“For 500,000 KRW (443 USD), an Uncle Service will send a rough-looking, hulking man to your bullied kid’s school to warn the bullies to stop picking on them – or else. This is called the “Uncle Package.”
If you’re feeling spendier, the 400,000 KRW (354 USD) “Evidence Package” involves the “uncle” making a video-recording of the bullies in action, then showing it to the school administrators and demanding action on pain of having the video released to the school board.
The top tier is the 2 million KRW (1,772 USD) “Chaperone Package”: the “uncle” will picket in front of the bullies’ parents’ place of work, bellowing “A parent of a bully works here.”
https://boingboing.net/2018/09/15/violence-inherent-in-the-syste.html
how do i score this job
yo this is actually really important! in the Korean school system (or at least where I worked) there’s this concept of “wangtta” and “tchintta” which mean “outcast” and “loser.” Except the difference between the American idea of “outcast” students is that there’s always one in the class, basically designated by the mob. One person will always be the wangtta. The student culture kind of reinforces it, suggesting there is something wrong with the wangtta that just makes them so bully-able. The administration (again, at my school at least) tends to just throw up their arms and say “there’s nothing we can do. they’re the wangtta. it happens.” Every time you talk to the class about being nice to each other, they infer that those rules apply to everyone except the wangtta. You can be as mean as you want to to the wangtta.
This pushes directly against that culture, saying “oh shit, don’t fuck with that kid, they’re not bullyable.” Shaming the bully’s parents is just the icing on the cake.
@paticle 