The additional chapter of school-based agreeable drama, ‘Dream High‘, explores the abasement of dreams, if the abridgement of aptitude obliterates appetite and passion. The students, teachers, and parents of Kirin Arts School accost the ultimate question, should we accompany our dreams and passion, and allot continued hours to accomplishing that dream, if the alone affair that could accost us at the end is failure?
Shin Hyseung (Kang Sora) is an optimist, acquisitive to become a accompanist admitting her anemic vocals. A diehard fan babe of I:den’s JB, Hyesung abominably tries to access OZ Ball as a accompanist and songwriter. With OZ Ball demography over Kirin Arts School and transforming it into an ball bureau to cast acceptance into trainees, Hyesung’s dreams and wishes are accomplished as she has a attempt at acceptable an idol star, in accession to the added account of getting JB’s classmate.
While the acceptance and agents rejoice in the baby blink of achievement in extenuative the school’s declining reputation, Jin Yoojin (2AM’s Jinwoon) despises the school’s application as the agency’s pawn. Belittling the accurate ability of an ‘idol’ afterwards constant the materialism and acquisitiveness of the ball world, Yoojin hopes to abolish his adolescence scars by honing his affection for accurate bedrock music.
The behind cachet of the academy and classroom is bare by the adamant aphorism of President Lee (Kim Jung Tae) and Teacher Ji Soo (After School’s Kahi). Implementing austere rules and eliminating the inferior acceptance who accept no hope, the ball bureau becomes a villain for the Kirin Academy underdogs. Afterwards affecting President Lee to be evaluated again, he concedes and makes the account appraisal as a test. However, with a twist, the acceptance will accomplish in duets and alone one will succeed, while the added affiliation accompanist will be eliminated.
Rian (T-ara’s Jiyeon) and Hyesung become affiliation partners, alone for Rian to bypass her practices as President Lee bans Rian from application the convenance apartment because of her misbehavior. Meanwhile, JB and Yoojin are affected into a team, in which Yoojin struggles to adept his dancing. The advertise achievement assuredly arrives with a red carpeting theme. Suddenly abashed and aflutter of failing, Hyesung takes the batteries out of her microphone, rather than absolute her base singing. Hyesung is eliminated, forth with Rian, who is criticized for not administration her microphone.To animate the band, Teacher Jin Man (JYP) arranges a artery performance, which is disrupted by Rian’s abruptness appearance. Hyesung gives up her position as advance accompanist to Rian in the face of the auspicious crowd, angering Yoojin. While Rian and Yoojin adore their achievement together, Hyesung unveils her aptitude in an ad-lib and affecting achievement to JB of her self-composed song, “Hello to Myself”. Despite the blink of achievement for Hyesung’s dreams, her ancestor transfers Hyesung out of Kirin Arts.
To persuade Hyesung to return, Yoojin arranges Hyesung’s song for the band and performs it on radio broadcast, attracting the interest of a producer in search of the ‘super idol’. However, the tables turn as Rian takes the lead position and blatantly takes the credit for Hyesung’s song. Meanwhile, JB travels to Hyesung’s hometown and confesses, in the hopes that it would bring her back to school. Despite her refusal, JB drives Hyesung and her sister to a beauty pageant competition, where the two are shocked to find Rian, sent by President Lee in punishment for her rebellion against the contract, and Yoojin, in search of Hyesung.
With an intricate love line, the search for the ‘super idol’, and the true competition between the students and idols, ‘Dream High 2’ ends it halfway point with the beginning of the students’ journey to pursue their dreams.