College seniors found abusing their seniority with disciplining junior classes

Article: "Speak formally to me"... Kakao Talk group chat at a college under controversy for military discipline

Source: Yonhap News via Nate + Naver

Article talks about how seniors in college are abusing their seniority to juniors with unreasonable demands. Each major or club usually has their own private Kakao Talk group chat to send announcements and notices out to and one such group chat was screencapped and shared online.

A senior had listed the following rules for their juniors:

- Don't walk with your hands in your pockets
- You can't use the elevators
- Start filling out the seats at the front of the lecture hall
- Don't fall asleep in class
- Clean up the classrooms, don't sit on the sofas/chairs of club rooms
- No cell phone use in the gym
- If someone calls for you or asks you to do something, run
- If you see a senior doing something, follow them and help
- If eating with seniors, don't pick up your utensils until they've started eating first
- When greeting seniors, stop what you're doing and greet them without making eye contact
- You may never reject a drink from a senior

Rules for talking to seniors on Kakao Talk:
- Highest form of formal speech only
- Always end your sentences with a period
- When responding, always say "yes", not "yeah"
- You are not allowed to ignore Kakao Talk messages from seniors
- Conversations with seniors must always be ended with you replying back
- You are not allowed to end calls first

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1. [+1,989, -34] The students who try to abuse their seniority like this always end up being unemployed once they graduate ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

2. [+1,498, -14] I'm going to faint with laughter at the formal speech demands ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

3. [+1,383, -12] Even if they're a 'senior', they're only a year or two older than them. It doesn't feel right making this big of a fuss over that small of a difference. Culture like this needs to disappear.

4. [+1,143, -93] It's usually the low ranking colleges that follow this stuff

5. [+890, -13] Idiots, all of them;;; I wonder if it's fun going on power trips like this

6. [+274, -5] Wow, I remember getting on the bus in front of 'D' college and I see a bunch of students from that college wearing their department jacket and every single one of them picked up their phones at once and answered it saying, "Yes, we are the '14 class, my name is OOO!" They were enunciating every word so formally and were even like, "May we do that? Yes, thank you!" I was so shocked... I thought they were fooling around but they were for real.

7. [+242, -1] How are they not embarrassed to be acting like this ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

8. [+239, -3] Those texts were found to be sent at Incheon University's physical education major... it's actually a girl disciplining the juniors like that.

9. [+229, -2] It's not like anyone you meet in college is going to be important to you after you graduate. Your real friends that you keep in contact with are the ones you made in junior and high school. Anyone you meet as an adult might as well be a stranger..

10. [+205, -1] There are power trippers wherever you go, whether it's some suburban college or in Seoul. I don't know what they're thinking to be acting like this... this damned country tries to create a senior and junior rank in any group with more than two people.. tsk tsk.

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