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>what is your opinion on korean education?
As a westerner, I've always viewed most education systems in Asia to be superior to our systems. The big Asian countries seem to produce on average people who are far more academic with a good work ethic. Although it does seem to come at the expense that it demands absolute conformity and grinds away at your soul.

>Any natives heree
I don't think so, this board is basically for Western koreaboos, but you're more than welcome to post. We need more people who will discuss actual Korean culture and lifestyle as opposed to just kpop.

>>1730
It's ridiculous. The inner workings of korean education is so convoluted and pointless. As a korean student I had to study all day every day. Vacations? Nope, your hagwon demands you to do 10 to 10 (10 am to 10pm spending time at the hagwon studying) every single day. Hobbies, interests? Fuck that. No time to do that when your too busy with the influx of hagwon homework and studying. You go to school at 8 and leave at 10 pm. Then you go to hagwon and listen to lectures till about 1 am. YOu go home and study. This applies to middle schoolers onwards. This is the norm. Everyone is expected to study this much. The education system is so fucked that you NEED hagwons to get a decent grade in school. Asian education doesn't make you far more academic. It replaces creativity with machine like problem solving abilities.

i don't reallt care much about it
i mean it's nice they still try to force the kids to learn anything unlike the us or most of europe. then again if a kid isn't bent on learning itself no one will ever teach it anything so their schedual might turn out to be a bit redundant.

Seems to me that the emphasis on memorization doesn't exactly translate to real world application. Sure you can regurgitate what you are told, but do you get actual meaning from it?

>>1731
Man that does sound fucking rough, I feel for you anon 😢

>>1737
This is the problem I had with education in the UK. GCSEs and A Levels are basically little more than tests of your memory. I ended up doing a BTEC which is all practical work and no exams, I was so much better off for it.

>>1731
What's a hagwon?

It's actually interesting the current situation of the Korean educational system, my bet is that it's going to explode in some years, maybe a decade; Koreans are going to stand up against the strict and overly competitive system.

There's an episode of Hello Counselor about a little girl who went to the show, because her mother wanted her to take even more extra courses, but she didn't want to. She had her normal school schedule, plus 6 extracurricular subjects (like politics, what the hell is she going to with that? she was barely 10)

>>1768
It's a for-profit private school that are usually nothing more than cram classes. Some of them are very shady and randomly close down leaving the kids (and teachers) in the wind.

>>1731
I hear a lot about the intensity of the Korean education system, with how little free time it would leave you, but then I hear about things like Faker, the League of Legends player who went pro at the age of 16. That leads to stories of lots of young people who spend a lot of time in internet cafes playing video games. Would kids like that be essentially high school dropouts?

>>1874
>Would kids like that be essentially high school dropouts?

I've always thought that was the case for anyone who plays games at a professional level. To get as good as professional players, you literally have to dedicate so much of your time to playing these games and learning about every aspect of them. I find it difficult to believe that any professional gamers have a successful academic life.

What I've seen on TV is that the kids stay at school from morning to night. They have very little or no free time. When they get home, there might be a tutor to meet the child so they can do more school work.

They're basically building work drones in Asia. Creativity and expression is not catered too. You can expect to work 12 hour days with little or no vacations. I could not live there.

I don't understand how idols exist when they're expected to attend school for 12 hours a day.