''The Mysterious Class'' (

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: 남고괴담; RR: ''Namgogoedam''; "Ghost Story in a Boys' School") is a 2021 South Korean

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featuring an

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consisting of the members of

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Choi Hyun-suk Choi Hyun-suk (Korean: 최현석; born April 21, 1999) is a South Korean rapper and one of two leaders of Treasure alongside Jihoon under YG Entertainment. The band debuted on August 7, 2020 with the single album entitled '' The First Step: C ...

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, Yoshinori Kanemoto, Kim Jun-kyu, Yoon Jae-hyuk, Asahi Hamada, Kim Do-young, Haruto Watanabe, Park Jeong-woo and So Jung-hwan—and their former co-members Mashiho Takata and

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. Its plot centers on a group of 12th grade students in a

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who try to solve the mystery of their class' resident ghost. The series aired for free viewing every Friday 22:00 KST on the band's official

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channel from 12 November to 31 December 2021. A short "cookie video" for each episode, serving as

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s or supplemental points to the story, was also uploaded for paid subscription in the band's

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account a day after its corresponding episode's airing date. It served as Treasure's first full-fledge endeavor in

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after the band made its acting debut through the

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''It's Okay, That's Friendship'' that was broadcast on 5 March 2021 as the 36th episode of their variety web series ''Treasure Map''.

Synopsis

In Boseok Boys High School, the students of Grade 12 – Class 4 are trying to come into terms with the possibility of a

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lurking in their

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after discovering that their class of 21 students was supposed to have only 20. A series of spooky events drove the students to suspect each other while trying to solve the mystery of their class' resident ghost, who might simply be posing as one of their classmates.

Cast

Main

The roles of the main characters of the series are played by members of the

, including their two former co-members: * Haruto Watanabe as Haruto : the resident

and former student of Grade 12 – Class 4 in Boseok Boys' High School; the late son of the school guard, Jae-hyuk's sole dorm roommate and Mr. Ha Dong-min's former classmate. Ten years prior to the events of the story, Haruto was a sickly student that rarely went to class due to his illness which ultimately led to his death, becoming the resident ghost of Grade 12 – Class 4. Ten years later, he became visible to the class' present batch of students and to its present homeroom teacher Mr. Ha, becoming the 21st "student" in a class that is supposed to have 20 students only. Yearning to have a normal school life "even after death", Haruto is fond of taking care of his classmates and enjoys taking photos of them using his

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. Soon, his true identity is at risk of being exposed when his new classmates start looking for their class' resident ghost and begin suspecting each other. * Kim Do-young as Kim Do-young : the class president of Grade 12 – Class 4 in Boseok Boys' High School; Hyun-suk and Jung-hwan's

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roommate. Do-young has a strong sense of rivalry against his class' top student Jae-hyuk due to being pressured by his father to perform well in academics in order to be able to have his college studies abroad. He is determined to find out the identity of their class' resident ghost but only for the prospect of gaining their homeroom teacher's recommendation if he manages the class well as its class president. *

as Choi Hyun-suk : a student of Grade 12 – Class 4 in Boseok Boys' High School; Do-young and Jung-hwan's dorm roommate. Hyun-suk is interested in the

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and partnered with Ye-dam in doing a late-night

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that apparently revealed to the class the existence of a ghost in their homeroom. *

as Bang Ye-dam : a student of Grade 12 – Class 4 in Boseok Boys' High School; Asahi, Yoshinori and Mashiho's dorm roommate; an aspiring K-pop artist. Ye-dam was Hyun-suk's partner in a séance; he later discovers that a

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he is working on has apparently been tampered by their class' resident ghost. * Asahi Hamada as Asahi : a student of Grade 12 – Class 4 in Boseok Boys' High School; Ye-dam, Yoshinori and Mashiho's dorm roommate. A quiet and introverted student, Asahi is a skilled

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who was suspected to be the class' resident ghost after his classmates discover a strange painting in the art room. * So Jung-hwan as So Jung-hwan : a student of Grade 12 – Class 4 in Boseok Boys' High School; Do-young and Hyun-suk's dorm roommate; a

