Get Schooled (Webtoon)

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**Get Schooled** is a Korean **YLAB** webtoon and the 6th Blue String webtoon. The story is written by Yongtaek Chae and illustrated by Garam Han. It is published by YLAB.

## Synopsis

"Hwajin Na’s teaching techniques are pretty violent for someone who works in the Ministry of Education. That being said, when punishments don't seem to work on even the worst of school bullies, there is no better man for the job. Sometimes you can’t get a good education until those bullies are taught a lesson."

## Release Schedule

It has been serialized every Monday on Naver Webtoon since November 1, 2020. The first season was seralized on Novemember 1, 2020 and fnished on January 1, 2023 with a review. Second season started on July 16 2023 however it was put on a hiatus. The reason for the hiatus was due to overseas scanlations of episode 125, which was serialized as a preview on September 10, 2023, caused controversy over racial discrimination from oversea North America readers, leading to a long-term hiatus as of September 16.

From May 16, 2021, official English was released but was was discontinued on September 15, 2023 due to controversy over racial discrimination.

Official English version was discontinued. The controversial episode 125 was deleted, and Naver Webtoon said, "The specific return schedule will be announced later in consultation with the provider." In a performance article in December 2023, it was stated that ‘it is scheduled to return in the first half of 2024.

* From December 22, 2020, the series was translated on the Chinese (Taiwanese) page of WEBTOON, Naver Webtoon's overseas service.
* From January 6, 2021, the series was translated on the Indonesian page of WEBTOON, Naver Webtoon's overseas service.
* From February 28, 2021, the series was translated on the Thai page of WEBTOON, Naver Webtoon's overseas service.
* From March 9, 2021, the series was translated on the simplified Chinese page of Dongman Comics, Naver Webtoon's overseas service.
* From April 23, 2021, the series was translated in Japanese and serialized on LINE Manga, Naver Webtoon's overseas service and a Japanese published comic e-book service.
* From May 16, 2022, the series was translated on the French page of WEBTOON, Naver Webtoon's overseas service.

## Reading Order

You do not need to read any other Blue String Webtoons to understand this. However, considering that Hanrim Im, the deuteragonist, is a main supporting character in **Hanlim Gym**, it is recommended to read it for her background although it is not necessary.

For recommended reading order of the Webtoons click **here**.

## Where to Read

**Official Links**

* Korean (In-progress): https://comic.naver.com/webtoon/list?titleId=758037
* Indonesia (In-progress): https://www.webtoons.com/id/action/the-real-lesson/list?title\_no=2423
* Thai (In-progress): https://www.webtoons.com/th/action/the-real-lesson/list?title\_no=2525
* English (In-progress): https://www.webtoons.com/en/drama/get-schooled/list?title\_no=2684
	+ *Note: Official English is discontinued due to the recent controversey.*

**Unofficial Links**

***WARNING***: These links are provided for viewers to read and as references for editors. As they are unofficial, exercise precaution at your own risk as we cannot guarantee the security of these sites although we do use them without issues. However, this is mainly for any links besides English as English scans are usually safe. Regardless, be careful!

* English (In-progress): https://mangadex.org/title/c268a95f-e3d6-4414-981b-6c83c6447f5a/get-schooled

## Background

There are a total of 2 seasons.

Below are the two seasons divided by major arcs:

### Season 1

* Ep.1-7: The first case
* Ep.8-15: Gu-un High Tech High School
* Ep.16-21: Soyeon Girls' High School
* Ep.22-27: CM High School
* Ep.28-34: Hyeonjin Middle School
* Ep.35-41: Seungyeon High School
* Ep.42-46: Sillabyeol Elementary School
* Ep.47-54: Child Abuse
* Ep.54-63: Gang-yeong High School
* Ep.63-72: Helpers
* Ep.72-81: Island Village
* Ep.81-90: Hyeonjung Elementary School
* Ep.90-101: Illegal Gambiling
* Ep.101-110: Cult
* Ep.111

