{"product_id":"111818","title":"Announcement teacher Ji Han-gu ","description":"\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/tmgdisk01.cafe24.com\/images\/vs\/4172\/sv\/WQt5xS2U6yPViyUpQpZYiN.png?v=1764958554\" style=\"max-width:100%;max-height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center;font-size:30px;font-weight:bolder;line-height:1.6em\"\u003e Public notice teacher, Ji Han-gu \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-bottom:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-color:;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable align=\"center\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003ctbody style=\"border:0px\"\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd align=\"center\" style=\"line-height:1.2em;text-align:center;font-size:18px;color:black;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px;\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/goods\/160630005\/XL\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;{split_style6}padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e Description \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;word-break:break-all;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eAn agricultural student who decided to raise students, not trees.\u003cbr\u003e The story of a Korean teacher's struggles, never knowing he would be teaching in public schools.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Things that would be difficult to experience at other schools\u003cbr\u003e Kids I would never have met in my life if I hadn't come to the announcement.\u003cbr\u003e The story of public notices and their students in this era, where they are everywhere but no one respects them.\u003cbr\u003e Above all, it's the story of students who have lived as our neighbors for a long time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Some people call children who attend public high schools ‘problem children’ or ‘dropouts.’\u003cbr\u003e Regardless of this harsh discrimination, when the new semester begins in March, I start classes again from the beginning as if nothing had happened. \u003cbr\u003eIt's only natural that if there's a model student, there's a troublemaker, if there's a first-class student, there's a last-class student, and if there's a non-disabled student, there's a disabled student.\u003cbr\u003e “School is a place where they come together to study, play, laugh, chat, sometimes fight, conflict, and then reconcile.”\u003cbr\u003e - In the book\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e You can preview some of the book's contents.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan\u003ePreview\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eindex\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e prolog.\u003cbr\u003e Some people are concerned about how to teach in the public notice, but 8\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1.\u003cbr\u003e Child 15 who gave up 1,000 won\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2.\u003cbr\u003e Eighteen-year-old Gwanghoon's four fingers 21\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3.\u003cbr\u003e \"How did I end up here?\": 29 students who went out to find jobs\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4.\u003cbr\u003e A child 37 who showed up with a cleaver after being sent to a large company\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5.\u003cbr\u003e 49 Secrets of the Central Plains Revealed on the First Day of the New Semester\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6.\u003cbr\u003e The Conflicting Fates of Three High School Students on the Verge of Expulsion 61\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7.\u003cbr\u003e 73 scholarships awarded for writing essays\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8.\u003cbr\u003e He secretly encouraged me to drop out 77\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9.\u003cbr\u003e A High School Teacher's Thirsty Transformation 89\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. \u003cbr\u003eThe \"Bodybuilder\" Challenge 103, which led to broadcasts\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11.\u003cbr\u003e The Voiceless Child 115\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12.\u003cbr\u003e Competition Surrounding the Bottom 20 Percent of Students 123\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13.\u003cbr\u003e The Rough and Lonely Return of a Dropout 133\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 14.\u003cbr\u003e 143 students who couldn't read the blackboard\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 15.\u003cbr\u003e Scholarship for the Last Place 155\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 16.\u003cbr\u003e \"I Studied Well in Vietnam\": 165 Missing High School Students\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 17.\u003cbr\u003e 177 to Seoul to meet IU\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 18.\u003cbr\u003e \"Our school is a cow, a cow!\": A self-portrait of the public high school of that era, 187\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 19.\u003cbr\u003e A magnificent banner hanging on the notice board 201\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 20. From the \"Olympic Champion\" announcement, which you won't see on TV. 213\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue.