{"id":32701,"date":"2016-05-23T18:22:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T09:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.dailynk.com\/en\/?p=32701"},"modified":"2020-01-17T09:25:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T00:25:16","slug":"complaints-mounting-among-universi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/complaints-mounting-among-universi\/","title":{"rendered":"Complaints mounting among university students sent to farms for labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n <o:OfficeDocumentSettings>\n  <o:AllowPNG\/>\n <\/o:OfficeDocumentSettings>\n<\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n <w:WordDocument>\n  <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>\n  <w:TrackMoves>false<\/w:TrackMoves>\n  <w:TrackFormatting\/>\n  <w:PunctuationKerning\/>\n  <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt<\/w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>\n  <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt<\/w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>\n  <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0<\/w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>\n  <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0<\/w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>\n  <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas\/>\n  <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false<\/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>\n  <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false<\/w:IgnoreMixedContent>\n  <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false<\/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>\n  <w:Compatibility>\n   <w:BreakWrappedTables\/>\n   <w:DontGrowAutofit\/>\n   <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables\/>\n   <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx\/>\n  <\/w:Compatibility>\n <\/w:WordDocument>\n<\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState=\"false\" LatentStyleCount=\"276\">\n <\/w:LatentStyles>\n<\/xml><![endif]--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]>\n\n\n<style>\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\ntable.MsoNormalTable\n\t{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\";\n\tmso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;\n\tmso-tstyle-colband-size:0;\n\tmso-style-noshow:yes;\n\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tmso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;\n\tmso-para-margin-top:0in;\n\tmso-para-margin-right:0in;\n\tmso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt;\n\tmso-para-margin-left:0in;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;\n\tmso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;}\n<\/style>\n\n\n<![endif]--><\/p>\n<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">North Korean authorities have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/read.php?num=13909&amp;cataId=nk01500\"><font color=\"#0000ff\">declared a month-long general agricultural mobilization<\/font><\/a> until June 15. To free up students to participate in<br \/>\nthe order, universities across the nation have shut down, eliciting complaints<br \/>\nfrom students concerned about constant interruptions to their studies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Before the Workers\u2019 Party Congress convened earlier in the<br \/>\nmonth, students were occasionally mobilized to agricultural regions for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/read.php?num=13806&amp;cataId=nk01500\"><font color=\"#0000ff\">&#8220;70-Day Battle.&#8221;<\/font><\/a> After completing that exhausting series of compulsory<br \/>\nprojects, they are now being forced to undertake farm labor in a mobilization<br \/>\nthat has been coined \u201cthe Rice-Planting Battle,\u201d thus causing many to express<br \/>\ndiscontent that their right to receive an education is being infringed upon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThe students in our province have been sent to agricultural<br \/>\nregions such as Koksan County and Yonsan County. During the \u201870-Day Battle,\u2019<br \/>\nthe students were forced to plant seeds and pull up weeds. Now, as the students<br \/>\nhead off to the farms again, they are sardonically spouting off lines about how<br \/>\nthey are farmers rather than students,\u201d a source in North Hwanghae Province<br \/>\nreported to Daily NK on May 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThe students have remarked that being pressed into forced<br \/>\nlabor during the \u201870-Day Battle,\u2019 and now for the \u2018Rice-Planting Battle\u2019 is<br \/>\njust as laborious and difficult as risking your life on an actual battlefield.<br \/>\nThey justifiably point out, \u2018If these kind of \u2018battles\u2019 continue to arise, when<br \/>\nare we supposed to study?\u2019\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Since rising to power, Kim Jong Un has frequently<br \/>\nunderscored the importance of education, describing universities as the<br \/>\n\u201cplatform for launching the future of the nation, one of the main pillars of<br \/>\nsociety, and the training ground for leaders.\u201d He has also continued to point<br \/>\nout that it is important to focus on experiential learning and<br \/>\non-the-job-training in order to elevate the quality of the nation\u2019s education<br \/>\nand produce illustrious students with technical knowledge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">However, the record shows a different tale. Students have<br \/>\nspent a considerable amount of time being mobilized to work on idolization<br \/>\nconstruction sites and farms. This has severely crippled their educational<br \/>\nexperience. Consequently, students have become upset that their instruction<br \/>\nhours have not been protected and that they are being exploited for their<br \/>\nlabor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Added a separate source in South Hwanghae Province, \u201cUniversity students have spent more<br \/>\ntime working on the farm than they have spent studying for their classes or<br \/>\nlearning about science\/technology. Under such circumstances, students naturally<br \/>\ncomplain that it is difficult to imagine how these universities will be able to<br \/>\nfulfill Kim Jong Un\u2019s order to create illustrious students with technological<br \/>\ncapabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Similar to previous mobilizations, students with financial<br \/>\nmeans are engaging in bribery in order to avoid having to participate in the<br \/>\n\u201cRice-Planting Battle.\u201d University professors are excusing students from the<br \/>\ndifficult labor in exchange for US 100 (KPW 810,000) per person. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">But the inequalities do not end there because, the South Hwanghae source<br \/>\nsaid, \u201cThose who don\u2019t have the money to bribe their way out of the<br \/>\nmobilizations are nonetheless forced to pay school fees, even though they are<br \/>\ngoing to the farm. These fees include money for their professors and money to<br \/>\ncontribute to side dishes. Those too poor to contribute are ridiculed in front<br \/>\nof the entire class.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The humiliation is so severe that some students have even<br \/>\ndropped out from shame when they were unable to pay their school fees. \u201cFor<br \/>\nthose that remain in school, instead of engaging in studies and learning course<br \/>\nmaterial, the only thing that the students learn is how to use flattery and<br \/>\nother tricks in order to survive,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean authorities have declared a month-long general agricultural mobilization until June 15. To free up students to participate in the order, universities across the nation have shut down, eliciting complaints from students concerned about constant interruptions to their studies. 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