K-Dramas like Teach You a Lesson

12 shows with a similar feel

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  Study Group (2025)Also action & adventure · comedy · drama

  A struggling student at Korea's worst high school forms a study group while protecting his classmates with his fighting skills, hoping to overcome academic challenges and secure a spot in college.

  ★ 4.4 from 5 members15 tracking it here
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  ONE: High School Heroes (2025)Also action & adventure · drama

  A former model student, pushed by domestic abuse and bullying, joins a group that stands up to school violence and defends its victims.

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  Weak Hero (2022)Also action & adventure · drama

  With the aid of unexpected friends, a gifted but introverted student confronts bullies and violent foes — unaware of how dangerous his world will become.

  ★ 4.8 from 6 members26 tracking it here
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  Absolute Value of Romance (2026)Also drama · comedy

  High schooler Yeo Eui-ju secretly writes web novels by night. When four charming new teachers arrive, they inspire her stories and shake up her school.

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  Moving (2023)Also drama · action & adventure

  Children who live in hiding with superpowers, along with their parents who live with painful secrets of the past, face enormous dangers together.

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  All of Us Are Dead (2022)Also action & adventure · drama

  A high school becomes ground zero for a zombie virus outbreak. Trapped students must fight their way out — or turn into one of the rabid infected.

  ★ 4.5 from 8 members19 tracking it here
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  My ID is Gangnam Beauty (2018)Also comedy · drama

  Bullied for her looks, Mi-rae gets plastic surgery hoping for a better kind of life but faces new challenges in college. Based on a hit Korean webtoon.

  ★ 4.5 from 4 members7 tracking it here
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  My Dearest Nemesis (2025)Also comedy · drama

  Baek Su-jeong leads a planning team at a renowned department store. She meets her new boss, Ban Ju-yeon, her first love from an online game 16 years ago, stirring up memories of when he confessed his feelings but she rejected him.

  ★ 4.3 from 3 members8 tracking it here
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  The Uncanny Counter (2020)Also drama · action & adventure

  A group of supernatural demon hunters known as "Counters," each with unique abilities, disguise themselves as employees of a noodle restaurant, while tracking down evil spirits that terrorize the mortal world.

  ★ 3.7 from 3 members11 tracking it here
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  True Beauty (2020)Also comedy · drama

  After being bullied and discriminated because of her ugly looks, a high school girl transforms herself into a gorgeous "goddess" and quickly rises to fame after mastering the art of makeup via online tutorial videos.

  ★ 4.3 from 8 members18 tracking it here
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  Lookism (2022)Also comedy · drama

  In a society that favors good looks, a high school outcast leads a double life switching between his two bodies that are polar opposites in appearance.
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  Doctor on the Edge (2026)Also comedy · drama

  In South Korea, military service is mandatory for all men. But a select few—like privileged medical students—can serve as public health doctors instead. This is the story of those privileged few. Do Ji-ui, a plastic surgeon, is assigned to Pyeondong-do, an isolated island no one wants to go to. From the very first day, ominous signs begin to appear. Can he survive a full year on this hellish island and make it out alive—or will the island break him before he can hold the line?

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