Live On

Synopsis

A story of love and friendship unfolds in a school where social media is a defining force and everybody is judged according to the person's looks, fashion sense and popularity.

Baek Ho-rang (Jung Da-bin), a high school student, is popular on social media for being pretty and classy, but her standoffish and cold behaviour in person earns her a considerable number of haters. One day, a strange message from an anonymous sender is read over the school radio. The message reminds Ho-rang of a traumatic episode from her past. An anonymous account has also been threatening to blackmail her by exposing her secret. Due to this, Ho-rang decides to join the broadcasting club, led by the perfectionist and overly time-conscious Go Eun-taek (Hwang Min-hyun), in order to track down the person attempting to defame her behind the keyboard.

Cast

Main

Jung Da-bin as Baek Ho-rang

Ho-rang is a student of Class 2-1 in Seoyeon High School and an anchorwoman of SHBS. She is a social media influencer renowned for being pretty and classy, but being standoffish and cold in person earns her also a considerable number of haters. Ho-rang joins Seoyeon's broadcasting club SHBS with an ulterior motive: to find out the person who is trying to divulge her long-hidden secret linked to a traumatic episode in her past.

Hwang Min-hyun as Ko Eun-taek

Eun-taek is a student of Class 2-3 in Seoyeon High School and the manager of Seoyeon's broadcasting club SHBS. He lives a life that follows an exact, stringent timetable. Eun-taek is known by his clubmates for being a strict, perfectionist and overly time-conscious leader who does not put even a mere second to waste.

Noh Jong-hyun as Do Woo-jae

Woo-jae is a student of Class 2-3 in Seoyeon High School and member of the student council. He is an often quiet person and acts rationally in any situation, complementing Eun-taek's perfectionist personality. Woo-jae has a dull face which brightens only when he sees Jae-yi.

Yang Hye-ji as Ji So-hyun

So-hyun is a student of Class 2-3 in Seoyeon High School and deputy manager of SHBS; Ho-rang's former best friend. A model student with high grades, she was once more comfortable hanging out with boys until she became best friends with Ho-rang back in middle school. Her friendship with Ho-rang was severed due to misunderstandings and a tragic incident that happened to Ho-rang.

Yeonwoo as Kang Jae-yi

Jae-yi is a student of Class 2-1 in Seoyeon High School; Woo-jae's girlfriend. She is an outspoken and simple-minded girl who is concerned with Woo-jae being hesitant to open up his thoughts to her.

Choi Byung-chan as Kim Yoo-shin

Production

The first script reading took place on August 5, 2020.

Original soundtrack

Album

The following is the official track list of Live On: Original Soundtrack album. The tracks with no indicated lyricists and composers are the drama's musical score; the artists indicated for these tracks are the tracks' composers themselves.

Singles

The following is the track list of singles from Live On: Original Soundtrack.

Ratings

The popularity index of a drama is unusually high for a drama that is aired once a week. The popularity of the drama has been on the list of the previous episodes, and Hwang Min-hyun, who plays the role of the male protagonist Ko Eun-taek, has also been on the list of the cast members of the first and eighth episodes, respectively. The Lacoy index is also high, and the number of views of the first episode of YouTube, which was released only in Korea, has reached 2.5 million, showing a steady rise. (As of November 2021)

International broadcast

The series will be available with multi-languages subtitles on iQIYI in South East Asia and Taiwan.

The series will also be available on Viki with multi-languages subtitles.

In other media

Bang Yoo-jung's screenplays for all episodes of Live On were published as one set on January 28, 2021 by Wisdom House. The screenplays are available for purchase both in print and e-book formats.