South Korea on Monday unveiled plans to extend hours for primary schools' extracurricular classes and make the classes available at all schools to make commuting parents' life routines more logistically and financially sustainable. The government has allocated a budget of 1.17 trillion won ($879 million) for this year, more than double the amount earmarked for last year, to allow any first grader to registe...
Because Korean educational/work culture has become insanely unhealthy in terms of it’s workload and competitiveness. Every student is competing for the “good” universities in Seoul, and if you aren’t good enough for those and land in literally any other college or no college at all, then you’re considered an abject failure. Their entire country’s work/life balance has become so incredibly skewed it’s destroyed their future demographics as young people no longer have children, they do nothing but work constantly to be “successful”.
Pretty soon, South Koreans are just gonna strap into their work desks with a catheter out of the womb and get shoved aside the moment they croak to make room for the next one.
Because Korean educational/work culture has become insanely unhealthy in terms of it’s workload and competitiveness. Every student is competing for the “good” universities in Seoul, and if you aren’t good enough for those and land in literally any other college or no college at all, then you’re considered an abject failure. Their entire country’s work/life balance has become so incredibly skewed it’s destroyed their future demographics as young people no longer have children, they do nothing but work constantly to be “successful”.
Pretty soon, South Koreans are just gonna strap into their work desks with a catheter out of the womb and get shoved aside the moment they croak to make room for the next one.
Shhh don’t give them any good ideas