High School

Shut Up Flower Boy Band - High school band Eye Candy is forced to attend a fancy school full of rich entitled jerks. When their world gets turned upside down, an their friendship survive? Will they win the battle of the bands?  - u/Katzell12

Shut Up Flower Boy Band - It's about a group of guys who set out to make a band, but end up going through several struggles trying to get there. It has a great soundtrack if you like rock music.  - u/Kordiana

Shut Up Flower Boy Band - this was heart wrenching but in the right ways. It is not fluff like the ones above but you should gives this a try cause it's truly a gem of a series. Did I mention this has Lee Min Ki and infinite's L?  - u/ihavelittlelegs

Students at an art high school work hard to achieve their dreams of becoming stars. - u/mediocre_lily

Absolute must see if you're interested in KPop or music in general  - u/everynightoftheweek

White Christmas - psychological game in elite high school set on mountinous region cut off from the world due to heavy snowstorms.  - u/MenthaAquatica

White Christmas - Not the most typical school drama, as it is a thriller drama about the idea of whether monsters are born or made. But it has an amazing cast and great story.

White Christmas is one of my favorite dramas because it's core thematic question, 'Are people born monsters, or are they made monsters?'. They portray it in such an interesting way, and some of my favorite quotes come from that drama.   - u/Kordiana

If you're looking for something a bit darker than the average kdrama, go with White Christmas and you won't regret it!  High school, Sung Joon and red hair Woobin... :)  - u/Hyesungie

The main plot is kind of a detective story, students uncovering the mystery of a suicide; I didn't find it predictable, which is always great. Then there are side-stories weaved in, which hardly have anything to do with the main plot, they are for exploring and developing the characters. They are very likeable (except for poor Jiyeon who plays the selfish pill addict student).

The OST is nice too. If you liked School 2013 for kids other than the main 2, you're going to like this.  - u/levesduzw

Moments at Eighteen takes a look at the lives of the various members of class 2-3 at Cheonbong High School. Through the lens of "snapshots" of their life at eighteen years of age we watch as from the day of Joon Woo's arrival the student's lives progress down various paths as they develop into young adults.

This drama was such a gem, I loved everything about it.  Definitely watch it if you are interested in realistic and heartwarming coming of age stories - u/sianiam  

Moment at Eighteen -  it was heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time. It tore me apart and put me together again every single episode. All the characters were amazing, it was realistic, perfect slice of life, and the soundtrack was the bomb.  - u/sashadramagirl

"Moment of Eighteen" is one of my favourite ones, it's one of the most mature highschool dramas I've watched.  - u/seekdisconfort

Seonam High School Investigators - school detective club goes around solving mysteries, sort of episodic - u/vcconut

I liked it a lot. Their group chemistry was fabulous. I think it was terribly underrated.  - u/Mozart-Luna-Echo

It’s one of those more Lowkey fun dramas with a nice tinge mystery - u/seulgibear0341

Overall, I wasn't a huge fan of the one-mystery-per-episode thing — it reminded me too much of American kid's shows where each episode introduces a problem and it's resolved by the end of that episode. I also really liked the overarching story at first, but I felt like the resolution was a little anticlimactic :/ Overall still a fun watch though, and I SO appreciate how they handled some tough topics like LGBTQIA  - u/psychopathycathy

To form a cheer leading team, the school combines the dance club full of lower-ranked students and the study club full of rich kids. - u/vcconut

Sassy Go Go is the funniest version of  "let's investigate school corruption".  - u/GSV_Zero_Gravitas

Sassy Go Go/Cheer Up: ultimately a drama with heartwarming friendship as it's main theme, it shows how the top 5 performing students are (unwillingly) paired with a dance crew of 5 students who definitely aren't anywhere near the top 5 to form a cheerleading club to build up a student's "resume" for college applications. Explores academic pressure, suicide, domestic violence, bribery/manipulation, trust and many other themes. Does have a little bit of romance, but also lots of character development and cute friendship. Another one I really like is Age of Youth which is very similar (but it's college based and explores different themes, so I wasn't sure if it belonged here).  - u/MikasaMilkTea

