History Webcomic / GetSchooled

''Get Schooled'' (True Education/참교육) is a drama webcomic written by Yongtaek Chae and drawn by Garam Han. The translated version was hosted on Platform/{{Webtoon}} [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/drama/get-schooled/list?title_no=2684 here]], but the comic was removed from the English Webtoon services for depicting racist activity in a positive manner. After a hiatus in order to improve the story from this scandal, it returned on January 29, 2024.

''Get Schooled'' (True Education/참교육) is a drama webcomic written by Yongtaek Chae and drawn by Garam Han. The translated version was hosted on Platform/{{Webtoons}} [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/drama/get-schooled/list?title_no=2684 here]], but the comic was removed from the English Webtoon services for depicting racist activity in a positive manner. After a hiatus in order to improve the story from this scandal, it returned on January 29, 2024.

''Get Schooled'' (True Education/참교육) is a drama webcomic written by Yongtaek Chae and drawn by Garam Han. The translated version was hosted on Website/{{Webtoons}} [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/drama/get-schooled/list?title_no=2684 here]], but the comic was removed from the English Webtoon services for depicting racist activity in a positive manner. After a hiatus in order to improve the story from this scandal, it returned on January 29, 2024.

* SequelHook: Season 1 ends on two notes:
** [[spoiler: [[AmoralAttorney Junbin Lee]] is writing an article claiming the actions of the TRPA are abusing human rights, meaning he's not done with Hwajin.]]
** [[spoiler: And more ominously, it's revealed that Gyucheol has been trying to track down the fiancé of Gayoon, his teacher that he killed. Jung-Hyuk then tells his boss he had found him and Gyucheol orders another underling to find a picture of him online... and it's Hwajin, who he had spoken with him before when he secretly posed as a counselor. Gyucheol pieces it together and [[EvilLaugh begins to laugh hysterically]] when he realizes who Hwajin really is.]]

''Get Schooled'' (True Education/참교육) is a drama webcomic written by Yongtaek Chae and drawn by Garam Han. The translated version was hosted on Website/{{Webtoons}} [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/drama/get-schooled/list?title_no=2684 here]], but the comic was removed from the English Webtoon services for depicting racist activity in a positive manner. The story is currently on hiatus in order to improve the story from this scandal. Now this webcomic is due to make a return on January 29, 2024.

''Get Schooled'' (True Education/참교육) is a drama webcomic written by Yongtaek Chae and drawn by Garam Han. The translated version was hosted on Website/{{Webtoons}} [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/drama/get-schooled/list?title_no=2684 here]], but the comic was removed from the English Webtoon services for depicting racist activity in a positive manner. The series is currently on hiatus in order to improve the story from this scandal.

''Get Schooled'' (True Education/참교육) is a drama webcomic written by Yongtaek Chae and drawn by Garam Han. The translated version was hosted on Website/{{Webtoons}} [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/drama/get-schooled/list?title_no=2684 here]], but the comic was removed from both Korean and English Webtoon services for depicting racist activity in a positive manner. The series is currently on hiatus in order to improve the story from this scandal.

''Get Schooled'' (True Education/참교육) is a drama webcomic written by Yongtaek Chae and drawn by Garam Han. The translated version was hosted on Website/{{Webtoons}} [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/drama/get-schooled/list?title_no=2684 here]], but the comic was removed from both Korean and English Webtoon services for depicting racist activity in a positive manner.

''Get Schooled'' (True Education/참교육) is a drama webcomic written by Yongtaek Chae and drawn by Garam Han. The translated version is hosted on Website/{{Webtoons}} [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/drama/get-schooled/list?title_no=2684 here]].

-->-- '''Hawjin Na'''

* AbusiveParents: Junhyeok's father is shown to be extremely physically abusive to his son, regularly beating him with a golf club.

* PlayingTheVictimCard: The bullies' usual first reaction to the [=TRPA=]'s methods is to whine about how hard life is for them now and how brutal the wardens' methods are.