### Season 2

* Ep.112-118: School Violence #MeToo
* Ep.118-124: Brass Knuckle Assaults

### Characters

**Season 1**

* Hwajin Na
* Hanlim Lim
* Gangseok Choi

**Season 2**

* Hwajin Na
* Hanlim Lim
* Junbin Lee
* Sera Gu
* Daniel Hyeon

Full Character List

**All Characters with Pages**

**Deccan (PVP)****Dohyeon Jeon****Gangseok Choi****Gayoon Choi****Gwangcheon Lim****Gyucheol Cho****Hanlim Lim****Hwajin Na****Jonghyuk Lee****Kangyoon Ji****Seoyeon Yoo**

### Organizations

**Season 1**

* Teachers' Rights Protection Agency
* Gangs and crews
	+ Taecheon Gang
	+ G.Y
* High Schools
	+ Gu-un High Tech High School
	+ Chukmyeong High School
	+ Seungyeon High School
	+ Gang-yeong High School
* Girls' High Schools
	+ Soyeon Girls' High School
* Middle Schools
	+ Hyeonjin Middle School
* Elementary Schools
	+ Sillabyeol Elementary School
	+ Hyeonjung Elementary School

**Season 2**

* Teachers' Rights Protection Agency
* Gangs and crews
* High Schools
	+ Kangsan High School
	+ Gu-un High Tech High Schools
	+ Hankuk Information High School
* Middle Schools
	+ Kangsan Middle School
* Elementary Schools
	+ Kangsan Elementary School

### Setting/Locations

**Season 1**

The events of the webtoon take place in a number of areas due to the nature of the TRPA, including Incheon, Seoul and Gyeonggi. However, the main place is Sejong City.

**Season 2**

*TBA*

## Blue String Universe

The events of Get Schooled is 8 years after **Hanlim Gym.** As Hanlim Lim is 26 currently when she was 18 back then. Furthermore, this webtoon takes place a year after To Not Die season 1 as Gyeom Ma was just arrested. Additionally, as a result of the 1 year gap from Gyeom Ma's confinement to his appearance in Get Schooled season 1, it can also be said that Get Schooled season 1 takes place around the same time as To Not Die and other adjacent webtoons like Study Group.

**Crossovers*** In Ep.15, Hanlim Lim from Hanlim Gym (Webtoon) appears.
* In Ep.18, Hanlim Gym appears.
* In Ep.67, now retired PVP fighter, Golden Mad Dog, from Hanlim Gym (Webtoon) appears.
* In Ep.76, Hanlim Lim mentions Dohyeon Jeon from Hanlim Gym (Webtoon).
* In ep. 90, the puck hitter's gambling game nickname is The World is Money and Power.
* In Ep.95, Hanlim Lim mentions Gwangcheon Lim from Hanlim Gym (Webtoon).
* In Ep.103, Seoyeon Yoo from Hanlim Gym (Webtoon) appears.
* In Ep.112, Kangyoon Ji from Hanlim Gym (Webtoon) appears.

**Apperance in other Webtoons*** Jubin Lee appears in Study Group.
* Deccan appears in Hanlim Gym
* The 707th Special Missions Group was mentioned in The World is Money and Power.
* The organization ‘The Top Guns’ that appeared in Get Schooled, is mentioned in Season 2, Episode 80 of Study Group.
* Helpers were mentioned in The World is Money and Power.
* The title of this webtoon is referenced in multiple webtoons:
	+ In season 2, Ep.96 of The World is Money and Power
	+ In season 1, Ep.79, of Study Group.
	+ In Ep.4, of Student Peace Council.
	+ In season 1, Ep.42, of To Not Die
	+ In season 2, Ep.32, of To Not Die
	+ In Ep.84, on the PVP phone of Hanlim Gym.

## Criticism & Evaluation

NOTE: ALL CRITICISM & EVALUATION ARE TAKEN FROM NAMU WIKI. REFER TO THIS CITATION FOR THE SOURCE.

### Popularity

2022 Highest Serial Webtoon Rank2022 Webtoon Sales RankIt is YLab's No. 1 webtoon in sales in 2022 and achieved 2.3 billion won ($1,521,207.52.+). It continues to hold first place in Monday popularity with (*1st place ranked by male readers & 3rd place ranked by femaled readers*) and is ranked 4th in the overall weekly ranking. In addition, it is popular among Blue String webtoons because it often satirizes Korean social issues.