A-teen is a web drama that is about six friends who go to the same school. u/ClapLoveMeSomeVixx

One of the best high school K dramas. Reasons ;

1. Totally relatable high school story , with no over dramatic scenes. Highschool love , comedy , romance , flirting , fights , misunderstandings etc all in one.
2. Super good looking cast and great acting .
3. OST  is the BEST. OST HITS NO1 on charts  first time for an OST to do so in years .
4. short episodes  (10 mins each avg. - 24 in total )

All these are the reasons that this web series got so popular in just a couple months. - u/Subhajit_Halder

Page Turner. It's a 3 episode webdrama. Short but very well done. Sweet story of two high school kids who have to reconsider their life dreams.  - u/Turquoise-Turmoil

Page Turner. Very well made, excellent acting, and a little more serious than most mini-dramas. Plus lots of Ji Soo, which is always a plus. :)  - u/Dedemao

Coming-of-age tale featuring romance and friendship of high school girls in Daegu in the 1970s.  - u/mediocre_lily

I think Girls’ Generation 1979 is extremely underrated. The actors surprised me a lot with their performances, which I didn’t expect to be so good. They also all speak Daegu accent which I love. The writing is excellent in that they cram a lot of meaning and heart into 8 episodes. Many scenes along with the retro setting, women’s issues at the time and the pure and innocent feelings it brought forth have really stuck with me.  - u/txc_vertigo

Angry Mom is about a mom who goes back into hs pretending to be a student to find out who is bullying her daughter.  - u/properintroduction

Angry Mom - This is one heavy drama although it has its comedic moments. But be warned, you will suffer from the second lead syndrome. - u/ihavelittlelegs

Hi! School Love On. Angel has to start living as a human when she had an accident involving a human.  - u/krm787

I thought it was a cute high school romcom. It's fairly light, with the addition of a supernatural aspect. So I guess it depends on if you those types of dramas. It probably doesn't have some of the best acting, since it is the first drama for a few of the actors. But if you like the kpop group Infinite is a way to see a couple of the members doing something new. The main actress is pretty good though. And it has a solid plot, at least to me it was. I don't know how other people thought of it. But yeah, I would recommend at least trying it.  - u/Kordiana

Playful Kiss - A girl presents a love letter to the smartest boy in her school, gets rejected by him, then moves in with him after her home is destroyed. (Based on an anime. There are also Taiwanese and Japanese dramas based on the same story.)  - u/fduniho

Playful Kiss is good. It's kind of cringy but I think it's cute. - u/BabyBluePirate

Playful Kiss is really good as well as long as you can handle a little secondhand embarrassment. - u/genxva

Monstar -  High school drama with an idol who needs some friends and the music that unites a bunch of misfits.  Some light romance.  I thought it was cute and the music was very good. - u/SpinThePickle

Monstar - I really liked it...almost more than Dream High. The first half was awesome but the second half got progressively worse and sort of limped to the end. If the last part was as good as the first, Monstar would have been in my top 5 dramas I think. Great soundtrack and some great Glee-esque K-pop covers.  - u/Dedemao

Monstar: Cute. It's simply very cute. It's a show worth an insight into the lives of different teenagers, and the various problems they can face, as everything feels extreme during that age. However, that makes you root for the characters along the way, since they're very relatable, and the diversity of the cast adds to that too.They use music in order to express themselves, and cope with their negative situations, which is my favorite part since it shows the power of music which comes from ones soul. - u/ZobsInTheHouse

Biscuit Teacher Star Candy - A substitute teacher and her student. The lead actors in this one have gone on to have great careers. - u/SarahLovesCheesecake

Biscuit Teacher and Star Candy is an older (more traditional) show set in high school, I liked it for the most part.  - u/silverbluefox

It is not the best drama I have seen, but as I remember it was entertaining. - u/Harls_Quinzel

