“This is seriously disgusting…”
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Netflix‘s Teach You A Lesson, a hit K-Drama about punishing school bullies, has now sparked an ugly trend where real Korean schoolgirls are allegedly being harassed by international viewers who appear unable, or unwilling, to separate fiction from reality.
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Recently, screenshots began circulating online showing foreign viewers flooding the TikTok comment sections of ordinary Korean female students with hostile remarks. The comments referenced the Korean series Teach You A Lesson and used memes and screenshots from the drama to accuse the girls of being school bullies, even though there was no indication that the students had done anything wrong.
A viral tweet criticized the trend, writing that after watching Teach You A Lesson, some foreign viewers have allegedly been going to the TikTok accounts of ordinary Korean schoolgirls and leaving malicious comments calling them “school bullies” and “plastic surgery monsters.” According to the post, commenters have also been spamming the students’ accounts with reaction images from the drama.
댓글창에서 몇몇 제정신인 사람들이 왜 상관없는 일반인 여학생들을 괴롭히냐며 말려보기도 하지만 혐한 여론이 워낙 압도적이라 통하지 않는 상황임 오히려 “한국인은 남 괴롭히기 좋아하는 역겨운 민족이니 욕먹어도 싸다” “저 여자애들도 분명 드라마에 나오는 것처럼 가난하고 약한 아이를…
— 묻어남 (@arumeruarumeru) June 12, 2026
Apparently, after watching Teach You A Lesson, foreign viewers are going to the TikToks of ordinary Korean schoolgirls and leaving hate comments calling them school bullying perpetrators and plastic surgery monsters. They’re also spamming them with Teach You A Lesson reaction images and harassing them. It’s become a trend… Why are there so many idiots who can’t tell the difference between a drama and reality?
In the comment sections, some sane people are trying to stop them, asking why they’re harassing unrelated, ordinary female students. But the anti-Korean sentiment is so overwhelming that it isn’t working.
— @arumeruarumeru/X
The post further claimed that while some people in the comment sections tried to intervene and ask why unrelated, ordinary Korean students were being harassed, the pushback was largely drowned out by anti-Korean sentiment. Some commenters allegedly justified the harassment by claiming that “Koreans like bullying others” or insisting that the girls were “probably bullies like the ones in the drama.”
Instead, people are indiscriminately attacking even the few normal people defending these Korean schoolgirls, saying things like, “Koreans are a disgusting race that enjoys bullying others, so they deserve to be cursed at,” and, “Those girls are probably perpetrators who bully poor and weak kids, just like in the drama.”
They’re just giving themselves a free pass with the logic of, “Koreans are bad people, so it’s legal to throw stones at them as much as we want,” and using that as an excuse to spew out the hatred they’ve been holding in. But they think they’re righteous heroes taking down evil witches, and it’s so disgusting.
— @arumeruarumeru/X
The original tweet condemned the behavior, saying that people were using the idea that “Koreans are bad people” as an excuse to direct their own hatred at random girls online, while imagining themselves as righteous heroes punishing villains. To the tweets, Korean netizens reacted with anger and disgust, with many criticizing both the drama’s message and the viewers who turned it into real-life harassment.
Others argued that the situation showed how easily revenge-driven content can be misread by viewers who already hold prejudice. One netizen wrote that people were watching a drama that “glorifies real-life perpetrators” and then directing hatred toward vulnerable people in real life. Some also pointed out that Korean school dramas often portray schools as extremely violent places, which may lead foreign viewers to assume that ordinary Korean students are also involved in bullying.
- People watching that kind of low-quality, harmful drama with your brain turned off and calling it fun, of course this happens.
- The drama and the level of its fans match perfectly.
- At this point, the person who made that trash drama, the actors, the people watching it, and the people praising it are all pathetic.
- The scriptwriter probably knew better than anyone that this would happen, right? Their intentions and ideology have always been clearly reflected in their works.
- The reason terrorizing Korean students’ social media with Teach You A Lesson is becoming popular is because it follows the drama’s logic: “You’re bad, so based on my own judgment, I can legally use violence against you in the name of protecting teachers’ rights, and this harassment is a good thing.” The Glory is private revenge by an adult victim against adult perpetrators. It’s a completely different concept.
- I’m reminded of how angry I was when people randomly commented “Taught you a lesson” under articles or news about domestic violence, random attacks, and sex crimes targeting women.
- Zero class.
- This is seriously disgusting…
- I guess that’s the level of people who watch low-class stuff like that, LOL. They were making a huge fuss on theqoo too.
- It’s so exhausting living life as a Korean woman…
- Their intelligence is really something.
- This is awful.
The backlash has raised concerns about how fictional narratives about bullying, revenge, and “justice” can spill over into real-world harassment, especially when viewers begin projecting drama tropes onto unrelated minors and ordinary people online.
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