By Bae Keun-min
Staff Reporter
One Tuesday evening in Yoido, Seoul, the nation's entertainment mecca, a group of elementary students acted out a scene.
A small boy lays on the floor wearing a blank look on his pale face in a room at MTM Communications, a talent agency that runs acting classes for child actors. Sitting next to him, another preteen boy and a girl start crying.
"Don't die, my little brother. You have to live. You can get over the cancer… This can't be happening to him", the girl cries out with tears on her face and in her eyes. Their acting classmates sit on the other side of the room, weeping at their performance.
The 90-minute session was over after some more emotional role-playing and physical practices. It appeared to be playful, but these actors-to-be were serious. While their peers are at after-school math and art classes, these students come here three times a week.
Kwon So-hi, 11, and Kim Geun-young, 11, walked out from the class with broad smiles ...|
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