Boys over Flowers – Poor girl receives scholarship to exclusive high school and gets entangled with F4, a quartet of smug rich kids led by the prickly Lee Min-ho, sporting his best hair ever. Highly enjoyable cheese from start to finish, it's filled with unhealthy relationships, but a seminal work on classic kdrama tropes. – u/GSV_Zero_Gravitas

Boys Over Flowers - The original high school drama. There are so many jokes about this drama, and it can get ridiculous at times, but it is still a fun drama.  - u/Kordiana

This Kdrama is sooo nostalgic to me because of the soundtrack, plot, character, and it’s overall a very memorable drama I’ve watched. I started to hang out with some classmates in middle school and we bond over kdrama and kpop. Now I’m in university and those girls are my best friend and we binge watch this drama whenever we have a sleepover.  - u/sippingtea12

Master of Study is a perfect drama if you need to find motivation for studying, working hard and maybe even some study tips. The drama follows lives of troubled youths and their teacher who wants to help them get into the most prestigious university.  - u/Egg-mont

School 2013 - Don't be deterred by the date. Any thing after 2010 has a good enough production value that it ages on the screen really well. It is about the severed friendship between the two male leads, and the dynamics of a 2nd year classroom. It does a great job of showing many different relationships between the students and their teachers. I love that there isn't really any love line, but others might see it as a negative.  - u/Kordiana

I also love School 2013. With the basic theme of friendship, and so many different types of friendships, is really interesting to watch. I also really enjoyed that it doesn't have a romance to take focus away from that theme, which most dramas do. - u/Kordiana

school 2015 is one of my all time favorite dramas, it’s about two twin sisters who were orphans each of them lived with a different family and one of them didn’t even know she had a sister. Then, an accident happened on of them disappeared & the other acted as if she is her sister. - u/mallaksamyy

I actually thought this one was really good!  - u/shally212

Who are you: School 2015 - Imo was pretty good. Second lead syndrome is high on this - u/venn101

The seventh edition of the School series, School 2017 tells the story of Ra Eun Ho, a student at a high school where everything depends on your ranking. Her dream is simple, despite her poor grades she wants to get into university and become a webtoon artist. In order to do so she needs a good story! All this starts to fall apart when she gets accused of being "student X" a vigilante who's trying to bring attention to everything that is wrong with their school, Eun Ho must find out who student X  really is or face expulsion. 

This is a really fun and cute high school rom-com, well worth the watch if the cicadas in the background  every time they are outside don't drive you crazy.  - u/sianiam

School 2017 was really cute and fun to watch!  - u/hallyubae

School 2017 -  mixed with a teaspoon of mystery, romance, and comedy (plus a hint of angst) as Sejeong tries to survive her final year in HS. - u/NgocLinh359

The first installment of the Reply series, Reply 1997 centres on high-schooler, Shi Won who idolizes the boyband H.O.T. and her highschool friendship group. The story plays out as the characters now in their early 30’s reminisce their highschool days at a reunion dinner at the end of which a couple will reveal that they are getting married. You as the viewer must attempt to guess who Shi Won will pick before it is revealed. A fun concept and a great look at fandom culture of the nineties.  - u/sianiam

The only high school drama I've watched so far is Reply 1997, which was lovely. The mom and dad (Sung Shi Won's parents) were one of the best portrayals of an old married couple I've ever seen. And <3 Eunji  - u/OlderThanGif

Reply 1997 is the best out of all the reply series. I laughed, I cried and cheered for the characters. It's my all time favourite.  - u/ihavelittlelegs

I'd recommend the Reply series! They're mainly about guessing who the husband is out of all the guys close to the female lead! It's really loved by everyone and it will make you fall in love with the characters. Reply 1988 is about Sung Deoksun, a high school student and her childhood friends who live in the same neighborhood. - u/indaysoleng

