Dream High

Dream High
Promotional poster for Dream High
Genre	Music Teen Romance Coming of age
Written by	Park Hye-ryun
Directed by	Lee Eung-bok
Starring	Bae Suzy Kim Soo-hyun Ok Taec-yeon Ham Eun-jung Jang Woo-young IU
Opening theme	"Dream High"
Country of origin	South Korea
Original language(s)	Korean
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	16 (1 special)
Production
Producer(s)	Bae Yong-joon Park Jin-young
Location(s)	Seoul, South Korea
Running time	Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55
Production company(s)	KeyEast JYP Entertainment CJ Media
Distributor	Korean Broadcasting System
Release
Original network	KBS2
Picture format	480i SDTV/1080i HDTV
Audio format	Dolby Digital DTS Digital Sound Sony Dynamic Digital Sound
Original release	January 3 (2011-01-03) – February 28, 2011 (2011-02-28)
Chronology
Preceded by	Marry Me, Mary!
Followed by	Detectives in Trouble
Related shows	Dream High 2
External links
Website

Dream High (Korean: 드림하이) is a 2011 South Korean television series broadcast starring miss A's Bae Suzy, Kim Soo-hyun, T-ara's Ham Eun-jung, IU, and 2PM's Ok Taec-yeon and Jang Woo-young.

The drama was popular among teenagers, and brought in viewership ratings in the 18 to 20 percent range during its two-month run. A special episode, where the cast of the show performed the Dream High Special Concert on a stage near Seoul, was aired on March 1, 2011, the day after the series ended.

Its sequel Dream High 2 aired a year later with a different cast.

Six students at Kirin High School have a dream of becoming K-pop idols. During their school years, they learn how to develop their singing, songwriting and dancing skills while undergoing personal growth. They also start to develop feelings for each other. Each one of the students has his or her own strengths and weaknesses, but they strive to debut with the support and guidance of each other.

While "Someday" fared well commercially and reached number one on the Gaon Digital Chart, it was embroiled in controversy after the song's writer and composer, Park Jin-young, was accused of plagiarizing the song, "To My Man". Songwriter Kim Shin-il won his plagiarism lawsuit against Park Jin-young in 2013, however, an appeal to the Supreme Court of South Korea led to an eventual High Court retrial in 2015.

On October 5, 2011, Japan's daily paper Sankei Sports reported that Dream High was handed the Grand Prize and 'Hallyu award at the SKY PerfecTV! awards which took place in Tokyo.