Kim Mu-yeol김무열Kim Mu-yeol
김무열
Kim Mu-yeol is a Prain TPC actor with more than twenty film credits and seventeen television ones since 2008, most of them in Korean cinema. In 2026 he led Netflix's Teach You a Lesson as bureau inspector Na Hwa-jin.
- Agency
- Prain TPC
- Born
- 22 May 1982
- Known for
- Teach You a Lesson
Who he is
Kim Mu-yeol is a South Korean actor with Prain TPC. Cine21’s database carries 24 film credits and 17 television ones for him, the oldest dated 2008 and the most recent 2025 — a career built mainly in Korean cinema, where he has worked steadily as a lead and a supporting player for close to two decades.
2026
Teach You a Lesson, released on Netflix on 5 June 2026, is his first series to reach the top of the platform’s global chart. Netflix’s own announcement casts him as Na Hwa-jin, an inspector at the fictional bureau the series invents to defend Korean schools. The Korea Herald reported on 29 July 2026 that the series had drawn 60.2 million views in eight weeks and entered Netflix’s all-time top 10 for non-English series.
Known for
Stories
How 'Teach You a Lesson' inspired a real teachers' rights unit in Gyeonggi
The fictional Bureau for the Protection of Teaching Authority in Netflix's "Teach You a Lesson" now has a real counterpart: Gyeonggi superintendent Ahn Min-seok signed a plan for a teachers' rights protection unit on 13 July 2026, Hankook Ilbo reported.