''Exo Next Door'' (; lit. "Exo Lives Next Door to My House") is a 2015 South Korean

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starring Moon Ka-young and members of the

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Exo Exo (; stylized in all caps) is a South Korean-Chinese boy band based in Seoul formed by SM Entertainment in 2011 and debuted in 2012. The group consists of nine members: Xiumin, Suho, Lay Zhang, Lay, Baekhyun, Chen (singer), Chen, Chanyeol, ...

(with the latter playing fictionalized versions of themselves). It aired on

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TV Cast from April 9 to May 28, 2015, on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 22:00 for 16 episodes. ''Exo Next Door'' became one of the most popular web series in Korea with 50 million views; this led to

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re-editing it into a film version, which was then sold to overseas buyers at the 68th Cannes Film Market.

Plot

Ji Yeon-hee ( Moon Ka-young) is an extremely shy, introverted 23-year-old woman with zero dating experience and a tendency to blush when talking to someone she likes. One day, four young men move into the house right next door to Yeon-hee's home, and to her surprise, they turn out to be Chanyeol (

Park Chanyeol Park Chan-yeol (; born November 27, 1992), better known mononymously as Chanyeol, is a South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, producer, actor and model. He is a member of the South Korean-Chinese boy group Exo, its sub-group Exo-K and sub ...

), D.O. ( Doh Kyung-soo), Baekhyun ( Byun Baekhyun), and Sehun ( Oh Sehun) from her favorite boy band

, who are looking to lie low for a while. They hire her to clean their house part-time during the winter vacation, and that's when Yeon-hee finds out that Chanyeol is her long lost childhood friend and crush "Chan", and that he is the grandson of the owner of the house. As the story goes on, Yeon-hee becomes involved in a love triangle with Chanyeol and D.O.

Cast

Main cast

as Chanyeol **Jung Jae-hyuk as young Chanyeol * Moon Ka-young as Ji Yeon-hee ** Han Seo-jin as young Ji Yeon-hee * Doh Kyung-soo as D.O. * Byun Baek-hyun as Baekhyun * Oh Se-hun as Sehun

Supporting cast

* Jang Yoo-sang as Ji Kwang-soo * Kim Jong-in as Kai * Kim Jun-myeon as Suho * Kim Min-seok as Xiumin * Zhang Yixing as Lay *

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as Chen * Huang Zitao as Tao * Kim Hee-jung as Yeon-hee's mother *

Jeon Soo-jin Jeon Soo-jin (born November 8, 1988) is a South Korean actress. Born in Seoul but raised in Jeju Island, she was studying design at Konkuk University in 2008 when she began doing part-time work as a model (people), model for the fashion magazine ...

as Ga-eun *

Yoon Joo-sang Yoon Joo-sang (; born June 25, 1949) is a South Korean actor. In 2009, he won the Best Supporting Actor award during the 2009 KBS Drama Awards for his role in ''Iris (South Korean TV series), Iris''. Filmography Film *''Cane (Hoichori)'' (2011) ...

as Chanyeol's grandfather * Jung Si-hyun as Min-hwan

Original soundtracks

The Song ''"Beautiful"'' became the first OST single from a web drama to top digital charts.

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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TV Cast * * {{Exo 2015 web series debuts 2015 web series endings South Korean web series Television series by SM C&C Television series by Oh! Boy Project Exo K-pop television series Naver TV original programming South Korean musical television series