‘History isn't the past. History is a return of people living in the present. History returned alive in the present's practice only could be a power. - SungKongHoe University Pro-democracy Movement Center.
 

 Many university students waste their 20s complaining about their situation. However, the roar of them is just a meaningless whine that disappears into the air. They are discontent wiht the mold made by the older generation, but hte reality that they have no chice but to follow it causes them more angst. Then, has the voice of 20s, which was a cause of change in the history been dying in our time?

The Dankook Herald (DKH) visited the SungKongHoe University which has a lot community participation. SungKong-Hoe University consists of leading progressive
scholars in our nation : Shin Young-Bok, Cho Hee-Yeon, Han Hong-Gu etc. Besides many intellectuals in current society and various leaders from Asia are attending it for its NGO curriculum as the nation's first and as a laboratory related to democracy and human rights. DKH met ‘Dreaming Sleeper’ students that have been undertaking practical criticism with tuition and dwelling on college problems.

‘Dreaming Sleeper’ was started this year during the first semester they put up
tents after living on the streets in school. DKH interviewed four people in 'Dreaming Sleeper’. Last year Jung-Hun Na (Dept. of Social Science, Senior), his
house was far from the school and it was too difficult to buy a house so he proposed ‘Dreaming Sleeper’ that ‘this situation isn’t only my problem’ he thought.
He said Dreaming Sleeper was made for students who suffered from expensive
tuition and poor residential environment. So I thought that twenties have to have a loud voice.” Soon “We think the most important is recording. Because we don’t
want to turn over the ‘Dreaming Sleeper’ just like any other club.”

Mu-Mung(Dept. of Social Science, Senior), he said ‘Dreaming Sleeper’ introduces our students to poverty by direct experince, it forces people who don’t speak bravely that oneself is poor.”
 

Also Kim Lee Min-Kung (Dept. of Social Science Senior), she said The beginning was started to inform our meaning to students and local community with making box houses. But a lot of problems started, so we ended up living on the streets of our university in tents. And by our effects tent villages should also be established at other university campuses. (smile) We desired that is one exercise beginning with us then “It is a student movement.”

Now it is not reality to have a policy that is specific in school or government.
Merely they expect Dreaming Sleeper’s meaning isn't distorted or exaggerated.
Dreaming Sleeper’s members were faced with the forced removal of the tent last
semester, but they passed the crisis with professors who supported the 'Dreaming
Sleeper' and students.

They emphasized that expensive tuition and poor residential environment doesn’t matter only the twenties community participation. Mu-Mung said “This has not meant a generation divide between the old generation and the twenties. Only the twenties are never poor, and they are not the 880,000 won generation. It is important that poor people gather jumping over a generation gather jumping over a generation. Also the twenties developed a lot of movements in the past, but the government tends to try to do it to reduce past works.” Soon the ‘Dreaming Sleeper’ program will celebrate a new school term so the participants will show a movie, hold a student exhibition, open a debate and present a lecture about student's life as well as plan various programs that people can do together.
 

Next we heard about the ‘community participation’ of a SungKongHoe university

student while in school named Lee Kyoung-Eun(Dept. of Social Science, Sophomore), She said “All students who go to school aren’t active in community
participation.” Especially natural sciences and engineering students participation
is so low. However this problem seems not to be the fault of only twenties.
By encouraging an era of limitless competition, social causes are fighting to
survive and this seems to be a big problem.

However as time passes, various social activities become community participation.
It is as if to criticize society is like listening to an audio broadcasting. Now,
Schools don’t have special sanctions against students who take part in demonstrations or assemblies at school. There are even some professors who
support students. The reason that SungKongHoe University has become
famous is that it often appeared in the media as an activist group beginning in
the 90s. Of course professors with progressive ideas that teach students are the
main reason why so many students participate in social actions. However, activist groups have shrunk now, in former days student-made subcommittees donated to society and raised the voice of student demands.”

There were many students who created a meeting place by selling curry cheaply
in the square and established a prefabricated coffee shop criticizing the corruption
of coffee shops on campus and made a song that criticized the degenerate society. SungKongHoe University students DKH met were in their 20s as we are. But endless shouts to the society put meaning of ‘we’ to shame. SungKongHoe University DKH observed a continuous yell composed of leading thoughts of college and professors, students. They need a voice not only themselves but also 20s all over. Now, we have to pass over timid dissatisfaction and we need a 20s independent voice to change our actualities.