It is a story of a weak boy who topped his class, and his physical appearances are not that attractive though. He seems like a weak boy who is a nerd and interested in deep psychology.
He is a sensitive could who could not bear the harm and bad doing of others. He fights for anything that makes him sad and troubled. Yeon Shi-Eun always gets bullied in his high school.
In this journey of being bullied by others, he joins two more guys who are suffering the same. Soo and Bum helped him in becoming stronger day by day so that he could fight against opponents with bravery and no fear.
The trio becomes a gang that fights the whole world together. Si Eun is a smart guy who is a model student with the best grades. However, his life has other problems.
He is not so strong, and his physique depicts his weakness to those who want to bully him. In an accident, he becomes the easy prey of Jeon Yeong-bin, and he decides to take revenge on it.
It is a story of a student who decided to go against the bully culture, which seems fun but can be a total disaster for someone like him. A group of trio fights against all the bad influences of bullies.
The Kings of Pigs
Two brutal and hard lives: two men named Kyung and Jong-suk, best friends, but time separated these two. In their school, they deal with bullying and hatred, and both stories are the same.
After their school life, Kyung-min becomes a businessman, and his old friend Jong-suk is still dealing with being a writer. As they met again, they realized that life had done a lot to them, and now they are in a better situation than before. Remembering their old life made their friendship even stronger, and they bonded well.
As they meet, K-Drama goes into a flashback of the past, where they experience bullying and hatred from students. Those violent memories of school, when students used to divide into two categories as pigs and dogs.
The rule is that pigs will be bullied by the dog group. Only those who are weak and can’t defend themselves are considered to be pigs, and those who are rude and able to bully these weak ones are considered dogs.
As Kyung and Jong go back to their past life with the help of flashbacks, they realize that they have come way far in their life. The King of Pigs is the best K Drama which comes with the life of two students who fight for their group and let the dog group know that the pig group is the best.
In the K Drama, Kyun and Jong fight with no mercy. There was a lot of bloodshed due to the cruelty of the dog group. Bullying can change a victim’s life forever, and even after years, it is hard to forget about these incidences, and even these two best friends still remember those cruel bullying phases of their life.
- Director: Yeon Sang-ho
- Genre: K Drama, Thriller, and Bully Plot
- Released Year: 2011
- Where to Watch: Amazon
Revenge of Others
The K Drama Revenge of Others is a whole set of mini-series that comes with a range of stories. In the drama, each mini-series comes with dealing with struggles and personal issues, which might be interesting to watch.
The drama is set in a high school where most of the innocent students face a bully. All the students face the bully and never fight back, which can make the audience sick.
The level of torture and bullying is at another level, which leaves a mark forever. A game bully can take one life and disturb their physical and mental health. A boy was killed at school, and no one knows who did it. It might be a case of intense bullying, which converted into murder.
Chan is the sister of the victim who was murdered and killed by someone. She doesn’t believe in it and fights back against the killers. She met Ji Soo Heon, who described more to her about the death, which gave her hope of finding a killer.
A hero comes into the plot who starts treating those who are bullying, and even he can be seen caring less if the person is a girl who bullies. Chan starts doubting that the new hero might be her dead brother as she counters many similarities between her brother and the hero.
It is a story of a bully who explains how Chan’s brother has to be a hero with a mask and beat all the bad students in the school. Revenge of others is all about how a victim of a bully becomes the hero and starts taking innocent student revenge for themselves.
- Director: Park Chan-wook
- Genre: K Drama, Thriller, and Bully Plot
- Released Year: 2022
- Where to Watch: Hulu
How to Buy a Friend
The drama follows a story of a high school kid who gets triggered by his bullying incident and chooses a battle in which he will fight back with his tactics and plans.
Par Chan-hong decided to quit his shy life, due to which everyone made him feel inferior and even decided to bully him. He was tired of being a victim and decided to get rid of his class bullies, and he comes with an idea and plans that could save his life and innocence from bullies.
