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 -
![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 -
![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 -
![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 -
![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 -
![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 -
![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 -
![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 -
![Hokago Karte]()
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 -
![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 -
![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 -
![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 -
![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 -
![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 -
![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 -
![Sassy Go Go]()
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 -
![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 -
![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 -
![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 -
![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 -
![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 -
![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 -
![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 -
![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 -
![3 Nen A Gumi: Ima kara Mina-san wa, Hitojichi Desu]()
31. 3 Nen A Gumi: Ima kara Mina-san wa, Hitojichi Desu
Japanese Drama - 2019, 10 episodes155 points by 2 votersWith 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 -
![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 -
![Mystery to Iunakare]()
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 -
![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, Light’s Diary]()
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 -
![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 -
![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 -
![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 -
![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 -
![Chugakusei Nikki]()
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. Jo 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 -
![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 -
![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 -
![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 -
![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 -
![Drama Special Season 12: A Moment of Romance]()
61. 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 -
![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 -
![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 -
![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 -
![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 -
![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 -
![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. -
![Unstoppable High Kick]()
Lee Yoon 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 -
![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 -
![1 Litre no Namida]()
15-year-old Ikeuchi Aya is an ordinary girl, the daughter of a family who works at a tofu shop, and a soon-to-be high schooler. However, odd things have been happening to Aya lately. ...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 -
![The Queen's Classroom]()
Now here is one person who tells the inconvenient truth to children. Ma Yeo Jin also takes it one step further. She perpetuates the ugly side of our immoral society by becoming ...more -
![My Dearest]()
A love-story between a noblewoman and a mysterious man who shows up in her hometown set in the 1600s during the Qing invasion. Yu Gil Chae is a pretty, bubbly, and a ...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 -
![School 2021]()
"School 2021" is the story of students attending a specialized high school and seeking their ambitions, rather than going off to college. It will delve into how these students learn about love, ...more -
![My Dearest Part 2]()
Jang Hyun, a cold-hearted man, finds purpose in life after meeting the charming Gil Chae, who is in love with her engaged fiancé, Yeon Jun. Yeon Jun, a Sungkyunkwan student, struggles with ...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 -
![Gokusen Special]()
The ending of the series, the remaining days until graduation. ~~ Adapted from the manga “Gokusen” (ごくせん) by Morimoto Kozueko (森本梢子). -
![At a Distance, Spring Is Green]()
A coming of age story about young people in their twenties and the problems they face in university. Nam Soo Hyun and Yeo Joon, two boys with contrasting personalities, unexpectedly become friends ...more -
![Only for Love]()
Zheng Shu Yi, a determined financial reporter, is chasing a career-making story by securing an interview with Shi Yan, a young CEO investing in startups to give back. A mix-up brings them ...more -
![Gokusen Season 2]()
Half a year has passed, and Shirokin Gakuen has closed down. Yamaguchi Kumiko finds herself a teacher of a few young kids, who don't really benefit much from her style of teaching. ...more -
![Reply 1997]()
Set in the 1990s, the drama centers around a female high school student Shi Won, who idolizes boyband H.O.T, and her 5 high school friends in Busan. As the timeline moves back ...more -
![Gokusen Special 2]()
Yamaguchi reunites with her students after the end of season 2. ~~ Adapted from the manga “Gokusen” (ごくせん) by Morimoto Kozueko (森本梢子). -
![Gokusen Season 3]()
Sawatari Goro now works at Akado High School as a vice principal. Although the head director of the school board specifically orders him to handle the problematic class 3-D, the students are ...more -
![Gokusen Special 3]()
It's only a week till graduation, and everyone is happy about their "what to do in the future". But in a wink of an eye, everything turned the other way around when ...more -
![Gokusen: The Movie]()
A passionate teacher, Kumiko Yamaguchi, a.k.a. Yankumi, is now overseeing the new students of Class 3D of Akado High School, who still have not opened up to her and are giving her ...more -
![The Penthouse: War in Life]()
The residents of Hera Palace, a luxury penthouse apartment with 100 floors, have many secrets and hidden ambitions. Sim Su Ryeon, who was born into wealth, is the queen of the penthouse ...more -
![35 sai no Koukousei]()
The drama will center around how a 35-year-old student changes the school and influences her fellow classmates’ lives while dealing with the dark reality of today’s high schools, including bullying and skipping ...more
