Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Teach You a Lesson is a 2026 South Korean Netflix series about a government inspector empowered to use physical force and unorthodox discipline to bring order back to schools where delinquency has overwhelmed normal authority. The show draws on the Naver webtoon Get Schooled and signals an appetite for stories where institutions are in crisis, outsiders carry state-sanctioned power, and the classroom becomes a site of real stakes — not just grades.
Teach You a Lesson (Korean: 참교육) is a 2026 South Korean action school drama television series written by Lee Nam-kyu, and Kim Da-hee, Moon Jong-ho, directed by Hong Jong-chan, and starring Kim Mu-yeol, Lee Sung-min, Jin Ki-joo, and Pyo Ji-hoon. Based on the Naver webtoon Get Schooled by Chae Yong-taek and Han Ga-ram, the series follows an inspector from the Educational Rights Protection Bureau (ERPB) who is authorized by the government to use physical intervention and unconventional methods to discipline delinquent students and reform the educational system. It was released on Netflix on June 5, 2026.
From the Wikipedia article Teach_You_a_Lesson, available under CC BY-SA.
Film
Female Instructor's Strange Private Lesson
A study arrangement collapses into something murkier, with a tutor and student whose dynamic quickly destabilizes.
Film
Dangerous Lesson
A tutor hired into a dangerous household discovers the lines between teaching and entanglement dissolve fast.
Film
Lesson Plan
A former cop takes a job at the school where his friend died to confront the gang responsible.
Film
Purpose of Tutoring
Private lessons mask darker intentions when a student secretly drugs his teacher to control the outcome.
Film
Love Lesson
An informal mentorship in music doubles as a woman's attempt to shape a much younger man.
Film
Your Letter
A new student at an unfamiliar school follows a trail of anonymous letters that gradually pulls her deeper in.
Game
Acting Lessons
A man recounts how meeting an aspiring actress on one pivotal day reshaped everything he thought he knew.
Game
Dead or School
A girl who grew up underground fights her way through zombie-held Tokyo to reach the school her grandmother described.
Game
The Coma: Cutting Class
A Korean student falls asleep during a final exam and wakes to find school transformed into something predatory and strange.
Game
Detention
Two students trapped in their own school must navigate a place that has turned hostile and deeply unfamiliar.
Game
Let's School
You take on a principal role tasked with rebuilding a failing school through construction and student management.
Game
Kara no Shojo
A player-detective pieces together what happened through choices that meaningfully alter how the story ends.
Book
Educating for character
Examines how teachers model character and how classrooms can function as moral communities, not just academic spaces.
Book
Assassination classroom
A class of misfits must kill the best teacher they've ever had — before he destroys the Earth.
Book
Lessons In Loving
A special-education teacher hardened against adult men finds her limits tested when a new charge arrives.
Book
Respect for Acting
A structured guide to acting craft, broken into the actor's instrument, object exercises, and working on a role.
Book
Assassination Classroom, Vol. 1
A class of misfits unites around the absurd shared goal of killing their octopus teacher before he ends the world.
Book
Teach with Your Strengths
Profiles teachers who rely on unorthodox, sometimes controversial approaches to reach students effectively.
Series
Study Group
A student at Korea's worst high school uses fighting skills to protect classmates while chasing a college place.
Series
Oh My Grad
A passionate principal who loses his post keeps pushing the idea that education is more than grades and attendance.
Series
Our Textbook
A young teacher enters a school so broken that even the most dedicated eventually give up.
Series
Love You Teacher
A teacher who actively dislikes children is forced into an unexpected caregiving role that tests every instinct.
Series
Assassination Classroom
Students are assigned to assassinate their teacher — who has already proven capable of planetary-scale destruction.
Series
A Misanthrope Teaches a Class for Demi-Humans
A teacher who loathes humans finds himself compelled to care for students who are decidedly not human.
Study Group is a great next watch — it's another Korean school action drama where a student uses fighting skills to protect classmates while chasing academic goals. Assassination Classroom offers a wilder take on the disciplinarian-teacher premise with plenty of action and dark humor.
The Coma: Cutting Class drops you into a nightmare version of a Korean high school with survival horror twists, while Let's School lets you step into the principal's role and reform a struggling school yourself.
The series is based on a webtoon, and if you enjoy the school-discipline premise in comic form, the manga Assassination Classroom follows a class of misfits given the task of killing their all-powerful teacher before he destroys the Earth.