7. Teacher
Help each other out and add titles where a main or supporting character is/was/training to be a teacher.
Feel free to explain your choice in the comment section or send us a link of your own to a list with titles that fit the description to this prompt.
Useful tags: Teacher Female Lead, Teacher Male Lead, Tutor Male Lead etc…
MDL Watch Challenge 2025 Dec 2, 2024
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![Love Your Enemy]()
Seok Ji Won and Yoon Ji Won, born on the same day with the same name, have been rivals for years. After 18 years, they reunite when Seok Ji Won, now the ...more -
![A Good Day to Be a Dog]()
Han Hae Na, a single high school teacher, is cursed due to a family secret. Anyone in her family who kisses someone transforms into a dog at midnight for six hours, repeating ...more -
![Moving]()
Kim Bong Seok, Jang Hui Su, and Lee Gang Hun, seemingly typical high school students, bear extraordinary inherited powers. Bong Seok can fly, Hui Su possesses exceptional athleticism and rapid injury recovery, ...more -
![Crash Course in Romance]()
After retiring from her career as a national athlete, Nam Haeng Sun now owns a humble side dish store. Her cheerful personality and boundless energy catch the attention of Choi Chi Yeol, ...more -
![Mother]()
Realizing one of her students is being abused, school teacher and bird researcher Soo Jin impulsively kidnaps the girl and acts as a substitute mother in an attempt to take care of ...more -
![True Beauty]()
"True Beauty" is a romantic comedy about a high school girl, Lim Ju Gyeong, who rises to pretty girl fame after she masters the art of make-up from YouTube. She turns into ...more -
![Secret Love Affair]()
Sun Jae, a twenty-year-old piano prodigy working as a delivery man due to his humble background, stumbles upon a concert hall one day. Upon playing the piano there, he captures the attention ...more -
![After School Doctor]()
Teacher Makino, a former university hospital pediatrician, now works in an elementary school health room as part of a new initiative. Though gruff and strict with students, his sharp observational skills allow ...more -
![The School Nurse Files]()
An Eun Young is a new nurse teacher at school. She has a special ability to see jelly like monsters that are made from residue of human desire and she can also ...more -
![Black Dog]()
A young woman, Go Ha Neul, takes on a short-term teaching role at a private school, inspired by a teacher who once saved her life. As she navigates the pressures of the ...more -
![Playful Kiss]()
Oh Ha Ni is a clumsy high school student who falls for perfectionist Baek Seung Jo. However, Seung Jo is indifferent towards her and rejects her love. When Ha Ni's house collapses, ...more -
![Brave Citizen]()
The story of hero So Si Min, who once ruled the nation with her top-tier hapkido skills as a high school athlete. Seven years later, after becoming a part-time teacher, So Si ...more -
![Cheer Up!]()
Set in a highly competitive school that emphasizes achievement and scores above all else, the drama will lay bare the absurdities and hypocrisies of the education system while also featuring the growth ...more -
![Class of Lies]()
The drama is about a highly successful lawyer who falls from grace because of one case. He becomes a fixed term teacher at a high school that is tied to that case ...more -
![School 2017]()
The drama follows Ra Eun Ho, an 18-year-old girl with dreams of becoming a webtoon artist, as she struggles in a school that discriminates based on wealth and academic performance. When she's ...more -
![My Strange Hero]()
When Kang Bok Soo was a high school student, he was falsely accused of committing acts of violence and ended up expelled from school. Those who brought the accusations against him were ...more -
![Undercover High School]()
Jung Hae Seong, an elite NIS agent facing demotion, goes undercover at Byeongmun High School to locate King Gojong’s missing gold bars. Posing as a student, he encounters O Su A, a ...more -
![Learning to Love]()
This is a love story about Ogawa Manami, a 35-year-old high school teacher who grew up in a strict family, and Kaoru, a 23-year-old host who is not good at reading and ...more -
![Story of Kunning Palace]()
Jiang Xue Ning’s obsession with becoming empress strains her friendship with Yan Lin and leads to the arrest of Official Zhang Zhe. After a brief reign, guilt takes hold as rebels, led ...more -
