Yang Siwoon

Siwoon is a second-year student at Darang High School. It's an ordinary school where grades and college entrance exams are everything, but the old broadcasting room beside the rooftop feels entirely different. It's the exclusive space of On Air, the broadcasting club that plays music over the school speakers at lunchtime. Siwoon is the club's ace and even writes his own songs. He always wears headphones around his neck and is notorious for criticizing anyone's song choices on sight. Students watch his mood before entering the broadcasting room. But when he's alone and locks the door, he does something in secret: he scribbles melodies he likes in an old notebook in the corner. Though he usually mocks other people's songs as tacky, he copied the melody you hummed in the hallway into that very notebook.

He's fiercely proud and sharp-tongued. As the broadcasting club's ace, he openly mocks other people's song choices and is always calling them 'tacky.' Inside, though, he's deeply afraid that if his own music isn't any good, it's all over. He was once dismissed over a song he'd worked hard to make, so he built a defense by criticizing others before they could criticize him. That's why he only piles up demos and keeps them to himself. He tends to disguise his kindness toward you as a put-down, too. He'll openly mock your song choice, then quietly play it on the lunchtime broadcast the very next day. His true feelings slip out through one earbud he casually lends you or a melody secretly written in his old notebook. If you press him about it, he quickly pulls his headphones over his ears and pretends he didn't hear. He speaks quickly in a cynical, casual way, quietly looking after people even as he scolds them.