Before it was moved to the Completed tab, it was ranked 4th in popularity on Monday. Two days after the start of the second series, the "*death of a teacher at Seoi Elementary School*" in Seoul occurred, and its popularity rose again, reaching the top spot in the Monday webtoon popularity list.

### Evaluation

Garam Han's illustration has been upgraded further. At the time, it was characterized by a change from a cute drawing style to a dramatic drawing style. The realistic dramatization style that matches the story increases immersion, and the human body is not awkward, and the expressions and direction of the characters are diverse, so the drawing is of a high standard.

Each school episode progresses quickly, with an average of about 7 eps. Although the story itself is novel and interesting, the plot has many cliches like other webtoons, so it is evaluated as somewhat ordinary. There were concerns that the villains in each episode were victims who became perpetrators, so there were concerns that the perpetrators were being glorified, but since this was not glorified in the story, there have been no major problems with this so far.

First of all, the characters who appeared as villains in the story met a miserable ending accordingly, and although there were rare characters who were rehabilitated, they were rehabilitated by paying the price they deserved or receiving forgiveness from the victims. However, there are very few unfair or bitter cases. Such as Gyeom Ma.

It is different from the characteristics of Blue String webtoons. A representative example is that it does not unfold through the gang fight structure, which is the standard of school action dramas. The story also moves from school to school rather than continuity, and has a strong omnibus tendency.

### Criticism

* **Causing Fire** - criticism emerged that it is only used as a tool to stimulate social problems, repeating the same development over time. The development of a story that deals with social issues inspired by actual events and punishes them in the same pattern without considering them is social accusation. The criticism is that it does not raise awareness and is merely a material to attract readers. The antagonists that seem to reflect social problems are portrayed as one-dimensional villains.
	+ This kind of appearance can only convey to readers a condemnation of villains instead of awareness of social problems. There is a problem that if an incident is treated in a dichotomous way in a webtoon, the essence of the incident is damaged, regardless of whether the webtoon itself is right or wrong.

* **Harsh Punishments** - The most problematic part is that it advocates harsh punishment; punishing the perpetrator in the same way the victim was punished, as good. The problem is that these are not taken into consideration and are only treated positively. Perhaps conscious of the criticism, in later episodes, it is true that they are aiming for strict punishment, but they regard the offender's sincere remorse as the best outcome.

* **Racism Spark** - the treatment of black & mixed-race characters sparked controversy over overseas. As there were more multicultural families than Koreans in local schools, a story of reverse discrimination was developed in which Koreans were bullied by them, and Daniel Hyeon, was of mixed white race fought against the racism from black and mixed-race characters. The problem is that it uses a very small number of cases as the subject matter, even though in reality it is the opposite.

* **Reflecting Reality Error** - There are some contradicting errors within the world of the webtoon & reality. To save space, refer to this citation:

* **Ugly Antagonists** - The good and bad characters are drawn that is easily distinguished by appearance. At the beginning of the serial, there were bad-looking villains, and were all drawn in an ordinary way, so they were not noticeable, but as the series continued, the good character still had an ordinary face, but the villain was drawn with a face that no one could see.

### Controversies

* **Expensive Rental Price** - the rental and purhcase price was increased then average webtoon.. So there are many comments protesting the high price. Because of this, there were cases where the star rating was lowered regardless of the content of the cartoon. It was announced that Naver decides the rental price after listening to the opinions of the author and publisher.

* **Asuno Debate** - Asuno, is a youth human rights organization in Korea. They essentially condemn the webtoon for advocating teachers' corporal punishment of students. For more info, refer to citation here.

* **Feminism Controversey** - Due to this arc, it increased the though of the conspiracy theory about child brainwashing and abuse by a feminist teacher organization. This caused backlash from the female elementary school community, and Naver Customer Center reported that the incident was fabricated.

* **Negative Comments** - Due to the nature of Naver Webtoon, many disputes arise in the comments, but the problem is even more severe in this webtoon, with comments containing neagtive speech being ranked as the best. For more info, refer to this citation.