\u003cbr\u003e Becoming Neighbors 222\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eInto the book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e “Kyungsoo, let’s talk to the teacher.”\u003cbr\u003e I was worried that he would ignore my suggestion, but Kyungsoo raised his head with sleepy eyes.\u003cbr\u003e The guy accepted my invitation.\u003cbr\u003e When we sat awkwardly facing each other in the counseling room, I didn't ask Kyungsoo any questions. \u003cbr\u003eInstead, he said, “I really hate you for sleeping face down every day,” and confessed, “I’m sorry as a teacher for hating you and not even asking about your circumstances.”\u003cbr\u003e I then opened up about the anger I experienced as a poor youth and the difficulties and discrimination I experienced as a Korean language teacher with an agricultural background.\u003cbr\u003e Kyungsoo just listened to my story without saying anything.\u003cbr\u003e When I finished speaking, the guy opened his mouth just once.\u003cbr\u003e “If you’re finished speaking, can I leave?”\u003cbr\u003e --- p.16~17\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I remember Taeyoung passing through the school gate well past 9 a.m. a few years ago.\u003cbr\u003e The guy's face already looked tired, as if it were 9 o'clock at night.\u003cbr\u003e A fellow teacher asked why he was late.\u003cbr\u003e “My parents hadn’t been home for several days, and all I had left was 1,000 won.\u003cbr\u003e I gave that to my younger sibling who was in middle school for transportation and walked.\u003cbr\u003e sorry.\"\u003cbr\u003e The guy's house was about ten kilometers from the school. \u003cbr\u003eIt's a distance that takes about two hours at an adult's pace.\u003cbr\u003e What would people think when they saw a student in a public high school uniform walking down the street long after school hours?\u003cbr\u003e --- p.18~19\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The announcement also shows that there are many students and parents who are actively seeking employment.\u003cbr\u003e There are also good businesses that welcome excellent graduates.\u003cbr\u003e The problem is that even if we combine all those good things, we can never reach the '70 percent employment rate'.\u003cbr\u003e Irrational numbers come from that gap.\u003cbr\u003e “What did you say?”\u003cbr\u003e “…….”\u003cbr\u003e “Teacher, can’t you hear me? What did you say?”\u003cbr\u003e “Gwanghoon’s finger was cut off.\u003cbr\u003e There are four.\u003cbr\u003e “It’s pressed down by the press and can’t even be pasted.”\u003cbr\u003e For a while I was speechless.\u003cbr\u003e All the children in the classroom looked at me in silence.\u003cbr\u003e No one said anything out loud, but it seemed like everyone was criticizing me and the school. \u003cbr\u003eThe numbers written and erased on the blackboard in the teacher's office every day, the temptation of decreasing class hours, persistent persuasion of students, filling in the blanks under the guise of class, competition among teachers...\u003cbr\u003e The kids seemed to be asking all of those questions.\u003cbr\u003e \"Sam, why were you so enthusiastic? Are you really doing it for us?\"\u003cbr\u003e --- p.25~26\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Since there are very few cases of students entering vocational high schools on their own, children in technical high schools want to get out of school as quickly as possible.\u003cbr\u003e I understand how you feel, having gone to school with the school uniform branded as a stigma and hearing countless insulting comments like “idiot” and “student.”\u003cbr\u003e But for some reason, after graduation, the children miss the announcement and always come back to school at least once.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.37\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “I found it boring and unbearable to do simple work in the factory every day.\u003cbr\u003e “The thought of doing this for the rest of my life made me feel dizzy.”\u003cbr\u003e I decided not to be disappointed anymore. \u003cbr\u003eWhy would a public high school student not have interests and aptitudes?\u003cbr\u003e Just because a large company is big doesn't mean it's good for everyone.\u003cbr\u003e Jeonghoon said he wanted to cook.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.46\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The student department selected the so-called 'high-risk students' from 1st to 20th with the highest penalty points among the entire school.\u003cbr\u003e Most of these children had over 40 demerit points, and some had over 60 points and were about to be expelled.\u003cbr\u003e The student affairs teachers decided to proactively manage these students and try to save them somehow.\u003cbr\u003e As part of this, each student affairs teacher was assigned to two students and they were to somehow graduate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.67~68\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Teacher, the kids sniff around whenever they come near me.\u003cbr\u003e “I think it’s because my body smells.”\u003cbr\u003e I comforted Yang Hoon again by telling him that there was no smell.\u003cbr\u003e He promised to take action if there was any bullying from his classmates.\u003cbr\u003e Anger began to dance in Yang Hoon's eyes. \u003cbr\u003e“Teacher, you sniffed at me yesterday too!”