Study Group – There’s Always a Kid Who Wants to Study

By cmoneyspinner - February 11, 2025

“Study Group” is a 2025 Korean drama series with 10 episodes, categorized as Action, Comedy, High School, and Youth, based on a webtoon of the same name and streaming on Viki.

SUMMARY: There once was a kid who studied and studied and studied. But no matter what, he always ranked at the bottom of the students. Was he discouraged? Oh no! He became more and more determined each day to study so that he could go to college, and even came up with the idea of a study group, in case other kids were just like him. He BELIEVED!

♦ But I Want to Study and Go to College

In “Study Group”, Yoon Ga-Min should get high marks for his perseverance. He has set a goal for himself and some might think he set the bar too high. He studies so hard and takes detailed copious notes that he can restudy. But no matter how hard he tries he still ends up ranked at the bottom of the students. He had a teacher, Lee Han-Kyung, who did her best to teach and encourage him. But one day she vanished. Yoon Ga-Min was the one teacher he trusted and admired.

Finally, it happened! Yoon Ga-Min was admitted to the Yuseong Technical High School. He was certain that this was where he belonged until he opened the door to the classroom. It a absolute chaos! Those kids were not there to study and learn. What was even worse was there was a ranking app that ranked which student was the best bully! (O.o)

But Yoon Ga-Min was ever the optimist. Not only did he want to study, he looked around to see if any other students wanted to study. He wanted to create a Study Group because his grades were so low at other schools that nobody would let him join their group. On the first day, he followed Kim Se-Hyun into the library. The school had a library? It took a lot of convincing but he eventually persuaded him to join his Study Group.

Things were looking up! The atmosphere at the school got ever brighter because … Ta da! … his favorite teacher showed up! Ms. Lee??? You’re here???

Lee Han-Kyung accepted a job as a substitute teacher and she was happy to see Yoon Ga-Min was a student. She had better enjoy the brief happy moments because no sooner than she had arrived, a group of students tried to attack her. They came to her apartment! Not sure why but she had a “target on her back”. It was ordered by Pi Han-Wool, a student that everyone was afraid of; even the teachers and school administrators.

But Lee Han-Kyung is very much like her student, Yoon Ga-Min. SHE BELIEVES!

Main Characters:

Yoon Ga-Min (played by Minhyun, “Alchemy of Souls 1 and 2”, “My Lovely Liar”)
Lee Han-Kyung (played by Han Ji-Eun, “When the Stars Gossip”, “Bad and Crazy”)
Pi Han-Wool (played by Cha Woo-Min, “Night Has Come”)
Kim Se-Hyun (played by Lee Jong-Hyun, “Duty After School”)
Lee Ji-Woo (played by Shin Soo-Hyun, “Usury Academy”)
Choi Hee-Won (played by Yun Sang-Jeong, “Family: The Unbreakable Bond”)
Park Geon-Yeob (played by Hong Min-Gi, “Love Your Enemy”)
Lee Joon (played by Gong Do-Yu)

Where to Watch

Viewership and Rating:

IMDb: 8.6 out of 10 stars
My Drama List: 8.9 out of 10 stars
Dramabeans: 9 out of 10 stars
Viki viewers rated the series 9.8 out of 10 stars

My personal rating is the same as the same as the Viki viewers.

There are great fight scenes. You have to root for this kid!

It’s R-rated. I’m guessing because there is violence.

I held off on watching “Study Group” because I thought it would be corny. But after the first episode, I was all in. The storyline is very relatable. Some kids come to school to study and learn and it’s a shame that sometimes they have to fight to do it! And there’s always that one teacher … sometimes there may be more than one … but there is at least one teacher in a school WHO CARES.

(Per Kdrama For Non-Koreans) “Study Group is actually adapted from the webtoon of the same name, written by Shin Hyung Wook and illustrated by Ryu Seung Yeon. … The webtoon is part of YLAB’s Blue String Universe, which basically means it’s made for anyone who loves seeing high school students fight for their lives in between study sessions.”