The Queen’s Classroom
Title: 여왕의 교실 / The Queen’s Classroom
Chinese Title: 女王的教室
Also known as: Class of The Queen
Genre: School, Comedy
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: MBC
Broadcast period: 2013-June-12 to 2013-Aug-01
Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 21:55
Synopsis
This drama is about a elementary teacher of the 6th grade, Ma Yeo Jin (Ko Hyun Jung) and her students who are reveling against her.
Teacher Ma is very realistic and to her elementary students, she shows how tough it is to live the world. Instead of being a shield for her students, she herself becomes the authority. She often pushes her students to the edge by blackmailing and mischief-making.
Whole class of 6-3 (class 3 of the sixth grade) is rebelling against teacher Ma’s educational attitude which is incomprehensible. Sometimes they would betray each other, sometimes they help each other and gradually they realize secret of the reality and make on their own views of the world. This kind of setting of the drama is totally new compared to the previous drama where the teachers were always the protectors of their students. (source)
Cast
Teachers of San Deul Elementary School
Ko Hyun Jung as Ma Yeo Jin
Yoon Yeo Jung as Yong Hyun Ja (Principal)
Lee Ki Young as Song Young Man
Jung Suk Yong as Goo Ji Song
Choi Yoon Young as Yang Min Hee
Jin Kyung as Jung Hwa Shin
Ricky Kim as Justin
Students of Class 3rd of 6th Grade
Kim Hyang Gi as Shim Ha Na
Chun Bo Geun as Oh Dong Goo
Kim Sae Ron as Kim Seo Hyun
Seo Shin Ae as Eun Bo Mi
Lee Young Yoo as Go Na Ri
Jung Ji In as Sun Hwa Jung
Byun Seung Mi as Hwang Soo Jin
Kim Ji Hoon (2000) as Kim Tae Sung
Lee Ji Oh as Cha Jung Soo
Kang Chan Hee as Kim Do Jin
Choo Ye Jin as Han Sun Young
Son Sung Joon as Han Gook
Im Je Noh as Jung Sang Taek
Hyun Suk Joon as Lee Dong Jin
Shin Yi Joon as Pi Eun Soo
Ryu Eui Hyun as Jo Yun Hoo
Kim Sang Woo as Park Kyung Hyun
Parents’ Association
Byun Jung Soo as Na Ri’s mother (president)
Lee Ah Hyun as Ha Na’s mother
Kim Young Pil as Ha Na’s father
Yoon Ji Won as Shim Ha Yoon (Ha Na’s older sister)
Nam Myung Ryul as Oh Yeo Sa (Dong Goo’s grandfather)
Lee Hyun Kyung as Seo Hyun’s mother
Lee Jung Eun as Sun Young’s mother
Seoul Education Committee
Jo Duk Hyun as Choi Young Ho
Cameo
Lee Chang as Seo Hyun’s mother’s fellow doctor
Production Credits
Production Company: MBC & IOK MEDIA
Chief Producer: Kim Jin Min
Director: Lee Dong Yoon
Screenwriter: Kim Won Suk, Kim Eun Hee
Awards
2013 MBC Drama Awards: Best Child Acting Awards – Kim Sae Ron, Kim Hyang Ki, Chun Bo Geun, Seo Shin Ae, Lee Young Yoo (The Queen’s Classroom)
2013 Apan Star Awards – Best Child Actor: Cheon Bo Keun (The Queen’s Classroom)
2013 Apan Star Awards – Best Child Actress: Kim Hyang Gi (The Queen’s Classroom)
Note
This drama is a remake of a popular and critically-acclaimed 2005 Japanese drama ‘女王の教室‘.