\u003cbr\u003e “Teacher? I’ve never done anything like that.”\u003cbr\u003e \"Sam was definitely sniffing! Yesterday, as soon as I entered the classroom, he immediately covered his nose!\"\u003cbr\u003e The eyes of the teachers in the teachers' office were focused on me.\u003cbr\u003e Yang Hoon-i glared at me sharply for a while and then returned to the classroom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Our children are very different.\u003cbr\u003e It's hard to come to school or stay at school.\u003cbr\u003e One class I taught started the semester with 23 students, but by the end of the year, only 16 remained in the classroom.\u003cbr\u003e Seven people left school in one year.\u003cbr\u003e Why do children struggle with school life? Each child has their own reasons and circumstances, and we can't blame everything on the student and their parents.\u003cbr\u003e The problem is that schools are unable to capture children's interest and attention.\u003cbr\u003e How should schools change?\u003cbr\u003e --- p.89~90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Teacher, I’m dying.\u003cbr\u003e “No matter what I do, the fat won’t go away.” \u003cbr\u003eThat's what I wanted to say more than anyone else.\u003cbr\u003e The belly fat that had accumulated over 40 years just wouldn't go away.\u003cbr\u003e There have been more than a few times when I've looked at my sagging belly at school and then put on my tracksuit and ran out to the playground.\u003cbr\u003e There were times when I was confused as to whether I was a Korean language teacher or an athlete who had entered the Taereung Athletes' Village.\u003cbr\u003e Thanks to the support of many children and fellow teachers at school, I didn't lose strength.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.97\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It would be nice to have a dramatically beautiful body, but at 185 centimeters tall and 74 kilograms, it just didn't look right for a man in his 40s.\u003cbr\u003e The face is thinner and the cheekbones are more prominent.\u003cbr\u003e As the amount of time I exercised increased, the number of wrinkles around my eyes also increased.\u003cbr\u003e People I met after a long time all asked the same question.\u003cbr\u003e \"Where does it hurt? Are you getting regular checkups? Take care.\u003cbr\u003e “Your 40s are an age that passes by in an instant.”\u003cbr\u003e --- p.98\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA self-growth project started to somehow bring children who hate school to school and keep them there.\u003cbr\u003e Perhaps my love for school grew as much as my visible muscles? In any case, both students and teachers in our fitness class won awards in our first competition.\u003cbr\u003e Dongyeon took first place in the high school bodybuilding division.\u003cbr\u003e I placed 3rd in the Masters Sports Model.\u003cbr\u003e Trophies were awarded for 1st to 3rd place, and medals for 4th to 7th place, and we each received a gold and bronze trophy, which was nice to see.\u003cbr\u003e The organizers called us up on stage and gave us a big round of applause, saying, “The challenge of teachers and students is beautiful.”\u003cbr\u003e It was truly the first applause I'd heard for our high school students in a long time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.99~100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Seongsu doesn't say a word at school.\u003cbr\u003e Is he a special child? In some ways, yes, but in the job market where I work, it's not that surprising.\u003cbr\u003e We have a really diverse group of kids attending our school. \u003cbr\u003eThere are children with borderline intellectual disability, and there are also children who have not acquired much knowledge other than Korean.\u003cbr\u003e While some children grow up to be troublemakers with wealthy parents, others don't even know their parents, don't know what their parents do, or even try to avoid finding out.\u003cbr\u003e Every year, when the new semester begins in March, there is inevitably talk about the 'most unique' students entering the school.\u003cbr\u003e Children who rarely attended classes in middle school, children who were involved in various incidents and accidents, children who had difficulty learning due to depression, etc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.121~122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The school-age population is decreasing every year, and the aversion to public high schools is increasing even faster.\u003cbr\u003e If a class is reduced by one student, two or three teachers will have to leave the school.\u003cbr\u003e Notice of dismissal is given to temporary teachers first.\u003cbr\u003e I also heard other voices from within. \u003cbr\u003e'What are you doing? We need to give children rational information and let them make their own choices.\u003cbr\u003e Who are you to interfere with children's choices? Can you advise your own child to do the same thing you just said to that middle schooler?\u003cbr\u003e It was painful.\u003cbr\u003e The day I convinced a student who objectively could go to a better school than ours to apply to our school, I put him in the car and drove him to our school's principal's office.\u003cbr\u003e The school gave him a warm welcome, as if he had met a noble person, and he decided to apply to our school.