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ger. Jung-hwan enjoys filming vlogs, although his videos do not gain traction. * Yoon Jae-hyuk as Yoon Jae-hyuk : a student of Grade 12 – Class 4 in Boseok Boys' High School; Haruto's sole roommate. As a top student, Jae-hyuk is very keen to studying and sometimes treats his less studious classmates coldly. * Yoshinori Kanemoto as Yoshinori : a student of Grade 12 – Class 4 in Boseok Boys' High School; Ye-dam, Asahi and Mashiho's dorm roommate. Yoshinori is into

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and doing

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. He is the grandson of a ''

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'' (female shaman). * Park Jeong-woo as Park Jeong-woo : a student of Grade 12 – Class 4 in Boseok Boys' High School; Jun-kyu and Ji-hoon's dorm roommate. Jeong-woo is an athletic boy who likes sports but is known to be a scaredy-cat among his classmates. * Kim Jun-kyu as Kim Jun-kyu : a student of Grade 12 – Class 4 in Boseok Boys' High School; Jeong-woo and Ji-hoon's dorm roommate. Jun-kyu has a bright and outgoing personality, and is a doting lover to his girlfriend. *

as Park Ji-hoon : a student of Grade 12 – Class 4 in Boseok Boys' High School; Jeong-woo and Jun-kyu's dorm roommate. Ji-hoon is a prankster who likes to scare his classmates. * Mashiho Takata as Mashiho : a student of Grade 12 – Class 4 in Boseok Boys' High School; Ye-dam, Asahi and Yoshinori's dorm roommate. Mashiho is a punctual student who regularly drinks milk for his

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Supporting

* Jang Tae-hoon as Ha Dong-min : the homeroom teacher of Grade 12 – Class 4 and an

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of Boseok Boys' High School; Haruto's former classmate. Mr. Ha was caught in an accident while working overtime coincidentally on the night his students, led by Hyun-suk and Ye-dam, did a séance. He trusted Do-young with the responsibility of managing the homeroom, promising him support in his overseas college career if he manages the class well. He is revealed to be a classmate of the late Haruto ten years prior to the events of the story. * Lee Kyung-min as Hong Sung-joon : a Grade 12 student in Boseok Boys' High School; Won-jin's classmate and an acquaintance of the students of Grade 12 – Class 4. * Chae Hee-soo as Son Won-jin : a Grade 12 student in Boseok Boys' High School; Sung-joon's classmate and an acquaintance of the students of Grade 12 – Class 4. * Seo Ye-ri as Lee Min-jung : a music teacher at Boseok Boys' High School. * Kim Hong-boo as Jung Geun-yong : a teacher at Boseok Boys' High School; Mr. Ha Dong-min and Haruto's former homeroom teacher. Mr. Jung is the teacher in charge of the school's milk rations. He is Mr. Ha's predecessor as homeroom teacher of Grade 12 – Class 4. * Han Myung-chul as Boseok Boys' High School's security guard : a staff at Boseok Boys' High School; Haruto's father. Deeply brokenhearted by his son's death at a such young age, he hid the

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that contains Haruto's

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inside Haruto's own

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in the Grade 12 – Class 4 classroom where Haruto's ghost has been lingering since then.

Others

* Goo Shi-yeon as Jeong-woo's mother * Goo Jae-yeon as Yoshinori's grandmother, a ''mudang'' (female shaman)

Episodes

The following table contains the episodes of the series:

Soundtrack

The

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for ''The Mysterious Class'' consists of musical score composed by Baek Jong-sung et al. and the following two theme songs. Both of these theme songs are performed by

and were released on 15 February 2022 through the CD version of the band's first

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'' The Second Step: Chapter One''. A Christmas version of "BFF (Best Friends Forever)" was released earlier on 24 December 2021 through the band's official social media accounts.

Notelist

References

External links

Official website – Bamboo Network

남고괴담 (''The Mysterious Class'') – full playlist in TREASURE (트레저) official YouTube channel

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