Awakening

Korean title: 각성

Synopsis

An occult thriller set in the pressure cooker of Korea’s college-prep culture. After transferring into an elite Daechi-dong high school, a teenage girl swallows a black-market stimulant meant to sharpen her grades and instead begins hearing the voices of the dead. As her classmates start dying in inexplicable ways, Antonio, an exorcist priest newly assigned as the school’s guidance chaplain, traces the malevolent force feeding on the students and vows to drag it into the light before another child is lost.

At a Glance

Field	Value
Channel & Time	SBS Fri·Sat 21:50 KST
Programming Slot	Friday-Saturday Prime
Episodes	12 episodes
Premiere	2027-01-15
Finale (estimated)	2027-02-20
Production	Studio S, TME Group

Crew

• Director: Oh Joon-hyuk
• Writer: Jang Yoon-mi

Cast

• Lee Jun-hyuk
• Yoon Se-ah
• Oh Ye-ju

Schedule Audit

• Premiere: 2027-01-15
• Finale estimate: 12 episodes ÷ 2/week = 6 weeks → premiere + 36 days = 2027-02-20
• Confidence: high — actual finale may shift ±1–3 weeks due to special programming, preemptions, or season splits.

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Source: industry programming records.
Last updated: 2026-04-28
Schedules subject to change without notice.