KOREAN DRAMA

• Original Title: 학교 2013 | Hakgyo 2013

• Also known as: School 5; 학교 5 (Hakgyo 5); Escuela 2013

• Genre: Drama Friendship School

• Broadcast network: KBS2

• Episodes: 16

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Synopsis

Victory High has the worst results of any school in central Seoul, and Class 2 is the worst room in it. Into it come two teachers who agree on nothing: Jung In Jae, a literature teacher who believes the children are worth the trouble, and Kang Se Chan, a star cram-school lecturer sent in to lift the grades and privately certain that most of them are not.

Among the students, Go Nam Soon has stopped trying at anything and Park Heung Soo, once his closest friend, has come back to the school with a limp and a grudge neither of them will explain. Song Ha Kyung is holding a class ranking she cannot afford to lose, Lee Kang Joo is being pushed by a mother who will not hear otherwise, and Oh Jung Ho runs the corridor by force.

Over sixteen episodes the drama works through what school actually does to the people inside it — bullying, exam pressure, private tutoring, violence, and teachers with no room left to teach — without pretending any of it resolves neatly.