Duty After School (Season 1)

Duty After School (방과 후 전쟁활동, 2023) is a South Korean sci-fi action series you can watch online on iFILM. Director Sung Yong-il adapted Ha Il-kwon's hit webtoon about high schoolers drafted into combat — not college entrance exams — when alien spheres appear above Korean cities and the army starts losing.

Class 3-2 traded textbooks for rifles. Lieutenant Lee Chun-ho (Shin Hyun-soo) runs the platoon with a strict hand and a conscience; Sergeant Kim Won-bin (Lee Soon-won) trains the teenagers like soldiers. Their homeroom teacher Park Eun-young (Im Se-mi) refuses to let military logic swallow her students whole. The aliens don't negotiate. Neither does the government.

What makes the show hit harder than a standard creature feature is the cost it puts on screen — friendships, fear and the moment you realise adults have no plan. The ending of the first part split Korean viewers sharply. Stream Duty After School online on iFILM.