Ugly Duckling Ms. Maeng

Name: Ugly Duckling Ms. Maeng
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2026-10-28
Duration: 100 min
Cast: Lee Sun-bin, Yoo Jae-myung, Kim Young-min, Jun Seok-ho, Hwang Bo-ra

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Release Date

10/28/2026

Runtime

100 mins

Genres

Comedy

Overview

Ms. Maeng, a small-town teacher, unexpectedly joins the team responsible for creating South Korea’s most important exam: the College Scholastic Ability Test. She thought it would be all about academic prestige and scholarly debate but instead finds herself locked away under spy-level security, her phone confiscated and surrounded by office politics. Can this unlikely underdog turn test stress into test success, or just test everyone's patience?

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Original Language

Korean

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A small-town teacher navigates absurd institutional chaos when drafted into the high-stakes world of Korea's most important exam. It's a fish-out-of-water comedy that finds humor in the collision between sincere idealism and the ridiculous bureaucracy of academic gatekeeping.