Hi! School: Love On

Hi! School: Love On

Promotional poster
Also known as High School: Love On
Genre Romance
School
Supernatural
Teen
Comedy
Written by Lee Jae-yeon
Directed by Sung Joon-hae
Lee Eun-mi
Starring Kim Sae-ron
Nam Woo-hyun
Lee Sung-yeol
Opening theme "Heartthrob" by Infinite F
Ending theme "Chocolate Cherry Night" by Mad Clown and Yozoh
Country of origin South Korea
Original language(s) Korean
No. of episodes 20
Production
Producer(s) Sung Joon-hae
Production company(s) High School Co., Ltd.
UBICULTURE
Mong-jak-so Co. Ltd. (formerly IKORAI Co. Ltd.)
Release
Original network Korean Broadcasting System
Original release July 11 (2014-07-11) – December 19, 2014 (2014-12-19)
External links
Website www.kbs.co.kr/drama/hischool/

Hi! School: Love On (Korean: 하이스쿨: 러브온) is a 2014 South Korean television series starring Kim Sae-ron, Nam Woo-hyun and Lee Sung-yeol of the band Infinite.[1][2][3] It aired on KBS2 from July 11 to December 19, 2014 on Fridays at 20:55 for 20 episodes.[4]

Hi! School: Love On is a teen fantasy romance series about an angel who has no choice but to become a human after unintentionally saving a male student in danger. The now-mortal angel then interacts with teenage high school students and learns about love, friendship, and what it means to be human.

Plot

Sung-yeol and Woo-hyun are two 18-year-old boys who are both tormented by the emotional scars of broken families; Woo-hyun longs to see again his mother who left him as a child, while Sung-yeol lives with a stepmother that he detests and whom he blames for the break up of his parents' marriage. Both are considered asocial (Asocial means to be not social, withdrawn from society while anti-social relates to harmful acts or feelings.) by Korean norms, although popular, brave and public spirited Woo-hyun drifts through school refusing to apply himself to his studies; Sung-yeol is studious and does well academically but is dismissive and disrespectful of his parents, aloof and detached from his classmates, appearing cold and arrogant to all. The lives of the two crash together when an angel falls from heaven.[5]

Woo-hyun's classmate, Kim Jin-young, harbours a crush for him. Fearing for her daughter's grades from her infatuation with a slacker, Jin-young's mother arrives in class and warns Woo-hyun to stay away from her daughter, publicly humiliating her. Unable to deal with her overbearing mother Jin-young prepares to jump from the roof of the school building, where Woo-hyun finds her.

Going about their business invisible to mortals are angels who guide the souls of the dead to the next life, one such nameless angel spends her time in between clients watching Korean soap operas and watching over the lives of mortals, including Woo-hyun and Sung-yeol. For this, she is chided for by a senior angel, "for its always the same story told over and over again just with different people." However the angel believes that by watching she can come to understand what it is to be human, and how mortals can love when the outcome will always be parting, and how they can live if death is all that waits.

Each angel is guided by a black book that contains the name of the soon to be deceased. The female angel arrives on the school rooftop to find Woo-hyun and Jin-young standing on the ledge. There is an unexpected thunderstorm and the name and picture of the soul to be collected oscillates between Woo-hyun and Jin-young as if it cannot decide who is to die. The angel drops her book and in the moment that she takes to recover it Woo-hyun pushes Jin-young to safety but overbalances and falls to the ground; instinctively the angel uses her powers to save his life, however they both pass out as they crash into the bonnet of a car.

Woo-hyun and the angel wake up in hospital, Woo-hyun is surprised that he is unscathed but the angel is shocked, when she realises that Woo-hyun can see her, that he can touch her, that she can feel the ground with her toes, that she has a heartbeat, and that she is in fact now mortal.

Believing her to be suffering from amnesia due to his landing on top of her Woo-hyun takes the angel to the local police station, where under questioning she stumbles on the name Lee Seul-bi.[6] Pressed she randomly selected syllables from magazines in the police station, from which the policeman (Sung-yeol's father, Hwang Woo-jin) puzzled out a name that made sense. Woo-hyun is about to leave the newly named Seul-bi to the care of the police when Jin-young's mother arrives (with Woo-hyun's form tutor and grandmother in tow) threatening to sue Woo-hyun for trying to entice her daughter into a suicide pact, and with trumped up accusations of violence and bullying. Being well disposed to Woo-hyun from an earlier encounter, Hwang Woo-jin refuses to entertain the charges. Woo-hyun is about to leave Seul-bi to the care of the police, when his grandmother insists that they take her in as he owes her his life.

