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Universities are starting to increase face-to-face classes in line with the upcoming transition to a gradual recovery of daily life. However, as it happened suddenly, some students had to urgently find their own room two months before the end of the class, causing confusion.



Reporter Song In-ho reports.



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I am a college student who has been taking non-face-to-face classes at home.



Last month, I had to quickly find my own room when the university notified me of the expansion of face-to-face classes.



[Jun-hyung Yoon / 1st year consumer department at Seoul National University: Commuting to school takes about 2 hours, but if you take face-to-face classes more than twice a week, it will take a long time.]



College students who visited a real estate agency near this university only last week It is not easy to find a room for 30 people, who will live for two months until the end of the class.



[Lee Seok-geun / Representative of a certified real estate agent in Gwanak-gu, Seoul: I am not going to let the one-year-old or less (rent) go. They rarely do 2-month



courses,

but I persuade (the landlord) to get their approval.]

Starting with Seoul National University tomorrow (18th), many universities have switched to face-to-face classes next month.



The fact that the professor decides face-to-face and non-face-to-face classes at the discretion of the professor also incites confusion.



[Lim Hyun-soo / Acting President of the Student Council at Seoul National University: I suddenly went to take a face-to-face class, and then I go to take a non-face-to-face class again, but there are limited places where you can take the non-face-to-face class.]



In some cases, it is necessary to urgently adjust part-time jobs and job preparation schedules that are planned for non-face-to-face classes.



Universities are of the view that it is inevitable to normalize school life, such as expanding face-to-face classes, in line with the government's phased recovery of daily life next month.



[Jang Beom-shik/President of Soongsil University: College students in their first and second year almost never left school for the past two years.

In a word, it can be seen as a crisis of the university.]



Some universities have not prepared guidelines for self-quarantine, guaranteeing class rights for confirmed students, taking exams, and handling grades, so some say that they are in a rush to expand face-to-face classes.



(Video coverage: Jang Woon-seok, video editing: Lee Seung-yeol, VJ: Shin So-young)