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I admit it. I’m drawn to dramas about Kpop idols. They don’t even have to be all that good for me to stick it out. (Hence the fact I completed Namib.). Lovely Runner being the lone exception, idol dramas always seem to fall short. Spring of Youth started out with an interesting premise as Sa Gye (Ha Yoo-jun), the lead singer of Crown, is kicked out of the group and has to go to college. But because of a secret he learned, his former company president does everything he can to destroy him. It's really hard to watch as the president and his accomplice - both adults - do increasingly terrible things to silence teen Sa Gye. Despite everything thrown at him, Sa Gye manages to maintain a positive attitude. This, and the fact that I wanted to see the adults get what they deserved, is why I finished the series.

I wish that in a show about idols, there had been more music – rather than various iterations of the same song played repeatedly. And that the ending had provided more details about the future. But there is at least one good thing came out of watching the show – the discovery of its young star, Ha Yoo-jun, who is the main vocalist for the soon to debut band, AxMxP. I definitely plan to “see him (and AxMxP) later”!