Actor Kang Dong Won and actress Song Hye Kyo were selected as the male and female protagonists of director Lee Jae Yong's new movie, "My Palpitating Life." The two are to star as a married couple with a child with a progeria, and plan to tell the story of parents who had their first child at the ages of seventeen, and their seventeen year old son who is preparing to say good bye to the world.

Kang Dong Won and Song Hye Kyo have starred in "Love For Sale" together three years ago, which was a finale piece of the Busan International Film Festival directed by Jang Joon Hwan. Kang Dong Won is currently filming a movie and plans to get rid of his current city-life aurora and play a naïve, loving dad, Dae Soo, in "My Palpitating Life." Song Hye Kyo, who successfully ended the SBS drama "That Winter, The Wind Blows" in the beginning of this year and is taking a break from acting, is to play Mi Ra, who became a mother at an early age of seventeen but takes good care of her son in "My Palpitating Life."

"My Palpitating Life" is based on a novel of the same name, written by Kim Ae Ran, which sold 1.4 million copies in the first three months of its publication.

The movie "My Palpitating Life" is to finalize the cast members and crank in the filming of the movie in the beginning of next year.