![One Day Off]()
Park Ha Gyeong teaches Korean literature at a high school. To escape her ordinary days, Park Ha Gyeong decides to take one-day trips on Saturdays. During her one-day trip, she walks around, ...more -
![The Glory]()
A high school student dreams of becoming an architect. However, she had to drop out of school after suffering from brutal school violence. Years later, the perpetrator gets married and has a ...more -
![Reset]()
An unexplainable phenomena finds college-going student, Li Shi Qing, trapped in a never-ending time loop where she is always stuck on a public service bus which is due to explode, bringing death ...more -
![Love with Flaws]()
This romantic comedy revolves around a physical education high school teacher, Joo Seo Yeon, who despises flower boys and prefers someone "not handsome." She has a compassionate heart, forged through the loss ...more -
![Hierarchy]()
Jooshin High School, the most prestigious in South Korea, was established by the Jooshin Group and admits only students selected at birth. Among them are Jeong Jae Yi, daughter of the Jaeyool ...more -
![Don't Call it Mystery]()
Totono Kuno is a university student. He has curly hair, which he has a complex about. He doesn't have any friends or a girlfriend. His memory and observation skills are very good, ...more -
![Something about 1 Percent]()
Growing up in a wealthy family, Lee Jae In had the best of everything. As an adult he was smart, good looking, had a well-paying job, in short, it seemed like he ...more -
![Nobody Knows]()
Detective Young Jin, haunted by the unsolved murder of her friend by the 'Stigmata' serial killer 19 years ago, is determined to find the killer. Living a solitary life, her only connection ...more -
![The Midnight Romance in Hagwon]()
After resigning from a big company, Lee Joon Ho returns to the academy where he'd studied, this time as an instructor. He's motivated by his lingering fixation on his first love, academy ...more -
![Home School]()
Home School is a boarding school in the middle of a remote forest. Every three years, the school selects new students who meet their criteria, each generation comprising no more than thirteen ...more -
![You're Not Normal, Either!]()
Ono Yasuomi is a math teacher at a private institute. He doesn't have a girlfriend and he is engrossed in math. Ono Yasuomi doesn't complain about his life, but he feels unease ...more -
![School 2013]()
Seungri High School ranks as one of the worst of the 178 high schools in Seoul based on academic scores. Kang Se Chan is the top Korean language teacher who owns a ...more -
![Master of Study]()
When scrappy and abrasive lawyer Kang Suk Ho is put in charge of the liquidating Byung Moon High School, he sees his own troubled past in the problematic students who live their ...more -
![S Line]()
The show will tell the story of a mysterious red line that appears above people’s heads, connecting them to those they’ve had sexual relations with. Han Ji Uk is a detective who ...more -
![Nodame Cantabile]()
Megumi Noda or "Nodame" is a piano student at Momogaoka College of Music. An extremely talented pianist who wants to be a kindergarten teacher, she prefers playing by ear rather than reading ...more -
![Gokusen]()
The story of a young, idealistic teacher who enters Shirokin Gakuen in hopes of making a difference in the lives of students. However, Yamaguchi Kumiko is in for a rude awakening when ...more -
![Hot Spot]()
Endo Kiyomi is a single mother living in a town at the foot of Mt. Fuji in Yamanashi Prefecture. She works at a business hotel. One day, she happens to meet an ...more -
![Biscuit Teacher and Star Candy]()
Na Bo Ri is a 25-year-old woman who desperately wants to be a teacher at the high school she was kicked out of due to a misunderstanding with her teachers over injuring ...more -
![Gyeongju]()
Beijing-based professor Choi Hyeon returns to Korea for a funeral but impulsively detours to Gyeongju to visit a teahouse where he meets the owner, a beautiful woman named Yoon Hee. (Source: tvN ...more -
![Who Are You: School 2015]()
Sekang High School is the most prestigious private high school in Seoul's Gangnam District, and Go Eun Byul is the most popular girl there. Meanwhile, her identical twin Lee Eun Bi is ...more -
![5 to 9 From Five to Nine]()