Park Chan-hong decided to hire a bully master who would beat all those who tried to hurt him. He hired Heo Don-Hyeok, who is a professional fighter and a real troublemaker. He pays him lots of money to be his bodyguard and stands up for him in the middle of everything so far.
The surprising part is that Heo Don-Hyeok accepted the offer and started working as a bodyguard. As they started being together all day, they also started getting each other better.
Their relationship gets better, and they become close friends. Now, no one can touch and bully Park as he has the strongest and boldest bodyguard in the whole school. His bodyguard can be seen playing the role of his protector, and so can his best friend.
The only fair deal is that he has to pay money for his service. Park Chan and his only bodyguard and friends started making each bully life hell, and no one now dares to come closer to these two.
A perfect plan Park works, but he realizes that if someday his bodyguard will not be with him, he has no choice but to face all those things again. He decided to get on stronger than before.
- Director: Yoon Soo-jin
- Genre: K Drama, Thriller, and Bully Plot
- Released Year: 2020
- Where to Watch: Amazon
Alice, The Final Weapon
Gyeo is a normal-looking girl and a high school student. In the drama in starting, she looks like a normal girl studying and minding her own business. She is an introvert and rarely meets anyone.
Gyeo has few friends in the school. She prefers to be alone than dozens of people only gossiping. She is living with a dark secret that no one can expect from her. She is a trained killer and kills people for a purpose.
Even though she is a transferred student due to her killing attempt before, she has to hide her true killing identity in the new school so that she can be there. Her life changed when she met Yeo Reum, who is a simple guy and also an introvert.
He has his past trauma and feels nothing except pain, even if he only feels alive when someone causes pain to him. When he met Gyeo, he realized that there was something different about this girl. They both came along with each other’s company when a criminal-based organization started chasing both of them.
Running from the organization, they stuck together and started knowing about each other. They both avoided each other at first, but destiny brought them together, and they started spending time together.
Now Gyeo and Yeo have no choice but to fight back against the organization which is there to chase them. To save each other’s lives, they fall in love, an unusual love story between a killer girl and a shy, traumatized guy.
- Director: Baek Soo-chan
- Genre: K Drama, Thriller, Romance and Bully Plot
- Released Year: 2022
The Glory
One of the latest K Drama on how much the trauma of bullying can affect one’s life completely, that her whole life becomes a revenge story. A victim of a bully wanted revenge on all those girls who bullied her during her teenage years for no reason.
After she got a job as a teacher, she decided to take revenge on those who gave her never-ending trauma. Moon Dong-Eun is a girl who was bullied by her classmates. They used her for money and beat her every day.
They all come from wealthy families and treat other class students with cruelty and harm. No one can even take action against these wealthy family kids as police never arrest them due to their power and wealth.
Violence and bullying cross the line when they give Moon Dong-Eun severe wounds and burning wounds, which have been visible to her since the incidence of bullying. Dong-Eun attempted suicide many times, but she decided that she would take revenge, never forgetting revenge in history.
She decided to drop out of school, and afterward, her family even left her. She has no one to support her in her hardest phase.
- Director: Ahn Gil-ho
- Genre: K Drama, Thriller, and Bully Plot
- Released Year: 2023
- Where to Watch: Netflix
D.P
A young army who is committed to their duties and tracking down villains. South Korean soldiers face all the likely trauma. Ahn Joon-ho, a fearless soldier, is well-served in his military unit.
Ahn Joon-ho’s job is to track those soldiers who are missing. Ahn Joon-ho’s main job is to get them back into the military. With his mission of bringing back the soldiers, he got a variety of experiences.
He started realizing that in the military, there is injustice out there, which brings him to a broken mental health stage. It focuses on mental health and bullying themes. This shows how the military treats its soldiers, and these soldiers are often in the depression and run away from their jobs. A military that is supposed to save citizens is toxic and not performing duties well. They are killing their own soldiers.
Ahn Joon-ho’s well played the role of a total soldier and performed all fights with bravery. He also fought for his soldiers from his own military unit, and it was the right thing to do by him. D.P. K drama is about military service, which has dark secrets of its own.
