It turned out that the 'old custom' of forcibly raising money for juniors in the name of graduation gifts from seniors at some universities still exists.
The Citizens' Association (hereinafter referred to as the Citizens' Association) for a society without academic background issued a press release today (2nd) and said, "We have received a report that the student council of Gwangju University A department is forcibly raising money for juniors for the purpose of providing graduation gifts." Specifically, it is said that they collected a set amount of money for each grade, such as 35,000 won for the first year, 10,000 won for the second year, and 5,000 won for the third year.”
The civic group released the message delivered by the student council to the students and said, "Many juniors claim that 'raising to provide a graduation gift is a bad practice'. They appealed for damage, but it is known that they are acquiescing.”
The civic group said, "The student council used to collect cash and provide gold rings to juniors as graduation gifts. ) is an absurdity that occurs in the hierarchy of seniors and juniors, and most of them have been corrected at universities, but in some schools, the dissatisfaction of 'I can only bet and can't get it' remains as a seed of conflict and sustains the bad habits," he said.
Citizens' group said, "In 2014, there was a notice accusing the art department of a certain university of paying for the graduation ring. There was also a case where a complaint was filed with the National Human Rights Commission of Korea against forced fundraising,” he said.
Regarding this, an official from University A said, "I know that the department raised money for juniors."
(Photo = provided by Citizens' Association, Yonhap News)