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Maybe Happy Ending is a South Korean Musical written and composed by Hue Park and Will Aronson. The musical follows two human-like helper-bots, Oliver and Claire, who discover each other in Seoul in a futuristic 21st century and develop a connection that challenges what they believe is possible for themselves.

In 2014, Hue Park was sitting in a coffee shop in Brooklyn, New York, when he heard the song "Everyday Robots" by Damon Albarn (front man of the rock bands Blur and Gorillaz) playing. Park was familiar with Blur, as it had been popular in South Korea while he was growing up there in the 1990s. Part of the song lyrics caught his attention: "We are everyday robots in the process of getting home." Park imagined a world inhabited by 'robots that look just like humans', eventually thinking up a scene where 'robots with human-like appearances and emotions are abandoned and live lonely lives alone'. Park had recently ended a long-term relationship, so he thought about the closing of a chapter in his life. "I experienced some losses with people around me parting and death when I was writing the play," he said. "I realized that love is an act to open your heart even though you expect to feel the pain of loss one day." Park sent an email to his friend Will Aronson. Aronson was intrigued by Park's ideas, and they eventually started to write the story together. They started the story planning in February 2014. They pitched Maybe Happy Ending to a producer at the Wooran Cultural Foundation, a nonprofit foundation in Seoul that supports young artists, which has supported "Seeya" programs. It was accepted into one of these programs, and by fall of 2014, it was developed further. Kim Dong-yeon, who worked together with Park and Aronson on the musical Carmen, joined the project as director. Jeon Mi-do and Jeon Uk-jin starred in a workshop performance. Maybe Happy Ending had a three-night tryout engagement at Project Box Seeya in Wooran Cultural Foundation in September 2015. Tickets were sold out within 3 minutes of opening. The show was written in both Korean and English, with Aronson writing the initial draft in English and Park translating it into Korean. Both versions were performed at an industry workshop in New York City in 2016, as the first overseas development project supported by the Wooran Cultural Foundation. The English-language version of Maybe Happy Ending, then titled What I Learned from People, was awarded the 2017 Richard Rodgers Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. As the full English production was developed with a different team, Aronson and Park used the initial English script as the starting point rather than re-translating the finished Korean version. As a result, the final Broadway version has some noticeable differences from the version that has been performed in Korea.