The Life Academy Explained

Native Name:우리들의 인생학교
Genre:Reality
Variety
Director:Son Chang-woo
Country:South Korea
Language:Korean
Num Seasons:1
Num Episodes:6
Location:South Korea
Runtime:75 minutes
Network:tvN

The Life Academy 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

Students

Episodes

2017

Episodes #width=100Broadcast Datewidth=300Teacherwidth=350Lessonwidth=550Periodswidth=500Notes
1May 14, 2017Son Mi-na (Writer, actress, former announcer)
  1. 1 - Get Closer To Each Other
  1. 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)
2May 21, 2017
  1. 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)
3May 28, 2017Kim Hyun-jung (Korean National Medical Center mental health professor, psychiatrist)
  1. 2 - Understand yourself
  1. 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
4June 8, 2017Oh Young-wook (Architectural designer, travel writer, CEO of design company, husband of Uhm Ji-won)
  1. 3 - Expressing yourself with words

    (Seaside Village Diary - a 2D1N trip to Yeongdeok County and write a diary)
  1. 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
5June 15, 2017Kang Won-gook (Writer)
6June 22, 2017Pyo Chang-won
  1. 4 - Ways to find things that touch you
  1. 1 - Theory class (through Pyo Chang-won's life story)
    #2 - Shared learning (sharing what was learned on theory class to 1-day students)

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2017-05-15 . ‘우리들의 인생학교’ 곽동연, ‘진지 청년’의 예능나들이 . 2024-05-06 . 서울경제 . ko.
  2. Web site: 2017-04-16 . tvN推新綜《人生學校》 鄭埻夏全慧彬等加入 . 2024-05-06 . web.archive.org.