Explore the continuing interest in dramas set in high schools which seems to be a favorite of K-drama addicts of all ages.

High School Daze

KBS2

Ask any Kdrama connoisseur to recommend a fan-favorite classic and one of them is bound to suggest Boys Over Flowers. Also known as “Boys before Flowers”, this iconic Kdrama hit is based on the Japanese manga of the same name.&nbsp;
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The story centers on an average schoolgirl Jan Di (Kyu Hye Sun) and her confrontations with the four richest and most spoiled boys in her high school. Collectively, these four are known as the “F4”. Coming from a humble family in the dry-cleaning business, Jan Di only got into the prestigious and expensive Shin Hwa High School on a stroke of luck after saving the life of someone on the school’s property and receiving a swimming scholarship in reward.
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Not one to stir up unnecessary trouble, Jan Di keeps to herself and tries to avoid interactions with rich kids like the F4. However, a turn of events occurs when Jan Di’s best friend Oh Min Ji (Lee Si Young) crosses Goo Joon Pyo (Lee Min Ho), the leader of the F4, by accidentally getting ice cream on his shoes. Jan Di decides that enough is enough and stands up for her friend against the group.
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As it turns out, Jan Di discovers that there’s more to the members than their spoiled-boy façade and finds herself falling in love with one of them. At the same time, Goo Joon Pyo begins to battle his attraction towards her. How will this love triangle change the dynamics of the group?
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Achieving sky-high ratings and bagging plenty of awards across Asia around the turn of the last decade, Boys Over Flowers will be a treat for anyone interested in the themes revolving around issues like socio-economic disparity, family ties, and the joys of love and friendship.
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Get ready for addictive drama, romance, and comedy at its best! With a cast made of worldwide famous actors, this puppy love story is a must-watch for those into the world of kdramas.

Boys Over Flowers

🌸The Fabulous Four Team🌸

KBS02

Hye Mi, who dreams of becoming the second Jo Su Mi, has recently been a princess in a wealthy family, but all her dreams are shattered when her father goes bankrupt. Due to her father, who went into hiding, a debt collector constantly pursues Hye Mi and threatens her to pay her father's debt. Through student auditions and many incidents in this school, she becomes mature and learns what friendship and love mean. This is about the story we face every day. Through this touching story in this school, we also understand the importance of putting things in perspective.

Dream High

School 2017 is the seventh installment of the popular teen drama series, School. Back in 1994, people were crying out for educational reform. After 13 years, however, nothing has changed. Here are Eun Ho and Tae Woon, the two students of Geumdo High who have a thing or two to say about that. Although the school prides itself on being an institute without discrimination, the enrolled students are hardly treated equally. The students are desperately in need of a hero, someone who can bring back hope and make them happy again. This drama aims to be a wake-up call for everyone as it is time for a change in our society. School 2017 will depict the lives of bright, cheerful 18-year-olds who struggle and strive for what they want. Tune in to witness the outcome of the series of choices they make.

School 2017

The Class of 2017 Team

Lately, many people have complained about how life is getting harder and harder. Such thing as hope is perishing fast in this fiery pit called Korea. It\u2019s almost impossible to look further into our future and set goals, but instead, we live from hand to mouth from day to day. There is no time to look back and reflect on oneself. Rather people are busy blaming others for everything. But \u201CMoorim School\u201D wants to tell the world to find the true power within themselves and believe in friendship and love. Youth itself has always been beautiful, with its potential to grow and improve. There is no crisis you cannot overcome, and anyone can be the strongest when they\u2019re true selves. Hope is for those who encouraged it.

Moorim School

Minions Reloaded Team

JTBC

Bullying, abortion, suicide and the pressures of private education. The Private Investigators Club at the prestigious Seonam Girls’ High School tackle all of these tough challenges of their fellow classmates and try to solve the problems. The five members of the club – An Chae Yool (Jin Ji Hee), Lee Ye Hee (Hyeri), Yoon Mi Do (Kang Min Ah), Kim Ha Jae (Lee Min Ji) and Choi Sung Yoon (Stephanie Lee) – are tough, fearless and shrewd. But will some cases go beyond their capabilities? What will their teacher Ha Yeon Joon (Kim Min Jun) and principal (Hwang Seok Yeon) think of the girls’ amateur sleuthing activities? “Seonam Girls’ High School Investigators” is a 2014 South Korean drama series directed by Yeo Woon Hyeok. It is based on the 2013 novel “Seonamyeogo Tamjungdan: Banggwa Hooui Miseuteori” by Park Ha Ik.