Sakuraba Junko, an English language school teacher, has had no boyfriend even before her 29th birthday and dreams of working in New York. But one day, she encounters a handsome monk at ...more -
![A Bride for Rip Van Winkle]()
Dispatched teaching staff member Nanami meets Tetsuya through SNS and decides to marry him. She doesn't have many relatives and turns to an agency called "Nandemoya", run by Amuro. She asks the ...more -
![Close Range Love]()
Kururugi Yuni is a smart high school student. She excels in all subjects except for English. A new English teacher begins work at Yuni's high school. His name is Sakurai Haruka and ...more -
![All of Us Are Dead]()
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. (Source: Netflix) ~~ Adapted from ...more -
![Angry Mom]()
Jo Kang Ja, once a feared troublemaker in high school, dropped out after becoming pregnant and now works to be a responsible mother to her daughter, Ah Ran. At 34, Kang Ja's ...more -
![Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom]()
With graduation 10 days away, homeroom teacher Hiiragi gathers all 29 students of class 3-A and proclaims them as his hostages. His last lesson regards the death of a student that passed ...more -
![Love Untangled]()
Set in 1998, the story follows 19-year-old Park Se Ri as she attempts to straighten her perpetually frizzy hair before making a life-changing confession, all while getting entangled with transfer student Han ...more -
![Melancholia]()
A sexual scandal between a math teacher and a student in a prestigious high school ends in tragedy. Four years later, they meet again, now both adults, to reveal the corruption in ...more -
![The King's Affection]()
Set during the Joseon Dynasty, the story follows twins born to the Crown Princess Consort, who orders the death of the daughter due to superstition. To save her, the baby girl is ...more -
![Crazy Little Thing Called Love]()
Nam is an ordinary, unattractive 14-year-old girl secretly in love with a popular boy in school named Shone. Wanting to catch his attention, she tries various ways to get close to him. ...more -
![Saimdang, Memoir of Colors]()
Seo Ji Yun, an art history lecturer aiming for a professorship, is assigned by her mentor, Min Jeong Hak, to write a thesis on a valuable painting, "An Gyeon’s Mount Geumgang." Her ...more -
![Ao Haru Ride]()
At the end of the first year of high school, Yoshioka Futaba meets Tanaka Kou, who was her first love. In their middle school days, they attended the same school, but he ...more -
![The Comments]()
Student president Papang, seemingly perfect in every way, takes her own life during a live stream, mirroring her idol Gina, who was cyberbullied to suicide. Her brother Khan, determined to uncover the ...more -
![Lesson in Love]()
New female teacher became a target of a trouble making gifted student's bullying. But their confrontations soon developed a romantic undertone and they began to have a secret affair that played fast ...more -
![Imperfect Love]()
The drama is shot from the perspective of women and tells a story about finding light in the darkness and embracing hope in motherhood. Lin Xu Zhi is a woman who doesn’t ...more -
![Confessions]()
Middle school teacher Moriguchi Yoko's life comes crashing down after the murder of her 4-year-old daughter. Eventually, Yoko suspects some of her own students to have been responsible for her daughter's death. ...more -
![Falling High School Girl and Irresponsible Teacher]()
56. Falling High School Girl and Irresponsible Teacher
Japanese Drama - 2023, 9 episodes99 points by 1 votersFollowing a failed confession to her first love, female high school student Mikoto Ochiai contemplates jumping off the roof of the school building. However, her thoughts are interrupted by the arrival of ...more -
![Dear Ex]()
When the husband dies, wife and son discover that he made his life insurance policy out to his male lover. The woman reacts with anger and the son with confusion. Gradually, they ...more -
![Silenced]()
Gang In Ho is the newly appointed art teacher at Gwangju Inhwa School, a school for deaf children. He is excited to teach his new students, yet the children are aloof and ...more -
![The Best Thing]()
Hotel manager Shen Xi Fan, a workaholic suffering from insomnia and migraines, seeks help from Chinese medicine doctor He Su Ye. Despite her forgetfulness in taking medicine, their interactions grow beyond a ...more -
