Exo Next Door (; lit. "Exo Lives Next Door to My House") is a 2015 South Korean web series starring Moon Ga-young and members of the K-pop boy band Exo (with the latter playing fictionalized versions of themselves). It aired on Naver 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 CJ E&M 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 Ga-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), D.O. (Doh Kyung-soo), Baekhyun (Byun Baekhyun) and Sehun (Oh Sehun) from her favorite boy band Exo, who are looking to lay low for a while. They hire her to clean their house part-time during the winter vacation and that's when Yeon-hee found out that Chanyeol was her long lost childhood friend and crush "Chan" and that he is the grandson of the house owner. As the story goes on, Yeon-hee soon becomes involved in a love triangle with Chanyeol and D.O.
Cast
Main cast
Park Chanyeol as Chanyeol
Jung Jae-hyuk as young Chanyeol
Moon Ga-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
Kim Jong-dae as Chen
Huang Zitao as Tao
Kim Hee-jung as Yeon-hee's mother
Jeon Soo-jin as Ga-eun
Yoon Joo-sang 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.