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Video of 5-year-old girl asking to hold adults’ hands to cross the street in South Korea warms hearts

A video of a child asking to hold strangers’ hands to cross the street from Jaykeeout ’s YouTube channel has received over 10 million views since it was uploaded on Sept. 24. The social experiment: The video that has melted the hearts of viewers was a social experiment to see how strangers in Korea would react to a child asking for their hand to hold to cross the crosswalk.

In the video, Ro-eun, a 5-year-old actress, is seen standing next to strangers and nervously asking them to help her cross the road.

She lightly taps on the adults to get their attention and asks in Korean, “Excuse me, can you hold my hand so I can cross the road?”

“I’m scared to walk on the crosswalk alone,” Ro-eun told one adult.

The strangers in the video did not hesitate to hold Ro-eun’s hand and walk with her across the street. Some of them show their concern by going out of their way to walk her to her parents before leaving.

Before Ro-eun parts ways with the adults who help her, she offers to sanitize their hands as a thank you and a reminder to be safe during the pandemic.

Reactions: Many viewers expressed their adoration for Ro-eun in the video’s comment section. Viewers were also relieved to see the reactions of the strangers to the little girl’s request.

Tiny Otaku , whose comment received 3.7k likes, wrote, “I love that they not only helped her across, but wanted to locate her parents before they left her alone.”

“She's so adorable, the outfit just level up that. Her outfit makes her look like a minion,” one user said.

Another commented, “I love this, because aside from it being a social experiment and the positive impact she no doubt had on these people's days, it's also a great lesson for the girl herself! She learns that it's okay to ask people for help AND it boosts her self-confidence to overcome her initial shyness!❤️”

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Video of 5-year-old girl asking to hold adults’ hands to cross the street in South Korea warms hearts

• In the video, Ro-eun, a 5-year-old actress, is seen standing next to strangers and nervously asking them to help her cross the road. 
• She lightly taps on the adults to get their attention and asks in Korean, “Excuse me, can you hold my hand so I can cross the road?”
• “I’m scared to walk on the crosswalk alone,” Ro-eun told one adult. 
• The strangers in the video did not hesitate to hold Ro-eun’s hand and walk with her across the street. Some of them show their concern by going out of their way to walk her to her parents before leaving.  
• Before Ro-eun parts ways with the adults who help her, she offers to sanitize their hands as a thank you and a reminder to be safe during the pandemic.
• Tiny Otaku , whose comment received 3.7k likes, wrote, “I love that they not only helped her across, but wanted to locate her parents before they left her alone.”
• “She’s so adorable, the outfit just level up that. Her outfit makes her look like a minion,” one user said.
• Another commented, “I love this, because aside from it being a social experiment and the positive impact she no doubt had on these people’s days, it’s also a great lesson for the girl herself! She learns that it’s okay to ask people for help AND it boosts her self-confidence to overcome her initial shyness!❤️” 
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5 Korean social experiment videos that gave us all the feels

Social experiments are some of the most-watched videos on YouTube. In these social experiments, usually, a premise is set forth that revolves around a social/moral situation where the aim is to see how people would react to the said situation if they were unaware that they were being recorded. All participants are later alerted that they had been recorded, and permission is taken to show their faces in the recorded footage. 

Recently, Korean social experiments have been rising in popularity, especially since it shows the reality of Korean society beyond K-Dramas. With that said, here are 5 social experiment videos that you need to watch.

A little child gives flowers to strangers

A little child decided to make some strangers' days special by giving them flowers, and the reactions will melt your hearts. It goes to show how even the smallest of things can make the biggest of differences in someone's life. 

Sharing the umbrella

What if someone asked you to share your umbrella with them in the pouring rain? Would you offer a helping hand, or would you take care of your own self first? This experiment explores this exact situation, and the way some people responded to the young woman's request will definitely give you K-Drama feels.

An injured student falls over 

Kids are some of the most empathetic members of society. This social experiment aims to see how little children would react if they saw an injured student fall over with a bunch of stuff. Needless to say, they leave everything else to help them, and we can't help but gush over how cute they were.