![City of Streamer]()
Set in the Shanghai Shores at the beginning of the 20th century, where warlords begin to seize their powers, many heroes emerge, and revolutionary movements begin to rise. Making use of their ...more -
![Seasons of Blossom]()
A story of love and friendship between five high school students from Seoyeon High School. Lee Ha Min appears like a bright person, but there is also darkness within his mind. Han ...more -
![Tell Me That You Love Me]()
Cha Jin Woo is a deaf artist. He is used to expressing his feelings through drawings instead of speaking, as most are unwilling to learn sign language or even get to know ...more -
![Ao Haru Ride Season 2]()
Yoshioka Futaba was once a middle school student who fell for her warm-hearted classmate Tanaka Kou. But young love proved to be cruel, and the duo was separated due to circumstances beyond ...more -
![The Gifted]()
Ritdha Wittayakom High School has a "Gifted Program." The program offers special classes to a handful of "special" students chosen by the school administration. Incredibly, Pang, a tenth-year student from the lowest ...more -
![Meet Me after School]()
This is a love story between Akira Kuroiwa, a 15-year-old boy who knows nothing of love, and Hijiri Suenaga, his new 25-year-old homeroom teacher. One fated summer, Akira begins to realize he ...more -
![Mr. Plankton]()
Hae Jo, ostracized due to his unknown parentage, sets out to find his real father after life-changing news. Cho Jae Mi, longing for a family, joins him despite being engaged to Eo ...more -
![The Road Home]()
City businessman Luo Yu Sheng returns to his home village in North China for the funeral of his father, the village teacher. He finds his elderly mother insisting that all the traditional ...more -
![Oh No! Here Comes Trouble]()
Pu Yi Yong is a typical high school student. When he unexpectedly gains superpowers after waking up from a bus accident, his previously uneventful life is suddenly not so ordinary anymore. (Source: ...more -
![Out of Control Relationship]()
Three years ago, when Yan Chu Qing fell into the sea and was on the verge of death. It was Fu Yan, the captain of the Flying Eagle Team, who saved her. ...more -
![Unemployed Romance]()
"Unemployed Romance" is about the reunion between Seung Hee and her first love Jong Dae. Seung Hee, who dreams of being a star writer but is only a salary writer for a ...more -
![Blue Spring Ride]()
When she was a middle school student, Yoshioka Futaba liked Tanaka Kou, who was unlike the other boys and quite gentle. Kou then moved away, and they lost contact. At the end ...more -
![The Gifted Graduation]()
Two years have passed, and the new school year begins again. With it comes the resurrection of the Gifted program and a hidden threat from the Ministry led by Darin, a new ...more -
![The Embers]()
A tragic massacre in their childhood completely changed the fate of the Liao brothers. Will they break through the darkness for self-redemption, or will they descend into the abyss of vengeance? Once ...more -
![Majo no Jouken]()
Michi, a 26-year-old high school math teacher, tentatively accepts her boyfriend's proposal of marriage, uncertain of her love for him, but feeling pressure from her father and society to do what is ...more -
![Drama Special Season 12: A Moment of Romance]()
75. Drama Special Season 12: A Moment of Romance
Korean Special - 2021, 1 episode97 points by 1 votersA realistic romance about a woman who wants to be loved and a man who doesn’t know how to express love. Cha Min Jae is the CEO of MinArt. Although he seems ...more -
![A Romance of the Little Forest]()
Fashion blogger Yu Mei Ren, once rejected by botany professor Zhuang Yu, plans to use her beauty to win him over. Years after their first encounter, they reunite when Zhuang Yu visits ...more -
![The Penthouse Season 3: War in Life]()
Su Ryeon takes revenge on the Hera Palace residents, who lose their wealth from a bad investment in Cheonsoo District and face trial for covering up Seol A’s death. They lose everything, ...more -
![My Teacher]()
Sophomore and representative of the archery club, Shimada Hibiki is a 17-year-old student who has never been in love. During her high school's entrance ceremony she sees Kosaku Ito, her 26-year-old world ...more -
![Twelve Letters]()
It follows the mysterious and emotional journey of Tang Yi Xun and his lover, Ye Hai Tang. When Hai Tang vanishes without warning, Yi Xun discovers a letter waiting in a mailbox. ...more -
