Netflix school drama Teach You a Lesson has quietly joined the platform’s elite. In less than a month, the June 5 release climbed to become Netflix’s fifth most watched Korean series ever, pulling 46.6 million completed views and edging past revenge phenomenon The Glory.
Tudum, Netflix’s Top 10 site, confirms the numbers through June 28, when only Squid Game seasons one to three and zombie hit All of Us Are Dead ranked higher. If you are seeing Teach You a Lesson Netflix buzzing across feeds, the hype is backed by hard stats.
How Teach You a Lesson Climbed Netflix’s Korean Top 5
Teach You a Lesson dropped all 10 episodes globally on June 5 and has already logged 498.9 million hours watched in four tracking weeks. Netflix calculates a “view” by dividing total hours by runtime, which currently gives the series 46.6 million completed views.
That total makes it the fifth most watched Korean title in Netflix history, just below school zombie favorite All of Us Are Dead and ahead of bullying revenge saga The Glory.
Here is the all time Korean ranking based on Tudum’s view counts:
- Squid Game Season 1 – 265 million views
- Squid Game Season 2 – 192 million views
- Squid Game Season 3 – 145 million views
- All of Us Are Dead – 55 million views
- Teach You a Lesson – 46.6 million views
- The Glory – 39 million views
The drama has also ruled Tudum’s global Top 10 chart for non English TV for four straight weeks, reaching the Top 10 in up to 91 countries, including the United States.
The Numbers Behind the Quiet Climb
Instead of one massive premiere spike, Teach You a Lesson built an old school word of mouth curve across June. Week one delivered 6.4 million views worldwide, good enough to debut at No. 1 among non English TV shows.
Viewers really kicked in during week two, when views jumped to 21.1 million. Weeks three and four then added another 11.8 million and 7.3 million views, keeping the series at No. 1 for four consecutive weeks and lifting it to 46.6 million total.
Why This School Drama Hits So Hard Globally
Story wise, Teach You a Lesson centers on the Educational Rights Protection Bureau, a government sanctioned unit that storms into extreme school cases involving bullying, teacher abuse and other violent classroom conflicts. Their job is to protect victims first, even if that means bending rules and throwing punches.
Director Hong Jong-chan and his team adapted the controversial webtoon Get Schooled, which had been criticized for racist caricatures and glorifying violence, by shifting focus toward empathy and systemic critique. That recalibration, mixed with kinetic set pieces, gives viewers the cathartic fantasy of a squad that actually fixes broken schools.
Idol fans have another reason to tune in, since Block B rapper turned actor Pyo Ji-hoon, better known as P.O, plays bureau member Bong Geun-dae, hinting that K pop star power will keep crossing into Netflix’s grittiest K dramas.