Seonam Girls' High School Investigators

The Sherlock Team

Times may have been a little simpler, less technological, but still just as challenging to get through a typical day of life in the late 1980s. Five childhood friends, who all live in the same Ssangmundong neighborhood of Seoul, lean on each other to survive their challenging teen years and set a path for their futures. Sung Deok Sun (Hyeri) struggles for attention as the middle child in her poor family while also carrying the burden of her 989th ranking in school. Kim Jung Hwan (Ryu Jun Yeol) only has a one-track mind for soccer, even after his family becomes rich overnight. Sung Sun Woo (Ko Gyung Pyo) is the perfect student, student council president and a caring and dependable son in his family. Ryu Dong Ryong (Lee Dong Hwi) is a geek who knows more about girls and life than the rest of his friends, but his poor academic score prevents him from being able to go to college. Choi Taek (Park Bo Gum) is a genius baduk player who dropped out of school to go professional. As the group of friends get into and out of mischief around the neighborhood, what experiences from these memorable times together will they carry with them into their future lives? “Reply 1988” is a 2015-2016 South Korean drama series directed by Shin Won Ho. The series is inspired by the drama “Three Families Under One Roof,” which originally aired from 1986 to 1994. It is the third series of the nostalgia-themed “Reply” dramas that include “Reply 1997” (2012) and “Reply 1994” (2013), but the characters and stories are not related to the previous series.

Reply 1988

The Lucky Eights Team

Ta-da! A legendary mom who was a delinquent teenager goes to school to take it all! In a grey world of children marked with wounds, they are the mirrors of adults. Other main characters here are teenagers. Like the lyrics of a popular song children sing, the world is full of lies, and the school has become a prison without bars. Children do anything by fair means or foul for grades, deceive teachers by claiming parental authority, extort money from friends, and engage in violence. However, the world of such children is drawn here as it is, but the focus will be on the distorted portraits of adults that it reflects like a mirror. We should consider what a good adult is through the two faces of a mother who becomes a scary knife before corruption but a warm kitchen knife to children who are in despair for affection.

Angry Mom

The Iljin Mum Team

Taking place at a prestigious boarding school, this drama depicts the high school life in Korea where students are taught to compete and climb over their competitors. One day, an unfortunate incident creates a crisis for the school's dance club and a group of elite students. They must overcome their differences and work together in order to prove others wrong.

Cheer Up!

The Sassy Team 

How can a girl at the bottom of her class ever hope to capture the attention of the smartest and most popular boy in high school? Ha Ni (Jung So Min) is smitten with Seung Jo (Kim Hyun Joong) from the moment she laid eyes on him on the first day of school. He is the total package – tall, athletic, good-looking, and the envy of all the students because he always gets a perfect score on all his examinations. But Ha Ni’s affections are not returned, despite her energetic efforts to get his attention. Fate throws them under one roof when an earthquake destroys Ha Ni’s family home, and they live temporarily in the home of her father’s childhood friend, who turns out to be Seung Jo’s father. Will Ha Ni ever be able to get Seung Jo to think of her as anything more than a nuisance? “Playful Kiss” is a 2010 South Korean drama that is based on the Japanese manga “Itazura Na Kiss” (“Mischievous Kiss” and its sequel “Mischievous Kiss 2”), which has also been adapted in Taiwan as “It Started With a Kiss” and its sequel “They Kiss Again”.

Playful Kiss

the PKer team

The world at your feet and the weight of the world on your shoulders - children of the super-elite class bear the burden of success as they are being groomed as heirs to their family business empires despite only being in high school.
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Kim Tan (Lee Min Ho) is the heir to the Empire Group, a family conglomerate business, but he lives under the constant shadow of his older half-brother, Kim Won (Choi Jin Hyuk), who is already an accomplished young executive in the family business. Despite being betrothed to the wealthy and haughty Rachel Ryu (Kim Ji Won), a hotel heiress, Tan falls in love with Cha Eun Sang (Park Shin Hye), the daughter of his family’s housekeeper.
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Eun Sang and her best friend, Yoon Chan Young (Kang Min Hyuk), the son of Empire Group’s secretary, did not grow up like their families’ employer did, but they get embroiled in their lives nonetheless. Eun Sang gets caught in a love triangle with Tan and Choi Young Do (Kim Woo Bin), the condescending heir to a luxury resort conglomerate, while Chan Young falls in love with Tan’s ex-girlfriend, Lee Bo Na (Krystal Jung), the socialite daughter of a major entertainment executive. Can a romance survive between the haves and the have-nots?
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“Heirs: He Who Wears the Crown Must Bear Its Weight,” also known as “Heirs,” is a 2013 South Korean drama series starring the hottest actors working today. It is directed by Kang Shin Hyo.

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