* AndThenWhat: Indirectly asked by Mr. Na when Yeri prepares to beat Mr. Cheon to death for what he's put her through. He points out that Yeri is already responsible for the death of one teacher, one who had actually tried to help her no less. Killing Mr. Cheon would achieve nothing but add to her criminal record.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: When he introduces himself to his first class, Mr. Na starts reading from the attendance list and stops at the name of Daesok Park, a student who recently killed himself due to the school's bullying-problem. When the class goes silent, he innocently asks if the student in question is absent. Right after that when he correctly deduces that a student who has a strong alcohol-smell has merely been drenched in it to cover for the bullies who were actually drinking, he asks the one who did the drenching whether this is how he killed Daesok Park as well.

** Mr. Na is ex-military and an expert not only in hand-to-hand combat, but also psychological warfare. He's amazing at figuring out how the bullies at the schools he's assigned to work and then turn their very own systems and methods against them.
** Miss Lim has served in the military like Mr. Na and is currently leading her own martial arts gym. But unlike Mr. Na, she doesn't take time to be psychological and jumps right to asserting her dominance via her close combat-skills. While she does have great analytical talent on her own and good reflexes, she prefers a more hands-on approach overall.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The child abuse arc ends as this. Mien-so's parents are arrested for child abuse, much to his sorrow. However, his father has taken Mr. Na's lessons to heart and is reforming, and promises his son he'll be there once he serves his time.]]

* ComedicSpanking: Mr. Na spanking burly high school thugs like they're disobedient toddlers, brutal as it may be, is pretty funny.

** Soyeon highschool has such a high record of teachers' rights violations that even Mr. Na is shocked after he reads the files the first time. The female bullies might not be physically violent most of the time, but the psychological torture they put their teachers through is presented as just as, if not more, hellish than anything the male bullies in the previous two arcs did.
** Miss Lim, the female warden dispatched to the school, is a lot nastier than Mr. Na. Where Mr. Na at least showed concern for some of the students, Miss Lim has no sympathy for any of her charges and even slaps an entitled mother in the face in front of the entire class to demonstrate that she can take whatever the students might try to throw at her.

** After Mr. Na gives the teachers at the trial run school the go to use corporal punishment again, most of them react euphoric and immediately start enforcing draconic punishments on the school's bullies and troublemakers.

** Daesok, a student at the first school Mr. Na is sent to, threw himself off the roof of his school due to the relentless bullying he was subjected to by his peers. Kyeongnim, an underclassman of his, nearly does the same when he realizes neither the teachers nor the police have any power over the bullies at his school, but is stopped at the last second by Mr. Na.

* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Despite the above named excuses Na and Lim never condone the bullies' actions if the crimes are inexcusable. [[spoiler: In particular, while Lim understands Yeri's trauma, she thinks it doesn't justify her actions, considering Yeri also ruined the lives of Mr. Go's family when she drove him to suicide.]]
** This trope sums up the TRPA's stance nicely. Mr. Na's entire goal when he walks into a school is to drive the point home that ''no matter how bad you had it, you don't get to take that pain out on innocents.''

* HeartbrokenBadass: Mr. Na and President Choi are rather depressed when visiting the grave of Gayoon Choi. When Ms. Lim makes fun of Mr. Na’s long, unkempt hair, he shoots her down, proclaiming “I’m in mourning, you jerk!” [[MyGodWhatHaveIdone Her face says it all.]]

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Hanrim Lim one of the main characters in another Webtoon, ''[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Hanlim]] Gym''. According to WordOfGod, both stories are set in the same universe, as a part of the YLAB Comics called ''Blue String'' or ''Super String''.
* HeelRealization: One of the teachers during the CM Highschool arc has one after seeing all the students throw trash onto the grounds after they finished cleaning up and taunt them to resign. She’s left so distraught, realizing how much the students hate the teachers, she prepares to resign after apologizing to the students she abused. However, Mr. Na reveals that her students were willing to forgive her as while she had been abusive, they didn’t feel she deserved to lose her job.

* MysteriousPast: Very little is known about Mr. Na, his military career, or the extent of his relationship to Gayoon Choi, the late daughter of President Choi who may or may not have been the teacher that was killed by their own student and whose death led to the funding of the TRPA. [[spoiler: We see them together on what looks like a date in a flashback of chapter 98 and 100, then it’s confirmed in chapter 111 (and season 1 finale) they were engaged to wed. But Gayoon is killed by her own student, leaving Hwajin reeling in grief of his own fiancée’s death.]]

