Gong Hyo-jin and social stigma attached to people with mental health issues and other minorities. Gong then made her stage debut in the Willy Russell play "Educating Rita", which depicts the relationship during the course of a year between a young working class hairdresser and a middle-aged university lecturer (played by Jeon Moo-song). In 2015, she starred in "The Producers", a variety drama series written by Park Ji-eun who also wrote the hugely successful "My Love From the Star". Gong plays a "Music Bank" variety show producer who has been working in broadcasting for 10 years. The drama drew solid viewership ratings
Educating Rita (film) literature. Her assigned Open University professor Frank Bryant (Michael Caine) however, openly abuses alcohol and soon develops misgivings about Rita's ability to adapt to student culture. Bryant is a jaded university lecturer, who describes his occupational ability as "appalling but good enough for his appalling students". His passion for literature is reignited by Rita, whose technical ability for the subject is limited by her lack of education but whose enthusiasm Frank finds refreshing. To illustrate the rhyming principle of assonance, the repetition of vowel sounds, Dr. Bryant gives as an example the words 'swans' and 'stones' from W B Yeats's