Episode Ratings
| Date | Ep | TNmS | TNmS | AGB | AGB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nationwide | Seoul | Nationwide | Seoul | ||
| 2013-06-12 | 1 | 6.7 | 7.5 (20th) | 6.6 | 7.6 (19th) |
| 2013-06-13 | 2 | 8.2 (15th) | 9.2 (11th) | 7.8 (16th) | 9.2 (14th) |
| 2013-06-19 | 3 | 9.3 (11th) | 10.9 (9th) | 7.9 (19th) | 9.2 (14th) |
| 2013-06-20 | 4 | 8.3 (14th) | 10.3 (9th) | 7.9 (18th) | 9.2 (14th) |
| 2013-06-26 | 5 | 7.9 (17th) | 10.2 (9th) | 7.0 | 8.2 (15th) |
| 2013-06-27 | 6 | 7.5 (17th) | 9.1 (13th) | 8.2 (15th) | 9.6 (11th) |
| 2013-07-03 | 7 | 8.3 (17th) | 9.9 (12th) | 9.0 (12th) | 10.1 (11th) |
| 2013-07-04 | 8 | 9.4 (18th) | 11.2 (14th) | 9.5 (17th) | 10.9 (13th) |
| 2013-07-10 | 9 | 7.1 (19th) | 8.7 (17th) | 7.5 (20th) | 8.4 (16th) |
| 2013-07-11 | 10 | 8.3 (19th) | 10.1 (17th) | 8.9 (17th) | 10.7 (11th) |
| 2013-07-17 | 11 | 7.0 | 8.7 (16th) | 7.5 | 8.9 (17th) |
| 2013-07-18 | 12 | 8.5 (17th) | 10.1 (15th) | 8.6 (17th) | 9.3 (17th) |
| 2013-07-24 | 13 | 7.5 | 9.7 (12th) | 7.2 | 7.9 (20th) |
| 2013-07-25 | 14 | 7.6 (20th) | 9.3 (14th) | 7.3 | 8.0 (18th) |
| 2013-07-31 | 15 | 8.1 (18th) | 9.7 (15th) | 8.0 (19th) | 8.9 (14th) |
| 2013-08-01 | 16 | 8.8 (18th) | 10.2 (9th) | 8.2 (17th) | 9.2 (12th) |
Sources: TNmS Media Korea & AGB Nielsen Korea
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May 25th, 2013 at 12:09 pm
Something Different
May 25th, 2013 at 12:22 pm
the evil mishil from Queen Seonduk is back..
ups i mean Go Hyung Jung 🙂 I think I’m gonna pass this one out..
May 25th, 2013 at 1:39 pm
based from the j-drama with the same title (The Queen’s Classroom). superb!
May 25th, 2013 at 3:04 pm
Huwaaa Go Hyun Jung back to K-dramaland.
May 25th, 2013 at 4:11 pm
Something new!.
May 25th, 2013 at 4:13 pm
So it’s similar to Gukusen!
May 25th, 2013 at 4:14 pm
i’ve watched original japan version. it’s soooooo make me angry, proud, sad in the same time…
May 25th, 2013 at 4:36 pm
cant wait. . .
i like all drama about school 😀
May 26th, 2013 at 3:13 am
Hope it’ll be different from jdorama version
May 26th, 2013 at 5:35 pm
MISHIL IS BACK !!! ^^
May 26th, 2013 at 7:00 pm
Julien Kang! i really like his speaking Korean!
May 26th, 2013 at 10:08 pm
i’ve seen the japanese version.. will this surpass the original?
May 28th, 2013 at 9:00 am
Oooo.. An expose on the shaping of a “world view” at the elementary school level? Juicy!
June 6th, 2013 at 11:23 pm
oh! lady mishil is back, and i’m looking forward to see her again. the last drama i saw her was in dae mul or big. will watch the drama next week. 🙂
June 8th, 2013 at 11:03 am
I love her in Spring Days, What’s up fox and Daemul but not yet watch Queen Seonduk.
I will definitely watch this drama start next week…hope it has solid performance and story lines…
June 12th, 2013 at 8:35 pm
SHINee’s going to appear in this drama~~~~ yay~~
maybe as cameo. maybe. but i hope to see them for a long time in a drama kkk. assaaa, this drama gonna be fun! xD
June 17th, 2013 at 4:01 pm
I love her so much
June 17th, 2013 at 9:53 pm
I think I will pass on this one. I do not want to get angry at this woman for mistreating children
June 18th, 2013 at 5:27 pm
This drama is adorable and so are the kids:) I was just watching Kim Hyang Gi’s movie with Yoo Seung Ho the other day and just so stunned by how much she has grown up.
June 21st, 2013 at 10:23 pm
Wow, her teaching method is so harsh, I don’t think I want to have a teacher like this for myself!? Scary.
