Dream High (Korean: 드림하이) is a South Korean television drama series broadcast by KBS in 2011. It features Suzy, Taecyeon, IU, Wooyoung, Ham Eun Jung and Kim Soo-hyun. It aired on 3 January 2011 and finished on 28 February 2011 after 16 successful episodes. This drama is popular among many teenagers, and was a highly rated show. A special episode, where the cast of the show performed the Dream High Special Concert on a stage near Seoul, South Korea was aired by Korean Broadcasting System on 1 March 2011. A second season for Dream High was announced by KBS on 17 March 2011, and began airing on 30 January 2012.

Six students at Kirin Art High School work to achieve their dreams of becoming stars in the Korean music industry. During the drama, the students learn how to develop their singing, songwriting and dancing skills while also undergoing personal growth. They also go through their love life and start to develop feelings for each other. Each one of the students has his or her own strengths and weaknesses, but with the support and guidance of each other, they strive to debut on stage.

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Originally from a wealthy family, after her mother's death, her father's business failed and their family fell into debt and her father went to Canada to get help from Hye-mi's aunt. Hye-mi is pursued by debt collector Ma Doo-shik and his men for much of the beginning of the drama.

• Taecyeon as Hyun Shi Hyuk / Jin Guk (Gino/Miko)

Jin Guk is a childhood friend of Go Hye-mi and he constantly tries to help her. He tries to get Hye-mi to remember their childhood memories. He excels primarily at dancing and rapping. He beat the company president after the president raped Baek-Hee

Song Sam-Dong (Kim Soo-Hyun) lives in the country side and dreams of becoming an owner of a stock farm. He falls in love with Go Hye-Mi at first sight and follows her to Kirin High School of Art.

Baek-hee is Hye-mi's best friend and sidekick at their old school, but she is betrayed by Hye-mi during the Kirin School audition. She is devastated by the betrayal and becomes Hye-mi's biggest rival. She is in love with Jin-Guk. She was raped by her company president. Later on in the series she rekindles her relationship with Hye-Mi

Kim Pil-suk first appears as a girl wearing a sushi mascot costume during the auditions. She is a girl with a beautiful voice and perfect pitch but is overweight.

Jason is a Korean-American student who excels mainly in dancing but is also good at singing. He is courteous and has good manners, leading to misunderstandings with Pil-suk, who believes that he does this because he likes her. Jason's talent really shock Sam-dong and Jin-guk.

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 Japan

 Philippines

• Channel: ABS-CBN ^[3]


• Currently Broadcasting 16th of April 2012

 Vietnam

• Channel: HTV2


• Currently Broadcasting


• Title: Bay cao Ước mơ

 Malaysia

• Channel: 8TV


• Finished Broadcasting

 Indonesia

 Singapore

• Channel: E City


• Currently Broadcasting


• Mandarin Title: 梦想高飞 (mèng xiăng gāo fēi)

 Kazakhstan

• Channel: El Arna


• Currently Broadcasting (October 19 - ...)

 Peru

 Taiwan

• Channel: ETTV Variety


• Finished Broadcasting


• Title: 夢想起飛

 Turkey

• Channel:TRT( TRT OKUL )


• Finished Broadcasting (14th January 2012 - 3rd March 2012)


• Title: Büyük Hayaller

 Thailand

• Channel:CH7


• Currently Broadcasting (2012)


• Title: -

 Romania

• Channel:Euforia TV


• Currently Broadcasting (2012)- 2nd April - 23th of April


• Title : La Un Pas De Stele

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On May 10, 2012 at this year’s Rose d’Or in Lucerne, Switzerland, Dream High won the grand prize in the category for ‘Children & Youth’, a first time a Korean production has won in the category. The drama had previously revealed to be in contention for the prize after being revealed as a nominee during the award’s Nominee Night on May 2. A total of 36 programs from all over the world including Australia, Belgium, Germany, Canada, the U.S. and more were selected as finalists in 12 different categories, with Dream High being the only program from Asia.

The Rose d’Or is an important international entertainment television festival that takes place in Lucerne, Switzerland. It awards ‘Golden Roses’ for originality, quality and creativity in television entertainment programs every year.

A number of Korean productions have been selected as finalist nominees in the past, but Dream High’s Golden Rose marks KBS’ first win. ^[4]

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