for several weeks now.and it still does.which is which then.but i like this drama.i just tried to watch the first episode to check whether its worth it or not,and here i am,already hooked and continues watching since yesterday.i just can't wait to finish til the end.staying up late just so to catch up with latest ep.i hope it would give us a happy denouement.
Rela Novera Says:
Oct 25 2011 1:05 am
nice !! i love so eun eonnie
:D
ZitaViki Says:
Oct 11 2011 2:29 am
It will be nice to read around the net the LDBP Team and also the IDs of our subbers in every single hardsubbed video that is made with Viki softsubbs, thanks.
Asking Oppa Ahoxan to release the sofsubbs even 2 weeks later won't be difficult as it won't be difficult to just don't delete the credits on the softsubbs... right?
This team can even go to STRIKE... just because people don't show gratitute to our subbers at our own site.
tumami26 Says:
Sep 20 2011 11:22 pm
Waaaaaahhh!! 이 드라마를 사랑 i know this drama from the first episode can't wait till the next ep 나는 너희들을 (배우)를 사랑하는
tumami26 Says:
Sep 20 2011 10:53 pm
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH i L.O.V.E this drama from the start it is long but i knowits going to be with it 내가 배우로 사랑!!
bel Says:
Sep 12 2011 7:58 am
how come this drama is not ranked among tha top 20? this is a really good drama...nice story line and good looking couple ji hyun woo and seo young hee...i really hope it's ratings will go up...watch this drama really really nice one...
Mia Says:
Sep 08 2011 2:22 pm
nice! really good! I might be able to watch this till the 50th episode! really cute! <3
belle Says:
Sep 05 2011 8:29 am
i am loving this drama especially ji hyun woo and seo young hee...they look good together..
tiasthea Says:
Jul 28 2011 5:24 am
Waaaaaaahhhhhhhhh…. I was waiting for Ji Hyun Woo’s new movie n drama after Becoming a Billionaire
tiasthea Says:
Jul 28 2011 5:23 am
Waaaaaaahhhhhhhhh.... I was waiting for Ji Hyun Woo's new movie n drama after Becoming a Billionaire
Erica Says:
Jul 18 2011 11:45 pm
i want to see this drama hope kim bum is this drama too!!!!!
Regina Says:
Jul 06 2011 2:07 am
anticipated 4 this drama!! so-eun eonnie i heart u !!