Reply 1988: it's not your everyday, formulaic, cute romance but boy it's good. I still find myself coming back to it watching bts or short clips  on yt from this drama. From the production to the cast, from the ost to the cinematography, from the first episode to the last, this drama keeps you hooked! i regret being greedy and finishing it in like three nights. it's so heartwarming and leaves you with that fuzzy feeling inside. and did i tell you that it's HILARIOUS!!!!!! this is precious and i hope you like it as much as i do or even more! :)  - u/lacroyante

Reply 1988 - a nostalgic slice of life comedy about young high schoolers in 1988 who live in the same neighborhood. The series focuses on the coming of age for the three high school aged youth, with their challenges and hopes. It also shows the cares of the older and younger family members and the beauty of their close knit community.  - u/FoucaultsFarts

SKY Castle explores secondary education in Korea from a viewpoint of rich parents who only strive for perfection. It is a satirical social commentary that points out all the ugly things in upper social class including pressuring children into doing something they dont want to, manipulation, bribery, pride, vanity and so much more. Main leads are the mothers of students.  - u/Egg-mont

SKY Castle -  explores the effect that parental/societal pressure to perform well academically has on students and their families. Also explores greed, vanity, the use of connections to "one-up" themselves in society and many more. Also super intense, and literally has you on the edge of your seat the entire way through. Also does have it's fair share of humour hidden throughout (':  - u/MikasaMilkTea

SKY Castle is one of the best dramas that give viewers a unique perspective on the struggles of getting into university which made it a success in South Korea. It shows how far mothers can go to ensure their children be the best, but this all comes at a cost. Viewers who have been though a similar situation of constant studying and attending classes and study sessions outside of regular classes would find this drama engaging and relatable. - u/dramafan1

The Red Teacher - 1985 a group of high school girls find some smut in a book store only problem the ending is missing so one of them takes it on herself to write the ending. Their teacher is secretly a fan. Amazing cast, fun and surprisingly heart-warming one hour special. - u/sianiam

Drama special season 7: The Red Teacher - Very charming and heartwarming special about teacher - student friendship. Anyone who likes reading/writing fanfiction should watch that!  - u/Egg-mont

Drama special season 7: The Legendary Lackey Funny short about anti-hero who stands up to their bullies. - u/Egg-mont

The Legendary Lackey is a pretty fun take on bullying, I really enjoyed it. - u/sianiam

Based on the webcomic, July Found by chance, Extraordinary You gives viewers two stories for the price of one, the story of the webtoon ripped right off the pages of Hana Yori Dango (Boys Over Flowers) and the story of Eun Dan Ho. Eun Dan Ho is a character in a webtoon 비밀(Secret), but she knows it and is disappointed in the role she drew as an extra with a life threatening illness that could take her out of the story at any minute. So Dan Ho decides to attempt to rewrite her story and that’s where things get interesting.   - u/sianiam

Extraordinary You is not your typical high school romance. It has quite unique setting and is full of meta jokes about this genre. Uses all kinds of your typical story tropes and deliciously twists them.- u/Egg-mont

Extraordinary You - A story about a girl who find's out she is in a comic book - but not the protagonist - just an extra! And decides to change her fate no matter what. The main lead is hilarious and is such a likeable character, and the self awareness of how cliche the comic book is is a good laugh.  - u/SmurfClaven

If We Were a Season is a drama special. It’s only one episode and it centers on Male Lead and Female Lead (Chae Soo Bin) who are neighbors and childhood friends. Their friendship is tested when a City Boy (B1A4 Jinyoung) transfers to their school.  - u/barbekyu

If We Were a Season - very well done one hour special about two friends who grew up together, grew apart and grew back together. Heart warming, nice cast.  - u/sianiam

Definitely recommending Just Dance! It's a coming-of-age drama with 8 episodes (*cough* can watch it one day *cough*) and is really heartwarming. The plot isn't central to the dance competition but how it brings family and friendship together. The main guy is also so adorable and there's actually romance which is always a bonus :)  - u/ang-ela

Solomon's Perjury - Students searching for answers about the death of a classmate.  - u/vcconut

