A murder inside the walls of South Korea's most prestigious law school pulls the entire faculty and student body into suspicion in Law School, a 2021 crime drama series directed by Kim Sok-yun.
What is Law School about?
When a professor is found dead on campus, the case does not stay contained to the police. Rumors, alibis, and old rivalries surface among the professors and students who knew him, and the show builds its mystery less around a single detective than around an entire academic community turning on itself. Legal argument becomes a weapon in its own right, as characters use courtroom logic and procedure both to defend themselves and to point suspicion elsewhere, blurring the line between studying the law and being tried by it.
About the cast
Kim Myung-min leads the ensemble as a hard-nosed law professor forced to navigate the fallout inside his own department, alongside Kim Bum and Ryu Hye-young as students caught up in the investigation. Lee Jung-eun, Park Hyeok-kwon, Ahn Nae-sang, Jung Won-joong, and Lee Soo-kyung fill out a faculty-and-student cast large enough to keep suspicion spread wide across the run.
Context & significance
Law School comes from South Korea and unfolds across episodes built around courtroom procedure and campus politics in equal measure, a structure that let it stand out among the country's crowded run of legal and crime dramas in 2021. Kim Sok-yun directs, keeping the tone closer to a slow-burn procedural than a courtroom thriller, with each episode running roughly 65 minutes and adding a fresh layer of testimony, motive, or misdirection to the central case.
Watching Law School on Ktime
Law School is available to watch on K-Time with a free account login, complete with Persian subtitles for the full run. The platform's Farsi-forward design makes it simple for Persian-speaking viewers to follow a dialogue-heavy legal drama like this one without losing the nuance of the courtroom scenes.