A scared young boy asks for help

Another version of this experiment is where a young girl asks strangers to help her cross a dark alley. However, this one is especially heart-warming as it subverts gender expectations and focuses entirely on the kindness of people. If nothing, these social experiments certainly restore our faith in humanity.

A woman has tissue paper stuck on her clothes

This social experiment went viral all over the internet and SNS platforms, and for good reason too. We see how people would react to a woman who accidentally has some tissue paper stuck in her trousers through this experiment. This video would probably reassure you that the men you see in K-Dramas, filled to the brim with chivalry, indeed exist in real life. 

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Nice 🙂 Thank you for sharing! I didn't see any social experiments from Korea before. I think the first one is my favorite because of its pure/simple expression of love.

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Experimenting with science education on YouTube

Nov 13, 2018

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As part of our series of interviews with people across Asia-Pacific who use the Internet as a tool to connect, create and grow, we spoke with DoYoun Han, a science teacher at Hyeongyeong  Elementary School in South Korea. In addition to his day job, he runs the YouTube channel 3-Minute Elementary School Science , which shares videos of science lessons and experiments to students between 9 and 13 years old.

Why did you become a teacher?

My parents are farmers and I grew up in the countryside. Unlike the cities, you won’t find private education academies and big libraries here. I was quite playful when I was younger and the lack of interesting educational resources in the countryside didn’t help! I didn’t perform well in examinations, and lost interest in studying. But when I got to the fifth grade, my teacher Lee Byung-gi decided to personally tutor me after school, cheering me up whenever I got bad grades. He inspired me to work harder at school and I decided that I wanted to be just like him—helping students living in the countryside. I’m now living out my dream as a teacher at Hyeongyeong Elementary School in rural South Jeolla province.

Why did you become a YouTube creator?

The average South Korean family spends more than 10 percent of its income on after-school education in private academies for its children. Not every family can afford private education and you won’t find such academies in rural areas anyway. So there’s a gap in educational resources for students in urban and rural areas. I thought the best way to close it was to give teachers in rural schools material to supplement their own teaching. And I decided to share this content through YouTube because it’s popular with young people in Korea.

How do you use YouTube to help your students?

Last year, three other teachers and I started making short science lessons on video. The last thing we wanted to do was to make these seem like extra homework for the kids. So we focus on fun experiments, making abstract concepts more accessible with cartoons or songs. Our videos follow the order of the lessons in the national science curriculum. After reading the lesson in their textbooks, kids can watch our videos to get a better understanding of the subject, and hopefully have some fun too. We’ve shared about 300 videos so far.

What challenges do you face in keeping this going?

Right now it takes us about six hours to produce a three minute video. We’re teachers, not social influencers and we’re still learning to write scripts, film and edit our videos. We use our own money to purchase the production equipment and laboratory materials. Our limited funds means that we can’t produce all the videos that we want to. That’s why we were so thankful when Google heard about our channel and decided to support us with a $30,000 funding commitment. We’re going to use these resources to create even better educational videos for kids.

What keeps you making these videos?

I feel extremely fulfilled when I get comments on our YouTube channel from students who the videos have helped. One student said that he went from being a mediocre to an ace science student, getting full marks to their test scores. I’m happy when students get better results, but I feel just as satisfied when students leave comments just expressing gratitude for being able to understand and solve a problem because of our YouTube videos. Some of our viewers have even won prizes in national science competitions!

What are your plans for the future?

I want to keep being a teacher who presents children with the gift of dreams, creating high-quality online content to help children across the world realize their dreams. We’ve grown from a group of four teachers to 29 now, so we are also thinking of improving our videos and making new ones beyond the field of science.

As we’ve gotten a good response from viewers overseas, we also want to start offering English and Chinese subtitles to our lessons to reach more students. Through YouTube, I also want to reach students that face difficult learning environments like refugees. I see our videos becoming an online classroom that they can access anytime, without teachers or books.

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