Let's fight. Battle Royale

I never liked school teachers.

They are often either overly self-absorbed or indulgent and apathatic

And worst of all they had no love toward the students.

All they cared about was stable position and regular salary they had as official teacher.

No passion for teaching

No care for thier students.

That's all about Korean school teachers, as long as I remember.


Korean education system reminds me of the Japanese movie"Battle Royale"

In the movie, students in a class are send to an island to engage in a real-survival-game.

It was organized by the offical in Japanese government...
They says that it is a project which will effectively englighten students, that are already getting out of adult's control, commiting too much crimes.

But it rather seems to be form of revenge rather than discipline

The class is chosen randomly,
all the students in the class are asked kill each other, until the last one survive.

So, classmates start killing each other.

Trusted friends turn out to be enemies overnight. They start to stab a knife, drip in poison and aima gun at each other.

When I told a Canadian teacher about the movie

he said that he could not see what the movie was trying to say.

He though it was silly.

I couldn't blamming him for not understanding it.

He have never experienced being in 'Battle Royale'


The Fact is that people really can be really cruel when they are in such an extreme condition.

I have seen best friends hating each other for having higher score than one another.

Such thing really takes place in real life.

I-as an Korean student- experienced it everyday, ever since I was in third grade in elementary school.

students in Korean are ranked by their scores since they are nine.
They are "good student" when they score high in the test and vice versa
and those who 'lost' in the exam are abandoned.
Some students that cannot stand this condition choose to flee to oversea.

It is really unbearably cruel to evaluate students solely by their grades.

It is just like telling students ; what you have scored is how important you are.
but students themselves get so accustomed to their circumstance that they do the "sorting" by themselves
They show great respect to student who have high score and sneer at those who do poorly.

but people who are in the first place are also envied by others.

Involving heated competition at early age means that children learn about jealousy and inferiority complex and all the ugly feeling people could feel.

It's needless to mention that there are no opportunity for them to have well-rounded education.
They may have lots of knowledges but they never know about true value of life.

It is just so dull to imagine a society full of adults who are grown up in such way.

But that is what Korea is now.

I see no future.







and I'm sick of it.

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and current president of Korea, Lee MB is a moron.

he is just dying to fuel up the students' competition.

Believing that competition will solve everything.

Stil caught up by that old-fashioned ideologies...