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?

Ugly Duckling Ms. Maeng (2026)

October 28, 2026 100 min

Comedy

Director: Lee Yong-jae  ·  Writers: Lee Yong-jae, Soyo Park

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?

Director

Lee Yong-jae

Cast

Lee Sun-bin Maeng Bo-ram Yoo Jae-myung Moon Joo-yeol Kim Young-min Park Kyung-tae Choi Si-won Jun Seok-ho Ki Joon-su Kim Gyeong-min Lee Jin-hee Hwang Bo-ra Na Eun-mi Jung Soo-young Lee Joong-ok Ryu Kyeong-hwan Park Seo-bin Ddal-bong