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People
physicalstrengthcomparedtomen,soit
tosaythereareseveral“invisible”duties
“publicservants.”
isnotthateasyformentoforcefemales
in our society like fire prevention. And
to work in the field. Also, women have
I hope people do keep in mind that fire
The Argus : Why are you still
the right to have maternity leaves and
stationsarenotprivateenterprisesaimed
doing this job despite all these
menstrualleaves,andthesereasonsmake
at profit making. We are an important
difficultcircumstances?
superior officers try to avoid recruiting
partofthesociety.
Jang : Because I want it. Like all of
women. Nowadays, it is enforced by the
the other fellow firefighters, I believe
law to have a certain quota for female
that my line of work is meaningful,
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workers and they usually take up desk
significant and worthwhile. And also
jobs after taking basic firefighting
as a firewoman, I have an ambition to
training.
climbtoasuperiorrankintheofficeone
ⓒ
day. Although an increasing number of
womenarebeingemployedinthepublic
The Argus : Fireman had been
sector,theglassceilingstillexists.Iwant
ranked the most respected job. Do
to become the first woman to break this
you feel respect from the general
barrier and find solutions to the difficult
publicinthefieldaswell?
Jang : Actually, no. When I used to
working conditions for firefighters both
be in the ambulance, at least people
inthefieldandintheofficebasedonmy
said “thank you.” However, no one
ownexperience.
says anything like that now and instead
people get angry at us for arriving late
The Argus : Is there anything you
at the scene. Being in a line of public
would like to add for students of
service, we have no power to force
HUFS?
or control people. We are the most
Jang:Turnyoureyestovariousthings.
respected public servants but are also
These days, careers seem to be decided
easily subjected to public denounce. For
attheearlystageofmiddleschool.ButI
example, in the case of Sungnyemun
think this is wrong. I want to tell young
▲Thefactthatfirefighterswearoldfire-retardant
Fire,thepubliccouldn’tunderstandwhy
people to “do what you want,” but even
clothingbecauseofbudgetproblemshowstheir
poorworkingcondition.
we didn’t extinguish the fire quickly,
this seems to be limited to the few who
but we had our reasons for it. If we had
possess the financial means. So instead,
The Argus : The general public
put out the fire as usual, we could have
I would like to tell the young to have
is now aware to a certain degree
seriously damaged our historical legacy.
various experiences even if they seem
of these severe workloads and
So we did our best, while at the same
to be irrelevant to your immediate job-
poor working conditions. However,
timefactoringineverythingtominimize
hunting process or career decision. In
why isn’t the working condition
thedamageonourpreciousheritage.
mycase,Ihave12certificatesfornurse,
improving?
Jang:Ithinktheproblemisthatvoices
matron, engineering in firefighting
are raised, but they are not followed by
equipments, child care and education,
The Argus : In fact, the poor
real actions to solve the problems. For
recuperating and so on. I have not just
working environments of
instance, we had to convert an ordinary
limited my potentials to being a nurse
firefighters have been recently
vanintoanambulanceduetothebudget
andafirefighter,buthaveofferedmyself
raised to public attention. Budget
cuts.Itwasnotcomfortableatallforthe
various other opportunities as well.
cuts, locally employed public
patients and it caused them sore backs.
It could be hard to “take the road not
servants instead of national, and
All of the patients complained about it.
taken,” especially when young people
some of the firefighters are even
But we had no alternatives at that time.
are striving to accumulate superficial
doing double-shifts due to serious
We know that the general public is now
abilities, but you can always choose the
manpowershortage.
Jang : Some people say that we have
aware of our poor working conditions.
“newpath.”
low efficiency. That is, our equipments
But I want them to take some real
and manpower are not in function
actionsaswell,sothatthepolicymakers
mmkkoo12@hufs.ac.kr
24hours-7days. And they think the
will act on it. We have no choice but to
problemsabovedonotmatter.ButIwant
continue to do our work because we are
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