Synopsis

She wanted to convey her essay to her sister. That's about Program for Industrial needs-Matched Education, Law of Teacher in University and Future Life College. Ultimately, It was the inconvenient truth of Korea and Education in Korea.

Director

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  Oh Hyeon-kyeong
  

  Grouzam (2015)
  1975 Summer Story (2015)
  Pia (2015)
  Eighteen Diary (2014)
  Waiting For You (2013)

  In 2009, Korea National University of Arts underwent a merger of various departments. Since then, Many universities, including Konkuk University and Sangmyung University unified closed and started Program for Industrial needs-Matched Education. The University proceeded without any communication. This problem has continued until 2016 at the Future Life College in Ewha Womans University. The teachers were also in trouble too. We met Young-gon Kim and Dong-ae Kim in front of the National Assembly in April. They talked about the way colleges treat lecturers and the lecturers who do not become teachers. We decided that we should look into the problem of the structure of Korean universities and society.

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  Jeong Lee-su
  

  My Wife is dementia (2014)
  Virus (2013)
  Take My Hand (2013)

  In 2009, Korea National University of Arts underwent a merger of various departments. Since then, Many universities, including Konkuk University and Sangmyung University unified closed and started Program for Industrial needs-Matched Education. The University proceeded without any communication. This problem has continued until 2016 at the Future Life College in Ewha Womans University. The teachers were also in trouble too. We met Young-gon Kim and Dong-ae Kim in front of the National Assembly in April. They talked about the way colleges treat lecturers and the lecturers who do not become teachers. We decided that we should look into the problem of the structure of Korean universities and society.

Review

The Prime project started picking up stream from the year 2015 by the Ministry of Education. This project provoked intense controversies and explicitly exposed the shadows of neoliberalism among universities, as it was a government-lead promotion of university and industry connection. Oh Hyeon-kyeong and Jeong Lee-su’s looks into the interior of university corporatization which aroused controversy by accompanying an unprecedented scale of department restructuring and unification. In this era where money replaced academy, where money is recognized as the only absolute value, what have we lost in this trade with capital? With numerous question marks in their heads, the directors do not hesitate to pose doubts about the progress of the project applied to a few school in its nascence, but now disseminating to a nationwide scale. Then, the truth comes out: the fact that universities have become the sidekick of corporations during this one-sided project, disregarding the situation of students and professors, the full story of countless hand-written posters and voices demanding democratic progress of proceedings degenerating into waste.
can be literally interpreted as the topography of contemporary universities with the affected areas highlighted. The director gives concern about the future of education through narrating her words for her sibling who is in high school, as a university student herself. That impotent voice and the remote gaze of the camera shooting the persisting struggle somewhat hurt in a way. [Kim Sin]

Credits

• Director  Oh Hyeon-kyeong, Jeong Lee-su
• Producer, Cinematographer, Sound  Choi Na-rae
• Editor  Oh Hyeon-kyeong

Contribution & World Sales

• Contribution & World Sales  Oh Hyeon-kyeong
• E-mail  kellyohk0303@naver.com