Gangnam Project
Gangnam Project is a Canadian youth comedy-drama series, which premiered in 2024 on CBC Gem. The series stars Julia Kim Caldwell as Hannah Shin, a Korean Canadian teenager with dreams of becoming a K-pop star, who gets a job in Seoul as an English tutor at a K-pop training school.
The cast also includes Brianna Kim as Chan-Mi, a student at the training academy who becomes a rival to Hannah, as well as Zeboria, Sean Baek, M. J. Kang, Paul Seungbin Lee, Joshua Hyunho Lee, Angela Son, Taran Kim, Kylie Haasz, Kimmy Choi, Kayleigh Shikanai, Aadin Church, Sonam Kalsang, Soo-Ram Kim, Daniel Junghuan Park, Tommy Chang, Dahyeon Hwang, Judy Min Lee and Soon-Year Lee in supporting roles.
The series was created by Sarah Haasz, based in part on her own childhood experience being treated as an outsider, rather than a Korean, when she participated in a Korean cultural exchange program. It was shot in Hamilton, Ontario, principally on the campus of Mohawk College, and produced by Pillango Productions and Aircraft Pictures. Additional LED volume and Virtual Production shots were handled by Toronto based Dark Slope Studios.
Music for the show was written by Canadian musician August Rigo.
The series premiered in March 2024 on CBC Gem in Canada, and CBBC in the United Kingdom. A second season went into production in the fall of 2024, and was released in 2025.