School Cat Wins an Attendance Award—The Comments Invent a Feline Version

If the cat goes to school even on weekends, perhaps it deserves perfect attendance more than any student. Then commenters started renaming the award.

On October 27 at 3:49 a.m. KST, a Ruliweb post titled 'A diligent school cat' suggested the cat deserved an attendance prize. The actual school, photo date and attendance history were not confirmed.

The observed post showed 2,332 views and 29 recommendations. Replies in that one community turned to holidays, feline routines and a new award name. Those numbers are not a measure of nationwide popularity.

Actual replies joked that cats might keep stricter routines than students and imagined a cat appearing during weekends and holidays. In Korean, the first syllable of the perfect-attendance award 'gaegun-sang' sounds like the word for dog. Commenters replaced it with cat-related syllables, creating 'myogeun-sang' and 'nyanggeun-sang'. The poster guessed the picture might adapt a British poster, but did not prove it. These are reactions on one Ruliweb post.

A perfect-attendance prize is given for attending every school day. The joke applies a human award to a cat and exploits Korean sound-alikes. No feline prize was officially created.

Verified are the post's date, displayed engagement snapshot and actual comment wording. No real attendance record, award ceremony or British source poster has been verified.

The source of the picture or school could be added if verified. For now the report is limited to observed wordplay in one thread.