In a society marked by precariousness owing to the erosion of the social safety net, crises confronting young people have come to the fore, and TV shows are addressing this reality. However, the discourse on youth within these TV shows often lacks depth. We analyze Park Haeyoung’s My Liberation Notes-which realistically represents the lives of young people-by applying Jennifer M. Silva’s theory of the mood economy, apt for examining the lives of contemporary youth. Through this analysis, we explore the screenwriter’s methods of representation and examine the values and lifestyles of young people, which are evolving because of the social characteristics of the neoliberal era. It is observed that young people, placed in a reality where traditional benchmarks of adulthood are unattainable, become so individualistic in order to survive that they are reluctant to even have close relationships, focusing instead on consumption for their current selves as they seek to carve out their own paths and intensify asset accumulation to escape the sense of relative deprivation. Furthermore, young people attribute meaning and purpose to self-realization rather than traditional standards of adulthood, seeing overcoming a painful past and forming an independent self as the new benchmarks of adulthood.