* OhCrap: The teachers at Yeri's junior high have this reaction when [[spoiler:Mr. Na makes it clear that the TRPA was created to fix teaching problems, ''not'' specifically to protect teachers. Therefore, if the ''teachers'' are the problem, the ''teachers'' get targeted.]]

** Type 2. [[spoiler:Mr. Na doesn't order it, exactly, but he does ignore when a gangster tries to apologize to ''him'' instead of his ''victim.'' Once he apologizes to the right person, Mr. Na stops [[{{NoHoldsBarredBeatdown}} rearranging his face.]]]]
** During the [=CM=] Highschool arc, Mr. Na orders the abusive teachers to ask for forgiveness from every student they've wronged as their "final exam". This act awards them the majority of points and is therefore mandatory for any teacher who wishes to "pass", or in other words: keep their job.

* ScareEmStraight: When confronted by a bunch of underaged kids who take advantage of the fact that they're too young to get arrested, Mr Na and Miss Lim promptly ''cart them off to juvie'', so they get an idea of what awaits them if they continue on with this life-style.

** Junhyeong's father is a congressman who is very good friends with the minister of education, which basically gives Junheyong diplomatic immunity. If any teacher tries to put an end to his group's bullying, all he has to do is mention his father's name and they back off. Mr. Na is openly discouraged from disciplining him for this very reason. Too bad for Junhyeong that Mr. Na couldn't care less about politics.

** Yeri slaps her friend Sohyeong around so she can pretend Miss Lim did it and sic Sohyeong's mother, who is the president of their school's booster club on the warden. It doesn't work out, as Miss Lim is about as afraid of challenging entitled parents as Mr. Na is, which is to say: Not at all.

* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Season 2 opens up with Mr. Na and Miss Lim going through potential applicants for the TRPA, all not to their taste. Among them are a fellow school bully, a guy who just wants to beat up kids, and one who just says he'll work hard.

* WithMyHandsTied: In the cult arc, Miss Lim is captured and tied to a chair. All she needs is [[spoiler:one free hand and a pen to stab Pastor Kim in the neck and hold him hostage. Even if he didn't get close to her, she would have thrown the pen at him from a distance]].

* WouldntHitAGirl: Implied, but also subverted, kind of. Mr. Na is actually hesitant when he reads that his next assignment is at an all-girls school which might imply he doesn't like the thought of using his [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown usual method of character correction]] on girls. However, when him and Miss Lim have a strategy meeting later on, he seems prepared for dispatch and even starts working up a way to defeat [[AlphaBitch Yeri]], before Miss Lim flat-out tells him this might not be the job for him and takes over.
** That said, he is willing to hit a female teacher.

* WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied: [[spoiler: Gyucheol brags to Mr. Na about his murder of Gayoon, going so far as to call the body punch he killed her with "the best punch in his life" while smiling like a lunatic. Downplayed, as Gyucheol is completely unaware of Mr. Na's relation to Gayoon and just believes him to be a regular councellor. Until chapter 111 when he finds out that the “counselor” he was bragging to was Gayoon’s fiancé, and he’s been hunting him down for quite some time. And he lets out an EvilLaugh as he pieces it all together.]]

** [[Spoiler: Gyucheol Cho outright murdered his teacher, Gayoon, because she was his teacher and tried to stop him from ditching school.]]

* AlphaBitch: Yeri is this for Soyeon highschool. She is the ringleader of the bullies there and has pretty much all of her teachers cowering in fear of her retaliations.

** It’s natural for President Choi, since this is his own daughter’s death he’s mourning, but it’s another thing for poor Hwajin because [[spoiler: Gayoon was his fiancée, who was a strong believer of the HeelFaceTurn, and was killed by her own student. And he had to deal with her killer’s boasting of how good it felt to beat her to death and play the victim at the same time!]]

* ActionGirl: Miss Lim is an expert at hand-to-hand combat and might even be a tougher warden than Mr. Na.

* TheDragon: Jung-Hyuk Lee serves as this to the G.Y gang, since his boss and true leader of the gang is currently incarcerated. [[spoiler: At the end of season 1, Gyucheol Cho is revealed to be the leader, and Jung-Hyuk is happy to join him in juvie since he finally fulfilled Gyucheol’s wishes on finding the identity of Gayoon’s fiancé. And it turns out to be Hwajin.]]