- Director: Han Jun-hee
- Genre: K Drama, Thriller, and Bully Plot
- Released Year: 2021
- Where to Watch: Netflix
Class of Lies
A lawyer is on a mission to find a possible criminal who is killing kids out there in the school. He joins as a teacher so that no one can doubt him. Moo-hyeok was on a mission to find the reality behind the mysterious deaths of the students in the school.
Moo-Hyeok played two roles in the drama, and his real job was being a lawyer and solving cases with no evidence. He is really crazy about his profession. He is here to solve the mystery of murder and who is behind it.
In his investigation, he gets to know that most of the students have their agendas and revenge stories. Each one comes with its vulnerabilities and fears. He started forming bonds with students so that he could find what he had been missing for a long time in his investigation so far.
When he met one of his fellows, a teacher named Ha So-Hyun, who had her agenda and tactics, she had more secrets than students. He realized that in the school, teachers are also involved in the game of murder and killing of innocent kids.
Class of Lies drama, in the end, comes with the conclusion that students are killed as they show bravery by talking about the bully in the school. They were killed and murdered by someone who was supported by teachers also.
- Director: Sung Yong-il
- Genre: K Drama, Thriller, and Bully Plot
- Released Year: 2019
My ID Is Gangnam Beauty
Kang Mi-rae, a woman, goes through her most recent plastic surgery. She did it because she had been bullied her whole life due to her looks. She believes that she is ugly and that only plastic surgery can transform her.
To get fit in and be accepted by society, she started a journey of changing her whole identity as she rejoined college after her surgery and is now badly impacted by the negative comments.
Even some people get impressed by her new looks and praised her for being beautiful now. Everyone started knowing her by their new name and title of Gangnam Beauty.
She met one of the perfect students named Kyung-Seok, and he had the personality of the charming guy on the college campus. The twist comes when she realizes that he is a guy who prefers natural beauty and believes in character.
He is more into inner beauty and the outer appearance of someone, and this makes her worried as she starts to fall for him. Mi-rae faces lots of judgment and hate from people who are into good looks, and she faces bullying from students.
In the drama, it is clear that outer appearances matter the most, which is why she chooses plastic surgery to get away from all her problems. MY ID is Gangnam Beauty is a story of a girl who faces a world around her that never accepts someone who does not match their beauty standards.
As time passes by and she is never able to impress Kyun-seok with her new beauty, she realizes that she never needed plastic surgery to be beautiful in the first place.
- Director: Choi Sung-bum
- Genre: K Drama, Thriller, and Bully Plot
- Released Year: 2018
- Where to Watch: Netflix
Extracurricular
A drama that comes with students and their choices to enter a world full of crime. Students become part of an illegal game which is dangerous enough to make someone point out their own choices in life.
The story starts with a main lead named Kim Ji-soo, who is a shy and nerdy high school student. She can be seen living a normal life until a difficult phase comes into his life. In his secret life, he has a business where he is into some kind of sexual trafficking.
Kim is into such a business so that he can pay his college fee and support himself with his daily expenses. His life changed when Gyu-ri got to know about his secret, and she started blackmailing him for being a criminal.
She blackmailed him for involving him in his work, which is a lie. She is a lonely person and needs a spark in her life. As they both get into a game of illegal games, they realize that it is hard to hide from the police forever and that being a criminal is like always hiding.
Another student named Min-hee also got suspicious of their activities and now wanted to know more about them. She is a good friend and investigates more about the web in which her friends are.
She decided to save them from the crime world. The cost of living a dual life is costly and is well realized by Kim and Gyu in the drama Extracurricular.
- Director: Kim Jin-min
- Genre: K Drama, Thriller, and Bully Plot
- Released Year: 2020
- Where to Watch: Netflix
The Uncanny Counter
A gang that has supernatural powers and abilities to fight the world. The gang is tasked with finding evil spirits and those who escape to the human world. The task is to find these spirits in the human world and capture them so that they can take them back to where they came from.
