{"id":51003,"date":"2022-03-17T16:01:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T07:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=51003"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:56:18","slug":"north-korean-teacher-publicly-criticized-openly-asking-students-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korean-teacher-publicly-criticized-openly-asking-students-gifts\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korean teacher publicly criticized for openly asking students for gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amid reports that North Korean teachers are suffering from severe privation, a teacher in Hamhung, South Hamgyong Province, was recently criticized during a public struggle session for overtly asking students for gifts, Daily NK has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA public ideological struggle meeting was held at Hamhung First High School on Mar. 12 for a teacher in her forties surnamed Lee. According to a report received by the provincial department of education, this teacher had demanded gifts from her students on International Women\u2019s Day,\u201d a source in South Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">International Women\u2019s Day, which falls on Mar. 8, is also celebrated in North Korea, where it is customary for women to receive congratulatory bouquets and gifts from their families and at their schools and workplaces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At elementary, middle and high schools, students pool their money to buy teachers material goods, such as bouquets, clothing, or shoes, or express their gratitude in a variety of other ways.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The problem was that Lee had blatantly demanded gifts from students and parents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lee called in the class president and the head of the Youth League&#8217;s elementary organization and asked them what they were planning to give her for International Women\u2019s Day, the source told Daily NK. Lee then asked them to collect KPW 5,000 from each student and urged them not to fall behind other grades, which she said were collecting KPW 10,000 per student.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, Lee met separately with six students who were well-off and instructed each of them to bring five kilograms of rice to her house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said that after Lee asked the student leaders for money and food, students\u2019 parents complained to the provincial department of education that she was squeezing students for gifts on International Women\u2019s Day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The education department immediately called Lee and the school principal to figure out what had happened and later instructed the school to hold a public ideological struggle meeting for Lee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An ideological struggle meeting is a kind of criticism session held at organizations in which everyone present takes turns criticizing the mistakes of the person being reprimanded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A public struggle session of this sort was indeed held at the school in question on Mar. 12 as the education department had ordered. In addition to the public criticism that Lee faced at the meeting, she is still required to visit the provincial department of education every day to write self-criticism statements, the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI can only imagine the level of poverty that would have driven that teacher to ask her own students for food. The problem here is with the authorities, who can\u2019t even ensure that teachers get their rations,\u201d the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAt a time as difficult as the present, teachers aren\u2019t even able to attend school without parents helping out. Before punishing teachers for asking parents to pitch in, [the authorities] should first resolve the problems with their livelihood,\u201d he added. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20220316-4\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid reports that North Korean teachers are suffering from severe privation, a teacher in Hamhung, South Hamgyong Province, was recently criticized during a public struggle session for overtly asking students for gifts, Daily NK has learned. \u201cA public ideological struggle meeting was held at Hamhung First High School on Mar. 12 for a teacher in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":40870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1360,67],"tags":[703,273],"class_list":["post-51003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-society","category-news","tag-education","tag-corruption"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>N. 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