June 24th, 2013 at 2:31 am
This is a very different drama. I’m enjoying the children’s performances. Although, initially the teachers methods made me angry. This is too early not to give her the benefit of the doubt. I’m inclined to believe this teacher is trying to make their weaknesses into strengths Showing them how to stand up for themselves and their classmates. Case in point the boy who was being bullied. It was heartbreaking to see him get beat up but he became stronger and lost his fear of his bullies. In the classroom his schoolmate defended him and shoes him he was not alone that he had friends that cared. A boy considered to be dumb and a clown actually smarter than he is given credit for. A very interesting twist to the school theme
June 26th, 2013 at 12:43 am
Watching episode 1 for the second time I noticed something that whizzed by me the first time:
Ha na’s pencils are broken, but in such a way that it’s not apparent they are broken until she tries to use them to take the test. Likewise, it’s not obvious that the lead in the mechanical pencil is broken until she tries to write with it. Ha na inadvertently swept her pencil case off her desk onto the floor when Oh Dong-Goo (annoying boy) startled her. And we, and she, and the other students, assume the pencils were broken then.
But were they?
When the teacher enters the classroom for the first time, when all the students are in the auditorium, the teacher walks the aisles of the empty classroom (Episode 1, begin at 12:33). At one point the teacher partially picks up Ha na’s pencil case (begin at 13:17)–and then the scene cuts to the auditorium. We don’t see or know for sure if the teacher picked up the pencil case, or if the teacher broke Ha na’s pencils.
Maybe she did, maybe she didn’t, we may never know, but what other reason could there be for that scene?
And if the teacher did break the pencils, was it a random act, or did she already know it was Ha na’s desk and pencil case?
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And does that classroom really not have a pencil sharpener?
June 28th, 2013 at 10:39 am
So elementay students are not uniformed but high school n college students are uniformed in korea right
June 29th, 2013 at 4:57 pm
The most useless drama i ve ever seen
June 29th, 2013 at 6:42 pm
well… yeah.. now i’m starting to hate the teacher -______-
i’m curious whether she is a human or not. it was really myterious.
but i love this drama since i’m enjoying their friendship, complicated and twisted relationship between the kids. friends? betrayal? just enjoy this drama kkk. something new and fresh~
July 4th, 2013 at 8:05 pm
I watch the first ep of this drama and the moment that child pee on her self I complete hated not only the teacher but could not stand watching anymore because I really don’t think a person like that should be called a teacher
July 5th, 2013 at 9:50 am
Great Drama !!!
July 6th, 2013 at 10:00 am
I have read that sinopsis,I think this drama is different and I curious how the end come??
July 9th, 2013 at 9:33 am
I don’t see how this show is so low in ratings. Queen’s Classroom is very good. The kids and the teachers all do a great job of acting in this. Between the first show and this new revision I would say the 2013 version is better.
I find it surprising it will only be 16 episodes. I was hoping this show will go into the the 20’s.
I really think they need to keep this kind of show alive. This really teaches kids good things. The teacher can be a bit mean at times but it teaches them what real life is like. It not all rainbows and candycanes on the way to work. I do think kids should be kids but they need to realize that the world is a dangerous place and when they get older they will have to fend for themselves against sharks out for blood.
July 11th, 2013 at 3:02 pm
i love this drama albeit i often cry..it teaches me a lesson..forcing a student to learn is a kind of punishment..!
July 11th, 2013 at 5:43 pm
You have to watch this!!!the story is so touching..makes me cry indeed..hehehe
July 12th, 2013 at 3:03 am
I still like this drama though I started watching others and strayed from this one. I did watch some of the Japanese version, which I think is scarier than this one. There was a reason why the teacher was so mysterious. Kind of upsetting but possible.
Wonder if she’s human like a previous poster said. What is the connection with the butterfly? This teacher lets the children deal with the situations that arise in the classroom. They deal with each other well in the long run. Yes the bitter lesson is that life is unfair So maybe understanding this early on will help them fight for what’s really important in their lives
July 14th, 2013 at 3:48 pm
This is a nice episode, THE QUEEN’S CLASSROOM EPISODE 10 ENGLISH SUBTITLE : click this link : http://goo.gl/Sq5RJ
July 14th, 2013 at 9:04 pm
This is a fantastic drama. The antithesis to political correctness. Indeed it kicks PC out the door like the pompous pretentious wretch that it is.
July 15th, 2013 at 3:51 am
The teacher is not human? If she is, she is receiving supernatural assistance.
If it wasn’t for the supernatural thing, this would make for a smashing social commentary. However it works well as is. There are no cringeful moments. The usual kdrama plot devises are given a rest and we are left with straight forward story telling.
I’m only a few episodes in and loving every bit of this drama.
