Original series “The School Nurse Files,” starring actors Jung Yu-mi and Nam Joo-hyuk, shot onto Netflix’s Top 10 list after its release on Sept. 25 and remains in the No. 2 spot today.

Adapted from the novel “School Nurse Ahn Eun-young” by popular sci-fi and fantasy writer Chung Se-rang, the story — which is about an eccentric school nurse and exorcist Eun-young battling jelly-like substances that only she can see —already had a wide fandom.

Anticipation was high about how these “jellies” would be imagined on screen—and fans were curious to see how director Lee Kyoung-mi, who took the helm of the series, would portray the narrative of the original novel.

Lee, whose directorial debut came in 2008 through the feature film “Crush and Blush,” is known for her distinct narrative style which has been called both refreshing and bizarre. A consensus reached by audiences is that her style deviates far from conventional storytelling methods.

While she had some experience working with Netflix when she directed the “Love Set” episode of the four-part original series “Persona,” “The School Nurse Files” is her first official content on Netflix that's available to audiences in over 190 countries.

“It is a very new and exciting experience for me,” Lee said in an online press interview on Monday. “In films, the fate of the film lies on what kind of reviews it gets from the press screening—the reviews certainly impact box office sales a lot, so I would get nervous around that period—but it was very pleasant before the series was released on Netflix. There’s no process for it—the series is simultaneously released globally and the thought of meeting a diverse range of audiences [over the platform] was very exciting.”

Over the course of the interview, Lee talked about what message she wanted to portray to the global audience and how she infused the plot from the novel into the series. The following are edited excerpts.

BY LEE JAE-LIM [lee.jaelim@joongang.co.kr]