Longing Heart - A teacher still not over his first crush travels back in time to change his fate. Not the greatest drama I've seen - u/lucidzero

It’s about a man who missed the chance to confess his feelings and everything turned upside down after that. So he goes back in time trying to help his old self to get the girl. Meanwhile, he starts to realize that some things can’t change at all. Last three episodes are terrible but the beginning is cool! Gave it a 7/10.  - u/KoalaAgassi

Flower Boy Ramen Shop - She mistakes an 18 year old for an adult man and develops a crush on him, only to find out he is a student at the school where she a new teacher. Awkward.  She ends up inheriting her father's ramen shop and a man who claims her father left her and the shop to him. He's always sleeping in weird places. Once she's quit the school, she becomes fair game for both guys.  Its a goofy show with some pretty hot scenes. They have really great chemistry.  - u/SpinThePickle

Flower Boy Ramen Shop - A college student finishing their teaching degree interns at a school where a "college student" she met on the street is one of her students.  - u/ SarahLovesCheesecake

Flower Boy Ramen Shop is pretty cute.  She owns a ramen shop that her dad left her.  He plays a snotty rich kid.  They clash and flirt, you'll get second lead syndrome.  It's an easy watch. - u/pvtshame

Somehow 18 - A really short story about a guy trying to save a girl’s life - u/KoalaAgassi

Watched and greatly enjoyed 'Somehow 18' after discovering Lee Yu Bi in 'Pinocchio'. - u/MAGA_checkin

Goong/ Princess hours - 24 episodes This is an old drama , so I find her clothes very cringy today but it’s one of the classic. One of the first dramas that I saw. It is set up in a world where Korea is still a monarchy and our main lead is a crown prince that gets in an arranged married to a common girl. She is very immature at the beginning but even tho they both like other people at the beginning they find their way to each other.  - u/Kolibar

There is the “old” classic Goong. High school kids getting married. One is royalty and the other common person. It’s been ages since I watched it, but I remember enjoying it when I watched it. Not sure if it holds up today.  - u/sfgirl00

My Strange Hero follows a man returning to finish high school after being unfairly expelled as a teen.  - u/Sass7277

“My strange hero” - funny and super cute love story. I really love the relationship, they are really open and straightforward with each other.  - u/seekdisconfort

My Strange Hero - After being expelled from school 10 years ago, the main lead returns, for revenge. A really fun drama with a sweet romance - and his friendship with the other students who are much younger than him is hilarious! - u/SmurfClaven

Adolescence Medley - great little coming of age story about a student who has moved schools countless times, upon thinking he was going to be moving again just to mess with everyone he makes decisions that could easily ruin his life. Excellent cast, nice soundtrack, fun well rounded four episode drama.  - u/sianiam

Revenge Note is a sweet little web drama with all the usual high school tropes of bullying, corrupt teachers, aggressive rich parents, friendship and first love but the episodes are so short, nothing drags. Ho Goo-hee is a girl who flies under the radar, until a magical app appears on her phone that promises to take revenge on anyone whose name she enters and gets her into all sorts of trouble. All the kids are played by actual teenagers, which makes the show look fresh and cute. Astro's Cha Eun-woo occasionally pops up for more eye candy, the real star though is beanpole Park Solomon. Female lead Kim Hyang-gi is the tiniest little bean, their height difference is just adorable and their puppy romance has zero angst.  - u/GSV_Zero_Gravitas

To The Beautiful You - A girl is pretending to be a boy while she is attending a boy only sports academy in Korea. She's enrolled the school in order to help her idol become a top athlete again. It's naive, fluffy and a gender bender all in one. - u/Imerim

To the Beautiful You! Wholesome, sweet, lighthearted. Just the everythingest of everything! - u/notdwldrma

The Heirs (Inheritors) – Poor girl receives scholarship to exclusive high school and gets entangled with some smug rich kids. Lee Min-ho is a less prickly chaebol than his character in Boys over Flowers and his hair is boring, but his amazing collection of ugly sweaters makes up for it. Prepare for mean girls, abusive parents, insane corporate manoeuvrings and peak Kim Woo-bin. – u/GSV_Zero_Gravitas 