* WeCanRuleTogether: Jung-Hyuk Lee tries to recruit Gwonhyeok into the G.Y gang twice; both times he refused and in his final offer, responded by flipping the bird.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: [[spoiler: In episodes 34 and 35, Hwajin is left alone with Gayoon's killer, Gyucheol, and has to listen to him brag about how good it felt to kill her and then pull out the PlayingTheVictimCard by blaming his anger on the fact that the school refused to turn on air conditioning. Hwajin is more than capable of taking the guy on and if the guards were to enter the room, he could simply claim Gyucheol attacked him and he had to use self-defense, a more than believable scenario given Gyucheol's criminal record. Instead he just sits there and calmly listens to Gyucheol’s rant, not once letting him know what his own relation to Gayoon was. At the end of season 1, it’s revealed Hwajin’s true relation to Gayoon is the fact that they were engaged before her murder, and he held in his fury and vengeance against his fiancée’s killer!]]

** [[Spoiler: Gyucheol Cho outright murdered his teacher, Gayoon, because she was his teacher and tried to stop him from ditching school.]]
** Chiho Lee has no hesitation on literally beating girls into a hospital. Once Sera mouths him off, Seun, a female classmate and class president, tries to to defend her as he ferociously approaches them, and lands a heavy blow to the latter’s stomach. Once Sera dives in to attack him, he pulls out the brass knuckles and punches her bloody in the jaw. [[IWasBeatenByAGirl Sera pays him back for this.]]

** Euhjin Kim goes online and tries to expose her bully, Min Yojung, who’s a popular idol singer. At first she had some support, but the general public quickly turns on her once Yojung made it look like she’s innocent while her “jealous friend” slandered her without proof.

* CrocodileTears: Yeri's specialty. Whenever she gets in trouble she presses out a few tears and pretends to be just a poor misunderstood highschool girl. [[spoiler: This ends up biting her in the ass, as Miss Jung almost dying after Yeri tries this on her to get into her aprtment, leads to Yeri losing her last remaining ally and finally being held accountable for her crimes.]]

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: [[spoiler: In episodes 34 and 35, Mr. Na is left alone with Gayoon's killer and has to listen to him brag about how good it felt to kill her and then play the victim by blaming his anger on the fact that the school refused to turn on air conditioning. Mr. Na is more than capable of taking the guy on and if the guards were to enter the room, he could simply claim Gyucheol attacked him and he had to use self-defense, a more than believable scenario given Gyucheol's criminal record. Instead he just sits there and calmly listens to Gyucheol rant, not once letting him know what his own relation to Gayoon was.]]

-->--'''Hawjin Na'''

The series features a lot of commentary on the difficulty of educating troubled youths and how many modern laws like the taboo of a teacher touching a student often make it harder to do their jobs. It also analyzes how bullying can affect teachers as well as students and how modern day school-bullies often use the very laws meant to protect their victims to protect themselves from consequences for their actions and discusses the necessity of corporal punishment.

* AlphaBitch: Yeri is this for Soyeon highschool. She is the ring leader of the bullies there and has pretty much all of her teachers cowering in fear of her retaliations.

* BaitAndSwitch: Chapter 7 introduces Gangseok Choi, the prime minister of education and president of TRPA who meets up with Hwajin at a cemetery. Then Hwajin surprises the readers when he calls him dad. But in the immediate next panel, President Choi immediately kicks him, shouting at him angrily, ”Who you calling dad?! You dumbass!”. One more panel later reveals they’re at the grave of his daughter, but the extent of her relationship with Hwajin is yet to be revealed.

** Ironically, the fourth major arc sees teachers getting in on this as well. Due to the [=TRPA=] having become notorious as an organization that protects teachers and puts students who misbehave through the wringer, a group of [[SadistTeacher Sadist Teachers]] start using the [=TRPA=]'s name and philosophy as a shield so they can abuse their students without consequences. One teacher in particular tells a female student that he'll hang himself on her front lawn if she reports him for sexually harassing her.

