Ugly Duckling Ms. Maeng
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Maeng Bo-ram
Moon Joo-yeol
Park Kyung-tae
Ki Joon-su
Na Eun-mi
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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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