Heirs is a high school drama starring Lee Min Ho (again) and Park Shin-Hye.  I'd compare it to the Korean version of The O.C.  (the first few episodes even take place in SoCal).  Primarily it is a love-triangle romance show with a focus on class conflict.  There are also elements of rich family drama, business conglomerate drama, and bullying (popular topic in k-dramas).  It is overly dramatic and the OST is pushed too hard and it relies on some bad stereotypes and the American actors are terrible, but the show is still very cute and likable.  It was a massive success in East Asia prompting a Chinese knock-off.   - u/oGsMustachio

The Heirs is the drama I hatelove. It's so so bad if you ever stop to think about pretty much any of the plot, but it's so enjoyable to watch if you just turn your brain off and go with it. XD I will never not recommend Heirs but I can never guarantee you'd like it. Your mileage may vary. - u/eroverton

The Heirs - I'm recommending it since it's a "classic", it's a drama that has every cliché possible and you either hate it so badly or you love it.

Moorim School is an action fantasy friendship romance school drama. It sounds like a lot, but what you really need to know is that they're all high schoolers in a hidden martial arts school somewhere in the woods. There isn't much in the terms of romance because the main point of the drama is friendship. The two main male characters go from hating each other to best friends. Rare to see in a drama, that. Also, great OST.  - u/AlohaAlex

Another comedy with appealing young cutie pies and with a bit of supernatural menace, is Moorim School. I had fun watching it, and it reminded me of Harry Potter, except instead of kids, they're young adults. There's a bit of the discovering magic powers thing. But instead of worrying 24-7 about Voldemort, they're more likely to be found obsessing over love.   - u/olddogma

A Love So Beautiful (Kor. Ver.) - A cute high school rom-com that depicts first love, friendships, heartbreaks and one-sided crush very nicely. All the characters are so warm and wholesome and you can’t really hate anyone. It’s a good watch when you want to feel good and feel warm and fuzzy.  - u/Fatooz

True Beauty - Another one of those basic high school dramas but highlights an important topic. The actors especially the FL and SML have done great justice to their roles. The chemistry between the leads was great. Even some of the side characters were lovely! I love the friendships and the feeling of heartbreaks that the drama portrays. It’s cute, funny and enjoyable. - u/Fatooz

Beautiful World - This might be a bit different than most other school dramas, since it is a suspenseful crime drama. It is the story of a high school kid who falls from the roof of his school building and goes into a coma. It is deemed as suicide but the parents don't believe that and want to uncover the truth. As they fight on, through a series of flashbacks, we get to learn the events that led to the fall. It's incredibly suspenseful, with some brilliant performances, especially from all the teen actors. - u/TotoroTheGreat

Class Of Lies - great drama for fans of Stranger and Good Detective. Set on high school, but children are as much the heroes here as adults. Portrait of corruption in elite education. Psychology, investigation, law.  - u/MenthaAquatica

Extracurricular - Not a typical Korean high school drama by any means. The short synopsis is high schoolers get into the business of escorts and money, turning into a dangerous cat and mouse chase with casualties. But what makes this is must-watch is a strong young cast whose storyline keeps you on the edge of your seat as they navigate the seedy underground of Korea, all the while knowing that they've in way over their heads. Even as they're breaking all the laws, maybe you just can't help but hope they get out alive. - u/looseyzoo

18 Again - The ML is a 40 year old who gets a chance to go back to his 18 year old self. He looks like how he did when he was 18 years old but his soul is that of a 40 year old man. Not entirely a high school drama but it's mostly set in the high school. It's a slice of life rom-com which is extremely wholesome. I loved Lee Do-Hyun's acting and he did full justice to a 40 year old man with an 18 year old's body. I also loved most of the side characters and overall it was an enjoyable and lovely drama. - u/Fatooz