Yeo-gyo-sa (2016)

Yeo-gyo-sa: Directed by Tae-yong Kim. With Ha-neul Kim, Yoo In-young, Won-geun Lee, Ki-woo Lee. Hyo-joo (Ha-neul Kim) is a temporary teacher at a boys’ high school and Hae-yeong (In-yeong Yu) is a fellow teacher who is the school board chairman’s daughter. One day, Hyo-joo witnesses Hae-young locked in a passionate embrace with a boy and she starts feeling an inexplicable sense of humiliation towards Hae-yeong.

“A teacher who is unhappy with her deadbeat boyfriend, her unsecure teaching position and her loss of youth conducts herself as a major B****. She is rude, hateful and uninterested in others. When a teacher, who happens to hold a golden ticket in life, shows up wanting to be friends, her attitude worsens. This girl has the perfect fiance, sheu0026#39;s cheerful, young, beautiful and has no worries about the security of a teaching position because she is the daughter of a chairman on the board of education. She despises and is shady with the new teacher every chance she gets. She finds the new teacher having an intimate relationship with one of the students, who happens to be a talented dancer that she was interested in helping with scholarship competition, and decides to use that knowledge as a form of blackmail.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eDespite her knowledge about the inappropriate relationship with the new teacher, she chooses to help the student anyway. She helps him with dance lessons to prepare for the competition and finds herself liking the attention she is getting from the young man. This leads her down a dangerous road from which there is no return.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eLet me just say that the acting in this was good. I was hating this womanu0026#39;s attitude and pettiness. It left me with very little room to feel sorry for her. The story wasnu0026#39;t all that unique but I canu0026#39;t remember having ever seen it played out like this. This wasnu0026#39;t romantic or a thriller but it definitely was a dark drama. It plays out a little on the slow side but it kept me interested. Iu0026#39;d suggest it to a friend.”