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Monstar
Promotional poster
GenreRomance
Music
Teen Drama
Written byJung Yoon-jung
Directed byKim Won-seok[1]
StarringYong Jun-hyung
Ha Yeon-soo
Kang Ha-neul
Country of originSouth Korea
Original languageKorean
No. of episodes12
Production
Executive producersKang Hee-jeong
Lee Chan-ho
ProducerYoon Hyeon-gi
Production locationKorea
CinematographyChoi Sang-muk
EditorJung Hyun-gyeong
Running time80 minutes on Fridays at 21:50 (KST)
Production companyCJ E&M
Original release
NetworkMnet
Release17 May (2013-05-17) โ€“
2 August 2013 (2013-08-02)

Monstar (Korean: ๋ชฌ์Šคํƒ€) is a 2013 South Korean television series starring Yong Jun-hyung, Ha Yeon-soo, and Kang Ha-neul.[2][3] It aired on music channel Mnet (and simultaneously on tvN) from May 17 to August 2, 2013, every Friday at 21:50 for 12 episodes. The drama is about how a group of teenagers are healed through the power of music.[4]

Plot

Seol-chan, a member of Korea's most popular K-pop boy band Men in Black, is provoked into pushing one of his crazy fans, and when that goes viral, his reputation plummets. As damage control, his agency tells him to quietly attend school for a while. Meanwhile, Se-yi, a new transfer student from New Zealand, draws attention in the school for both her talent and oddness. Misunderstandings occur between Seol-chan, Se-yi, and their other classmates. But in the midst of all the chaos, these students find a common interest which connects them to each other: music. Every character has his or her own untold stories, which have had significant impact in their lives. But as they gather together to sing and play the music they love, they learn to soothe the pain inside them, and to open each of their souls.

Cast

Main cast

Color Bar members

All For One members

  • Moon Yong-suk as Ma Joon-hee
  • Kim Yoo-hyun as Ma Hyo-rin
  • Yoon Jong-hoon as Shin Jae-rok

Supporting cast

Cameo appearances

Production

Casting

Monstar was director Kim Won-seok's first work after transferring to CJ E&M.[12] On February 18, 2013, CJ E&M announced that the music drama Monstar would be aired in early April. They also confirmed Yong Jun-hyung as the male lead.[12] On February 28, 2013, Kang Ha-neul was confirmed as second male lead.[13]

Interlude music

The series features numerous song covers sung onscreen by the characters.

