“Chamgyoyuk” (“True Education”), a 10-episode Netflix Korean original that premiered June 5, has climbed to No. 6 on Netflix’s all-time chart for Korean originals by cumulative views, trailing 5th-place “The Glory” by just 400,000 views, according to a June 25 report from The Fact’s Choi Hyun-jung, citing Netflix’s own tracking site. Between June 15 and 21 alone it added 11.8 million views (a “view” being total watch time divided by runtime), bringing its cumulative total to 39.3 million. Netflix counts views through week 12 of a title’s release, and the show is only in week 3, which is why analysts quoted in the report expect it to pass not just “The Glory” but 4th-place “All of Us Are Dead” (55.5 million) before its tracking window closes. The top three slots all belong to the “Squid Game” seasons: Season 1 at 265.2 million, Season 2 at 192.6 million, Season 3 at 145.8 million.
The premise leans directly into a real anxiety in Korean classrooms: a fictional government agency, the “Teaching Rights Protection Bureau,” is created to fight back against students, teachers, and parents who’ve crossed every line as Korea’s education system buckles under itself. Kim Mu-yeol leads a cast that includes Lee Sung-min, Jin Ki-joo, and Pyo Ji-hoon, under director Hong Jong-chan (best known for “Juvenile Justice”) and writer Lee Nam-gyu (of “Daily Dose of Sunshine”). Both previously handled institutional-failure stories with a similar mix of righteous anger and dark comedy, which is part of why Hong took the project on despite it being what Hankook Ilbo, in a June 5 profile, called a deliberately “controversial” (“문제작”) one to direct.
The controversy is baked into its source material: the original Naver webtoon drew repeated backlash for racist depictions of Black characters and a scene showing a feminist teacher getting slapped, prompting its publisher to pull the series from North American serialization entirely. The Netflix adaptation rewrote those elements before production, a revision the show’s reception suggests largely worked — it hit No. 1 on FlixPatrol’s global Netflix TV chart in 45 countries by day seven and stayed at No. 1 worldwide through its second week.
Source: Choi Hyun-jung, The Fact, June 25, 2026; Hankook Ilbo, June 5, 2026.