Seul-bi moves in with Woo-hyun and his grandmother, working part-time in their rice cake restaurant. Forgetting that she is now mortal Seul-bi is fearless in the face of injustice, authority and things she sees as wrong, traits that Woo-hyun appreciates and the two make themselves responsible for each other's well-being and happiness. Woo-hyun is forced by Jin-young's mother to transfer to a new school, the same school that Sung-yeol attends and the two become both rivals and allies. Curious about high school, and emotionally attached to Woo-hyun, Seul-bi decides to join him in school, where Sung-yeol also falls for her.[7]

Seul-bi gets her wish of knowing humanity better, in high school learning firsthand the joys and sorrows of being a normal teenager, but she must also face a test unknown to any teenager nor angel, for on the day that she became mortal, the soul she should have led into the next life was Woo-hyun's

Cast

Main characters

Supporting characters

Students of Grade 11 Class 3

High school teachers

Extended cast

Original soundtrack

High School Love On:
Original Sound Track
Soundtrack album by Various Artists
Released December 29, 2014
Genre Pop, K-pop, soundtrack
Label LOEN Entertainment
No.TitleArtistLength
1."아까워" (Too Good)Jung Gi-go feat. Min-woo of Boyfriend3:30
2."쇼콜라 체리밤" (Chocolate Cherry Night)Mad Clown and Yozoh3:05
3."뜬뜬뜬뜬 뜨든뜬" (C'mon C'mon)Crayon Pop3:08
4."야야야" (Ya Ya Ya)Urban Zakapa3:03
5."내 맘이 그게 아닌데" (What My Heart Wants to Say)Lel feat. Linzy of Fiestar4:27
6."너의 왈츠" (Your Waltz)Afternight Project4:21
7."너를" (You)Afternight Project3:53
8."작은 별" (Little Star)Standing Egg3:32
9."가슴이 뛴다" (Heartbeat)Infinite F3:30

Ratings

Episode # Original broadcast date Title Average audience share
TNmS Ratings[11] AGB Nielsen[12]
Nationwide Seoul National Capital Area Nationwide Seoul National Capital Area
1 July 11, 2014 Destiny? Irresistible trouble! 4.0 3.6
2 July 18, 2014 Encounter? Mysterious coincidence! 3.2
3 August 1, 2014 1 Excitement? The unstoppable flutter! 3.1
4 August 8, 2014 Baby steps? First step when learning to love! 3.1
5 August 15, 2014 Drawing a line? Drawing a line to cross it! 3.4
6 August 22, 2014 Confession? Always the wrong timing! 2.9
7 August 29, 2014 Suspicion? Wanting to believe that it's not true! 3.0
8 September 12, 2014 2 Regret? All you remember is the bad! 3.3
9 September 26, 2014 3 Consolation? The hope that I could take all your pain! 3.6
10 October 3, 2014 One-sided love? When you force yourself to look away! 3.0
11 October 10, 2014 Secret? The heavier the truth the better it floats! 3.7
12 October 17, 2014 Favor? It breaks my heart when I can't do it! 3.0
13 October 24, 2014 Choice? The pain of losing all for you! 3.6
14 October 31, 2014 Longing? You who I keep running into! 3.2
15 November 7, 2014 Wounds? I give you wounds but it hurts me more! 3.5
16 November 14, 2014 Sincerity? Something I want to hide for your sake! 3.0
17 November 28, 2014 4 Love? I wish I had said, "I love you!" 3.0
18 December 5, 2014 Friendship? You're just another me! 3.5
19 December 12, 2014 Goodbye? Only to be back again! 3.5
20 December 19, 2014 Fate? The distance between your heart and mine: 3 inches! 3.5
Average - - - -
Note

International Broadcast

References

  1. ↑ Lee, Min-ji (May 2, 2014). "Infinite's Woo Hyun and Sung Yeol to Become Rivals in High School". enewsWorld.
  2. ↑ Hong, Grace Danbi (June 2, 2014). "High School Unveils Poster Stills for Kim Sae Ron, Infinite's Woo Hyun and Sung Yeol". enewsWorld.
  3. ↑ "Woohyun, Kim Sae Ron, and Sungyeol Are Three of a Kind in New BTS Stills for High School: Love On". Soompi. June 10, 2014.
  4. ↑ Lee, Na-rae (May 15, 2014). "Infinite's Woo Hyun, Sung Yeol and More Attend First Script Reading for High School". enewsWorld.
  5. ↑ "High School: Love On: Episode 1". Dramabeans. July 14, 2014.
  6. ↑ Cho, Grace (June 24, 2014). "Photos from filming of High School revealed". The Korea Herald.
  7. ↑ Jung, Ji-won (August 14, 2014). "Kim Sae Ron Makes Woo Hyun and Sung Yeol Hold Hands in High School Stills". enewsWorld.
  8. ↑ Hong, Grace Danbi (June 3, 2014). "Infinite’s Woo Hyun Puts on His Uniform and Heads to ‘High School’". enewsWorld.
  9. ↑ Kim, Hyung-woo (June 17, 2014). "MR.MR's Changjae to Act as Sung Yeol's Academic Rival on High School". enewsWorld.
  10. ↑ Kim, Erika (July 10, 2014). "Crayon Pop's Choa Acts in Her First Drama Role in High School". enewsWorld.
  11. ↑ "TNmS Daily Ratings: this links to current day-select the date from drop down menu". TNmS Ratings (in Korean). Archived from the original on November 28, 2013. Retrieved July 11, 2014.
  12. ↑ "AGB Daily Ratings: this links to current day-select the date from drop down menu". AGB Nielsen Media Research (in Korean). Archived from the original on December 26, 2013. Retrieved July 11, 2014.
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