TV drama: Unleash Your Dreams: 1
Unleash Your Dreams (sometimes translated as Realize Your Dreams) is a South Korean television series that first aired on EBS [Education Broadcasting System] in 1999 and ran for 52 episodes over a year. It was repeated several times.
According to the producers it dealt with
problems at high school including the use of corporal punishment, examination
stress and sexual harassment.
Beatings, sometimes severe with bats, are common features of episodes and they
are inflicted on senior boys (many of the actors were far too old for the parts
they played).
The whole series was
apparently uploaded to YouTube on the EBS channel but it can be difficult to navigate the site.
The series was not intended
for English audiences so as far as I can tell they were never dubbed or
subtitled. This sometimes makes it difficult to follow what’s going on. That
said, it can be fun trying to work out the plot.
Here are a couple of scenes
from two early episodes. In the first a character who looks like a senior boy
(some kind of prefect?) makes an impassioned speech to a group of senior boys
and girls and then asks one of the boys to beat him.
In the second clip a senior
boy beats another senior in front of a group of what appears to be his
classmates. Later, a teacher beats a boy who is positioned on all fours.
Look out for more from this very strange series in coming weeks.
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