| Director: | Lee Jae-dong |
| Country: | South Korea |
| Language: | Korean |
| Num Episodes: | 16 |
| Executive Producer: | Han Hee |
| Producer: | Lee Ho-young Park Jae-sam |
| Runtime: | 60 minutes |
| Channel: | Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation |
My Spring Days (; lit. "The Spring Days of My Life") is a 2014 South Korean television series starring Kam Woo-sung, Choi Soo-young, Lee Joon-hyuk, and Jang Shin-young.[1] [2] It airs on MBC on for 16 episodes beginning September 10, 2014.[3]
The plot uses the concept of cellular memory, a medical hypothesis that recipients' personalities and habits become similar to their donors.[4]
Lee Bom-yi (Choi Soo-young) was once a terminally ill patient, but she's been given a second chance at life after getting a heart transplant and now lives each day to the fullest. She meets Kang Dong-ha (Kam Woo-sung), the CEO of Hanuiron and a widower with two children who lost his wife to an accident. Bom-yi falls for Dong-ha, not knowing that her donor was Dong-ha's wife.[5] [6]
Kam Woo-sung and Choi Soo-young were cast as leads on July 17, 2014.[9]
My Spring Days began filming on August 19 and the first shoot took place in a marketplace in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province.[10]
The show beat its rivals, SBS My Lovely Girl and KBS2's Iron Man consistently and the show ended with a 10.5% viewer rating in the Seoul National Capital Area, ranking first among the Wednesday-Thursday dramas.
| Episode # | Original broadcast date | Average audience share | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TNmS Ratings[11] | AGB Nielsen[12] | ||||||
| width=100 | Nationwide | width=100 | Seoul National Capital Area | width=100 | Nationwide | width=100 | Seoul National Capital Area |
| 1 | September 10, 2014 | 7.5% | 8.8% | 8.1% | 9.8% | ||
| 2 | September 11, 2014 | 8.3% | 10.7% | 8.7% | 10.4% | ||
| 3 | September 17, 2014 | 8.2% | 10.4% | 9.5% | 10.5% | ||
| 4 | September 18, 2014 | 8.1% | 10.3% | 11.1% | 13.3% | ||
| 5 | September 24, 2014 | 8.7% | 11.4% | 9.3% | 10.0% | ||
| 6 | September 25, 2014 | 7.7% | 10.3% | 9.2% | 11.0% | ||
| 7 | October 1, 2014 | 7.8% | 11.0% | 8.3% | 9.5% | ||
| 8 | October 2, 2014 | 6.3% | 8.5% | 8.8% | 10.1% | ||
| 9 | October 8, 2014 | 7.6% | 10.0% | 9.1% | 10.3% | ||
| 10 | October 9, 2014 | 7.7% | 10.7% | 8.3% | 9.3% | ||
| 11 | October 15, 2014 | 8.3% | 11.4% | 8.6% | 10.0% | ||
| 12 | October 16, 2014 | 7.5% | 9.5% | 8.5% | 9.4% | ||
| 13 | October 22, 2014 | 9.3% | 11.8% | 10.6% | 12.2% | ||
| 14 | October 23, 2014 | 8.9% | 12.2% | 9.6% | 11.2% | ||
| 15 | October 29, 2014 | 8.3% | 11.3% | 8.7% | 9.9% | ||
| 16 | October 30, 2014 | 8.1% | 10.8% | 10.0% | 11.1% | ||
| Average | 8.0% | 10.6% | 9.2% | 10.5% | |||
| Year | Award | Category | Recipient | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Miniseries | |||
| Excellence Award, Actress in a Miniseries | ||||
| Jang Shin-young | ||||
| Best New Actress | Choi Soo-young | |||
| 2015 | Excellence Award, Actress | Choi Soo-young | ||