Broadcaster Lee Suji's Pungja once again turned mom cafes upside down. Attention is focused on whether Lee Suji's Pungja will change society this time as well.
Recently, a video titled "Kindergarten teacher Lee Min Ji's never-ending 24-hour human documentary: real Extreme Job" was released on the YouTube channel 'Hot Issue Ji'.
In the video, Lee Suji, under the concept of "Extreme Job", dresses as kindergarten teacher Lee Min Ji and captured in documentary format her tired but passionate 24 hours.
Lee Min Ji's day, which begins at 4 a.m., opens with "dawn care" for parents going to work. Considering the children's MBTI for class placement, using wipes with specific ingredients and other picky requests from parents, Lee Min Ji empathized without losing her smile.
In particular, Lee Min Ji showed a steel-clad mentality, even blaming herself for excessive intrusion into her private life as a "lack of communication," and showed unusual stock education teaching 3-year-olds terms such as "익절" and "떡상" according to the times, as well as applying a skin-improving ointment after procedures to match the children's level.
Only after 10 p.m. does Lee Min Ji send the last child home and begin her remaining work, and her 모습 showed the weight of the job of a kindergarten teacher and her sincere love for the children.
The kindergarten teacher Lee Min Ji presented by Lee Suji gained much sympathy, recording 950,000 views 20 hours after release and is approaching 1 million views. Subscribers reacted with comments such as "I thought of a kindergarten teacher who went to work with a high fever of 40 degrees a while ago and passed away," and "This is not an exaggeration but a toned-down version."
Empathy from current kindergarten teachers continued in particular. One subscriber left a comment saying, "I hope the world will become one where teachers' rights are as natural as children's rights," and another subscriber responded, "The video is so immersive; even though I'm in my 10th year, I still can't adapt every day and it's so hard that I want to cry along with the children."
This is not the first time Lee Suji's Pungja has been presented. In earlier content satirizing mothers with high educational zeal titled "Daechi mom," she transformed into parent 'Jamie' mom Lee So Dam in Gangnam District's Daechi-dong academy district in Seoul, wearing luxury padding and designer bags known as the Gangnam mom uniform and riding to her child's academy. Some subscribers found that video uncomfortable, but many said the satire addressing social issues was refreshing.
Although Lee Suji's Pungja did not quell the craze for private education, since it scratched a social itch, attention is focused on what kind of resonances the kindergarten teacher satire will cause.
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