Korean Fitness Tests

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This Friday I – Martina – had no classes because it was Fitness Test Day in Bucheon All Girls’ High School. I wasn’t sure what this was, as the closest equivalent we have to this in Canada is track and field day where students compete in different sports, but I was told that in Korea they also have a track and field day. Fitness Day is different; the students are rigorously tested to see how healthy they are, and in the past, Fitness Day was part of a final mark. If you weren’t in shape you could receive a failing grade, but one of our our Korean friends told us that some students in the past died trying to get high marks, so they got rid of the mark factor.

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darialois

sup Martina ^_^ u guys have really bomb vids. i was wondering if u had a special reason for teaching at an all girls school..just cuz there's a lot of them around, or is it safer for women?

eatyourkimchi

Martina got her job at an all girls' school by fluke. It wasn't so much that she picked the schools as much as it was picked for her.

http://www.facebook.com/andrian.mauricio Mauricio Ariel Andrian

We don't have any of those days. We're lazy :( What a shame…

http://www.eatyourkimchi.com Eatyourkimchi

Ha!

Hannah

ha ha ha! i am sooo thankful we don't have to do that! :D

just shows we are such a lazy nation!! :(
animegurl155

This reminds me of when I was in high school! We had to do as many sit-ups and push-ups as we could, then they'd have us do this weird stretchy thing with our arms, and then they'd have us run a mile(everyone just walked it LOL).
joyo

The video's blocked :(

http://www.eatyourkimchi.com Eatyourkimchi

Damn! It's back from when we used other people's music. They have the rights to block it if they want. Sorry!

http://twitter.com/pei_sun Pei

Could you reupload the Korean Fitness day video on Facebook?

http://www.eatyourkimchi.com Simon and Martina

It’s available via our iTunes podcast, which is linked to in the green toolbar on the bottom of this page.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3PZKITILMO24AQE7XIS5WXSV64 Michelle

we have something similar to that at my school in early June…and it is actually closer to this than ‘track and field day’. I have to say, it is not a fun time.Â
Cecilia G

Do they not have gym class or something?? Cuz in the states, at least where I go to school, we take gym till 10th grade and every year we have to do all these tests: sit ups, pull ups, hanging on the bar, sprint, long jump, mile run, etc… But we don’t do them all in a day, they take place over a few class periods. Also, there’s awards for doing well… But anyways, i bet doing them all in one day, i would definitely get tired out!! :o
http://www.facebook.com/people/Kelly-Hall/764030511 Kelly Hall

My highschool in BC had a huge assortment of fitness testing, mostly crammed into one week. The Milk Run, standard fitness tests, and the DREADED Beep Test…. Which even the jocks loathed and when we learned that the guy who invented it lives 30 minutes away, we all swore to kill him.
http://hangukjourney.blogspot.com Tinuade Dina

they all look so skinny. I am jealous :(
http://www.facebook.com/kimjihong Dexter Kim

Vid says it’s blocked..

Jase Hatcher

In New Zealand as well.

Hope Satterfield

I live in Georgia (USA) and I remember in Elementary school we had this thing called the Presidential Physical Fitness Test, (everyone just called it the Presidential Test) and you had to be able to run and do pull-ups or hangs (where if you can’t pull yourself up over and over again, you just pull yourself up once and hang there for as long as you can) and sit-ups and… let’s see… Oh! You also had to be able to run at this mini trampoline and do a flip while landing on this really awesome be-like thing. You didn’t have to do it in middle school or high school which I think is stupid. You only had to do something like it if you chose P.E. or JROTC. You also had to run a mile. By the time you got to fifth grade everyone knew how cheat in the mile run, hahahaha.
http://twitter.com/Elficious Bobbi Brosky

I live in Pennsylvania and in elementary, middle and high school you are required to take the presidential physical fitness tests and if you got the award you passed for the year and didn’t have to participate for the rest of the year (this was in my schools obviously other schools were different.) You had to do a 1 mile run, pull up, push ups, and these other things that tested your flexibly. I never was good at any of it and always got made fun of when it came to doing short dashes but it was fun to not have to do anything other then that that one day.