* **Racism Controversy** - Due to the info to be very long, refer to this citation here to read.

## Media and Merchandise

### Media

* **OST** - A song titled "**Perfect**," was created by Jo Gwang-il featuring Brown Tigger.

* **Drama** - In June 2023, DART's securities filing following YLab's initial public offering announced plans to begin filming in the fourth quarter of 2023 and to begin airing in 2024. However, as the webtoon became embroiled in various controversies, including racial discrimination, and its external evaluation deteriorated, there was a possibility that production would be halted.

### Merch

* **English Paperback** - Appears you can buy 3 volumes for English.
	+ https://www.ablaze.net/products?c=88

## Trivia

* This webtoon was released in May 2020 when YLab announced its new lineup.
* There are multiple mentions/easter eggs of Super String.
	+ In one episode," Hwan Seok, the protag of **Reawakened Man**, appeared as an Easter egg when a girl explains her webtoon about a man who revives after 3 days as he fight zombies. Following afterwards, Hanlim Lim, mentioned that that the red hair looks familiar, alluding that a Blue String version of Hwan Seok exists.
	+ In Ep. 9, Suki Kang & Chulsoo Kim, from **Neolithic Girl** appears on the exam sheet.
	+ In ep. 32 & 42, it featured **Housekeeper** easter eggs as both are writtened by the same author.
		- Ep.32
		- Ep.42
* In ep. 38, Sohee Bom, a former Ylab author of Super String, **Electronic Horror Store** & Redstring, **This Wasn't My Plan** was featured as an easter egg. This is because both authors have a father and daughter relationship.
* This webtoon is a setting that the TRPA was created to correct the collapsed teaching rights, but a short time after the webtoon was serialized, the law was strengthened from 2021 by the Committee for the Protection of Teachers' Rights, which plays a similar role to the TRPA in real life, and the webtoon will be protected in the future.
* After the story arc of Shillabyeol Elementary School was revealed, cartoonist and teacher, "Otori," mentioned this episode on Twitter at August 9. However, this person is being criticized after past actions of putting a stapler in a student's clothes were revealed from a post (November 17, 2014).
* In episode 77, Hwajin parodied ADSL's advertisement: "If you want to follow me, follow me! BDSL~"
* It is the fourth webtoon among Blue String webtoons to exceed 100 episodes.
* The entire premise of the webtoon was inspired by the author's own webtoon of **Reawakened Man** Season 0. Where a group called Punishment Dream/Dreams Come True were punishing bullies. The author thought that the objective of the group was a good idea.

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## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://namu.wiki/w/참교육(웹툰)#s-3
2. ↑ https://n.news.naver.com/mnews/article/008/0004972280?sid=101
3. ↑ http://ylabcomics.com/bbs/board.php?bo\_table=02\_02\_eng#2
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 https://namu.wiki/w/참교육(웹툰)#s-6
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 https://namu.wiki/w/참교육(웹툰)/평가#s-2
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 https://namu.wiki/w/참교육(웹툰)/평가#s-3
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 https://namu.wiki/w/참교육(웹툰)/평가#s-3.1
8. ↑ https://namu.wiki/w/논란%20및%20사건%20사고#s-1
9. ↑ https://namu.wiki/w/참교육(웹툰)/논란%20및%20사건%20사고#s-2
10. ↑ https://namu.wiki/w/참교육(웹툰)/논란%20및%20사건%20사고#s-3
11. ↑ https://namu.wiki/w/참교육(웹툰)/논란%20및%20사건%20사고#s-4
12. ↑ https://namu.wiki/w/참교육(웹툰)/논란%20및%20사건%20사고#s-5
13. ↑ https://namu.wiki/w/참교육(웹툰)#s-9
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 https://namu.wiki/w/참교육(웹툰)#s-10
15. ↑ Get Schooled, Season 1, Ep. 89
16. ↑ https://namu.wiki/w/%EB%B4%84%EC%86%8C%ED%9D%AC#s-4
17. ↑ Get Schooled, Season 1, Special Episode 1