The short Get Schooled manhwa reading guide: start at episode 1 and read Season 1 to its finale. It's 111 episodes, it ends properly, and you don't need Lookism or anything else first. The catch is where: Get Schooled (참교육, Chamgyoyuk) has had no official English edition online since 2023, so most of this guide is about which version you can actually open.
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Get Schooled
If you came here searching Bong Geun-dae after watching Teach You a Lesson on Netflix, skip to that section below. The short version: he's a character created for the drama, P.O plays him, and he doesn't appear in the webtoon.
Get Schooled (참교육), story by Chae Yong-taek, art by Han Ga-ram (cover via AniList).
Get Schooled at a glance
| Episodes on Naver | Ran | In English? | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 1화 to 111화, plus a finale special | November 2020 to December 2022 | Not online anymore; Ablaze print volumes |
| Season 2 | 112화 onward | July 2023, paused, back January 2024, still weekly | No |
The premise is simple. In Naver's own one-line synopsis, Na Hwajin of the Education Rights Protection Bureau (교권보호국) steps in to protect teachers' authority after it has collapsed. Each case drops him into a different school. He investigates, gets hit, hits back harder, and moves on. Na Hwajin and his colleague Im Han-rim both work for the Ministry of Education, per AniList's character entries.
Where to read Get Schooled now
English, online: nowhere official. The English WEBTOON page that AniList still links now returns "This series is currently unavailable." That's not a glitch. In September 2023 an episode set in a rural school drew accusations of racism, and Naver Webtoon said: "The series has been canceled and will not be returning in the US." It also suspended the Korean run "while we conduct an internal review," as the Korea Herald reported at the time.
English, print: Ablaze. Ablaze kept its print edition going: Volume 1 came out on October 4, 2023, with two more volumes announced for December 2023 and March 2024, according to ICv2. Ablaze told ICv2 the episode at the center of the controversy isn't part of its license.
Korean: Naver Webtoon. The original never left Naver. It's listed as a Monday webtoon, and the newest numbered episode at our check was 263화, dated October 11, 2026.
Other languages: WEBTOON's local editions. The Thai edition is current (Episode 262 on October 10, 2026) and the Traditional Chinese edition is still listed, if either language works for you.
Get Schooled series poster (image: Naver Webtoon).
Season 1: read it straight through
Season 1 ran weekly on Naver from 1화 on November 1, 2020 to 111화 on December 25, 2022, followed by a Season 1 finale special. Every episode is labeled by number only. Neither Naver nor WEBTOON has published official arc titles, so arc names you see on trackers are fan labels.
How to read it:
- Start at episode 1. The cases are mostly self-contained, but Na Hwajin's reason for doing this job and the recurring bureau cast only land if you begin at the start.
- Give it a handful of cases before you judge. The early cases are the most shocking ones, while you're still working out how far the series is willing to go.
- Stop at 111 if you need English. Season 1 resolves. You won't be left mid-cliffhanger.
Readers split on how well the formula holds up. In an r/manhwa thread asking whether it's worth reading, the top reply was blunt: "I mean, not really....repetitive asf and most cases are not interesting to read." Another reader in the same thread had the fairer advice: "yeah i would give it a few chapters, you usually know pretty fast whether the tone is going to work for you."
Season 2 and the English gap
Season 2 began on Naver with 112화 on July 16, 2023. After the September 2023 controversy the Korean run went quiet, and it came back with 125화 on January 28, 2024. It hasn't stopped since, which makes Season 2 longer than Season 1 by now: more than 150 numbered episodes on its own.
None of that is in English. If you want Season 2, your options are the Korean original or the Thai and Traditional Chinese WEBTOON editions. Our take: finish Season 1 first, then decide whether you like the formula enough to follow it in another language.
For our full verdict on the writing, the art and the ethics of the premise:
Get Schooled Manhwa Review →
Bong Geun-dae and Teach You a Lesson
Bong Geun-dae is the name a lot of readers search, and the Netflix drama is why. Netflix's announcement for Teach You a Lesson introduced "the bureau's core team": Na Hwa-jin (Kim Moo-yul), Choi Gang-seok (Lee Sung-min), Im Han-rim (Jin Ki-joo) and Bong Geun-dae (Pyo Ji-hoon). The Korea Times notes that Pyo Ji-hoon is "also known as P.O. of K-pop boy group Block B." Of the four, only Bong Geun-dae has no webtoon counterpart: Maeil Business calls him "an original series character who does not appear in the webtoon," so you won't meet him if you start reading.
The show premiered on June 5, 2026 and went straight to No. 1 on Netflix's weekly non-English show chart, with 6.4 million views in its first few days. If the drama is your way in, the manhwa reads faster and rougher. Our Get Schooled characters guide covers the webtoon cast and what the drama added, and our Teach You a Lesson guide covers the drama.
Teach You a Lesson official trailer from the Netflix K-Content YouTube channel.
Get Schooled Thai edition poster (image: WEBTOON Thai series page).
Our Take
Our Get Schooled manhwa reading guide comes down to one line: read Season 1 and treat it as the whole story unless you read Korean, Thai or Chinese. It's a revenge-fantasy case file: cathartic when it works, repetitive when it doesn't, and you'll know which within a few cases. If the drama hooked you, the manhwa is worth a try for the cases the show didn't use. Just don't go looking for an official English Season 2. There isn't one.
How We Checked This
For this update we read Naver's episode list for the series (via its public list API), the WEBTOON English, Thai and Traditional Chinese pages, AniList, Netflix's premiere announcement, and the Korea Herald, Korea Times and ICv2 reports, one quoted row per fact in our sources table. The old version had several things wrong: the newest Korean episode was given as 268화 when Naver's list ends at 263화; Bong Geun-dae was described as a violent student, while Netflix lists him in the bureau's core team; and claims about a renewal and about the "14 arcs" had no source we could open, so they're gone. We also dropped the FAQ and summary blocks, which repeated the body.
Last reviewed: October 15, 2026
Related Reading
- Get Schooled Manhwa Review: our 7.5 verdict and where the formula wears thin.
- Get Schooled Characters: Na Hwajin, Bong Geun-dae and the bureau, character by character.
- Manhwa Like Get Schooled: what to read next if you liked the catharsis but want an English edition.
- Teach You a Lesson: Netflix K-Drama: the drama's cast and what it changed.
- Lookism Reading Guide: where to start the other long-running school fighter readers pair with this one.
- Best Action Manhwa 2026: action series you can read in English right now.
References
- 참교육 (Get Schooled) on Naver Webtoon: Korean original and episode list
- Get Schooled on AniList: credits, Korean title, characters
- Get Schooled on WEBTOON (English): withdrawn; the old series page now shows "This series is currently unavailable."
- Get Schooled on WEBTOON Thai: current local edition
- Korea Herald: Get Schooled canceled in US: the 2023 controversy
- ICv2: Ablaze to publish Get Schooled collection: print volumes
- Netflix: Teach You a Lesson premiere: date and cast
- Korea Times: Teach You a Lesson tops Netflix chart: first-week numbers