So Mun, who is a high school student, has discovered his supernatural powers lately. He experienced these powers only when he was near death, and it was almost like a near-death experience for him.
As they all get into the action of capturing the spirits, they also discover their powers and abilities to fight the world. So Mun’s new life is challenging and full of dangers, as it is not an easy fight with spirits and ghosts.
He takes help from his teammates, who help him in controlling his powers which haven’t gotten any expertise. The supernatural world is full of spirits, and the real world is now full of spirits. As the spirits can transform them into humans, it is not easy for them to find out about the real one.
The drama The Uncanny Counter is full of mystery and spirits. So Mun decided to dedicate his powers to save humankind from all other world spiritual energies.
- Director: Yoo Seon-dong
- Genre: K Drama, Thriller, and Bully Plot
- Released Year: 2020
- Where to Watch: Netflix
Angry Mom
She is a hardworking and determined mother who is all about to get into the mission of saving her kid from bullying. Her daughter has faced bullying and politics in the school.
Jo Kang-ja is a mother who is concerned about her daughter’s safety and bad mental health, and her daughter is a victim of the bully. She gets to know that her teenage daughter is not happy in her life, and her daughter named, Oh Ah-ran, is getting bullied in school badly.
Her daughter’s life is becoming hell day by day, as no one in the school is supporting and saving her from the crime. Kang-ja decided that she would fight for her daughter and take it personally.
She enrolled in the same school as a student and looked like a teenager. To get to know more about those students who were making her life daughter’s life hell.
Kang started befriending all the students and teachers so that she could find the truth. She met Park No-ah, who is a teacher, and helped her in the mission of finding those students who were bullying her daughter.
The drama shows the harsh reality of high school, where weak and shy students are not safe in school. They are bullied each day which affects their whole life as a never forgetting trauma.
- Director: Choi Byung-Gil
- Genre: K Drama, Thriller, and Bully Plot
- Released Year: 2015
- Where to Watch: Amazon
Who are You School
A traumatizing life experience for a student who experiences Scholl as hell. The trauma caused amnesia, and now she is in a state of not being able to remember anything of the past.
Lee Eun-bi is a shy and kind-hearted girl, and she experiences heartbreaking experiences in school. She was bullied and attempted to commit suicide. She tried to jump off the bridge and wanted to take away her own life as she was hurtled and traumatized by the incident.
She did not die as she committed suicide and lost her memory. Her life changed when Kang So-young found her and took care of her, and he helped her in her healing journey as she tried to remember her past.
He named and gave her a new identity as Go Eun-Byul. She is still a shy girl but with amnesia. As she finds her new life challenging, she can be seen on the web full of past traumatizing life and never-ending new challenges.
Eun Bi has to find the reason behind her suicide and the people behind it. So-young helped her in getting a new identity and also helped her in finding those people who bullied her badly.
- Director: Baek Sang-hoon
- Genre: K Drama, Thriller, and Bully Plot
- Released Year: 2015
Save Me
A young woman named Sang-mi moves to a new place with her family and looks forward to a new life, a fresh start. In the new city, local religious groups target innocent girls for their benefit, and she becomes the victim of it.
Unfortunately, she becomes their victim, and her life becomes hell. Her own family is religious, which is the main reason they send her to the hands of people who want to harm her for their benefit.
Sang-hwan and Man-hee are her friends. When they get to know about her condition, they make a plan to save her from these religious groups. They are all now on a mission to save Sang-mi from the criminals, and they discover the sinister abuse.
They harm innocent kids and abuse them in the name of treating them. Sang-mi realized that she was not in a safe place. She asked her parents about the abuse of Sinister, but her family decided not to protect her as they had no idea what she was going through.
Her friends wanted to save her from the abusive sinister who was taking many people’s lives for his good.
- Director: Kim Sung-soo
- Genre: K Drama, Thriller, and Bully Plot
- Released Year: 2017
- Where to Watch: Amazon
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