Netflix’s “Teach You a Lesson” (참교육) has spent three straight weeks at No. 1 on the platform’s Global Top 10 Non-English TV chart, and its 39.3 million cumulative views are now enough to bump 2021’s “My Name” out of 6th place on Netflix’s all-time Korean drama rankings — a climb that took just three weeks, according to allkpop’s report on Netflix’s June 24, 2026 global rankings release.
The series, based on the webtoon “Get Schooled,” premiered on Netflix on June 5, 2026. It centers on the Educational Rights Protection Bureau, a fictional government body created to restore collapsed school authority and stand up for victims of school violence, abusive parents, and unethical teachers, with Kim Moo-yeol starring as Na Hwa-jin, a former special forces operative turned inspector.
The numbers behind the streak
Per allkpop’s account of Netflix’s June 24, 2026 rankings, “Teach You a Lesson” opened with 6.4 million views in its first week, jumped to 21.1 million in week two, and added 11.8 million more (126.2 million viewing hours) in week three — for the 39.3 million cumulative total. That run has kept it at No. 1 in 19 Asian markets, including South Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, Singapore, the Philippines, and Malaysia, and in the Top 10 in 85 countries overall; domestically, it hasn’t lost the top spot on Netflix’s “Top 10 Series in Korea Today” chart since release, per allkpop.
It’s now just 400,000 views behind “The Glory” (39.7 million) for 5th place on Netflix’s all-time Korean original drama list, which is currently led by “Squid Game” Season 1 (265.2 million), Season 2 (192.6 million), Season 3 (145.8 million), and “All of Us Are Dead” (55.5 million), allkpop reported. Good Data Corporation’s FUNdex buzz index also ranked it No. 1 in the combined TV/OTT drama category just two weeks after release, per the same report. The show’s success is pulling along director Hong Jong-chan’s back catalog, too — his 2022 series “Juvenile Justice” re-entered Netflix’s Global Top 10 at No. 10 with 1.2 million weekly views, while SBS’s “My Royal Nemesis” picked up 2.7 million weekly views and a No. 6 spot on the same non-English chart, both per allkpop.
A revenge thriller built from a webtoon Korea almost didn’t get to adapt
The source webtoon, also called “Get Schooled,” was pulled from WEBTOON’s North American platform in 2023 after backlash over its depiction of a mixed-race Black student as a violent bully, and criticism that it glorified corporal punishment and vigilante violence against students, according to The Korea Herald (June 5, 2026; updated June 8, 2026). Director Hong Jong-chan told the paper he approached the divisive material “through a more refined lens,” saying he was drawn to “the fantasy of the [Educational Rights Protection Bureau] itself” rather than the elements that had drawn criticism. Writer Lee Nam-gyu adapted the script.
Three weeks of chart dominance suggest that recalibration landed with global audiences, even as the source material’s history remains part of the show’s story.
Sources: allkpop, “Netflix’s ‘Teach You a Lesson’ stays no. 1 for three straight weeks, reaches 39.3 million views in just three weeks” (reporting on Netflix’s June 24, 2026 global rankings release); The Korea Herald, “‘Teach You a Lesson’ makes Netflix debut after years of controversy” (June 5, 2026; updated June 8, 2026), by Lee Yoon-seo.
