The Life Academy

The Life Academy
우리들의 인생학교
GenreReality
Variety
Directed bySon Chang-woo
Country of originSouth Korea
Original languageKorean
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes6
Production
Production locationSouth Korea
Running time75 minutes
Original release
NetworktvN
ReleaseMay 14 (2017-05-14) –
June 22, 2017 (2017-06-22)

The Life Academy (Korean우리들의 인생학교) is a 2017 South Korean television program. It airs on tvN on every Sunday at 21:20 (KST) beginning 14 May 2017. From 8 June 2017, the show will air on every Thursday 20:10 KST. The show is a life growth variety show in the form of a school day, in which the show assumes "life also requires schooling".[1] In each lesson, the show invites special guests of various professions as teachers to share contents outside of the textbook.[2]

Cast

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Students

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Episodes

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2017

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Episodes # Broadcast Date Teacher Lesson Periods Notes
1 May 14, 2017 Son Mi-na (Writer, actress, former announcer) #1 - Get Closer To Each Other #0 - Encounter with an unfamiliar person (First meeting)
#1 - Theory class (The Little Prince)
#2 - Let's eat (2 person at 1 place eating together)
2 May 21, 2017 #2 - Let's eat (cont.)
#3 - Free Time
#4 - A word of sweetness (Praising someone while feeding ice cream)
#5 - The thoughts For a person (Cook for the member he/she thinks of)
3 May 28, 2017 Kim Hyun-jung (Korean National Medical Center mental health professor, psychiatrist) #2 - Understand yourself #1 - Theory class (Erik Erikson's 8 stages of psychological development)
#2 - What do I really want (2 hours of free time to do what he/she really want)
#3 - What kind of person am I? (Fill up a questionnaire by completing the sentences to his/her own thinking; revealing the type of person he/she is analysed by Kim Hyun-jung)
#4 - Do you want to converse with me? (A one-point lesson with Kim Hyun-jung through the questionnaire filled up by the cast earlier on, using the empty chair technique to converse with himself/herself)
Special interview appearances by Kim Soo-yong, Song Eun-i, Shim Hyung-tak, Seo Hyun-jin, Shin Kyung-mi, Kim Sung-joo, Seo Jang-hoon, Kim Hee-chul, Kim Dong-won, Lee Si-eon, Park Jin-joo
4 June 8, 2017 Oh Young-wook (Architectural designer, travel writer, CEO of design company, husband of Uhm Ji-won) #3 - Expressing yourself with words

(Seaside Village Diary - a 2D1N trip to Yeongdeok County and write a diary)
#0 - Writing an essay to introduce yourself (Pre-lesson homework)
#1 - Theory class (Writing emotional expressions)
#2 - Seaside village essay contest (1 Page Essay - Write a page of essay with your own emotions freely, no theme)
#3 - Seaside village essay presentation
#4 - Express your heart, night letter (Writing a letter to his/her special someone)
Special appearances by Han Seong-ho (FNC Entertainment CEO), Kim Gook-jin
5 June 15, 2017 Kang Won-gook (Writer)
6 June 22, 2017 Pyo Chang-won #4 - Ways to find things that touch you #1 - Theory class (through Pyo Chang-won's life story)
#2 - Shared learning (sharing what was learned on theory class to 1-day students)
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References

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  1. ^ "'우리들의 인생학교' 곽동연, '진지 청년'의 예능나들이". 서울경제 (in Korean). 2017-05-15. Retrieved 2024-05-06.
  2. ^ "tvN推新綜《人生學校》 鄭埻夏全慧彬等加入". 2017-04-16. Archived from the original on 2017-04-16. Retrieved 2024-05-06.