In a post on social media on the 15th, Kim wrote, “Comedian Lee Soo-ji’s kindergarten teacher content. It may simply have laid bare the contradiction of expecting good education without respecting educators.”
He added that it appeared to have “rubbed more people the wrong way than expected,” saying the word “discipline” itself has become increasingly sensitive and schools have grown more constrained.
As events such as sports days, picnics and school trips disappear or are scaled back, he said, children are instead pushed to face relationships and conflict outside school. “What they should experience with fewer injuries within the fence of education, they end up confronting defenseless in a harsher society,” he wrote, adding that children bear the greatest harm.
“Unless the authority of educators is protected, the education we need — and the educators themselves — may gradually disappear,” he said.
Lee drew widespread attention on April 7 with a video titled “Kindergarten Teacher Lee Min-ji’s Never-Ending 24 Hours — Human Documentary: A Real Extreme Job,” parodying the reality of a kindergarten teacher burdened by excessive work and complaints from parents. The video logged 4.93 million views in eight days after its release.
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