Korean Drama Love Alarm Season 2

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Love Alarm (Korean: 좋아하면 울리는 ; RR: Joh-ahamyeon ullineun) is a South Korean streaming television series starring Kim So-hyun, Jung Ga-ram, and Song Kang. Based on the Daum webtoon of the same name by Chon Kye-young, it follows the life of a high school girl in a society greatly influced by a mobile app capable of notifying whether someone within their vicinity has romantic feelings for them.

The first season of the series premiered on Netflix on August 22, 2019. It was ranked as one of Netflix's top releases and was rewed for a second season in October 2019; season 2 was released on March 12, 2021.

Love Alarm revolves around the story of a technology that ables users to discover love through an application which notifies users wh someone within 10 meters has romantic feelings for them.

Love Alarm' Season 2: Netflix March 2021 Release Date Announced

A week after the launch of Love Alarm, dating remains less of a priority for Kim Jo-jo as she struggles to make ds meet. She cannot download the app because her currt smartphone is outdated. Upon returning from the US, Hwang Sun-oh goes to meet Lee Hye-yeong. He notices Jo-jo and starts having feelings for her.

Sun-oh informs Hye-yeong he kissed Jo-jo and persisttly asks him if he likes her. Hye-yeong firmly dies having feelings for Jo-jo despite the opposite being true. Park Gul-mi is desperate to have Sun-oh ring her Love Alarm but the loner, not-so-handsome Cheon Duk-gu does, much to her disgust. Jang Il-sik gets into a fight with Sun-oh and Hye-yeong after photos of Sun-oh and Jo-jo's kiss circulates in social media. Duk-gu gives Jo-jo the new smartphone he is supposed to give to Gul-mi as a gift. Jo-jo finally downloads Love Alarm.

After being confronted by Jo-jo about the photos, Sun-oh uses his Love Alarm to confirm that Jo-jo likes him and he becomes her boyfrid. Kim Jang-go severs her fridship with Jo-jo, but Il-sik also stops being frids with her after learning she is the culprit behind the online exposé. An assault incidt linked to Love Alarm prompts the school to ban the app among its studts. Jo-jo's Love Alarm reveals that Hye-yeong likes her.

Love Alarm' Season 2 To Deliver 'mature Romance'

Jo-jo tells Sun-oh that she will not join the school trip to Jeju. The delusional Gul-mi tells Sun-oh about Jo-jo's poverty in her attempt to break the couple. Sun-oh sadly realizes that there is not much he can do for Jo-jo; he starts helping her by paying for her cante fees in secret but not knowing it could embarrass her. Hye-yeong stays true to his unrequited love for Jo-jo and deletes his Love Alarm. Gul-mi lambastes Jo-jo after inttionally spreading rumors about her mooching off Sun-oh. Jo-jo runs away as her mind fills with the traumatic memories of her tragic past.

While talking about her parts' death, Jo-jo tells Sun-oh that she intds to join the school trip. In another attempt to malign Jo-jo, Gul-mi reveals to Hye-yeong the tire truth of Jo-jo's past, only to be told off by Hye-yeong. A small accidtal fire triggers Jo-jo's trauma and causes her to act strangely in front of her peers and teachers. Jo-jo escapes from the vue with Sun-oh. After spding the night together, a tragedy befalls on Jo-jo and Sun-oh on their way back to the vue. Jo-jo receives a strange DM from Duk-gu.

Four years later, news of a mass suicide of those whose Love Alarms did not ever ring shake the country less than a month before the release of Love Alarm 2.0. Jo-jo and Sun-oh are now apart from each other and living differt lives; Sun-oh has a new girlfrid despite still having feelings for Jo-jo. Hye-yeong keeps on meeting Jojo at the library and admits to her that he plans to court her pre-Love Alarm era style.

Love Alarm Season 2: Plot Details, Release Date, Cast, Trailer, And More

A brief flashback from four years ago reveals that Jo-jo, fearful about her relationship with Sun-oh, pretds she does not love him anymore by activating the Shield, a special protective functionality in Love Alarm that only the developer himself can deactivate. Back to prest time, Gul-mi steals Jo-jo's money to finance her trance to the Love Alarm Badge Club. Hye-yeong brings Jo-jo to the Han River where the two scream out the words they have bottled up for a long time. Jo-jo receives an invitation to the Love Alarm 2.0 launching evt.

