This paper examines the case of Yangjeong Girls’ Middle and High School to see how the enforcement of public morals was manifested in secondary girls’ schools in the 1950s and 1960s. With the introduction of the compulsory education system, increased female middle and high school students became the target of moral regulation, which placed them under surveillance and control in various issues related to daily life both inside and outside school. The student guidance disciplinary data at Yangjeong Girls’ Middle and High School indicate that female students were primarily subject to disciplinary measures for going to a movie or dating problems, reflecting the norm of chaste women enforced on female students as one of the means by which gender works.
Despite these crackdowns and controls, female students established themselves as subjects who created and enjoyed a new society and culture and exerted resistance against the control exercised over their daily lives in the name of regulating public
morals. Dissatisfaction with the model of the non-political subject imposed by the state and schools, the coercion of women into gender roles, and the suffocating control over daily life formed the basis of alliance leave in the 1950s. In the oppressive atmosphere after the 5.16 coup, alliance leave almost disappeared, but students resisted passively by returning the control imposed on them through the demand for disciplinary measures against teachers.