Cross (TV series)

Cross

Promotional poster

Hangul 크로스

 Medical
Genre
 Thriller

Created by Studio Dragon (led by Jinnie Choi)

Written by Choi Min-seok

Directed by Shin Yong-hwi

Starring  Go Kyung-pyo

 Cho Jae-hyun

 Jeon So-min

Country of origin South Korea

Original language Korean

No. of episodes 16

Production
 Executive producers  Lee Jang-soo

 Choi Tae-young

Running time 60 minutes[1]

Production company Logos Film

Original release

Network tvN

Release January 29 –

March 20, 2018

Cross (Korean: 크로스; RR: Keuroseu) is a 2018 medical thriller South Korean
television series starring Go Kyung-pyo, Cho Jae-hyun, and Jeon So-min. It aired
on tvN from January 29 to March 20, 2018, every Monday and Tuesday at 21:30 (KST).
[2][3][4][5]

Synopsis[edit]
A gifted young man learns medicine out of a desire to avenge his father who was
brutally murdered fifteen years ago.[6]
Cast[edit]
Main[edit]
 Go Kyung-pyo as Kang In-gyu, a genius first-year resident doctor working in
the organ transplant department of Sunrim Hospital who graduated atop of
his class all throughout medical school and passed his doctor's licensing
exams with a perfect score.
 Cho Jae-hyun as Go Jung-hoon, a world-renowned expert in liver transplants
and chief of the organ transplant center.
 Jeon So-min as Go Ji-in, an organ transplant coordinator who is the only
daughter of Jung-hoon.
 Jin Yi-han[a] as Lee Joo-hyuk, an organ transplant specialist.[7]
 Yang Jin-sung as Son Yeon-hee, the daughter of the hospital chairman. She
is a first-year fellow doctor and a maternity specialist.[8]
Supporting[edit]
 Jang Gwang as Son Young-sik
 Kim Jong-goo as Lee Sang-hoon
 Heo Sung-tae as Kim Hyung-beom
 Yoo Seung-mok as Baek Ji-nam
 Woo Ki-hoon as Lee-dong
 Kim Dae-gon as Jae-hyun
 Woo Hyun as Noh Jong-il
  Kim Ji-eun as Social Services staff
 Seo Woo-jin as Ha Kwan-woo
Production[edit]
 The series is formerly known as Cross: God's Gift (크로스: 신의 선
물; Keuroseu: Sin-eui Seonmul).[9]
 Go Kyung-pyo and Yang Jin-sung previously worked together in the 2017 TV
series Chicago Typewriter.[10]
 The first script reading of the cast was held in late November 2017 at Studio
Dragon in Sangam-dong.[11]
 On February 24, 2018, actor Cho Jae-hyun was removed from the TV series
following his admission of committing sexual harassment.[12][13]
Original soundtrack[edit]
Part 1[edit]
Released on February 6, 2018
No. Title Lyrics Music Artist Length
1. "I Swear" Lee Ha-jin Dingo Salt N Paper 04:49
2. "I Swear" (Inst.) Dingo 04:49
Total length: 09:38
Part 2[edit]
Released on February 13, 2018
No. Title Lyrics Music Artist Length
1. "Thousand Times" Blank Simon Petren, Maja Samuel 03:36
Keuc
2. "Thousand Times" (Inst.) Simon Petren, Maja 03:36
Keuc
Total length: 07:12
Part 3[edit]
Released on February 20, 2018
No. Title Lyrics Music Artist Length
1. "Childhood" Choi Go-eun Choi Go-eun Choi Go-eun 03:45
2. "Childhood" (Inst.) Choi Go-eun 03:45
Total length: 07:30
Part 4[edit]
Released on March 6, 2018
No. Title Lyrics Music Artist Length
1. "Only I'm Alone" (나만 혼자) Lee Ha-jin POPKID, Dingo GB9 03:26
2. "Only I'm Alone" (Inst.) POPKID, Dingo 03:27
Total length: 06:53
Part 5[edit]
Released on March 13, 2018
No. Title Lyrics Music Artist Length
 1. "I Want You And I Need You" minGtion minGtion, Kim Taeha, Ahin 03:20
(원하고 바래요) Yeon-seo (Momoland)
2. "I Want You And I Need You" minGtion, Kim 03:20
(Inst.) Yeon-seo
Total length: 06:40

Viewership[edit]
Cross : South Korea viewers per episode (thousands)

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.

Episode number
Seaso Avera
n ge
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

88 86 103 103 93 112 85 100 68 74 65 71 59 72 66 84

1 834
2 5 4 1 0 9 3 2 0 5 2 2 1 4 2 7

Source: Audience measurement performed nationwide by Nielsen Korea.[14]

Average TV viewership ratings

Average audience share

Original
Ep
broadcast Nielsen Korea[15] TNmS[16]
.
date

Nationwide Seoul Nationwide

January
1 3.877% 4.601% 3.7%
29, 2018

January
2 3.930% 4.405% 3.9%
30, 2018

February
3 4.493% 5.167% 4.4%
5, 2018
 February
4 4.733% 4.999% 4.1%
6, 2018

February
5 4.257% 5.236% 3.6%
12, 2018

February
6 4.575% 5.195% 4.0%
13, 2018

February
7 3.224% 3.650% 3.6%
19, 2018

February
8 4.194% 5.141% 3.6%
20, 2018

February
9 3.224% 3.615% 3.2%
26, 2018

February
10 3.671% 4.244% 3.7%
27, 2018

March 5,
11 3.181% 3.870% 2.9%
2018

March 6,
12 3.421% 4.009% 4.0%
2018

March 12,
13 3.103% 3.833% 2.9%
2018

March 13,
14 3.398% 3.722% 3.5%
2018

March 19,
15 3.292% 3.964% 3.4%
2018
 March 20,
16 4.222% 5.034% 4.2%
2018

Average 3.799% 4.417% 3.7%

 In the table above, the blue numbers represent the lowest ratings and the red
numbers represent the highest ratings.
 This series aired 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).