Cheer Up arrives from South Korea as a 2022 campus series about a cheerleading squad whose long-held prestige is about to run out. Keeping a dying club open turns into an hour-long weekly mix of comedy, romance and a question about the team's own past.

What is Cheer Up about?

The series opens on a college cheerleading squad once among the best known in the country and now close to being shut down for good. Keeping it alive means filling the roster again, holding practices together and giving the university a reason not to sign the club away. The students who arrive bring very different levels of commitment, and much of the season is given over to how a group of near-strangers becomes a team that can perform in front of a crowd. Around the routines, the drama follows the attachments that form between members, while an unresolved strand of the squad's own history stays in play, surfacing in fragments and changing how the characters read one another.

About the cast

The credited cast includes Han Ji-hyun, Bae In-hyuk, Kim Hyun-jin, Jang Gyu-ri, Lee Eun-saem, Yang Dong-geun, Han Su-a and Kim Sin-bi; direction is credited to Han Tae-sob. Performers are listed here in credit order and are not matched to individual characters. The writing keeps most of the group on screen together, so the ensemble carries the show.

Context & significance

Campus drama is a long-running staple of South Korean television, and this one belongs to the strand that treats a student club as a self-contained world with its own hierarchy and unfinished business. The listed genres, drama and comedy and mystery, reflect a structural choice rather than a marketing label: a single hour can hold a rehearsal sequence, a joke built on timing, and a scene that deliberately withholds information. Episodes run roughly sixty minutes.

Watching Cheer Up on Ktime

Cheer Up streams on K-Time with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so it can be followed either way. This page is free to read; starting an episode requires a K-Time account. The interface is built in Farsi for Persian-speaking viewers abroad, and playback behaves the same on television, phone and browser.