This topic is going viral in Korea because it highlights a growing concern about overprotective parenting and the impact of 'malicious complaints' on public services. It also touches on the perceived decline in children's physical activity and resilience in modern society.
https://n.news.naver.com/article/015/0005276714?sid=102
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F***, when you're a student, you *should* get hit in the face with a ball playing soccer or hurt your finger playing basketball! That's how you discover life's joys, experience failure, and feel accomplishment. Why don't they realize this is the fast track to making kids' lives boring as hell?
If this happens, the kids who *want* to play soccer might bully those who seem less likely to play, saying, 'We can't play because of you!' What that kid actually feels won't even matter. I have no idea what kind of nonsense this is. If it's like this, we should also listen to kids who don't want to take tests because they're bad at studying and just cancel all tests. Oh, wait, elementary schools already don't have tests (in Korea)! We're all gonna die like this.
Classrooms *should* smell like sweat and boys, that's what a real classroom is, tsk tsk.
Malicious parents (악성부모) are really ruining everything.
It's a total mess because they keep accepting ridiculous complaints (민원).
My kid loves soccer! Why are they ignoring *our* complaints (about the ban)?
There's no better way for kids to healthily release stress and aggression than sports... Banning this won't make that stress and aggression disappear, so where will it go instead?
I'm worried about what will happen when kids grow up without getting hurt, fighting, or experiencing any conflict, and then enter society. Both for them as individuals and for society as a whole.
I was born in the early 90s, and our generation, who fought with friends, got into fistfights, and got hit with a 'teacher's stick' (빠따) for misbehaving, seems pretty okay now, all things considered.
But honestly, there aren't even enough kids to play soccer anymore... Less than 10 boys per class, and they'd 100x rather just gather in small groups and stare at their phones all day than exercise...