Log in
Ugly Duckling Ms. Maeng

Ugly Duckling Ms. Maeng

2026 · 100 min · Comedy

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?

Directed by Lee Yong-jae · Written by Lee Yong-jae

In theaters Oct 28, 2026

Cast

Make it a double feature

3h 37m together

Ugly Duckling Ms. Maeng

In Our Prime

Both from Lee Yong-jae.

More from Lee Yong-jaeSee all →

In Our PrimeIn Our Prime · 2022
In Our Prime
★ 8.02022
MovieDrama
Ji-woo, an outcast at a prestigious private school, meets Hak-sung, the school janitor who is actually a mathematical genius who defected from North Korea.
Secret ZooSecret Zoo · 2020
Secret Zoo
★ 6.32020
MovieComedyDrama
A lawyer is given the mission of revitalising a bankrupt zoo that has no animals. When he and a group of zookeepers come up with the idea to dress like animals and his fake polar bear goes viral, the zoo becomes a hit, before his law firm’s real intentions are revealed.

More Like This

AcceptedAccepted · 2006
Accepted
★ 6.52006
MovieComedy
A high school slacker who's rejected by every school he applies to opts to create his own institution of higher learning, the South Harmon Institute of Technology, on a rundown piece of property near his hometown.
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions ScandalOperation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal · 2021
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
★ 6.82021
MovieDocumentaryCrime
An examination that goes beyond the celebrity-driven headlines and dives into the methods used by Rick Singer, the man at the center of the shocking 2019 college admissions scandal, to persuade his wealthy clients to cheat an educational system already designed to benefit the privileged.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter