In many movies, we often see some teachers who lead theirs students
and help them become better human beings. Others, on the other hand,
fail to lead their students into the right way and see them protest. Not
every teacher in movies is perfect.
Let’s meet the teachers with various personal life stories in four movies.
“I’m your teacher” Kim Ha Neul from <My Tutor Friend>
Su-wan is a sophomore in college. She gives students expensive private tutoring to pay her tuition. But she has to quit teaching one student only in 7 days, who is just one of her many students who are all trouble makers. Then she has another student Ji-hoon through her parents, which made her life tangled even more.
Ji-hoon is the fighting ‘Jjang(the head of a school mafia)’ in his school who had to leave school for 2 years. Although he is still in school, he is the same age as Su-wan. Su-wan struggles to stand on her dignity as tutor but it is never easy for her to do that and the movie depicts her struggle comically.
“I don’t want a bribe anymore”, Cha Seung-won from <My Teacher, Mr. Kim>
Kim Bong-doo takes all forms of bribes from the parents of his students. But one day, he finally gets caught in the act and temporarily transferred to boondocks, a branch school in a remote village in Gangwon Province. Missing life in Seoul, he sets out an evil plan to make all the 5 students transfer to a school in Seoul so that his school will be closed down.
Struggling to get out of his country life, he starts to change a little by little. His kind and naïve students make him become a better human being and protect the school when a businessman unexpectedly appears, saying he’d like to turn the school into a survival game site.
“Is he my teacher or friend?”, Kim Yoon-seok from <Punch>
Do Wan-deuk (Yoo Ah-in), who is from a poor and deprived family, meets an unconventional high school teacher Lee Dong-ju (Kim Yoon-seok) who lives next door. Dong-ju walks into Wan-deuk’s like and often calls him out even at night. Getting tired of too much attention from him, Wan-deuk goes to church and pray that his teacher will that. But Dong-ju never stops. He reveals Wan-deuk’s past and embarrasses him. He even comes over Wan-deuk’s house and drinks with his uncle and father in the middle of the night. Dong-ju also suggests that Wan-deuk meets his mother whom he never met. Wan-deuk, who used to fight and behave badly, finds his dreams with the help from Dong-ju.
It shows how a teacher with love and attention can help his or her student turn into a better person.
In a small island in Tongyeong, Baek Se-jin teaches golf to students in school that is about to be closed down. He is the unluckiest teacher among all the 4 teachers. He was once a golf prodigy and a very successful golfer. But he was involved in a drunken driving accident and made his manager die.
He then suffered from aphasia and couldn’t speak a word. Then he ends up with teaching the students. He first struggles to get out of the island but he realizes that his students really need a teacher. Byeong-joo is the brightest student who shows great talent in golf and also helps his teacher stay in the island and teach his students hard.
As you can see, the teachers all have different backgrounds and influences. It is exciting to wait and see what the teachers in other movies in the future would be like.
Written by Han Jihee, Translated by Lee Sarah
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