Hong Kong student Joshua Wong still willing to lead Scholarism despite pressure to finish education
Teenager will stay on as Scholarism head even though it means endless work and sacrifices
Hong Kong's highest-profile teenager might be a university student now, but Joshua Wong Chi-fung will serve a new term as head of the group he founded to fight national education in schools.
Wong, a key player in last year's Occupy pro-democracy movement, was reappointed as convenor of Scholarism, a position he has served in since its foundation in 2011.
Prince Wong Ji-yuet, 18, will replace Oscar Lai Man-lok as the group's spokesman.
Joshua Wong, who had kept a relatively low profile since being feted by international media for his role in the 79-day Occupy sit-ins, took to Facebook to explain why he was staying in his post.
"After thinking and struggling repeatedly, I put my name down on the application form," wrote Wong, 18, who is studying politics at Open University.
Wong also discussed the difficulties the group had faced and addressed uncertainty about its future. When he started the group to fight plans for patriotic education in schools, it was tackling one basic issue and did not have high expectations from the public. Early members were not familiar with the concept of civil disobedience.
But after Occupy, members started to deal with topics such as political reform, the Basic Law, controversy over the definition of "one country, two systems" and even calls for Hong Kong independence.