The drama ‘Dear.M’ starring actress Park Hye-soo will return to terrestrial TV home theaters after 4 years as a KBS2 Wednesday-Thursday drama.The broadcasting that was postponed due to the school violence controversy is finally resuming.

KBS announced on the 25th that ‘Dear.M’ will be broadcast on KBS2 every Wednesday and Thursday at 11:05 PM starting July 9th.This is a reorganization that took place just one month after it was broadcast on KBS Joy in April and May.

‘Dear.M’ is a campus romance drama that contains the process of finding the protagonist of the post “Today, I fell in love for the first time”, aka’ M ‘, posted on the anonymous community of Seoyeon University.It is a work that colorfully unravels the subtle emotions, friendship, love, and misunderstandings of the youth surrounding the unidentified M, and continues the worldview of the web drama’ Love Playlist ‘.The cast includes Park Hye-soo as Ma-ju-ah, as well as NCT Jae-hyun, Noh Jung-eui, Bae Hyun-sung, and Lee Jin-hyuk.



’ Dear.M ‘was originally scheduled to premiere on KBS2 in February 2021, but its broadcast was canceled amid allegations of school violence surrounding lead actress Park Hye-soo.It was later pre-released on the Japanese streaming platform U -NEXT in June 2022, and debuted in Korea as a cable broadcast on KBS Joy channel in April 2025.

At the time, the viewership ratings were in the 0% range, but KBS decided to reschedule the drama to terrestrial broadcasting within a month.The production team gave meaning to this arrangement, saying, “We hope that more viewers will be able to empathize and feel excitement through’ Dear.M.’”

However, the controversy surrounding Park Hye-soo’s school violence has not been legally resolved to this day.When the suspicions were first raised through an online community in 2021, Park Hye-soo complained of injustice, saying, “A is the perpetrator,” and the person who wrote the original post also deleted the post, saying that Park Hye-soo was not the perpetrator.

However, the controversy did not subside as more and more people began claiming to have been bullied by Park Hye-soo and groups of victims emerged.
Park Hye-soo made her official return in October 2022 with the film “You and I” and said, “I am facing the situation instead of avoiding it.Please wait a little longer and I will make an opportunity to tell you more in detail after things are sorted out.” The terrestrial broadcast of “Dear.M” is interpreted as a signal for her to make a full-fledged comeback.

‘Dear.M’, which was chewing on the bread of tears, has finally come back.After 4 years, the show that had been on hiatus has finally pressed the play button.


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