Episode Song title Original performer
01 Past Days (์ง€๋‚œ๋‚ ) Ryu Jae-ha
After Time Passes (์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ํ๋ฅธ ๋’ค์—”) Postino
Libertango Astor Piazzolla
It's alcohol (์ˆ ์ด์•ผ) Vibe
Don't Be Sad (์Šฌํผํ•˜์ง€ ๋ง์•„์š”) Kim Hyun-sik
Mister KARA
The Wind is Blowing (๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ๋ถ„๋‹ค) Lee So-ra
02 If we are to speak (๋งํ•˜์ž๋ฉด) Kim Sung-jae
After Time Passes (์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ํ๋ฅธ ๋’ค์—”) Postino
Symphony No. 25 in G minor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A nap (์„ ์ž ) --
Trouble Maker Trouble Maker
River Flows in You Yiruma
Nocturne (์•ผ์ƒ๊ณก) Kim Yuna
03 A nap (์„ ์ž ) --
Atlantis Princess (์•„ํ‹€๋ž€ํ‹ฐ์Šค ์†Œ๋…€) BoA
Like a Child (์•„์ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ) Kim Dong-ryul
Rainism Rain
Abracadabra Brown Eyed Girls
Replay (๋ˆ„๋‚œ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์˜ˆ๋ป) Shinee
Heartbeat 2PM
Nobody Wonder Girls
Nocturne (์•ผ์ƒ๊ณก) Kim Yuna
You were born to be love (๋‹น์‹ ์€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘๋ฐ›๊ธฐ์œ„ํ•ด ํƒœ์–ด๋‚œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ) Lee Soo-young
04 Firefly (๊ฐœ๋˜ฅ๋ฒŒ๋ ˆ) Shin Hyung-won
Sweet Little Kitty (๋‚ญ๋งŒ๊ณ ์–‘์ด) Cherry Filter
Whale hunting (๊ณ ๋ž˜์‚ฌ๋ƒฅ) Song Chang-sik
Snail (๋‹ฌํŒฝ์ด) Panic
Goose's Dream (๊ฑฐ์œ„์˜๊ฟˆ) Insooni
('Cause) I'm Your Girl S.E.S
Ma Boy Sistar19
You Raise Me Up Secret Garden
Pachelbel's Canon --
05 Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) Beyoncรฉ
I Am the Best (๋‚ด๊ฐ€์ œ์ผ์ž˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€) 2NE1
The moon is rising, let's go (๋‹ฌ์ด ์ฐจ์˜ค๋ฅธ๋‹ค, ๊ฐ€์ž) Jang Kiha and the Faces
Sonata of Temptation Ivy
06 Like an Indian doll (์ธ๋””์–ธ ์ธํ˜•์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ) Nami
A nap (์„ ์ž ) --
I'm Sorry Beast
A marsh (๋Šช) Jo Kwanwoo
I will love you (๋„ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๊ฒ ์–ด) Dongmulwon
07 If I Leave (๋‚˜๊ฐ€๊ฑฐ๋“ ) Sumi Jo
Person, Love (์‚ฌ๋žŒ, ์‚ฌ๋ž‘) Lena Park, Kim Bum-soo
Amazing Grace --
Don't Let me Cry (๋‚  ์šธ๋ฆฌ์ง€๋งˆ) Shin Seung-hun
08 You Wouldn't Answer My Calls (์ „ํ™œ ๋ฐ›์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๋„ˆ์—๊ฒŒ) 2AM
Your Meaning (๋„ˆ์˜ ์˜๋ฏธ) Sanulrim
To You Who Hopes for My Despair (๋‚˜์˜ ์ ˆ๋ง์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋Š” ๋‹น์‹ ์—๊ฒŒ) MoT
09 Departure (์ถœ๋ฐœ) ์–ด๋–ค๋‚ 
Only The Words I Love You (์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•ด ์ด๋ง๋ฐ–์—”) Rich
Let's run (๋ง ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์ž) Crying Nut
When It Comes Tomorrow (๋‚ด์ผ์ด ์ฐพ์•„์˜ค๋ฉด) Oh Jang-bak
10 First Love (์ฒซ์‚ฌ๋ž‘) Busker Busker
Is This Love (์ด๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ผ๊นŒ) Coffee Boy
If we are to speak (๋งํ•˜์ž๋ฉด) Kim Sung-jae
10 Minutes Lee Hyori
My Song (๋‚˜์˜๋…ธ๋ž˜) Moonlight Fairy Reversal Grandslam [ko]
11 Wind, Please Stop Blowing (๋ฐ”๋žŒ์•„๋ฉˆ์ถ”์–ด๋‹ค์˜ค) Lee Ji-yeon
You loved your friend's girlfriend (์นœ๊ตฌ์˜ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ–ˆ๋„ค) Lee Seung-chul
Wind, From Where Are You Blowing (๋ฐ”๋žŒ, ์–ด๋””์—์„œ ๋ถ€๋Š”์ง€) Lucid Fall
Leaving (๋– ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋„ค) Kim Young-ho
Scattered Days (ํฉ์–ด์ง„ ๋‚˜๋‚ ๋“ค) Kang Soo-jee
12 Scattered Days (ํฉ์–ด์ง„ ๋‚˜๋‚ ๋“ค) Kang Soo-jee
One work two (์ผ๊ณผ ์ด๋ถ„์˜ ์ผ) Two Two
Lefthander (์™ผ์†์žก์ด) Panic
After Love Gone (์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ด์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋ฉด) Lee Moon-sae
Youth era (์ฒญ์ถ˜์‹œ๋Œ€) Cho Yong-pil
Only That Is My World (๊ทธ๊ฒƒ๋งŒ์ด๋‚ด์„ธ์ƒ) Deulgukhwa
March (ํ–‰์ง„) Deulgukhwa
My Song (๋‚˜์˜๋…ธ๋ž˜) Moonlight Fairy Reversal Grandslam [ko]