Through Hye-yeong, Jo-jo understands what it really means to like someone. She realizes she does not need the Shield anymore and decides to meet with the developer at the launching evt so that she can have it removed. Sun-oh and Hye-yeong drift apart from each other because of Jo-jo. Hye-yeong realizes who owns the popular Instagram account The Ringing World. As anti-Love Alarm protesters storm the trance to the evt's vue, the developer introduces Love Alarm 2.0 and its new feature.

In an era reigned by Love Alarm 2.0, Jo-jo becomes Hye-yeong's girlfrid despite being unsure of her feelings for him, while Sun-oh remains affected by his breakup with Jo-jo years ago. Gul-mi is desperate to get into the Badge Club, in which Jo-jo (as the author of The Ringing World) is already a member. Hoping to find Duk-gu and have him remove the Shield, Jo-jo returns to her alma mater to gather information about him.

Love Alarm” (좋아하면 울리는): Season 2

Jo-jo runs into Sun-oh at their alma mater. Hye-yeong and his mother are upset upon learning his father, a murder convict will undergo a review for parole. As Hye-yeong goes to see his imprisoned father, Jo-jo comes face-to-face with Love Alarm developer Brian Chon, hoping he can remove the Shield, but she does not get the answers she seeks. Sun-oh overhears the conversation and confronts Jo-jo.

Jojo offers Hye-yeong a shoulder to cry on after a punishing day, in which Hye-yeong refuses to approve his father's parole review. Unable to cope with the knowledge of the shield, Sun-oh turns to Jojo for the truth.

With a video of his lecture hall visit gone viral, Sun-oh comes to blows with Hye-yeong. Jojo receives a special gift from an unknown sder.

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Park Gul-mi reaches a digital milestone. Brian grills Jojo about the shield, spear, and Duk-gu; and shatters reality for a bystanding lister.

My webtoon is about information technology, and I thought Netflix is the perfect platform to dramatize it. I was so happy wh I received the offer from Netflix.

In January 2017, Netflix collaborated with Hidd Sequce to produce their first South Korean original series for the platform based on the eponymous Daum webtoon by Chon Kye-young.

Love Alarm Season 2

The series was planned to be released in 2018 but the premiere date was postponed to 2019 because of the delay in production for internal reasons, as reported by Korea JoongAng Daily.

On September 4, 2018, Netflix announced that Love Alarm would now be produced by Studio Dragon, with Lee Ah-youn and Seo Bo-ra (Coffee, Do Me a Favor) writing the screplay and Lee Na-jeong (Fight for My Way) directing.

Kim So-hyun, Jung Ga-ram and Song Kang were cast for main roles; Song Kang was selected through audition competing with 900 people.

Love Alarm Announces Second Season Premiere Date

On February 14, 2021, Netflix announced that season 2 would be released on March 12, 2021 and it would be writt by Cha Yeon-soo and Kim Seo-hee, with Kim Jin-woo (Suits) directing and Ryu Bo-ra (Snowy Road, Secret Love) participating as script producer.

Production H, which already collaborated with Studio Dragon in 2018 to produce Life on Mars, joined as a co-producer for the second season.

The soundtrack of Love Alarm includes sev songs and fourte musical scores; it was released through several music portals on September 6, 2019.

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Instead of Studio Dragon's sister company Stone Music tertainmt (which had the distribution rights to soundtracks of most Studio Dragon-produced dramas), indie music distributor Biscuit Sound handled the distribution rights for the soundtrack.

Love Alarm held an interactive experice zone from August 18 to September 1, 2019 at Lotte World Tower World Park Square. Each space was decorated as if the app function in the drama is visualized in reality and gave a romantic experice to lovers, frids, and family who visited the place.

On December 30, 2019, Netflix unveiled the 10 most loved shows in South Korea in 2019, in which the series was ranked eighth.

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Forbes's Joan MacDonald said that Love Alarm gives the familiar romance drama a fresh twist by introducing a mobile app and found that Kim So-hyun is well cast as Jo-jo.

Maggie Adan of Cosmopolitan Philippines wrote that she initially found the motivations of the characters a little irrational and [shallow] ... but afterlooking back on [her] teage years and recalling that [she] was prone to blowing things out of proportion and being melodramatic about love and relationships at that age, too, [she] realised that the show is actually more truthful than [she] give it credit for ... it just doesn't resonate with [her] anymore

Steph McCarty from the South China Morning Post opined that Love Alarm is not only an innoct love story but also deals with data protection, gay rights, the extreme consequces of heartache, and smartphone invasion.