{"id":53833,"date":"2023-01-20T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=53833"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:49:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:49:49","slug":"yanggang-province-professors-demanding-money-gifts-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/yanggang-province-professors-demanding-money-gifts-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Yanggang Province cracks down on professors demanding money and gifts from students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yanggang Province authorities have begun looking into the practice of professors giving their students so-called \u201cnon-tax burdens,\u201d Daily NK has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in Yanggang Province told Daily NK on Tuesday that the province\u2019s party committee launched a fact-finding mission on Jan. 5 after learning that local university professors forced \u201cnon-tax burdens\u201d on their students at the start of the new year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, the provincial party committee called the practice of professors forcing \u201cnon-tax burdens\u201d on their students \u201cnon-socialist behavior that makes a mess of the sacred teacher\u2019s platform\u201d and launched efforts to learn about the practice that has reportedly plagued campuses from the start of the new year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, provincial party officials have reportedly been visiting local universities and calling in university department cell secretaries, class presidents and ordinary university students to the university party committee office for one-on-one discussions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said the officials are investigating how much money students raised for their head professors for the new year, how much they raised for their subject professors, whether cell secretaries or class presidents pressured students to raise money, and how other classes were raising money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Party officials are also investigating whether students raised money for their professors every month last year as well, receiving anonymous written testimony because students are hesitant to speak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The provincial party committee also learned that students in graduating classes are gathering money to buy high-priced gifts such as TVs and refrigerators to their head professor ahead of their March graduation, reportedly warning that it would expose such behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students may share a meal with their professors and present them with a bouquet of flowers as a symbol of gratitude, but last year, class presidents at Kim Jong Suk University of Education made rolls of cash from KPW 5,000 bills in imitation of \u201cthe enemy\u2019s reactionary culture\u201d (i.e., like they do in South Korea), and the authorities are warning that they will take serious political issue with a repeat of that behavior this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In particular, the source said the party committee is strongly warning that it can no longer overlook the recent practice of students performing the so-called \u201cbottom dance\u201d while handing over greenhouse-grown red and green bell peppers, calling the peppers \u201csymbols of wealth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said the party committee believes cell secretaries and class presidents who are agitating to raise money for professors are also a problem and are \u201cthreatening to even expel them from school in serious cases.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Translated by David Black. Edited by Robert Lauler.\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20230117-1\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yanggang Province authorities have begun looking into the practice of professors giving their students so-called \u201cnon-tax burdens,\u201d Daily NK has learned. 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