Original soundtrack

Monstar : Original Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by
Various Artists
ReleasedAugust 9, 2013 (2013-08-09)
GenresPop, K-pop, soundtrack
LabelCJ E&M
No.TitleArtistLength
1."Past Days" (์ง€๋‚œ ๋‚ )Yong Jun-hyung of Beast, BTOB, Ha Yeon-soo3:07
2."After Time Passes" (์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ํ๋ฅธ ๋’ค์—”)Yong Jun-hyung of Beast & BTOB4:36
3."Atlantis Princess" (์•„ํ‹€๋ž€ํ‹ฐ์Šค ์†Œ๋…€)Ha Yeon-soo, Kang Ha-neul, & Kim Cho-eun3:05
4."Snooze (I Will Be Your Love)" (์„ ์ž  (๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๋Œ€์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ด ๋˜๋ฆฌ))J Rabbit3:24
5."Don't Make Me Cry" (๋‚  ์šธ๋ฆฌ์ง€๋งˆ)Yong Jun-hyung, Ha Yeon-soo, Kang Ha-neul, Kang Eui-sik, Dahee, Kim Min-young, Park Kyu-sun3:09
6."To You Who Hopes for My Despair" (๋‚˜์˜ ์ ˆ๋ง์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋Š” ๋‹น์‹ ์—๊ฒŒ)Kang Eui-sik3:16
7."First Love" (์ฒซ์‚ฌ๋ž‘)Yong Jun-hyung of Beast & BTOB3:33
8."Only That Is My World / March" (๊ทธ๊ฒƒ๋งŒ์ด ๋‚ด ์„ธ์ƒ / ํ–‰์ง„)Yong Jun-hyung, Ha Yeon-soo, Kang Ha-neul, Kang Eui-sik, Dahee, Kim Min-young, Park Kyu-sun3:25
9."Practice" (์—ฐ์Šต)Ha Yeon-soo3:26
10."Scattered Days" (ํฉ์–ด์ง„ ๋‚˜๋‚ ๋“ค)Park Hyo-shin3:51
11."Monstar"Various Artists0:50
12."Wandering Stars" (๋ฐฉํ™ฉํ•˜๋Š” ๋ณ„)Various Artists2:45
13."Night of the Seventeen Years" (์—ด์ผ๊ณฑ ์„ธ์ด์˜ ๋ฐค)Various Artists2:15
14."Doubting"Various Artists2:34
15."Shake Up"Various Artists2:10
16."Catch the Star"Various Artists1:50
17."Waltz of the Yearnin" (๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์›€์˜ ์™ˆ์ธ )Various Artists1:34
18."17 to 1 of the Legends" (17๋Œ€1์˜ ์ „์„ค)Various Artists1:05
19."Pit-a-Pat" (๋‘๊ทผ๋‘๊ทผ)Various Artists1:13

Ratings

In this table, the blue numbers represent the lowest ratings and the red numbers represent the highest ratings.

Ep. Original broadcast date Average audience share
AGB Nielsen
Nationwide
1 May 17, 2013 1.60%
2 May 24, 2013 2.60%
3 May 31, 2013 2.40%
4 June 7, 2013 2.80%
5 June 14, 2013 2.20%
6 June 21, 2013 2.80%
7 June 28, 2013 2.30%
8 July 5, 2013 3.10%
9 July 12, 2013 2.80%
10 July 19, 2013 2.50%
11 July 26, 2013 1.11%
12 August 2, 2013 0.80%
Average 2.25%
  • This drama airs on a cable channel/pay TV which normally has a relatively smaller audience compared to free-to-air TV/public broadcasters (KBS, SBS, MBC and EBS).

International broadcast

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Recipient Result
2013 7th Mnet 20's Choice Awards 20's Booming Star - Male Yong Jun-hyung Nominated
20's Booming Star - Female Ha Yeon-soo Won
20's Hot Cover Music "Past Days" - Yong Jun-hyung Nominated
6th Korea Drama Awards Best New Actor Yong Jun-hyung Won
Best New Actress Ha Yeon-soo Nominated
Best Couple Award Yong Jun-hyung and Ha Yeon-soo Nominated
2nd APAN Star Awards Best New Actress Ha Yeon-soo Nominated
2014 16th Seoul International Youth Film Festival Best Young Actress Ha Yeon-soo Nominated

Notes

  1. ^ Credited as Son Ji-hyun.

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