School 2013

School 2013 was released in 2012 starring Jang Nara, Choi Daniel, Lee Jong Suk and Kim Woo Bin. Depicting the struggles of day to day problems students and teachers face in and out of a classroom environment was sure to pull me in by the end of the first episode. Starting from bullying, suicides, and student-teacher involvement, this just had my heart twisting in all angles from start to finish.

Plot

Go Nam Soon (Lee Jong Suk), a weary student that doesn't seem to find interest in school, is one out of many in his homeroom class. With a dark past and secrets to be kept, Nam Soon keeps to himself and tries to ease his way through junior year. The trouble seems to arise when Park Heung Soo (Kim Woo Bin) transfers into Seungri high school and is ironically placed in the same homeroom as Nam Soon.

From the start of the two meeting abruptly do past memories fall back to the present and jeopardize the easy-going life both individuals hold.

While students find themselves struggling to keep up with their studies, exist in life as a whole, find who they truly are and separate their wants from their parents, homeroom and Literature teachers Kang Se Chan and Jung In Jae struggle to teach and care for their students.

The battle between becoming their guardian or staying in a strict, appropriate zone as nothing more than providers is not only a struggle as Class 2 bond as family rather than surrounding students and teachers.

Overall

From the start, this drama hooked me in. I don't even know how I came upon this in the first place. I was sick and it was the start of spring break. All I wanted was to find something interesting so I went through a list of dramas starting from Dream High to Heading to the Ground only to fall upon School 2013 and stick to this one until the end.

Of course, with 16 episodes, I didn't know exactly what to think of this and what to predict, but with Lee Jong Suk as my new boy crush as well as Kim Woo Bin in a school uniform, well I don't think you can go wrong with any of the two.

The raw emotion held between both boys who have such a deep background and past with one another is truly heartbreaking and many things portrayed in this drama based upon school and interactions with other beings of your age group is so surreal that it had me in tears before I even knew it.

I definitely recommend this drama to anyone that is looking for a short and evolving story that leaves not the happiest of endings but a piece of life's greatest gifts as a whole.