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The Substitute

대리수능

Year2026Episodes10NetworkTVING

“Bad Genius meets SKY Castle on Korea's college entrance exam day”

A top high school student is blackmailed into taking a substitute college entrance exam, leading to a manipulation crime thriller.

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What is it really about

A scholarship student who tops a school full of rich kids is blackmailed into sitting the college entrance exam for someone else, and one day of cheating turns into a crime none of the three boys involved can undo. A school thriller that uses the CSAT itself as the pressure cooker.

Pressure-cookerClass tensionPsychological gamesMorally gray

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Director Park So-yeon previously directed TVING's school thriller Pyramid Game; Choi Su wrote the script.
Its Korean title, 대리수능, literally means "Stand-in CSAT", after Korea's College Scholastic Ability Test.
Studio Dragon, Sidus and Studio Woo Young-soo produce it as a TVING original series.
The teaser poster lays an OMR answer sheet over the two leads under the line "That day, we crossed the line."
Park Hyuk-kwon plays Nam Dong-sik, a district mayor candidate and an authoritarian father.

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