** Soyeon High School - [https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2018/03/251_246159.html Teacher Suicide Case of Sangseo Middle School Suspicion of Sexual Abuse]
** CM High School - [http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20181113000734 Twin Sisters Exam Paper Leakage Case in Sookmyung Girls' High School]
** Hyeonjin Middle School - [https://www.segye.com/newsView/20210122513713 Accident Involving an Elderly Middle School Student in Uijeongbu city (Korean)], [https://newsis.com/view/?id=NISX20210210_0001336171&cID=10301&pID=10300 Sparring School Violence of Yeongjongdo island of Incheon Metropolitan City (Korean)], [http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20151016000975 Cat-mom Death of Yong-in City], [https://news.kmib.co.kr/article/view.asp?arcid=0014428822&code=61121211 Middle School Student Rental Car Theft (Korean)]
** Seungyeon High School - [https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/17/sport/south-korea-volleyball-twins-bullying-spt-intl/index.html Lee Jae-young and Da-young School Violence Controversy]
** Shilla Byul Elementary School - [https://www.newdaily.co.kr/site/data/html/2017/09/22/2017092200058.html Controversy Over Feminist Teachers at Wiryebyeol Elementary School in Seoul Metropolitan City (Korean)], [https://www.joongang.co.kr/article/24063737 Conspiracy Theory of Child Brainwashing and Abuse of Feminist Teachers Organization (Korean)]
** Island Village Arc - [https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2016/06/09/socialAffairs/3-suspects-charged-with-rape-in-Sinan-County/3019838.html Sexual Assault Cases] of the [[Wikipedia:Sinan County, South Jeolla|Sinan County, South Jeolla]]
** Hyeonjung Elementary School - [http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20181017000764 Online Community of Mothers Blamed for Day Care Teacher's Death in Gimpo City]

** Young-Jung is happily attending school.

** During the [=CM=] Highschool arc, Mr. Na orders the abusive teachers to ask for forgiveness from every student they've wronged as their "final exam". This act awards them the majority of points and is therefor mandatory for any teacher who wishes to "pass", or in other words: keep their job.

* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: The TRPA can only interfere with cases that involve abuse if teachers are involved, so they can't get involve if a problem isn't school related. That being said, when Na comes across a possible case of child abuse from a parent, [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight he decides to use his vacation time against Choi's order to whip the parents into shape.]]

** Yeri Han receives a visit from Go Yeon-Su's wife, who encourages her to stop looking at the past and offers to make a meal for her once she's dischaged.

* MysteriousPast: Very little is known about Mr. Na, his military career, or the extent of his relationship to Gayoon Choi, the late daughter of President Choi who may or may not have been the teacher that was killed by their own student and whose death led to the funding of the TRPA. [[spoiler: We see them together on what looks like a date in chapter 98 and 100, then it’s confirmed in chapter 111 (and season 1 finale) they were engaged to wed. Then Gayoon is killed by her own student, leaving Hwajin reeling in grief of his own fiancée’s death.]]

* AmoralAttorney: Junbin Lee fits this like a glove. He’s a human rights attorney, yet he treats [[BitchInSheepsClothing Hong Seong-Hak]] like a poor victim under TRPA’s [[LaserGuidedKarma “abuse”]] and has been punished enough because he’s already gave a written apology. As for the bullies’ victim Lee Sang-Wook? Talks to him like shit because he wanted revenge on his bullies, even after showing him the scars he got from when he cut his own wrists! And everyone points out the obvious evidence that [[TeensAreMonsters Seong-Hak still continued to bully Sang-Wook, leave him threatening texts, and follow him to his own home and beat him up]], AFTER he gave the [[ILied “written apology”]] but Junbin Lee still refuses to be swayed.

** [[spoiler: And more ominously, it's revealed that Gyucheol has been trying to track down the fiancé of Gayoon, his teacher that he killed. Jung-Hyuk then tells his boss he had found him and Gyucheol orders another underling to find a picture of him online... and it's of Hwajin, who he had spoken with him before when he secretly posed as a counselor. Gyucheol pieces it together and [[EvilLaugh begins to laugh hysterically]] when he realizes who Hwajin really is.]]

* WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied: [[spoiler: Gyucheol brags to Mr. Na about his murder of Gayoon, going so far as to call the body punch he killed her with "the best punch in his life" while smiling like a lunatic. Downplayed, as Gyucheol is completely unaware of Mr. Na's relation to Gayoon and just believes him to be a regular councellor.]]