▲This photo, provided by SBS, shows the new Monday, Tuesday drama 'Cheer Up' (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)

 

SEOUL, October 4 (Yonhap) -- The new SBS Monday and Tuesday drama "Cheer Up," which depicts university students' romance on campus, has a 2% viewing rate.
 
According to Nielsen Th Korea, a view rate research company on Tuesday, the first episode of "Cheer Up," which aired at 10 p.m. on October 3, recorded a view rate of 2.3%.
 
The drama starts off with a setting in 2019, when Do Hae-Yi (Han Ji-Hyun) joins the Yonhee University cheerleading organization.
 
Even though Do Hae-Yi has several part-time jobs, including tutoring, laundry delivery, insect repellent, and more, due to her family's poor financial situation, she is a bright and diligent person on campus.
 
The first episode shows the image of youth when Do Hae-Yi runs away when Park Jung-woo (Bae In-hyuk), the leader of Theia, catches her writing her name with a permanent marker on the stairs of the open-air theater, and Do Hae-Yi secretly sheds tears sitting under a wall because of her boyfriend's change of heart. 
 
Then, one day, Do Hae-Yi gets an unexpected offer from Bae Young-woong (Yang Dong-geun), Theia's 34th senior, who offers her 1 million won to join the team. Bae Young-woong tries to bring in new members by bringing in Do Hae-yi, as he knows that Jin Sun-ho (Kim Hyun-jin), the most popular student in the school, likes Do Hae-yi. 
 
As Bae Young-woong planned, Do Hae-yi and Jin Sun-ho entered as the 51st new members of Theia, raising expectations for the friendship and romance they would build within the cheer-leading organization. Overall, the drama took place to revive the fresh atmosphere of the campus, but it also created tension with the three well-known predictions that one of the current members of Theia would die in 2019.
 
In addition to Han Ji-hyun and Bae In-hyuk, a large number of young stars appears in this drama, including Kim Hyun-jin, Jang Gyu-ri, Lee Eun-saem, Lee Jung-jun, and Han Su-a, filled the liveliness of campus dramas that cannot be seen in recent genres or romance-oriented dramas.
 
However, the combination of the poor and brave heroine and the popular male protagonist gave a somewhat cliched feeling, and some said that the process of Do Hae-yi and Park Jung-woo intertwining in a series of coincidences was also unreasonable.
 
 
(This article is translated from Korean to English by Dowon Kim.)
 
 
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