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South Korea's Education System
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South Korea's Education System
South Korea's economic status.
• Korean war in the 1950s, split into North and South Korea.
• Huge economic boom.
• Baby boomer generation bought up a large amount of assets, such as houses.
• Drove up prices
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Millenials
• Millennials are known as ‘the given up generation’. They have given up on ‘n’ number of things due to very low wages compared to living costs.
• The older generation blames the millennials for their struggles,
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Pressures
There are immense pressures to be accepted into the most prestigious universities.
Pressure to move away from the 'given up generation label
Students have long hours of schooling from a very young age and then have tutoring on top of this.
The biggest stress is the final exam...
Exams
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•Single 8-hour long exam
- National holiday
- Scores are published online
Similarities
- Exams are needed to get into universities
- Degrees are important to get a job
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Example
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- English section of the exam
- Appears in exam as it does here
- Second language for many of the students taking it
- This example is from 2017
How it used to be- the last 100 years
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1910- Korea was colonized by Japan and thus had to follow japanese schooling. Ethnic Koreans and ethnic japanese were taught in separate schools however they were all taught by japanese instructors in japanese
1919- Koreans realized that in ordered to get the qualifications and well worth education they needed to follow the new modern education
1949-1953. the basic education law was implemented to unify the education system. As a result, Koreans received 6 years of compulsory education, 3 years of non- compulsory middle school and 3 of non- compulsory secondary
within this time Korea saw a rapid increase in the number of students.
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1963- they reintroduced vocational high school so Koreans were able to attain certain skills from particular jobs in vocational schools
1969- education became compulsory for 9 years and entrance exams were only for high school.
Connections to globalisation
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No infrastructure or natural resources after the Korean War. South Korea has embraced globalisation and is Asia 4th largest economy, with a focus on technology (Samsung Etc) and Automobile production. can we link to education???
Korean philosophy always highly linked to the Chinese Confucius school of thought that valued family, hard work and placed an emphasis on education.