Sheepathon
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Education in S Korea has much higher priority than in the US. Physical punishment is still accepted in S Korean schools. If you talk to the 70s generation, a teacher can punch you in the face for disobeying or answering a question incorrectly. This has declined a lot, but it?s still a norm. Classical examples ? lift up your pants, expose your calves, chain your calves. Or whacked you on the head. Or the bottom of your feet. Parents will actually go to teachers and say thank you for hitting my child, disciplining them. So some student skipped a class to attend a social event. Funerals, weddings, whatever, you can?t miss class for that.
5th grader schedule in S Korea: 3pm, official classes are over. Do they go watch tv, egg cars, whatever? Nope, they go to private institutions. Often, the typical classes taught at these private schools are English, math, writing, and the asian obsession with piano. Avg hw for a S Korean student is 6-8 hrs. Teachers have been sued for not giving enough hw.
Once you get into university, what do you do? You will never study again. Colleges are fkn party central in S Korea. Same in Japan. In Japanese and Korean society, they?re obsessed with getting into top university because it will determine the course of your life. Korean businessmen say 4 years of college was best years of their life. Before hell, after hell, but those 4 years are mad fun. Here in the US, you can go to Harvard or Cal State Fresno, but it?s up to you to succeed, though obviously it's a bit easier for the Harvard grads. Still, we have a much more open system. Countries like korea and japan will look at where you graduate from and that will be it.
If you are a Seoul National grad, the world is your oyster. Degree is equiv to gold. You can be an untrustworthy farting fool, but omgwtfseouluniversity GOLD. Those that fail to get into Seoul or the top 3 in S Korea, where do they go? Harvard and Berkeley. And getting into Harvard is actually easy for them. And they find out that here in the US you have to study and go to lecture, and they?re like wtf? But because they?re such slackers in college, the productive level of research and development in asian universities is subpar to American universities. So you wonder how they get hired by Sony, Samsung, etc. Well, you learn everything you need to know day 1 when you enter the company.
Cliffs notes:
It's much much harder for students in S Korea to get into Seoul U than it is for students in America to get into Harvard because of the astronomical focus on education in that country. Kids start doing 8 hours of homework a day before age 8. To get into Seoul U, you most likely need to go to the top top high schools. To get to those high schools, you need to go to the top top middle schools, and elementary, all the way to when you're little more than a 5 year old. But S Korean big firms, companies, etc, see the Seoul U degree and immediately say "You're hired." That's why you see 30 year olds still studying for the goddam CSAT (college entrance exam). But once you get into Seoul U, or the other top two, Yonsei and Korea University, you are SET. This is why American U's productivity and research > Korean universities. But the students at Seoul U are easily much more highly qualified because of the ungodly amount of preparation required to get in.
5th grader schedule in S Korea: 3pm, official classes are over. Do they go watch tv, egg cars, whatever? Nope, they go to private institutions. Often, the typical classes taught at these private schools are English, math, writing, and the asian obsession with piano. Avg hw for a S Korean student is 6-8 hrs. Teachers have been sued for not giving enough hw.
Once you get into university, what do you do? You will never study again. Colleges are fkn party central in S Korea. Same in Japan. In Japanese and Korean society, they?re obsessed with getting into top university because it will determine the course of your life. Korean businessmen say 4 years of college was best years of their life. Before hell, after hell, but those 4 years are mad fun. Here in the US, you can go to Harvard or Cal State Fresno, but it?s up to you to succeed, though obviously it's a bit easier for the Harvard grads. Still, we have a much more open system. Countries like korea and japan will look at where you graduate from and that will be it.
If you are a Seoul National grad, the world is your oyster. Degree is equiv to gold. You can be an untrustworthy farting fool, but omgwtfseouluniversity GOLD. Those that fail to get into Seoul or the top 3 in S Korea, where do they go? Harvard and Berkeley. And getting into Harvard is actually easy for them. And they find out that here in the US you have to study and go to lecture, and they?re like wtf? But because they?re such slackers in college, the productive level of research and development in asian universities is subpar to American universities. So you wonder how they get hired by Sony, Samsung, etc. Well, you learn everything you need to know day 1 when you enter the company.
Cliffs notes:
It's much much harder for students in S Korea to get into Seoul U than it is for students in America to get into Harvard because of the astronomical focus on education in that country. Kids start doing 8 hours of homework a day before age 8. To get into Seoul U, you most likely need to go to the top top high schools. To get to those high schools, you need to go to the top top middle schools, and elementary, all the way to when you're little more than a 5 year old. But S Korean big firms, companies, etc, see the Seoul U degree and immediately say "You're hired." That's why you see 30 year olds still studying for the goddam CSAT (college entrance exam). But once you get into Seoul U, or the other top two, Yonsei and Korea University, you are SET. This is why American U's productivity and research > Korean universities. But the students at Seoul U are easily much more highly qualified because of the ungodly amount of preparation required to get in.
