watching... High SCHOOL LOVE ON Volume - 3 Hi! School-Love On（Korean:하이스쿨: 러브온） is a 2014 Korean romantic teen fantasy drama series, starringKim Sae-ron, as an angel that finds herself human, withNam Woo-hyunandLee Sung-yeol, of the bandInfinite,[3]as her suitors. The first of 20 episodes aired on July 11, 2014, and in a break with normal Korean television scheduling, it is planned that the series will air one episode a week for 20 weeks in a regular Friday night 20.55slot. SynopsisHi! School-Love On is a fantasy romance drama about an angel who has no choice but to become a human after saving a male student in danger. The noisy and ridiculous relationship between a mortal angel and teenage high school students will be unfolded. Plot summarySungyeol and Woohyun are two Korean 18 years old boys both of whom are tormented by the emotional scars of broken families; Woo-hyun longs to see again his mother who left him as a baby, whilst Sungyeol lives with a stepmother that he detests and whom he blames for the break up of his parents marriage. Both are considered anti-social byKorean norms, although popular, brave and publicspirited Woo-hyun drifts through school refusing to apply himself to his studies; Sungyeol is studious and does well academically but is dismissive and disrespectful of his parents, aloof and detached from his class mates, appearing cold and arrogant to all. The lives of the two crash together when an angel falls from heaven.Woo-hyuns classmate, Kim Jin-yeong, harbours acrushfor him. Fearing for her daughters grades from her infatuation with aslacker, Jin-yeongs mother arrives in class and warns Woo-hyun to stay awayfrom her daughter, publicly humiliating her.Unable to deal with her overbearing mother Jin-yeong prepares to jump from the roof of the school building, where Woo-hyun finds her.Going about their business invisible to mortals areangels who guide the souls of the deadto the next life, one such nameless angel spends her time in between clients watching Korean soap operas andwatching over the lives of mortals, including Woo-hyun and Sungyeol. For this, she is chided for by a senior angel, for its always the same storytold over and over again just with different people. However the angel believes that by watching she can come to understand what it is to be human, and how mortals can love when the outcome will always be parting, and how they can live if death is allthat waits.Each angel is guided by a black book that contains the name of the soon to be deceased. The female angel arrives on the school rooftop to find Woo-hyun and Jin-yeong standing on the ledge. There is an unexpected thunderstorm and the name and picture of the soul to be collected oscillates between Woo-hyun and Jin-yeong as if it cannot decide who isto die. The angel drops her book and in themoment that she takes to recover it Woo-hyun pushes Jin-yeong to safety but overbalances and falls to the ground; instinctively the angel uses her powers to save his life, however they both pass out as they crash into the bonnet of a car.Woo-hyun and the angel wake up in hospital, Woo-hyun is surprised that he is unscathed but the angel is shocked, when she realises that Woo-hyun can see her, that he can touch her, that she can feel theground with her toes, that she has a heartbeat, and that she is in fact now mortal.Believing her to be suffering from amnesia due to his landing on top of her Woo-hyun takes the angel to the local police station, where under questioning she stumbles on the name Lee Seul-bi. Pressed she randomly selected syllables from magazines in the police station, from which the policeman (Sungyeols father, Hwang Woo-jin) puzzled out a name that made sense. Woo-hyun is about to leave the newly named Seul-bi to the care of the police when Jin-yeongs mother arrives (with Woo-hyuns form tutor and grandmother in tow) threatening to sue Woo-hyun for trying to entice her daughterinto a suicide pact, and with trumped up accusations of violence and bullying. Being well disposed to Woo-hyun from an earlier encounter, Hwang Woo-jin refuses to entertain the charges. Woo-hyun is about to leave Seul-bi to the care of the police, when his grandmother insists that they take her in as he owes her his life.Seul-bi moves in with Woo-hyun and his grandmother, working part-time in theirrice cakerestaurant. Forgetting that she is now mortal Seul-bi is fearless in the face of injustice, authority and things she sees as wrong, traits that Woo-hyun appreciates and the two make themselves responsible for each others well-being and happiness. Woo-hyun is forced by Jin-yeongs mother to transfer to a new school, the same school that Sungyeol attends and the two become both rivals and allies. Curious about high school, and emotionally attached to Woo-hyun, Seul-bidecides to join him in school, where Sungyeol also falls for her.Seul-bi gets her wish of knowing humanitybetter, in high school learning firsthand thejoys and sorrows of being a normal teenager, but she must also face a test unknown to any teenager nor angel, for on the day that she became mortal, the soul she should have led into the next life was Woo-hyuns.
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