Aim High |
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Aim High promotional poster
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Also known as | 22K Dream Fly High |
Genre | Romance, Comedy, Slice of life |
Created by | Sanlih E-Television |
Written by | An Bang 安邦 Wu Xiang En 吳向恩 Lin Yu Chen 林宇辰 Feng Bo Di 馮勃棣 |
Directed by | Xu Pei Shan 許珮珊 |
Starring | 孟耿如 Chris Wang 宥勝 Guo Shu Yao 郭書瑤 李國毅 Lyan Cheng 蘇笠汶 黃薇渟 |
Opening theme | Dazzling Dreams 閃亮的夢想 by Vianz 葳安 and Shan 葳萱 |
Ending theme | You're Most Welcome 別客氣 by Soo Wincci 蘇盈之 |
Country of origin | Republic of China (Taiwan) |
Original language(s) | Mandarin |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 20 |
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Producer(s) | Xie Li Ru 謝禮如 |
Location(s) | Taiwan |
Running time | 90 minutes |
Production company(s) |
Sanlih E-Television 三立電視 TransWorld Production Co. 映畫傳播事業股份有限公司 |
Distributor | Sanlih E-Television |
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Original network | SETTV |
Picture format | SDTV (480i) |
First shown in | Republic of China (Taiwan) |
Original release | 24 October 2014 | – 13 March 2015
Chronology | |
Preceded by | Pleasantly Surprised |
Followed by | Murphy's Law of Love |
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Official Website | |
Production website |
Aim High Original TV Soundtrack (OST) |
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Soundtrack album by Various artists | |
Released | 30 January 2015 |
Genre | Mandopop |
Language | Mandarin |
Label | Avex Taiwan Inc. |
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Author | Sanlih E-Television 三立電視監製 Li Yan Cheng 李炎澄 |
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Country | Taiwan |
Genre | Fiction novel |
Published | 8 January 2015 |
Media type | Print paperback |
Pages | 296 |
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Aim High (Chinese: 22K夢想高飛; pinyin: 22K Meng Xiang Gao Fei) is a 2014 Taiwanese romantic-comedy television series produced by Sanlih E-Television. Starring , Chris Wang, Guo Shu Yao, and as main leads with Lyan Cheng and as main supporting cast. The Chinese title literally translates to "22K Dream Fly High", 22K is in reference to the median salary for recent college graduates entering the workforce in Taiwan.
Filming began on October 14, 2014, the drama will be filmed as it airs. First original broadcast began October 24, 2014 on SETTV channel airing every Friday at 10:00-11:30 pm. Original broadcast completed on March 13, 2015 with 20 episodes total.
Four friends at the end of their junior year of college dreams of success and landing that perfect job. Each one has a detailed perception of what they want to be, however once they graduate from college reality sets in when they enter the work force. All four are struggling by in dead end jobs. Only Xu Yi Fen is still holding on and chasing her dream of being an app developer and creating her own app. Soon hotshot app developer Yu Qi Feng sees potential in her and gets her hired at his company.
After listening to a lecture speech at her University by hotshot app developer Yu Qi Feng (Chris Wang), junior year student Xu Yi Fen (Summer Meng) is taken to heart by his closing statement to "Live for nothing or die for something". This drives her to become an app developer like Qi Feng. Yi Fen recruits her three best friends Yan Mao Tang nicknamed Mao Mao (Guo Shu Yao), Tian Ming Xian (Lyan Cheng) and Hao Mei (Huang Wei Ting) to help her develop her app "Dream Life" when she decides to enter the Capcom app developer contest.
Each one of her friends have dreams of their own. Stubborn Mao Mao wants to be a flight attendant, free spirit Ming Xian wants to be a poet and righteous Mei wants to be an economist to help the poor. However one year later when all four graduate from college, reality sets in when they enter the work force. Yi Fen is still holding onto her dreams to make her app "Dream Life" happen while struggling to make a living as a beverage delivery person and working as a receptionist at a driving school. Mao Mao is a life insurance salesman who faces pressure from her boss each day to meet her monthly sales quota and fend off perverted clients who sexually harasses while leading her on that they will buy life insurance from her. Ming Xian is a taxi driver but tells her riders that she's really a poet who is a part-time taxi driver. Mei is a teaching assistant for her former professor whom she has a crush on, at the university.