Even wild flowers are flowers 2

Voluntary Cultural Colony 2
Let it grow green
Whose fault is it?
Beings like wild flowers
Do what you want, don't starve
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Their aspirations, their choices
Author's chronology

Even wild flowers are flowers 1

Author's Note_ The Third Wish
Why do trees sway?
I am alone
To a place without mother
It's not your property
I am me
Bullying, ostracism, and being singled out
The Roots of School Violence
I'm human too
Voluntary Cultural Colony 1

Even wild flowers are flowers 1

Author's Note_ The Third Wish
Why do trees sway?
I am alone
To a place without mother
It's not your property
I am me
Bullying, ostracism, and being singled out
The Roots of School Violence
I'm human too
Voluntary Cultural Colony 1

A country that values ​​human values ​​more than grades.
We think about education, a 100-year promise that will shape the future of the Republic of Korea!
A long-term project that must never be missed in the midst of rapid changes in the world.
Jo Jeong-rae's novel that suggests the direction of our society

After the war generation, which was busy trying to overcome the hardships of life caused by division and war, and to make ends meet and raise their own children, everyone, with the sense of crisis that "it's hard to make a living if you don't educate," made "educating your children" the ultimate goal of life and struggled for only education for 50 years. Will the children of their fathers' generation finally be able to achieve the dreams and hopes that their fathers could not?

In the late 1970s, writer Jo Jeong-rae, who watched his only son enlist and lamented that the unification he had dreamed of when he left the training camp had not yet arrived, heard news of the military regime's crackdown on illegal private tutoring and realized to his bones that his hopes that illegal private tutoring might disappear in his grandson's time were betrayed. It was only after he welcomed his grandson and began to understand the reality of all kinds of private education starting from infancy that he realized how betrayed he had been.
The grandson is now a high school student, and the author, who decided that he could no longer just watch reality, intensively researched data for three years after writing 『Jungle Manri』, visited schools of all levels and private education sites, interviewed related workers, and then formed the framework of the novel. He began writing in earnest at the end of last year, publishing the 2,212-page novel 『Wildflowers Are Flowers Too』.

An arena of endless competition that can no longer be overlooked

This novel diagnoses the heartbreaking present where 6.8 million elementary, middle, and high school students across the country are running with only one path in mind: college, without even having the opportunity to choose their dreams and futures, and proposes a future for the Republic of Korea that we all must envision together.
At a time when countries around the world dream of a happy harmony between science and humanity through advancements in artificial intelligence and other technologies, the reality of our society, where more money and higher status are still the only criteria for happiness, is bitter and sad.
Just as flowers bloom from the roadside weeds that bloom without anyone noticing and announce their beauty to the world, the author titled the novel “Wildflowers Are Flowers Too” to emphasize that we are all born as wild flowers and must live our lives each shining with our own light.

The author vividly portrays our inner landscapes as if he were there, by thoroughly covering various aspects of society, including plastic surgery performed on infants in the name of fluent English speaking, bullying where being ugly, poor, or dull can be a cause of discrimination, runaway youth who cannot pursue their dreams because they are crushed by their parents' grades, and the educational values ​​that are implicitly and openly accepted in places called the "Mecca of private education."

We are all like wild flowers, no one can give up easily.

In the midst of the collapse of public education, Kang Kyo-min, a high school Korean language teacher who stubbornly holds on to his beliefs like a weed; Kim Hee-kyung, a housewife whose husband is a high-ranking official at a large corporation and her daughter is a respectable college student; Forman, an American who came all the way to Korea to catch a big fish in the huge market of native English conversation; and Lee So-jung, an elementary school teacher who helps children realize that they are meaningful to someone by making eye contact and calling their names in the midst of the worsening problem of school violence. These characters represent the values ​​and goals of the adult generation in the novel.


Also, Choi Yoon-seop, a high school student who conflicts with his parents because he wants to pursue a career he has been interested in since childhood rather than study to become an executive at a large corporation like his father; Han Dong-yu, a middle school student who runs away from home to fight against his mother's inability to understand his dream of becoming a cartoonist and endures a dangerous day as a "child on the street"; and Bae Dong-gi, a high school student who barely manages to make ends meet while being bullied by his alcoholic father and poor family environment. The film vividly portrays the struggles of today's youth to escape the system built by the older generation.

A must-read for those concerned about the values ​​of Korean society.

Among OECD member countries, Korea is the country with the lowest academic achievement and the most private tutoring despite spending the longest time studying. In Korea, an average of 1.5 students commit suicide every day due to poor grades, and the country has reached a tragic point where children kill their parents due to conflicts caused by grades.
Jo Jung-rae's novel, "Even a Wildflower is a Flower," reflects on how the success-oriented attitude and survival-of-the-fittest competitive structure behind rapid economic growth have devastated our lives and rigidified human values ​​in a society that ignores the essence of education, which is that "not a single person should be given up," and pushes children down a path of immorality without any policy changes.

Focusing on the current state of education in this era, the author comprehensively discusses the values ​​of life that we should truly pursue, how humans should live, and what we must do right now to establish a 100-year plan for the Republic of Korea through the lives of parents, teachers, students, and educators in various parts of society.
This is a must-read novel for anyone who wants to build a healthy society and establish future-oriented values ​​in a heartbreaking reality where people are ranked based on grades and abilities.