Synopsis
During a class meeting, the students talk about making a class newspaper but their teacher says no. The English teacher emphasizes that the society and the college entrance system operate on the rule of the "survival of the fittest." The teacher who is in charge of students' discipline always moves around wielding a bat. The students secretly produce class papers, "Hangallae Shinmun (One Way Newspaper)" and "Sondei Korea (Sunday Korea). One day's headline says that a student trio occupied the headmaster's office, demanding improvement of the examination system. A teacher says to the students "you are like dogs." A mother asks, "Can literature feed you?" upon hearing her daughter's words that she would major in literature at college. The mother wants her daughter to major in music because she knows a professor of music usually earns several millions of won in side income a month by teaching students. A teacher lets some students to make a secret report on their classmates who ruin the class atmosphere by shouting or mischievous deeds. Another teacher says "I'll not entertain questions which are not related to the subjects in textbooks" when he is asked about environmental contamination and the doubleness of grown-ups. Although this is the content of a film produced in the 1990s, it is not much different from the movies of the 1970s. The school environment in which our young people spend most of their time has not changed during the past two decades, while their physique and ways of feeling and thinking have. A just -arrived teacher, acted by Moon Seong-Gun, holds the only light in the dark reality of the school. We wonder if how many such teachers are there in actuality.