"Whispering Corridors shows through these characters that the fixation on performance and competitiveness between students, amplified by their teachers—while with the intent of pushing them all to get better grades to get into better universities—still drives social wedges between them, dehumanizing them by turning students into nothing more than numbers to be compared. Which is a pretty nuanced criticism to make for a horror film, especially since it's pointing at the broader system of test-score-based education and not just high school. In fact, it seems that the ghostly haunting of Jin-ju is actually secondary to the psychological horror that the girls go through in school." - refresh_daemon, Drama Beans