An elementary school student said, "Teacher, what's martial law?""…Distribution of class materials for the 'December 3 incident'

Educational materials for the 'December 3, 2024 incident' / National Historical Teachers' Meeting

On the 4th, when the emergency martial law was lifted, some schools were found to have held classes to explain martial law and the meaning of democracy to students.

The teacher community named the emergency martial law declared on the 3rd as the "December 3 incident" and posted educational materials explaining what the emergency martial law was declared, when the previous martial law was declared, and the economic and international repercussions of the emergency law.

Since not only students but also teachers in their 20s and 30s experienced emergency martial law for the first time, teachers centered on the teacher community produced and distributed class materials that organized the "December 3 incident".

All of them are files voluntarily organized by front-line teachers.A total of 34 pages of class materials titled '12.3 Incident in 2024: The Story of Last Night' were also released in the

'National History Teachers' Meeting'.

Distributing the data, they said, "It's a morning when I feel more responsible as a history teacher. The National Association of History Teachers said, "We will take the current situation seriously and do not forget our responsibility as a history teacher."

These materials were also used in the actual educational field. On the teacher community, comments such as "Thanks to the (data), I explained yesterday's situation well to the children" and "I used some of the PPT content in the class."

An elementary school teacher in Seoul said, "When the children came to school and asked about this and that, I couldn't help but deal with it," and added, "I educated (about emergency martial law and democracy) from the first class."

Reporter Park Sun-young of Digital News Team