| Alt Name: | Age of Youth[1] |
| Genre: |
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| Director: | Lee Tae-gon Kim Sang-ho |
| Starring: | |
| Country: | South Korea |
| Language: | Korean |
| Num Seasons: | 2 |
| Num Episodes: | 26 |
| Executive Producer: | Ham Young-hoon Choi Hyuk-jin Park Joon-seo |
| Producer: | Park Jae-sam Park Jun-seo Choi Jae-suk |
| Editor: | Park So-young Bae Hee-kyung |
| Cinematography: | Jeon Hyun-seok Hong Il-seop |
| Runtime: | 70 minutes |
| Company: | Drama House Celltrion Entertainment (season 1) Take 2 Media Group (season 2) |
| Network: | JTBC |
Hello, My Twenties![2] is a South Korean television series starring Han Ye-ri, Han Seung-yeon, Park Eun-bin, Ryu Hwa-young, Park Hye-su, Ji Woo and Choi Ara.[3] [4] [5] It aired on JTBC from July 22, 2016 to October 7, 2017.[6] [7] [8]
A slice-of-life story about five girls who live together in a sharehouse called "Belle Epoque" and how they connect over the growing pains in their youth. It is based on the issues that younger generations are likely to face in South Korea.
| Character | Portrayed by | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 (2016) | Season 2 (2017) | ||
| Yoon Jin-myung | Han Ye-ri | colspan="2" | |
| Jung Ye-eun | Han Seung-yeon | colspan="2" | |
| Song Ji-won | Park Eun-bin | colspan="2" | |
| Kang Yi-na | Ryu Hwa-young | colspan="1" | |
| Yoo Eun-jae | Park Hye-su | colspan="1" | |
| Ji Woo | colspan="1" | ||
| Jo Eun | Choi Ara | ||
A 20-year-old Psychology major student who comes from the countryside.[9] [10]
A 22-year-old Culinary Arts major with a religious background.[11]
A 28-year-old hardworking business major with a complicated family situation.[12]
A 22-year-old Journalism major, a quirky adventurous roommate who claims to have the ability to see ghosts.[13]
A 24-year-old sugar baby with expensive taste. She eventually works hard to be a career woman.[15]
Jin-myung's love interest, Italian restaurant chef.
Deputy of the share house, Belle Epoque's owner, Jo Eun's love interest.
Ye-eun's love interest; an engineering student who knows nothing about dating.
A member of an idol group Asgard who is five years into his debut, but yet to reach stardom.
Season 1:
Season 2:
On February 16, 2017, the series was renewed for a second season.[6] [7] It was announced that Ryu Hwa-young would only make a cameo appearance, and that a new actress would be cast as the fifth girl of the Belle Epoque.[19]
Originally, it was expected that all five main roles would be the same from the previous season. However, early on Ryu Hwa-young was removed from the main cast due to her being exposed as a bully in T-ara.[20] Instead, a new character, Jo Eun, was created to fill the five-person dynamic of the show. Park Hye-soo was also supposed to be part of the main cast, but due to a scheduling conflict, she stepped down from the role. Unlike Ryu Hwa-young, this happened late into pre-production and it was decided that another actress would play her character Yoo Eun-jae; Ji Woo was cast.[21]
Onew was originally cast in the role of Kwon Ho-chang, but he stepped down in light of controversy surrounding him ten days before the drama's premiere, and was replaced with Lee Yoo-jin.[22]
| + Average TV viewership ratings (season 1) | ||||||
| Original broadcast date | Average audience share | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AGB Nielsen | TNmS | |||||
| Nationwide | ||||||
| 1 | July 22, 2016 | 1.310% | ||||
| 2 | July 23, 2016 | 1.0% | ||||
| 3 | July 29, 2016 | 0.911% | 1.4% | |||
| 4 | July 30, 2016 | 0.807% | ||||
| 5 | August 5, 2016 | 0.788% | 1.5% | |||
| 6 | August 6, 2016 | 1.279% | 1.6% | |||
| 7 | August 12, 2016 | 1.361% | 1.5% | |||
| 8 | August 13, 2016 | 1.373% | 1.6% | |||
| 9 | August 19, 2016 | 1.752% | ||||
| 10 | August 20, 2016 | 1.265% | 1.4% | |||
| 11 | August 26, 2016 | 2.5% | ||||
| 12 | August 27, 2016 | 2.122% | 2.2% | |||
| Average | ||||||
| + Average TV viewership ratings (season 2) | ||||||
| Original broadcast date | Average audience share | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AGB Nielsen[23] | TNmS | |||||
| Nationwide | Seoul | Nationwide | ||||
| 1 | August 25, 2017 | 2.228% | 2.5% | |||
| 2 | August 26, 2017 | 2.405% | 2.341% | 2.9% | ||
| 3 | September 1, 2017 | |||||
| 4 | September 2, 2017 | 2.431% | 2.256% | 3.1% | ||
| 5 | September 8, 2017 | 2.248% | 2.8% | |||
| 6 | September 9, 2017 | 2.817% | 2.658% | 3.2% | ||
| 7 | September 15, 2017 | 2.839% | 2.825% | 3.1% | ||
| 8 | September 16, 2017 | 3.099% | 3.092% | 3.0% | ||
| 9 | September 22, 2017 | 2.772% | 2.674% | 2.7% | ||
| 10 | September 23, 2017 | 3.145% | 3.029% | 4.0% | ||
| 11 | September 29, 2017 | 3.657% | 3.494% | 3.6% | ||
| 12 | September 30, 2017 | |||||
| 13 | October 6, 2017 | 3.040% | 2.893% | 2.8% | ||
| 14 | October 7, 2017 | 3.252% | 2.960% | 4.1% | ||
| Average | ||||||
| Year | Award | Category | Recipient | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 9th Korea Drama Awards | Hallyu Star Award | Han Seung-yeon | |
| 1st Asia Artist Awards | Rising Star Award | Shin Hyun-soo | [24] | |
| Park Hye-su | ||||
| 2017 | 53rd Baeksang Arts Awards | Most Popular Actress | [25] |