# Melting Me Softly

Melting Me Softly (Korean: 날 녹여주오) is a 2019 South Korean television series starring Ji Chang-wook, Won Jin-ah, and Yoon Se-ah. Created by Studio Dragon and produced by writer Baek Mi-kyung's own company Story Phoenix, it aired on tvN every Saturday and Sunday at 21:00 (KST) from September 28 to November 17, 2019 for 16 episodes.

## Synopsis

Ma Dong-chan (Ji Chang-wook) and Go Mi-ran (Won Jin-ah) take part in a 24-hour experiment where both are frozen. Things don't go as expected and they wake up from the frozen capsule 20 years later instead of 24 hours. In order to survive the side effects of their cryogenic sleep, they must follow a set of restrictions to maintain their body temperature at 31.5 °C (max. 33 °C/88-91 °F) and keep their heart rate normal. The scientist behind the experiment is the only one who knows the key to their survival, but he has lost his memory after an accident. Racing against time, the story focuses on the two dynamic individuals' attempt to resume normalcy and catch up on the lost time of their lives.

## Cast
### Main

* Ji Chang-wook as Ma Dong-chan (32/52)
* Won Jin-ah as Go Mi-ran (24/44)
* Yoon Se-ah as Na Ha-yeong (44)
** Chae Seo-jin as young Ha-yeong (24), Dong-chan's girlfriend

### Supporting
#### People around Dong-chan

* Yoon Seok-hwa as Kim Won-jo, Dong-chan's mother (55)
** Gil Hae-yeon as old Won-jo (75)
* Kim Won-hae as Ma Pil-gu, Dong-chan's father (59)
* Kang Ki-doong as Ma Dong-sik (29), Dong-chan's younger brother
** Kim Won-hae as old Dong-sik (49)
* Han Da-sol as Ma Dong-joo (30), Dong-chan's younger sister
** Jeon Soo-kyeong as old Dong-joo (50)
* Lee Do-gyeom as Baek Young-tak (35), Dong-joo's ex-husband, a police detective.
** Lee Do-yeop as old Young-tak (55)
* Lee Joo-young as Lee Hye-jin, Dong-sik's wife
* Oh Ah-rin as Ma Seo-yoon (7), Dong-sik's daughter

#### People around Mi-ran

* Gil Hae-yeon as Mi-ran's mother (46/66)
* Park Choong-sun as Mi-ran's father (45/65)
* Park Min-soo as Go Nam-tae (12)
** Yoon Na-moo as adult Nam-tae (32), Mi-ran's brother

#### People at the broadcast station

* Im Won-hee as Son Hyeon-gi (48), Dong-chan's junior colleague
** Lee Hong-gi as young Son Hyeon-gi (28)
* Jung Hae-kyun as Kim Hong-seok (41/61)
* Han Jae-i as producer Su
* Hong Seo-baek as producer Lee

#### People at the campus

* Cha Sun-woo as Hwang Byung-shim (24), Mi-ran's ex-boyfriend
** Shim Hyung-tak as old Byung-shim (44)
* Song Ji-eun as Oh Young-seon (24), Mi-ran's best friend, who married Byung-shim.
** Seo Jeong-yeon as old Young-seon (44)
* Oh Ha-nee as Park Kyung-ja (24), Mi-ran's other best friend.
** Park Hee-jin as old Kyung-ja (44)
* Choi Bo-min as Hwang Ji-hoon (19), Hwang Byung-shim and Young-sun's son, a freshman at Korea University who develops a crush on Mi-ran.
* Kang Yoo-seok as Park Young-joon (19), Ji-hoon's best friend, a freshman at Korea University.

#### Others

* Lee Bong-ryun as Park Yoo-ja
* Han Ki-woong as Lee Jung-woo
* Seo Hyun-chul as Hwang Gab-soo (46/66), the professor in charge of the frozen human experiments. He was seriously hurt in a car accident that caused him to be comatosed, rendering him unable to help Dong-chan and Mi-ran to regain consciousness for the next twenty years
* Lee Moo-saeng as Jo Ki-beom (45), Professor Hwang's assistant
** Kim Wook as young Ki-beom (25)
* Seo Sang-won as Doctor Yoon
* Kim Bup-rae as Lee Hyung-do / Lee Seok-do, who were both twin brothers. Seok-do was one of the test subjects of Professor Hwang's experiment, and Hyung-do, who was Seok-do's younger twin brother, wanted to murder his brother and Professor Hwang in order to take his brother's place as the next-in-line CEO of their father's company

### Special appearances

* Tony Ahn (Ep. 1)
* Kim Soo-ro (Ep. 6)
* Ra Mi-ran (Ep. 6)
* Park Jin-young as Jang Woo-shin (Ep. 14)
* Byung Hun

## Production
### Development

Won Jin-ah and Yoon Se-ah have previously starred together in Rain or Shine (2017). The first script reading took place in June 2019.

## Ratings

| Season | Season | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Average |
| Season | Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Average |
| | 1 | 652 | 816 | 882 | 864 | 536 | 658 | 547 | 701 | 299 | 511 | 330 | 429 | 453 | 456 | 379 | 549 | 566 |