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.129\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Many of the children labeled as problem children come from socially vulnerable groups.\u003cbr\u003e If the school gates are closed to children who have not been properly cared for due to difficult family circumstances, where on earth will they spend their time?\u003cbr\u003e But when I come to school, I have friends, teachers, and a warm meal. \u003cbr\u003eHow fortunate it is that South Korean schools, which fail to provide holistic education and are outpaced by private academies in entrance exam preparation, are playing even this role.\u003cbr\u003e When I suggested that he return to school, Jeongmin turned away, saying, “I don’t have the confidence to go back to first grade.”\u003cbr\u003e I called Jeongmin again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.141~142\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As the empty classroom suggests, the situation at the high school where I work is quite different.\u003cbr\u003e The after-school Korean language class I teach is a mandatory class that children who fail the basic academic ability diagnostic test must take.\u003cbr\u003e In fact, ‘basic skills class’ is a more accurate expression than ‘after-school class’.\u003cbr\u003e I came to the public high school with relatively low academic achievement, and here too, I have to do what is called 'remaining studies'.\u003cbr\u003e Some mischievous students even tease them by calling them “the idiot class.” \u003cbr\u003eChildren in basic education classes with low self-esteem often resort to various methods to avoid class.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Do you understand what I’m saying?”\u003cbr\u003e “What am I?”\u003cbr\u003e I remembered Jeong-hee's appearance during the first class.\u003cbr\u003e At that time, neither I nor the other children in the classroom noticed that Jeong-hee did not understand Korean well and that she was from Vietnam.\u003cbr\u003e Jeong-hee's continued silence and quiet, unobtrusive behavior after that were all instinctive choices made by Jeong-hee, who had long since realized how children from immigrant families were treated in Korean society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I made a short video to help students learn English, but it's going downhill now, and I think it would be a great help to the students if you, IU, could help us in this situation, and I spouted off some random stuff like that.\u003cbr\u003e I asked as earnestly as I could, as it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. \u003cbr\u003eAfter finishing what I wanted to say, I looked at IU's expression.\u003cbr\u003e IU smiled happily and allowed us to film her so that our teachers wouldn't feel embarrassed.\u003cbr\u003e IU shouted while looking at the camera.\u003cbr\u003e “You can do it.\u003cbr\u003e You can do it!”\u003cbr\u003e --- p.182~183\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e My students, who used to echo “You can do it!” and “I can do it!” in the public high school classrooms back then, are now all in their 30s.\u003cbr\u003e I'm not sure how much memorizing that one sentence helped me in life.\u003cbr\u003e However, whenever you face a huge wall in life that is difficult to overcome alone, I hope you will quietly repeat to yourself, \"I can do it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.185\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It's July.\u003cbr\u003e News reached our local bodybuilding association that our school had established a formal fitness club.\u003cbr\u003e I received a call inviting me to participate in the National Sports Festival Bodybuilding High School Preliminary Round.\u003cbr\u003e I told the kids the news. \u003cbr\u003e“The Bodybuilding Association told me to compete in the National Sports Festival preliminaries. What are your thoughts on that?”\u003cbr\u003e “How many people are you picking?”\u003cbr\u003e “Three in our area.”\u003cbr\u003e Dongyeon, excited, jumped up from her seat.\u003cbr\u003e \"Sam, wow! Are you saying we can advance to the preliminary round of the National Sports Festival? Of course we should.\"\u003cbr\u003e --- p.205\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Our school achieved great results at the 2024 Fitness Korea Competition.\u003cbr\u003e In addition to winning the beginner category, Seongjin also took first place in the novice category.\u003cbr\u003e Dongyeon placed 3rd in the elite division.\u003cbr\u003e The winner of the 1 million won prize money awarded to the 'best player' was Hyeongjun.\u003cbr\u003e A few days later, a banner like this was hung at our school gate.\u003cbr\u003e “Health Club, standing on the stage of dreams.”\u003cbr\u003e Why would a humanities high school hang a banner announcing how many students went to Seoul National University? Every time I saw the banner on my commute, my heart swelled with pride.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.209\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA health club activity started to prevent children from dropping out of school.\u003cbr\u003e There were times when I was at a loss as to whether to laugh or cry.\u003cbr\u003e Two first-year students from the gym club who I used to work out with left our school.\u003cbr\u003e It's not a dropout.\u003cbr\u003e The two transferred to a humanities high school.