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Love Class Season 3

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Love Class 3 (수업중입니다 3; RR: Sueop Jung-imnida 3) is a 2026 South Korean boys' love youth romance, the third season of the Love Class series. It leaves the campus setting of the earlier seasons behind and moves into the K-pop industry, where affection is a liability and a schedule doubles as a cage. Hyun Jae (Sae Byeol) and Soo An (Seo I-han) first grew close while competing on an idol survival show, where they shared practice rooms and the same impossible dream. Only Hyun Jae debuted. The competition that brought them together is also the thing that pulled them apart, and the years since have quietly turned a private hurt into professional distance neither of them knows how to close.

When they reunite as more established idols, the stakes have only risen. Loving each other openly is riskier now than it was when they had nothing to lose, and every gesture has to survive managers and cameras before it reaches the other person. Running alongside them, Jae Min (Lee Woo-jin) is trying to rebuild a career in the wake of a scandal. Khun (Panutuch Saelee), a newcomer from Thailand, learns the industry's unwritten rules in a language and a system that are not his own. The two find each other over the auditions and the constant surveillance. Both live with the sense of being one mistake away from erasure. Their bond keeps pressing the question the leads are working hardest to avoid, which is whether a debut dream is worth what it costs to hold on to it, and who gets sacrificed while the answer is postponed.

Produced by Box Media and directed by Lee Seok-yong, the season premiered on May 28, 2026 and ran for sixteen episodes of about fifteen minutes, released two at a time on Thursdays and Fridays until July 17. It streams on Rakuten Viki and Wavve, with GagaOOLala also carrying it. The K-pop setting gives the franchise a harder edge than its school-set predecessors: the obstacles here are contracts and the machinery of fandom rather than exams and dorm curfews, and the romance has to be negotiated in whatever gaps that machinery leaves open.

CONTENT DETAILS

Native Title
수업중입니다 3
Original Title
Love Class 3
Also Known As
수업중입니다 3, Sueop Jung-imnida 3, Love Class Season 3
Adaptation
Original screenplay; third season of the Love Class series.
Themes
Key Themes
K-PopIdol IndustryForbidden LoveReunionSurvival ShowScandalPublic vs PrivateDebut PressureTrainee LifeInternational IdolSecond ChanceHidden RelationshipEntertainment Industry
Language
Korean
Screenwriter
Jang Yeong-seon
Seasons
1
Episodes
16
Duration
15 min
Aired Start
Aired End
Release Year
Content Rating
PG-13

Where to watch Love Class Season 3

VikiGagaOOLala

Before You Watch

  • Love Class 3 (수업중입니다 3) is the 2026 third season of the Korean BL series Love Class, from Box Media and director Lee Seok-yong.
  • New setting: swaps campus life for the high-pressure K-pop idol industry.
  • The cast: Sae Byeol (WAKER) as Hyun Jae, Seo I-han as Soo An, Lee Woo-jin (GHOST9) as Jae Min, and Panutuch Saelee (from Thailand) as Khun.
  • Forbidden idol love: two pairings balancing public identity, survival and private feelings.
  • Schedule: sixteen episodes of about fifteen minutes, two per week on Thursdays and Fridays, from 28 May to 17 July 2026.
  • Where to watch: Rakuten Viki, Wavve and GagaOOLala.

Reviewed by Renkaze

7/10

Love Class 3 reinvents the franchise by trading the dating-class campus frame for the K-pop trainee world, raising the stakes from homework to survival in the idol industry.

The Cast

Idol-group members anchor the cast, Sae Byeol (WAKER) and Lee Woo-jin (GHOST9) among them, with a Thai newcomer, Panutuch, adding an international thread. The reunion of Hyun Jae and Soo An gives the season its emotional spine.

What to Expect

  • Idol-industry drama: debut pressure, scandals and forbidden love.
  • Two pairings: a reunion arc and a newcomers' bond.
  • Short episodes: sixteen installments of about fifteen minutes.

The Verdict

An ambitious, idol-flavoured evolution of the series; Love Class 3 should appeal to fans of K-pop-industry romance and the franchise alike.

Final Score: 7.0/10

Sixteen fifteen-minute episodes carry two parallel love stories through the K-pop industry.

Box Media produced the season and Lee Seok-yong directed it. It follows Love Class and Love Class Season 2, and the setting moves from campus to the idol industry.

