Heart to Heart (Korean: 하트 투 하트; RR: Hateu tu hateu) is a 2015 South Korean television series starring Choi Kang-hee and Chun Jung-myung. It is directed by Lee Yoon-jung, and written by Lee Jung-ah, the writer-director duo of the famous Coffee Prince. It aired on tvN from January 9 to March 7, 2015, on Fridays at 20:30 for 16 episodes.
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Plot
Go Yi-seok (Chun Jung-myung) is a successful psychiatrist with a best-selling book and talk show appearances under his belt. Though loving, sensitive and caring towards his family, he is also insecure, egocentric and suffers from an inferiority complex, caused by his childhood experiences. The resulting juvenile behaviour renders him incapable of forming meaningful relationships with women. To make matters worse, he's gradually developing a phobia of his patients, being unable to empathise with their whining — which drives him to drink while on duty.
Cha Hong-do (Choi Kang-hee) is a bright, confident and opinionated woman, whose uncontrollable blushing has left her with crippling sociophobia and caused her to drop out from high school. She ventures outside her home only when shielded by a helmet, and works under the guise as an old grandmother. She nurses a crush of seven years on the kind detective Jang Doo-soo (Lee Jae-yoon), and expresses her feelings by secretly delivering food with notes to his doorstep.
A chance hearing of Doo-soo's blind-date arrangements and upon reading Yi-seok's book, Hong-do is spurred and encouraged to approach Yi-seok's clinic for treatment so that she can speak to Doo-soo freely face-to-face. A disastrous first encounter leads to Hong-do mistakenly accusing Yi-seok of murder, and ends with Yi-seok discovering that his phobia disappears when Hong-do is around, while she uncovers his vulnerable side hidden underneath the swagger.
Mutual dependency forces the two to work together, and both slowly realise how beneficial their companionship is to each other. His skill as a psychiatrist allows her real self to blossom into the open, while her inner strength and steadfastness helps him overcome his hidden insecurities.
Entanglements arise when Doo-soo belatedly realises his own feelings for Hong-do, and begins to pursue her actively, throwing a spanner into the budding relationship. To complicate things further, Yi-seok's sister, Go Se-ro, (Ahn So-hee) falls for Doo-soo. Things come to a head for the couple when the Go family's dark past begins to unravel and threatens to drive a nail into the coffin of their bond.
Cast
Choi Kang-hee as Cha Hong-do/Oh Young-rae
Heo Jung-eun as young Hong-do
Chun Jung-myung as Go Yi-seok
Nam Da-reum as young Yi-seok
Lee Jae-yoon as Jang Doo-soo
Ahn So-hee as Go Se-ro, Yi-seok's sister
Joo Hyun as Go Sang-gyu, Yi-seok's grandfather
Kim Ki-bang as Detective Yang
Um Hyo-sup as Go Jae-woong, Yi-seok's father
Jin Hee-kyung as Hwang Moon-sun, Yi-seok's mother
Park Hee-jin as Talk show host
Choi Su-rin as Doctor Uhm's friend
Hwang Seung-eon as Woo Yeon-woo, Yi-seok's girlfriend
Seo Yi-sook as Psychiatrist Uhm Ki-choon
Choi Moo-sung as Butler Ahn Byung-yeol
Kim Ae-kyung as Housekeeper Hwang Geum-shim
Lee Moon-jung as Curator (cameo)
Lee Bit-na as teenage Cha Hong-do (cameo Ep.1)
Choi Daniel as Bakery owner (cameo appearance)
Ryu Hye-young as Lee Eun-ho/Lee Jin-ho
Ratings
In this table, the blue numbers represent the lowest ratings and the red numbers represent the highest ratings.
This drama airs on a cable channel/pay TV which normally has a relatively smaller audience compared to free-to-air TV/public broadcasters (KBS, SBS, MBC and EBS).