\u003cbr\u003e My heart was infinitely divided as to whether I should congratulate my child for leaving the public high school on his own initiative and through hard work, or if I applauded him as a teacher and wondered how the children remaining in the school would view me.\u003cbr\u003e I thought it would be good if everyone supported each other's path and did their best in their own place, but I couldn't help but feel a sense of emptiness in my heart.\u003cbr\u003e In 2025, I was in charge of the health department again.\u003cbr\u003e It remains my responsibility to keep the announcement and strengthen the bodies and minds of the remaining children.\u003cbr\u003e What will happen in the health department this year? The future is uncertain, but I plan to try and fail to my heart's content.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.210~211\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Even if you don't study now, you'll be fine! They say that if you just know how to use the machines at our school, you can succeed!\"\u003cbr\u003e It means that even if you are not good at studying, if you are good at handling machines, you can be successful at anything.\u003cbr\u003e What beautiful words.\u003cbr\u003e But now, no adult in our society tells children this.\u003cbr\u003e It has become a word that is difficult to hear at school, in the village, and in the media.\u003cbr\u003e It's not just the parade that we've relegated to the past.\u003cbr\u003e I think what we've truly lost is a world where you can succeed just by being good at mechanics, a society where you can make a living by working hard even if you're not very good at studying.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- p.219\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003ePublisher's Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe story of an announcement as it is, not an 'announcement' or a (announcement)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A trashy, shady school, full of punks.”\u003cbr\u003e “If you’re going to be a teacher, why not go to a humanities high school?”\u003cbr\u003e “Oh my, what should I do?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“It’s really hard there, isn’t it?”\u003cbr\u003e \"Can you work here? How did you end up here?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Every day, public notice teacher Ji Han-gu encounters sharp words that emphasize the 'public notice' or looks that try to hide it as if it were a silent notice.\u003cbr\u003e A close friend would criticize me, saying, “If you’re going to be a teacher, you should go to a humanities department. Why are you going to a technical high school?” And everyone who introduces themselves to others starts off by saying, “I teach Korean at a ‘high school.’”\u003cbr\u003e As if by prior arrangement, the 'announcement' is always deleted and hidden.\u003cbr\u003e The same goes for the teaching staff. When I tell them I work at a public high school, they all look genuinely worried.\u003cbr\u003e “Oh my, what should I do?\u003cbr\u003e “It’s really hard there, isn’t it?” If you say it’s not hard, you’re lying, and if you actively agree, you might end up disparaging your workplace and your students. As the awkward situation continues, your self-esteem as a teacher gradually decreases. \u003cbr\u003eIn a society where even teachers experience such things on a regular basis, how do high school students receive treatment and live?\u003cbr\u003e For students who choose to get a job instead of going to college after completing their third year of high school, vocational high school teachers sometimes become \"salespeople\" who travel around the country to secure jobs.\u003cbr\u003e While walking around the industrial complex, if I saw a large and clean-looking factory, I went in and met the hiring manager.\u003cbr\u003e There are countless days when I visit dozens of companies all day long, begging them to “please hire my student,” only to be turned away without even receiving a single “letter of acceptance.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Teacher, don’t worry.\u003cbr\u003e Are you going to ask the kid to do something big? He can just make some chicken boxes with the elders here.\u003cbr\u003e “Even people over sixty do this, so I’m sure they’ll do well.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As my first homeroom teacher, I wanted to personally send my student, Woo-Hyeon (pseudonym), to the factory for the first time to get a job. \u003cbr\u003eWoohyun's job at the factory, where his father, a paint expert, took him in the van he used to go to work, was to fold chicken boxes that were stacked over 3 meters high.\u003cbr\u003e Because he couldn't bring himself to leave it as it was, Teacher Jihan-gu sat in the driver's seat filled with the smell of paint and thought for a long time.\u003cbr\u003e Was this what the school had been working so hard for for three years? Would they even ask Woohyun to return now? If my father, who had earned his living through \"hard labor,\" learned that his son, a \"white-collar\" teacher who had been the pride of his father, was sending someone's precious child to a work site he couldn't even comprehend, would he still be proud of me?