July 18th, 2013 at 12:34 pm
the queen’s classroom episode 11 eng sub : http://goo.gl/EzSuH
include a review
July 19th, 2013 at 6:56 pm
watch, The Queens’s Classroom Episode 12 Eng Sub : http://ow.ly/n7qEy
Enjoy 🙂
July 21st, 2013 at 2:38 pm
최대 13이 드라마의 첫 번째 에피소드에서 아직도 내가 생각하는 최고 …
p to 13 in the first episode of the drama that I think still the best …
July 22nd, 2013 at 6:06 am
great drama,i cry a lot.. the teacher makes the kids to be realistic, deal & solve problem themselves.. This drama shows about true friends.. why the broadcast rating is low?this should be at 1st place, Is it because there’s no adult romance scenes?
July 22nd, 2013 at 6:13 am
oh ya..the acting of the cast is very good.. We all know Kim sae ron has been played in several movies & dramas since her younger age
July 25th, 2013 at 3:39 pm
i enjoy to watch it…
Oh Dong Goo very funny….likes to play with Shim Ha Na…:-)
Kim Seo Hyun clever & pretty…
July 25th, 2013 at 6:10 pm
THE QUEEN’S CLASSROOM EP.13 ENG SUB
Watch online here :http://goo.gl/1KHfFz
July 26th, 2013 at 1:03 pm
One of theme kids korean drama. Kim sae ron’s face like yoona little bit.
August 2nd, 2013 at 1:43 am
You will hate the teacher on the initial episodes but you have watch the everything from beginning until end and you will understand the point of the story. Very touching and a lot of life lessons to learn. I cried on most of the episode. This is a very good drama indeed.
August 2nd, 2013 at 3:12 pm
i really like this drama,many learn we watch this drama..
August 3rd, 2013 at 11:34 am
Those who have not watched from 1st till the end, will have no idea what the whole story line is all about.
Those who got bored with the first few episodes shows how they judge the drama.
This has been one of the best school drama ever since “God of Study”.
Queen of Classroom has shown the reality side of life. It’s not just about school only but the overall society.
August 3rd, 2013 at 12:01 pm
Enjoyed this drama immensely. A true gem. I can’t help thinking how lonely the teacher struck me. Too bad she wasn’t befriended by her peers. Especially after they knew how much she cared for her students. She pretty much wore a mask to everyone while making an impact on both children and adult’s lives. Like she said a teacher is a guide. The butterfly? I can only guess. For me it represented anyone spreading their wings searching for a happy life. This drama is well worth the time it took to watch. Enjoy
August 5th, 2013 at 1:34 am
I wonder why this drama had a low ratings? But, i think the important is that how this drama give important lessons about life. The teacher is strict, cold-hearted and insensitive.. Vut behind those is a teacher that really cares her students, and afraid to loss them. She has her iwn way of teaching not just by the book but the way of life. 🙂
August 6th, 2013 at 8:27 am
This is an excellent k-drama, not because it has a social message, but because it contains all the usual ingredients of a good story: engaging characters and a sequence of connected events which takes those characters and you on a roller-coaster ride. The final scene in the final episode is as satisfying and as lingering as in any drama. American viewers should understand that the social message which is indeed in this drama is directed at the pressure-cookers represented by Japanese, Korean and other East Asian schools and parents. In the US, we have the opposite problem. As an American, I also find the worry about being an “outcast” misguided.
August 15th, 2013 at 6:46 am
I really got a headache –‘ I kinda dont understand with the Witch Ma but still I have 10 epiosdes left. Watch it first then judge keke
August 17th, 2013 at 10:40 am
The Queen Of The Classroom
Great show! one of my favorite for this year <3 I highly advise it.
I cried a lot during this show even more than I've ever cried over a drama (sad)!
I cried of both happiness and sadness. it sort of reminds me of my 6th grade. I totally digg this drama Show , Story , Caracters , Cast , OSTs everything. <3 <3
A whole class cried and stood in respect for their amazing teacher wow really! I would really wanna have such a great teacher who really cares about me and to whom I would stand in appreciation and respect.
August 17th, 2013 at 3:09 pm
this drama is AWESOME.!!! you should watch this guys you can learn a lot from Teacher Ma Yeo Jin…
August 29th, 2013 at 10:29 am
Great show! two thumbs up for the whole cast and crew.
September 15th, 2013 at 1:39 pm
Gonna watch this awesome drama. Kukk!
October 6th, 2013 at 8:28 am
^^V
different plots and atmospheres , much better than lately korean drama . . * Jjang *
December 12th, 2013 at 8:37 pm
If every school have teacher like this this world would be a great place. Life goals should not be limited as high results or attend to a great university or have a good job.