On July 7, Daegu's Ansim Middle School, under Principal Kim Mi-jeong, ran the country's first full-scale Mind Catch Class. All 500 students and the entire teaching staff took part, using the format for two back-to-back sessions: a first-period smoking-prevention class, and a second-period career talk concert.
Students watched a live broadcast from their own classrooms, voted their opinion on each question, and then tried to predict the "agreement rate" — what percentage of their classmates would land on the same answer. It isn't a quiz that ends the moment you get the right answer. It's a format that asks you to compare your own thinking against everyone else's, and to guess how the people around you actually see things.
"A normal quiz is just someone else's story — you get the right answer and move on. An Agreement Quiz makes you compare your own thinking honestly, and try to predict your classmates' thinking, which turns it into everyone's own story. Watching students wait to see whether their prediction landed, and then react to the real result, made it clear how powerful this format is at deepening communication."
— Kim Mi-jeong, Principal, Ansim Middle SchoolThe format's original home
This class format traces directly back to EBS Boni-Hani, the daily live children's program whose real-time, smartphone-based interactivity was rare enough to be considered a format almost nowhere else in the world — popular enough to earn its host the nickname "Cho-tong-ryeong," or "President of Elementary Students." The show was discontinued in 2023, but the underlying communication technology didn't disappear with it. It's now taking a new shape as a classroom tool built to strengthen mutual understanding and guard against confirmation bias among students.
An MOU, and a full-circle moment
Ansim Middle School has signed an MOU with MEGATALK Korea to expand Mind Catch Class further. As part of the rollout, students from the school's own broadcasting club learned to operate the platform directly — meaning future sessions can be run by the students themselves, without outside support.
There was a small, fitting coincidence in the room that day: several of those broadcasting club students turned out to remember watching Boni-Hani as young kids, back when the same underlying real-time interaction was reaching them through a very different screen.
In an age defined by confirmation bias and digital fragmentation, a decades-old broadcast format built to turn a smartphone into a tool for understanding other people is finding new life in a classroom. If Mind Catch Class can establish itself as a genuine model for how a class can be taught, it may be one small but concrete answer to that larger problem.
MEGATALK Korea and Ansim Middle School share an ambitious goal for what comes next: developing this into a distinctly Korean model of communication education, with the aim of expanding it nationally — and, eventually, well beyond Korea.