The season ran from 28 May to 17 July 2026, a 50 day window. Episodes arrived in pairs, one on a Thursday and one on the Friday after, which gives each week two short sittings rather than one long one.

Sixteen episodes of about 15 minutes add up to 240 minutes, exactly four hours. That format suits a story built from two couples: each thread can take its turn inside a week without either one waiting long.

Sixteen is also the exact sum of the two earlier seasons, six episodes for the first and ten for the second, though the running time is different: 240 minutes here against 120 and 300.

The short format changes the rhythm of a story set in the idol world. At fifteen minutes an episode, a scene has room for one exchange, one rehearsal or one schedule clash, so the season is assembled from many small units rather than a few long ones. Releasing them as a Thursday and Friday pair turns each week into a single half-hour sitting in two parts.

The cast is drawn partly from working music groups. Sae Byeol belongs to WAKER and Lee Woo-jin to GHOST9, and the other WAKER members appear as themselves in the first episode, which places real idols inside a story about idols. It suits viewers who like a romance set inside the machinery of a pop career and who prefer short, frequent episodes to hour-long ones.

Themes

Three seasons in, the franchise still carries a title that means class is in session, and it has finally set a season somewhere the phrase is not a joke. The idol industry is the most thoroughly instructional world the series has used: trainees are taught, drilled, ranked and cut, and the survival show that put Hyun Jae and Soo An in the same practice room was an examination with a single pass between them. The earlier seasons graded coursework. This one grades people.

Everybody here is mid-lesson. Khun is learning a language and an unwritten rulebook at the same time, inside a system that was not designed with him in mind. Jae Min is doing the industry's version of remedial work, and his examiners are people he will never meet.

What the setting changes most is who is watching. A campus crush is observed by classmates who have no stake in it. Here the audience is contractual, and every gesture has to be routed past managers and cameras before it reaches the person it was actually meant for.

Interesting facts

  • The other members of WAKER, Go Hyeon, Kwon Hyup, Lee Jun, Leo and Se Bum, appear in the first episode as themselves, so the group Sae Byeol actually belongs to turns up inside the fiction he is acting in.
  • One credit keeps the classroom alive. The cast includes a media studies professor, played by Lee Bong-ha, in a season otherwise set inside the music industry.

How it was made

The casting announcement came in January 2026, naming Sae Byeol of the boy group WAKER and Lee Woo-jin of GHOST9 in lead roles. The characters' full Korean names are Kim Hyun-jae, Yun Su-an and Lee Jae-min, where the international promotional material for the season shortens them to Hyun Jae, Soo An and Jae Min. Kim Ye-eun and Lee Joo-han, the latter as a Director Choi, are listed among the supporting credits.

OFFICIAL OST

Episode guide: Love Class Season 3

16 / 16 episodes aired · Completed
EP 1
28 May 2026
Aired
EP 2
29 May 2026
Aired
EP 3
04 Jun 2026
Aired
EP 4
05 Jun 2026
Aired
EP 5
11 Jun 2026
Aired
EP 6
12 Jun 2026
Aired
EP 7
18 Jun 2026
Aired
EP 8
19 Jun 2026
Aired
EP 9
25 Jun 2026
Aired
EP 10
26 Jun 2026
Aired
EP 11
02 Jul 2026
Aired
EP 12
03 Jul 2026
Aired
EP 13
09 Jul 2026
Aired
EP 14
10 Jul 2026
Aired
EP 15
16 Jul 2026
Aired
EP 16
17 Jul 2026
Aired

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What is Love Class 3 about?

Two idols who met on a survival show, Hyun Jae and Soo An, reunite after only one of them debuted. A second storyline follows Jae Min, rebuilding a career after a scandal, and Khun, a newcomer from Thailand.

How were sixteen episodes fitted into seven weeks?

In pairs. Two episodes went out each week, on a Thursday and the Friday after, from 28 May to 17 July 2026. Each runs about 15 minutes.

Who leads the cast?

Sae Byeol plays Hyun Jae and Seo I-han plays Soo An, with Lee Woo-jin as Jae Min and Panutuch Saelee as Khun. Sae Byeol is a member of WAKER and Lee Woo-jin of GHOST9.

Who made it?

Box Media produced the season and Lee Seok-yong directed it.

Where can it be watched?

On Rakuten Viki, Wavve and GagaOOLala. The two earlier seasons are Love Class and Love Class Season 2.

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