Law School

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Law School

로스쿨 (Roseukul) · 2021 · South Korea

WriterSeo In

DirectorKim Seok-yoon

Episodes16 eps · ~65 min each

Where to Watch✅ Netflix

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Binge Time17h 20m

AiredApr 14 – Jun 9, 2021

GenreLegal Drama · Mystery · Crime

Content RatingTV-16

JTBCNetflix

Courtroom DramaUniversity SettingPolitical CorruptionMurder MysteryEnsemble Cast

The TL;DR, boxed and ready.

Seven first-year students, one accused professor, and a murder that keeps getting bigger.

Kim Myung-min

Yang Jong-hoon

Lead

Kim Bum

Han Joon-hwi

Lead

Ryu Hye-young

Kang Sol A

Supporting

Lee Jung-eun

Kim Eun-sook

Supporting

Park Hyuk-kwon

Jin Hyeong-u

Supporting

Ahn Nae-sang

Seo Byung-ju

Supporting

Jung Won-joong

Ko Hyeong-su

Supporting

Lee Soo-kyung

Kang Sol B

Supporting

David Lee

Seo Ji-ho

Supporting

Go Youn-jung

Jeon Ye-seul

Supporting

Hyun Woo

Yoo Seung-jae

Supporting

Kil Hae-yeon

Oh Jeong-hee

Supporting

A spoiler-light refresher, episode by episode.

EP 01

A Murder During Mock Trial

Apr 14, 2021

A mock trial at Hankuk University Law School turns real when Professor Seo Byung-ju turns up dead in his office, and criminal law professor Yang Jong-hoon — a former prosecutor with an unresolved history with the victim — becomes suspect number one almost immediately. The show introduces its two central students in the same breath: Kang Sol A, quietly struggling to keep up academically, and Han Joon-hwi, Professor Seo’s nephew and the top of his class, whose calm gives away nothing about what he’s actually feeling.

EP 02

A Question That Hits Too Close

Apr 15, 2021

Yang holds up under police interrogation with unsettling composure, giving away nothing even as the evidence stacks against him. A hypothetical exam question built around Joon-hwi’s own past trouble with the university lands a little too close to home, quietly raising the question of what he isn’t saying. Kang Sol A starts watching Professor Yang differently, catching glimpses of method underneath the intimidation.

EP 03

The Second Autopsy

Apr 21, 2021

Joon-hwi joins Yang on the suspect list, and a second autopsy only muddies a case that was never simple. Then someone tries to kill Yang outright, a clear signal that whatever this is, it’s bigger than one dead professor and one obvious suspect. Sol A and Joon-hwi are pulled deeper in, their law-school education turning into live fieldwork neither of them signed up for.

EP 04

The Case Study Is His Own

Apr 22, 2021

Yang does the audacious thing and assigns his own murder case as classwork, daring his students to pick apart the evidence against him in real time. Prosecutor Jin Hyeong-u, who has history with Yang that predates this case, responds by turning the prosecution into something closer to a personal vendetta. Sol A gets her first real taste of law in practice; Joon-hwi studies every angle with the specific urgency of someone trying to clear his own family.

EP 05

An Unlikely Piece of Evidence

Apr 28, 2021

A student plagiarism case turns out to be hiding something far more useful — a thread that could actually help clear Yang. Sol A’s work at the legal clinic sharpens into something more than a class requirement when a client’s situation genuinely gets to her. The episode’s real point is how much is connected under the surface — nothing at this school happens in isolation anymore.

EP 06

The Neighbor Nobody Mentions

Apr 29, 2021

Prepping for his first trial, Yang uncovers something about Kang Sol B — Sol A’s roommate — that could shift the whole case. Joon-hwi, meanwhile, keeps a protective eye on Sol A as her family’s unsettling neighbor, Lee Man-ho, a convicted child offender with his own ties to Professor Seo, resurfaces in her life. The murder case and the students’ personal lives stop running on separate tracks here.

EP 07

Ji-ho’s Testimony

May 5, 2021

A phone call to Yang from an unexpected source visibly rattles Sol A, hinting the investigation is about to widen. In court, Seo Ji-ho — a student chasing justice for his own father’s death — delivers testimony painful enough to expose a side of Professor Seo nobody in the room wanted to hear. What looked like one man’s murder starts looking like the surface of something much larger.

EP 08

A Witness Who Wasn’t There

May 6, 2021

Prosecutor Jin produces a witness claiming to have watched Yang commit the murder, and the defense suddenly has a much harder case to make. Off to the side, first-year student Jeon Ye-seul — being abused by her boyfriend, the son of Assemblyman Ko Hyeong-su — is backed into a corner by a threat she can’t easily walk away from. Two very different kinds of powerlessness collide in the same episode.

EP 09

No Lawyer Would Take It

May 12, 2021

Ye-seul can’t find a single lawyer willing to touch her domestic violence case once the boyfriend’s family starts applying pressure — a quiet, ugly demonstration of what power actually buys. Professor Kim Eun-sook, one of Yang’s few real confidantes, puts her faith in a student to step forward with testimony his defense badly needs. The law school starts functioning less like a classroom and more like a support network.