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “It is a sad and vain reality that the 12 years of elementary, middle, and high school that teach dreams and hopes usually end in irregular employment. \u003cbr\u003eIf a world were to come where folding chicken boxes all day at a factory could lead a stable life and be respected for such labor, would I be able to confidently teach students about their dreams and hopes at school? That world seems far away, and summer is rushing towards its peak.\u003cbr\u003e As summer ends, the third-year classrooms in Gonggo become empty.\u003cbr\u003e “Children are scattered to factories, restaurant kitchens, and delivery sites.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA Closer Look at the Announcement Story: The Story of Schools in Our Time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A small number of students apply to specialized high schools, autonomous high schools, and gifted high schools based on their grades, while the majority of students decide to go to humanities high schools, usually referred to as \"general high schools.\"\u003cbr\u003e Although there are differences from year to year, children with grades within the top 80% of middle school students advance to humanities high schools, while the rest enter specialized high schools such as technical high schools.\u003cbr\u003e Given this reality, there are very few students who come to specialized high schools to pursue their own fervent dreams. \u003cbr\u003eIn this day and age, when students only receive a passing glance when they go out to work and die or lose a few fingers, what kind of dreams, frustrations, laughter, and tears do they live with?\u003cbr\u003e The author, who has worked at Gonggo since his contract teaching days in 2011, says that he has experienced many things that would be difficult to experience at other schools, and that he has met so many children that he wonders if he would ever meet them if he had not come to Gonggo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Children who have to start earning money early due to difficult family circumstances, such as those receiving basic livelihood assistance or from single-parent families; children who consider themselves “failures” because they tried hard in middle school but were unable to advance to liberal arts high schools; and even so-called problem children who are involved in various accidents or find school life difficult because they are addicted to games. \u003cbr\u003eChildren either work at night and come to school during the day to lie down, or they try to get good grades and transfer to a liberal arts high school, or they become listless and end up dropping out.\u003cbr\u003e There are many children who have difficulty concentrating on their studies and cannot fully enjoy their school days, so there are over 40 children who leave school through dropping out or expulsion.\u003cbr\u003e Forty people, not four.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “When I was aspiring to be a teacher, I thought that if I became a Korean language teacher, I would be reciting Yun Dong-ju’s “Preface” with my children.\u003cbr\u003e I was naive.\u003cbr\u003e I didn't know the reality of Korean education, the lives of high school students, and the high dropout rate at public high schools.\u003cbr\u003e “I had no idea that I would be working as a health trainer at school.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The author, who was afraid and saddened to see the backs of children leaving school, devised all kinds of ways to reach out and help these students. \u003cbr\u003eThey cling to a \"high-risk student\" who is about to be expelled due to exceeding 60 penalty points, insisting on graduating, or they cram together with a Vietnamese student who wants to hide his immigrant background to pass the basic academic ability diagnostic test in Korean language.\u003cbr\u003e To get children interested in learning videos, they visit music show waiting rooms and ask IU to record cheering messages for them.\u003cbr\u003e Even before I could have imagined it, I became a fitness instructor, competing in fitness competitions with my students, winning awards, and even appearing on local radio.\u003cbr\u003e The children who used to sweat, laugh and cry together leave school as time passes.\u003cbr\u003e The 'proud seniors' of foreign language high schools, science high schools, and private high schools may be doctors, lawyers, judges, and prosecutors, but the successful seniors at the vocational high school where the author works are usually self-employed business owners. \u003cbr\u003eThere is a common jinx among the faculty and staff, including the author.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Whenever I go out to eat or drink, I'm sure I'll run into at least one current or former student.\u003cbr\u003e You go to a restaurant that was recommended to you as a good restaurant, but the owner is a former student of yours, or you go to a pub to have a beer and meet an old student who is working part-time.\u003cbr\u003e If you see a delivery rider bowing his head and running away, he's most likely a graduate, and even on days when he's home alone, you often see children who have become home delivery drivers, gas meter readers, or electronics repair technicians.\u003cbr\u003e Students who were once disciples have now become neighbors who support and protect each other's lives.\u003cbr\u003e We need people who can go 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