YouTube ‘Hot Issue Ji’ capture.

A satirical video by comedienne Lee Su-ji about a kindergarten teacher is drawing a heated response.

On the 7th, Lee Su-ji released on the YouTube channel ‘Hot Issue Ji’ a video titled ‘The Never-Ending 24 Hours of Kindergarten Teacher Lee Min-ji [Human Docu: The Real Extreme Job]’. As of the 9th, the video had surpassed 2.23 million views, becoming a hot topic.

The video was produced by adopting the format of EBS ‘Extreme Job’. Lee Su-ji transforms into the kindergarten teacher ‘Lee Min-ji’, portraying a grueling workday that stretches from arriving at 4 a.m. to after 10 p.m.

It depicts an unending stream of excessive complaints from parents, such as organizing classes with the children MBTI types in mind and requesting wet wipes with specific ingredients, and even includes a scene where, under severe stress, blood flows from the ear of Lee Min-ji.

In the end, Lee Min-ji, hoarse and with pronounced dark circles, could go home only after finishing the Kids Note entries.

YouTube ‘Hot Issue Ji’ capture.

Viewers who watched the video responded with empathy, saying, “I am a kindergarten teacher, and reality is even worse than this” “I am an elementary school teacher; this is by no means an exaggeration” “At first I watched laughing, but the further it went, the more it felt like my own life, and I ended up in tears.”

As Lee Su-ji’s kindergarten-teacher video drew attention, a variety of accounts about so-called ‘problem parents’ also began spreading online.

Among them, a Shorts clip by parenting YouTuber ‘Sohijoy soheejoy’ had 650,000 views as of the 9th. The clip introduced an anecdote from an acquaintance: “When their child attended daycare, they tried to ask the teacher for the egg shell number.” In other words, they even attempted to scrutinize the freshness of a single meal provided at kindergarten by asking about the shell number on the eggs.

Meanwhile, the video is being praised for going beyond simple comedy to starkly reveal the realities of the education field.