This Friday I - Martina - had no classes because it was Fitness Test Day in Bucheon All Girls' High School. I wasn't sure what this was, as the closest equivalent we have to this in Canada is track and field day where students compete in different sports, but I was told that in Korea they also have a track and field day. Fitness Day is different; the students are rigorously tested to see how healthy they are, and in the past, Fitness Day was part of a final mark. If you weren't in shape you could receive a failing grade, but one of our our Korean friends told us that some students in the past died trying to get high marks, so they got rid of the mark factor. Click on the picture above for the video, or click here to see our video on
Korean Fitness Evaluation Day.
"Work it harder, make it better, do it faster, makes us stronger, more than ever, hour after, our work is never over...." - Daft Punk
5 comments:
Awesome. I had only ever seen stuff like that in anime before!
Did you never have Canada Fitness when you were in school? You could get patches for good fitness: red for excellence, gold, silver, and bronze. And then sad little participation ribbons. One year I did a ton of sit ups and totally got gold. Oh yeah.
To our anonymous poster: shame on you for posting rude comments.
You have misinterpreted everything
We love teaching. We love Korea, and we love our students. And guess what? Our students love us. Our students watch the videos we make, and they love to act in them, so you are wrong about them being upset. Check out the flip flop video; the students held the camera for us. We showed them the video afterwards and they loved it. At Martha's school her students were asking to see The Korean Fitness video afterwards as well. Every student sees every video and is fine with it.
Also, you’ve misunderstood MANY of the positive comments to be negative ones, probably because you don’t fully understand the English language.For example, the video with the student with glasses:
“Trendsetter” means COOL and FASHIONABLE. There is NOTHING insulting about that video. In fact, that student has a copy of it and he loves it. We have NEVER EVER called our students a negative name. That post was about how cool the student was for setting a trend in the school. Many students have copied him, and we wanted to show our friends and family what the trends are at our schools.
So, if you’re going to COPY OUR BLOG, make sure you include our response comment.
Really awesome editing!
We have something similar in the States which we had to pass each year, both in high school and Jr. High/Middle school. It included the 1.5 miles run, and me being the typical obese American didn't enjoy it at the least. My high school actually included P.E. (Physical Education) in our GPA so it had the potential of ruining your grade.
Anyway, I love your site and recommended it to a few people who are planning on teaching in Korea. Thanks and keep up the awesome work! :)
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