EP 10

Evidence That Might Not Count

May 13, 2021

Joon-hwi turns up evidence that could genuinely clear Yang, though nobody’s sure yet whether it’ll even be admissible. Meanwhile the wider student body rallies around Ye-seul, building out a self-defense case with real legal rigor instead of good intentions alone. Both threads show the same thing from different angles: how much these students have actually learned.

EP 11

Working for the Other Side

May 19, 2021

Training placements scatter the students across the legal world, and Joon-hwi ends up working directly under Prosecutor Jin — a genuinely uncomfortable position for someone quietly trying to gather intel from inside enemy territory. Jury selection begins for Ye-seul’s trial, raising the stakes on a case that’s already cost her plenty. The show leans into just how morally grey ‘getting the job done’ can look from the inside.

EP 12

Teaching Her to Speak

May 20, 2021

A last-minute court appearance threatens to blow up Ye-seul’s trial before it can even properly start, and it’s Yang’s unconventional teaching — not conventional courtroom strategy — that gives her the tools to hold her ground. Watching him coach her through articulating her own testimony is the clearest demonstration yet of what actually makes him good at this job, on either side of the podium.

EP 13

A Verdict, Not an Answer

May 26, 2021

A new arrest lands in the Professor Seo murder case, but it doesn’t quiet the questions Yang still can’t shake — something about this still doesn’t add up to him. Ye-seul’s jury reaches its verdict, closing out one of the show’s two central cases even as the murder conspiracy keeps widening underneath it. One fight ends; the bigger one is nowhere near finished.

EP 14

The Car Wasn’t Empty

May 27, 2021

Suspicion starts circling Lee Man-ho’s actual role in everything, and a years-old hit-and-run resurfaces with an unsettling new detail: Professor Seo might not have been alone in that car. The implication points straight at Assemblyman Ko Hyeong-su, and the case stops being about one murder and starts looking like a cover-up with real institutional weight behind it.

EP 15

The Cost of Going Public

Jun 2, 2021

Money problems and the sudden, unexplained arrival of someone named Kang Dan pile fresh stress onto Sol A’s already overloaded plate. When the students go public with evidence against Assemblyman Ko, the backlash is immediate and vicious — a blunt reminder that exposing powerful people rarely comes free, even when you’re right.

EP 16

What the Law Can’t Guarantee

Jun 9, 2021

Assemblyman Ko finally goes down for solicitation of murder, undone by a double sting operation built around the real Kang Dan — a solution as clever as anything the show has pulled off all season. Yang gets a quiet, imagined conversation with the professor he’s spent sixteen episodes accused of killing, and it says more about grief and regret than any verdict could. Ye-seul, healed enough to help others now, starts counseling domestic violence victims at the legal clinic, while Sol A, Sol B, and Joon-hwi gear up for a competition as a united front. The finale’s actual thesis lands clean: the law doesn’t promise justice, only the people willing to keep fighting for it do.

Full spoilers from this point — what happened, and why.

What actually happened Assemblyman Ko Hyeong-su is exposed as the man behind Professor Seo’s murder, arrested for solicitation of murder after a meticulously constructed double sting operation involving the real Kang Dan — a figure introduced late enough to feel like a wildcard but who turns out to be the linchpin of the whole plan. The years-old hit-and-run, Lee Man-ho’s involvement, and Seo Byung-ju’s own compromised past all fold into one motive: a powerful man protecting himself from a professor who knew too much.

Jeon Ye-seul’s arc closes on genuine healing rather than just legal victory — she’s not just cleared of wrongdoing, she’s actively counseling other domestic violence victims by the finale, turning her worst experience into the thing she’s now equipped to help other people survive. It’s the show’s clearest example of its actual thesis in miniature: surviving the system is one thing, using what you learned to help the next person is the real point.

The imaginary conversation, and what it means Yang’s finale scene — an imagined conversation with the dead Professor Seo — isn’t there to resolve a mystery, since the mystery’s already solved by that point. It’s there to resolve Yang himself: his guilt, his complicated respect for a man he spent the whole show accused of killing, and his real reason for teaching the way he does. The scene reframes ‘Yangcrates’ not as a gimmick but as a man actively trying to build better lawyers than the compromised system that made Seo Byung-ju what he was.

Prosecutor Jin’s ending is deliberately left a little unresolved — he tries to manipulate Seo Ji-ho into a deal even in the finale, and Ji-ho refuses, but Jin himself never really faces consequences for how far he pushed the prosecution throughout the show. It’s a pointed, unflashy choice: not every abuse of power in this system gets a tidy comeuppance, and the show doesn’t pretend otherwise.

The KDW verdict Law School sticks the landing by refusing to make its ending about the twist — Assemblyman Ko’s exposure is satisfying, but the finale’s real energy goes into its students, closing on Sol A, Sol B, and Joon-hwi preparing for a competition together instead of a courtroom victory lap. The line that actually closes the show — that the law itself doesn’t guarantee justice, only the people who practice it with real commitment do — is earned by sixteen episodes that took its ensemble seriously the whole way through.