![Revenant]()
When a portal to another world opens, demons are unleashed. Ku San Young becomes possessed by one of them, and Yeom Hae Sang, who can see the demons, joins her in uncovering ...more -
![Study Group]()
Yun Ga Min, a student at the struggling Yusung Technical High School, is determined to go to college despite his poor grades and knack for fighting. He forms a study group but ...more -
![Here We Meet Again]()
Xiang Yuan, the eldest miss of Donghe group, is tasked with saving the Xi'an branch from bankruptcy and reunites with her former crush, Xu Yan Shi. In school, she pursued him unsuccessfully. ...more -
![Rookies]()
Koichi Kawato is the new Japanese Literature teacher at the ill-famed Futakotamagawa high school, whose baseball club is composed of thugs and bullies who have been suspended for a year from all ...more -
![Mobius]()
In a specific time and space, detective Ding Qi accidentally discovered that he had the ability to reverse time and repeat the cycle five times on the same day from time to ...more -
![Scarlet Innocence]()
20-year old Deok Yi’s quiet small-town life gets exciting when a former University Professor, Hak Kyu, moves in, running from the scandal of a sexual harassment allegation. He works as a literature ...more -
![The Real Has Come!]()
Oh Yeon Doo, an online Korean language instructor, discovers her boyfriend, Kim Joon Ha, has been cheating on her and that she is pregnant. Meanwhile, Gong Tae Kyung, a successful obstetrician, has ...more -
![Embrace]()
Alee learns that the truth is loudest in the silence when an unexpected encounter alters her plan of coming out to her conservative mother. (Source:, Margo Manalo, Youtube) -
![Love Like the Galaxy: Part 1]()
Ling Bu Yi, the foster son of Emperor Wen and a talented & ruthless general of the Black Armour Army, was on a personal mission to uncover hidden truths about the past, ...more -
![To the Beautiful You]()
Jae Hui moves to Korea to help Tae Jun restart his high jump career after he announces his retirement. Despite his closed heart, Tae Jun begins to open up to Jae Hui. ...more -
![Mad Doctor]()
"Mad Doctor" tells a story of a female surgeon who has lost her motivation to exercise surgery for patients. She decides to work in a small hospital in the countryside, running away ...more -
![Love Like the Galaxy: Part 2]()
After a series of twists and turns, Cheng Shao Shang and Ling Bu Yi are engaged to be married by Imperial consent and decree. However, they still have many hurdles to overcome. ...more -
![Splash Splash LOVE]()
Dan Bi is a high school senior who has given up on math. On the day she is about to take the KSAT for college, she is transported back into the past ...more -
![Naeil's Cantabile]()
Cha Yoo Jin is a third year student in a school of music majoring in piano and dreaming of becoming a world renowned conductor. He seems to be perfect with his good ...more -
![Nightmare Teacher]()
When a new teacher arrives, students' dreams begin to come true. Ye Rim, the class president, has to solve the bizarre and scary mystery before it's too late. -
![High Kick!]()
Lee Yun Ho, a motorcycle maniac who engages in many fights at school and is known for his high kick, and Lee Min Ho, who enjoys spending time on scale models and ...more -
![It Started with a Kiss]()
After an earthquake destroys Xiang Qin's house, she and her father move in with the family of her father's college buddy. To her surprise, her new kind and amicable aunt and uncle ...more -
![Weak Hero Class 1]()
Yeon Shi Eun is a model student who ranks at the top of his high school. Physically, Yeon Shi Eun appears weak, but by using his wits and psychology, he fights against ...more -
![Itazura na Kiss]()
Late for a meeting, Kotoko was running along the corridor in school and bumped into Naoki, their lips meeting. Naoki showed his disgust, but Kotoko started to idolise him, who was good ...more -
![Secret]()
The story was about high school student Ye, who studied in the school his father taught. Ye's piano skill was above others. On the first day of school, while walking around the ...more -
![They Kiss Again]()
Xiang Qin and Zhi Shu switch to medical school to become nurse and doctor respectively. During that time, Zhi Shu meets new rivals who wish to outdo him and Xiang Qin makes ...more
