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A-TEEN 2 (에이틴 2)

A-TEEN 2 (에이틴 2) is a 2019 South Korean teen romance web drama and the second season of A-TEEN, produced by Playlist and following a group of third-year high school students through their final year before the college entrance examinations. It ran for 20 episodes on Naver V Live and Naver TV from April 21 to June 27, 2019, with episodes of roughly 13 to 15 minutes released on Thursdays and Sundays at 7 p.m.¹^•²^•³ The season surpassed 52 million views on V Live alone, the highest record for a V Original web drama series at the time.⁴

Key fact	Detail
Format	20-episode web drama, about 13–15 minutes per episode, released Thursdays and Sundays at 7 p.m. on Naver V Live and Naver TV¹^•³
Run	April 21 to June 27, 2019¹
Production	Playlist; directed by Han Soo Ji, written by Kim Sa-ra, producer Song Joo-sung²^•⁵
Setting	Third year of high school (age 19), centered on the college entrance exam, career choices, romance, and friendship⁶
V Live performance	Over 52 million views, the highest record for a V Original web drama series; first episode neared 5 million views⁴
Series total	About 300 million cumulative views across both seasons by July 2019⁷
New cast	Choi Bo-min of Golden Child as Ryu Joo Ha and Kang Min-ah as Cha A-hyun⁸

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Premise and cast

The season moves its characters from age 18 to 19. Where the first season dealt with second-year high school life, A-TEEN 2 centers on third-year students facing the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT), Korea's national university entrance exam, and the career decisions that come with it.⁶ The returning cast includes Lee Na-eun of the girl group APRIL as Kim Ha Na, Shin Ye-eun as Do Ha Na, Kim Dong-hee as Ha Min, Kim Soo-hyun as Yeo Bo Ram, Ryu Ui-hyun as Cha Gi Hyun, and Shin Seung-ho as Nam Shi Woo.²^•³

Two new characters joined for the season: Ryu Joo Ha, a handsome transfer student placed in Kim Ha Na's class, played by Choi Bo-min of the boy group Golden Child, and Cha A-hyun, played by Kang Min-ah.⁸^•⁵ In the story, Kim Ha Na runs for class president, becomes the target of malicious anonymous posts on the school's online bulletin board, and struggles to settle on a future path; Ha Min moves into the science track and stumbles on a mock exam; Do Ha Na, who aims for an art school, risks repeating a year; and rumors of test cheating raise tensions among the friends.⁵^•⁹

Production

Playlist announced in December 2018, after receiving many viewer requests, that it was preparing a second season.¹ The series was written by Kim Sa-ra and directed by Han Soo Ji, who directed both seasons, with Song Joo-sung as producer.²^•⁵ Han said in interviews that she deliberately cast unknown or little-known faces rather than established actors, believing that viewers meeting characters through new performers increased immersion, and that finding actors available for the nearly three-month shoot was the hardest part of casting. She and the writers researched teenage communities and social media to capture what present-day teens worry about, concluding that emotions around friendship, study, and career choices had changed little even as circumstances had.⁴^•¹⁰

She attributed the series' appeal to each character having a distinct personality and a distinct worry, so that viewers could identify with one of them and enjoy watching the characters' concerns collide; she also said the show differed from other school web dramas by not dealing with romance alone.⁴

Viewership and reception

The premiere drew an immediate audience. The first episode, released on V Live, passed 1 million views within a day, recording 1,010,416 views by 7 p.m. on April 22, 2019.³ By the finale, the season had surpassed 52 million views on V Live, the highest record for a V Original web drama series, and Playlist's V Live channel gained about 35 percent more subscribers during the run. The first episode had the highest views of any V Original web drama video in 2019, nearing 5 million, almost every episode exceeded 2 million views on V Live, and every episode exceeded 1 million on YouTube, with the first nearing 4 million there.⁴ Within two weeks of release the season had passed 10 million cumulative plays, making it the first web drama of 2019 to reach that mark.¹⁰

Crossover to television. The popularity carried the series onto broadcast television: Mnet ran a special programming of all episodes of both seasons starting July 29, 2019, airing Mondays and Tuesdays at 6 p.m., citing the summer vacation season; by then the two seasons together had passed 300 million cumulative views.⁷ The series also reached audiences abroad; the Japanese broadcaster BS Fuji carried it with subtitles and noted viewership in the United States, Singapore, and Australia.⁵

Aftermath and legacy

The season consolidated the careers of its young cast. Shin Ye-eun and Kim Dong-hee received rookie awards at the 2019 Brand of the Year awards, and Shin Ye-eun went on to a leading role in the tvN drama He is Psychometric while Kim Dong-hee appeared in SKY Castle and Itaewon Class; Lee Na-eun followed with roles in Hip Hop King and A Day Found by Chance.⁵^•¹¹ In Korea, teenage fans imitated lead character Do Ha Na's clothing, accessories, and makeup so widely that the trend was nicknamed "Do Hana disease" (도하나 병).⁵^•¹²

Director Han said after the finale that no third season was in discussion and that she was glad the characters' teen stories had concluded well.¹⁰ A later profile credited the A-TEEN series with a cumulative 600 million views and syndrome-level popularity among viewers in their teens and twenties.¹³

One detail varies between sources: Korean outlets and database entries give the premiere as April 21, 2019,¹^•² while Soompi's preview article stated a premiere of April 25.⁸

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › International serial drama and telenovelas › East Asian drama series › East Asian web and streaming serials › Titles symbols to Co

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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