In Teach You A Lesson, Netflix’s new smash-hit drama, a quote by Albert Camus, “Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear,” is shown inscribed on the walls of a school. The camera only fleetingly dwells on this conscious, and cheeky placement of a quote. As early on in the series, we see school bullies being thrashed by the dozen.Adapted from the webtoon, Get Schooled, Teach You A Lesson chronicles the adventures of the fictional Educational Rights Protection Bureau (ERPB), an organisation authorised by the government to tackle the concerns that plague the school education system. Here, the bureau rolls up its sleeves, doing just about anything to whip the system into shape.Led by Na Hwa-jin (an excellent Kim Mu-yeol), a former special forces officer-turned-school inspector, the ERPB, which also has the endearing and geeky Geun-dae (Pyo Ji-hoon) and the brash Im Han-rim (Jin Ki-joo, who gets a terrific intro scene) does not stop at anything; their methods are unconventional, and often, very violent. They are given a free reign by the education minister Choi Gang-Seok (Lee Sung-min), whose daughter was once engaged to Hwa-jin. Her tragic death binds the men in grief, and leads them on a quest for reform.
‘Teach You A Lesson’ K-Drama review: A terrific Kim Mu-yeol powers his way through revenge and reform
Topping Netflix charts, ‘Teach You A Lesson’ is an engaging K-Drama where an education system that needs rescuing, finds solace in some unconventional intervention













