Hello My Teacher

aka Biscuit Teacher and Star Candy, Hardtack Teacher and Star Candies
Type: K-drama
No. of Episodes: 16
English Subs: Softsubbed at d-addicts

Six years ago, Na Bo-ri was kicked out of high school after a teeny tiny misunderstanding. She was accused of beating up a bunch of male gang members. She didn't REALLY do it, but her dangerous reputation and poor grades made it easy for them to kick her out. However, Bo-ri did not give up on her studies, and after working hard, she got her GED, went to college (albeit a low-level college), and has returned to her old high school on a mission to become a teacher there.

She doesn't want to be a teacher because of any overwhelming desire to help students. Instead she wants to teach simply to be close to the man she had a huge crush on in high school- her art teacher, Ji Hyun-Woo. However, because of her rocky past at that school, the only way she manages to actually get a teaching job there is by agreeing to basically babysit a student named Park Tae-in.

Tae-in is the son of the school superintendant, and is Hyun-woo's nephew. He is a real troublemaker who has just returned to Korea after a couple years living overseas. Tae-in is a brash guy but with lots of charisma, and he soon becomes a popular leader amongst the students at the school. Bo-ri really has her hands full trying to keep him in check and reform him into a good student. Tae-in's main hobby is to torment Bo-ri, and he is really merciless about it.

Hello My Teacher is a student-teacher romance going in both directions! The love triangle involves Tae-in, his teacher Bo-ri, and her teacher Hyun-woo. There is the usual k-drama angst going on, but also a lot of comedy, and even some fantasy. Bo-ri's reputation as a gangster is used to show some scenes in a really dramatic, action-gangster-movie way, but then later we see what REALLY happened. I admit that I love the teacher-student romances, especially when they don't end in cruel deaths by cancer or vehicular flattening. ^_^