Duty After School: Here Are The Points You’re Getting Into

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Feeling of disbelief and curiosity.

Why were 3rd grade high school students asked to be drafted as reserve forces and even given rifles to fight aliens?????!

Kids are kids.
It is tough for the students to accept it easily when they just get to know that they need to fight with dangerous aliens at the risk of losing their own lives. Even though it's hard for the viewers to watch, let's remember that they are just kids being kids when they are crying, whining, asking for their parents, and demanding to be sent home.

Highlighting the importance of transparency in communication.
Bad communication can cause misunderstanding, be perceived as dishonesty or shady, and hence break the trust one has in the other party.

A coming-of-age genre drama.
We will feel proud watching their growth—from whining kids into reserve force that is greatly skillful in killing aliens using rifles.

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A thriller.

At the beginning of the drama, most of the students are easy prey for the aliens. As the story progresses, they do their best to avoid falling prey and becoming the aliens' food. This drama keeps viewers immersed in high tension, worrying about the characters' fate and thus successfully keeping people's adrenaline levels high from episode to episode.

Catastrophe caused by alien invasion.
Crisis does not care who you are. When it happens, no one is immune, and everyone is forced into the same deadly situation. Even high schoolers need to pick themselves up and fight against the odds if they want to stay alive in a world of alien predators hunting them for food.

Unexpected Threat
By the end of the story, viewers will be shocked by a sudden dangerous threat that's surprisingly not coming from the aliens, and the lives of Class 3-2 students are gravely being put in danger. What could be more fatally threatening than human-eating aliens? A betrayal from within.

Cast:

Im Se-mi, Shin Hyun-Soo, Lee Soon-Won, Kim Ki-Hae, Kim Min-Chul, Kim Su-Gyeom, Moon Sang-Min, Ahn Do-Kyu, Woo Min-Kyu, Yoon Jong-Bin, Ji Min-Hyuk, Hong Xa-Bin, Ro Jong-Hyun, Yeo Joo-Ha, Choi Moon-Hee, Kwon Eun-Bin, Kim So-Hee, Kim Jung-Lan, Shin Soo-Hyun, Oh Se-Eun, Lee Yeon, Hwang Se-In.

 

Duty After School: Here Are The Points You’re Getting Into

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Duty After School: An Introduction

! Spoiler Alert !

It was 2022, and unknown spheres had already been trespassing across the skies all over the world for over a year. While still researching what those spheres are, humanity unknowingly is letting dangerous and fatal alien eggs mature above the sky, before they reach their hatching time.

Those spheres start falling onto the Earth after they have matured, and numerous deadly, squid-like aliens come out from each one upon impact. Those aliens move at terrifying speeds when chasing, hunting, and killing humans for food. What is known about these aliens is they can only be killed using rifles with depleted uranium ammo—no other weakness of them has yet been discovered by the human race.

Faced with this invasive and seemingly superior species, the country finds itself lacking manpower to fight back. The government decides to have 3rd grade high school students drafted too as reserve forces to increase the manpower, but without letting them know the country's true state of emergency.

This drama focuses on depicting the story of the students of Class 3-2 at Seong Jin High School, beginning when their homeroom teacher breaks it to them that they have to choose either joining the reserve force voluntarily and receive military training after school, or be sent somewhere else to continue their studies remotely.

In a way to encourage high participation, the government even goes to the extent of offering CSAT extra credit to students who volunteer to enlist. Unaware that the government's real reason behind their recruitment is for them to fight aliens, all students of Class 3-2 agree to join as a reserve force with their parents' consent, and begin their after-school military training.

They only discover the truth after witnessing aliens kill and feed on humans during their way back to school from an outdoor rifle shooting exercise. Shaken by the shocking encounter and the loss of their homeroom teacher right before their eyes, the students of Class 3-2 incite a riot among other classes against the soldiers stationed at the school one day after that, demanding to be sent home.

Amid the chaos from the clash between students and soldiers, a sphere crashes right in front of them — soon followed by several more landing around the school. Aliens emerge from the fallen spheres and quickly start attacking both students and soldiers. Many lives perish, becoming food for the aliens, and only some of them manage to board military trucks to urgently relocate to military base camps.

After witnessing the brutal deaths of their classmates and schoolmates, the students finally grasp the true severity of the threat. A deep realization sets in: this is not the time for crying or whining about wanting to go home. Though filled with unanswered questions and still kids as they are, the students begin to take their harsh military training seriously. As they navigate the challenges brought their way by the aliens, can they stay safe and alive until the end?

Duty After School: An Introduction

Tuesday, June 17, 2025