Three boys were sitting in room 405 with no teacher. They were supposed to be studying, but lacking supervision, their efforts were desultory and they were mostly just goofing around.
I put my head in the door, and asked Jeongyeol, the inevitable ring-leader of such goofings, what they were doing. Without missing a beat, he explained, "It's called academy-stay. It's like 21 century temple-stay."
Academy here is the standard Korean translation-into-English of the term hagwon, which I personally consider untranslatable and always just use the Korean term. "Temple-stay" is the konglishism Koreans use these days to refer to the immemorial custom of lay people going to stay at Buddhist temples for some period of time, as I did in 2010.
I found it quite funny. Jeongyeol is a much better comedian than he is a student. I've long thought that he has a future in stand-up.
[daily log (11 pm): walking, 5 km]