# Spring of Youth (2025)

> A reluctant K-pop star enrolls in college and forms a mixed band, finding love and growth through music amid campus chaos.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/186336

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 10
- Episode runtime: 65 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: romance, comedy, music
- Network: SBS
- Cast: Ha Yoo-Joon, Park Ji-hu, Lee Seung-hyub, Seo Hye-won, Kim Sun-min, Kim Shin, Cho Han-chul, Kim Jong-tae
- TMDB rating: 6.6/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt36667479/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: mild
- Complexity: simple
- Violence: none
- Tone: breezy, warm, playful, wistful

## Synopsis

Spring of Youth (2025) is a South Korean romance comedy series created for SBS, a single-season limited series of ten roughly hour-long episodes. Ha Yoo-Joon plays Sa-gye, a K-pop star who reluctantly enters college, and the story follows his attempts to fit into ordinary student life while forming a four-member mixed band. Park Ji-hu plays Kim Bom, and Lee Seung-hyub, Seo Hye-won, and Kim Sun-min round out the principal circle of classmates whose lives tangle with his. The engine of the series is the friction between celebrity and campus: a famous performer who wants anonymity, bandmates who must learn to play together, and the romantic currents that form when rehearsals run late. Each episode mixes lighthearted campus mishaps with the gradual work of making music together. The setting is a contemporary Korean university, and the tone is breezy, warm, and youthful, with music as the main vehicle for emotion. Fans of Begin Again and Reply 1988 will find a similar blend of music, friendship, and tender romance in an everyday setting.

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