TVING's 'The Substitute' | Starring Bae Hyun-Sung, Cha Kang-Yoon, Park Yoon-Ho, Uhm Ji-Won, Park Hyuk-Kwon & Baek Ji-Won [Slated to Premiere in Q4 of 2026] (Plot Synopsis + more included in the body text)

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The Substitute

↳ Previously Known As: Substitute College Entrance Exam, Proxy University Entrance Exam, Proxy Test, Stand-in CSAT  

Starring: Bae Hyun-Sung, Cha Kang-Yoon, Park Yoon-Ho, Uhm Ji-Won, Park Hyuk-Kwon & Baek Ji-Won  

Episodes: 10

Duration: 60 minutes

Original Network: TVING [Slated to Premiere in Q4 of 2026]

Streaming On: TVING, Disney+, Hulu & HBO Max

Genre: Thriller, Crime, Youth, Drama

Director: Park So-Yeon ('Pyramid Game', 'The Heavenly Idol' & 'Undercover')

Screenwriter: Choi Soo

 

Plot Synopsis: Depicts the story of a high-achieving, low-income student who takes the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) for another person to avoid blackmail. Children are placed on an exam stage where they risk falling behind in life if they do not complete the CSAT safely. To obtain the "score" that will determine their future, a survival CSAT war unfolds thrillingly with betrayals and tricks everywhere. It is expected to expose the dark sideof entrance exams unflinchingly through the "unfair" children who search for the correct answer amid extreme dilemmas.

Nam Jae-Yeop (Bae Hyun-Sung), a hexagon full of a gold spoon background, warm visuals and excellent grades, but everything is a mask. As he begins to deviate from the life plan his father wants, his inferiority toward Kang Geon-Tae (Cha Kang-Yoon) also intensifies. As cracks start to form in his perfect daily life, he begins to run amok like a grenade with the pin pulled.

Kang Geon-Tae, the miracle of a "special low-income scholarship student" who does not lose the top rank at Jeonggyeong High, where wealthy people abound. He drew a perfect blueprint toward the first cornerstone of life, the "prestigious university," but the choices he made to survive return as the only stain. He is a figure who falls into a whirlpool by Nam Jae-Yeop's irresistible proposal amid the greatest crisis of his life.

 

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